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Planet Earth II (2016) Episode 05 “Grasslands” Directed by Chadden Hunter

As Smeets says, “The spirit of the Ghetto Tarot project is the inspiration to turn negative into positive while playing. The group of artists ‘Atiz Rezistans’ use trash to create art with their own visions that are a reflection of the beauty they see hidden within the waste. They are claiming the word ‘Ghetto,’ thus freeing themselves of its depreciating undertone and turning it into something beautiful.”

Credit: Trung Pham

From Balestrand at the Sognefjord (detail), by Thomas Fearnley.

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Aerial exploration of abstract and organic shapes of sand dunes in the Namib desert, Africa. 

Tove Jansson: creator of Moominland, noted anti-fascist, lesbian icon. (photos from this lovely article)

Wolfgang Mattheuer (German, 1927-2004), Abenddämmerung [Dusk], 1991. Oil on canvas, 60 x 80 cm.

Portrait of Princess Sibylle of Cleve, 1526, by Lucas Cranach the Elder  (1472-1553)

You have bewitched me, body and soul. Pride & Prejudice (2005) dir. Joe Wright

Julia Butterfly Hill lived in a 180-foot (55 m)-tall, roughly 1500-year-old California Redwood tree  for 738 days between December 10, 1997 and December 18, 1999. Hill lived in the tree, affectionately known as “Luna,” to prevent Pacific Lumber Company loggers from cutting it down.

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