Urban Shadows

There’s a Michigan high school where the students wear costumes in their ID photos. When you’re a senior at North Farmington High School, it’s tradition to dress up as a pop culture character of your choosing to better personalize your student ID. The results are so popular that many of them end up on Twitter under the hashtag #NFID18. Source Source 2

This angel is made of knives that were surrendered to police or were once kept as forensic evidence. Some are engraved with the victims’ names, and each blade was cleaned of ‘biological material’ and dulled by artist Alfie Radley, who created the piece for the British Ironwork Centre to help bring awareness to the knife violence issue in the UK. Source Source 2 Source 3

‘Tsunami stones’ are ancient warnings written on stone tablets, some over 600 years old, that lie along the northeast coast of Japan. After a tsunami struck Aneyoshi in 1933, residents moved uphill of a stone they placed that reads ‘Do not build your homes below this point!’, and when the devastating tsunami of 2011 hit, the entire village survived. Source Source 2