chief Raoni

The chief Raoni cries when he learns that brazilian president Dilma released the beginning of construction of the hydroelectric plant of Belo Monte, even after tens of thousands of letters and emails addressed to her and which were ignored as the more than 600 000 signatures. That is, the death sentence of the peoples of Great Bend of the Xingu river is enacted. Belo Monte will inundate at least 400,000 hectares of forest, an area bigger than the Panama Canal, thus expelling 40,000 indigenous and local populations and destroying habitat valuable for many species - all to produce electricity at a high social, economic and environmental cost, which could easily be generated with greater investments in energy efficiency.

Crossota alba

The jellyfish Crossota alba. Delicate jellyfish such as this thrive in the deep sea, where no wind, waves, or turbulence threaten to tear them apart, and are successful predators in spite of their fragility. In the quiet, dark environment this transparent, inch-wide animal sits motionless, with stinging tentacles arranged like fishing lines in a circle, and waits to encounter prey—ambushing, rather than stalking its food.

Larry Madin

thunderstorms

“The goal is to capture the structure of supercell thunderstorms, the feeling of standing in wind gusts breaching 50 MPH, the lightning, the rumble of hail. I’ve never seen anything like these storms before… . They are born everyday, they fight against their environment to stay alive, change their form as they age, they lose their strength, and eventually they die. The hope is that the images presented communicate how I feel while standing in front of these amazing forces of nature”.

Mitch Dobrowner

Joséphine Mpongo

37 year old Joséphine Mpongo practises the cello in the Kimbanguiste neighbourhood of Kinshasa. She plays with the Kimbanguiste Symphony Orchestra, and practises here 5 days per week. During the day, Joséphine sells eggss in Kinshasa’s main market.

Andrew McConnell

jelly

Moon jelly by Alexander Semenov



Porpita porpita—the blue button jelly —is a neustonic species mostly found in the tropics; that is, it floats right neat the surface of the water. The circular disc is made of chitin and filled with gas, allowing these jellies to float. The tentacles (zooids) radiating from the disc do all the feeding.

Kelly Rakow

Japan, Two Months After the Disaster

“A lot has been said about Japanese resilience and their response to the March 11 disaster,” writes Associated Press photographer David Guttenfelder. “But the stoicism hides the deep personal suffering. The humble efficiency makes it seem like help is not needed. I hope that our photographs will help people understand and continue to help Japan.”

NPR: Japan, Two Months After the Disaster

Photo: Christoph Bangert

The impact of open-cast mining in India.

A young woman stumbles as she tries to carry a large basket of coal as she and others illegally scavenge at an open-cast mine in the village of Bokapahari in the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand where a community of coal scavengers live and work. The contrast between India old and new is nowhere more vivid than among the villages of coal scavengers in eastern India, sitting on an apocalyptic landscape of smoke and fire from decades-old underground coal fires. While India grows ever more middle-class and awash in creature comforts, these villagers risk their lives scavenging coal illegally for a few dollars a day, and come back to homes that at any moment could be swallowed by a fresh fire-induced crack in the earth.

Photo: Keven Frayer for AP (Slideshow). The impact of open-cast mining in India.

Blood-red Crossota norvegica jellyfish

Blood-red Crossota norvegica jellyfish. It was spotted by a remotely operated vehicle 8,530 feet (2,600 meters) underwater in a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) expedition to the Canada Basin, the deepest and least explored part of the Arctic waters.

wow....

Luis Humberto

Luis Humberto Soriano is a 38 years old primary school teacher who lives in La Gloria, a small town in northeastern Colombia. From Monday to Friday, Soriano teaches in the rural school of La Gloria. But on weekends he loads his two donkeys, Alfa and Beto, with mathematics, history, geography and grammar books and heads out for the countryside. There he gives lessons to the kids living on the farms scattered on the hills surrounding La Gloria, who do not have the chance to go to normal school because of long distance and poor economic conditions. This is the Biblioburro, the travelling school. After 10 years this has become an extarordinary institution in this part of Colombia.

Luigi Baldelli, photographer

Indian town of Karchana

“Farmers blocked railway tracks in the Indian town of Karchana in a protest against the takeover of their land for two proposed power plants.” - BBC Day in Pictures, 1/21/2011

jellyfish

Lake Malawi

i love water..

People of Siberia

From the series People of Siberia, which is beautiful I must say.

Members of the 34,000-strong Nenets ethnic group lead a nomadic life on the Yamal Peninsula. They speak a Samoyedic language, have shamanist traditions, and live in tents called chum, which dismantle and transport easily. It takes 64 reindeer hides to make a chum, which becomes home to an extended family. The Nenets’ life revolves around raising reindeer. Each year the children go away to boarding school, where they stay for eight months. Despite the modern comforts they find there, most children choose to come back to the traditional way of life after school.

Claudine Doury, photographer

Arctic Ocean

Ten-foot-long (three-meter-long) sea nettle found by a remotely operated vehicle in the Canada Basin, Arctic Ocean.

Emory Kristof pioneered the use of robot cameras and remotely operated vehicles in shallow-water photography to the deep.

Mexico 1926

Edward Weston (American, 1886-1958), Mercado, Oaxaca, Mexico 1926

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Faces of Immigration

This picture, Watching the Developed World is part of the Immigration National Institute series Faces of Immigration.

This weekend I went to the MUAC and saw this inSite project that consists on documented interventions to the borderland between Tijuana and San Diego. Being Francis Alÿs and Carlos Amorales my favorites, there were also works by Kim Adams, Terry Allen, Gustavo Artigas, Andrea Fraser, Silvia Gruner, Javier Téllez, Judi Werthien y Yukinori Yanagi among others.

Wouldn’t it be nice to have free speech areas where the big wall has been built? Like Terry Allen said, where lovers can whisper sweet sayings, or read poems or just long and wave?

Chiapas, Mexico

Lacandons Indians, Hach Winick or « real men » who live in the Chiapas forest, south of Mexico. In the Naha village, Miquel Dewever-Plana is the witness of change suffered by this microcosm under the pressure of lackland peasants, farmer settlers, tourists and Christian evangelists.

Lacandones are rare to have survived so long. Traditionally they lived in perfect harmony with the environment but now deforestation and the Western way of life are ever encroaching, and by the end of our lifetimes these people in their authentic state will most likely be gone.

The Lacandon Forest is in the Montes Azules biosphere reserve. Chiapas, Mexico

Baraka

Traditional dances feasts and adorations of Baraka. from Daniel CDMs™ on Vimeo.

bathroom poetry

my body is a jerk
i wish i had a beak
so i cld gnaw at my hand
@strange matter

Angela Davis and Toni Morrison

Mountains that Take Wing: Angela Davis & Yuri Kochiyama: A Conversation on Life, Struggles and Liberation