the wind-up torch on the knoll

from /r/vexillology Top comment: What a beautiful flag wow!

So in my basic drawing class we are learning to draw facial features and I couldnt help myself to draw eyes on all the lips

Statue amongst HVAC exhausts. Kyoto.

from /r/vexillologycirclejerk Top comment: Didn’t know the flag of Ecuador had a mii on it

Antoine Vollon, Mound of Butter, 1875–85, oil on canvas, 20 x 25 in.

The Euthanasia Coaster is a concept for a steel roller coaster designed to kill its passengers. In 2010, it was designed and made into a scale model by Julijonas Urbonas, a PhD candidate at the Royal College of Art in London. Urbonas, who has worked at an amusement park, stated that the goal of his concept roller coaster is to take lives “with elegance and euphoria.” It is a ride to the death. The seven loops or “inversions” put the human body under such stress that it causes the brain to be starved of oxygen, as the heart simply cannot push blood against the enormous g-forces. Even if it kills you, it is designed to still be a fun death. An honourable thought, if rather macabre.

daren thomas magee 

When you fight for 721 years and the result is ‘status quo ante bellum’

Dirby woke us up at 8 AM with another impromptu ukulele serenade. this little one brings so much happiness.

(From here)