Through the Eyes of the Beholder

Photos and things I find interesting.

[lensblr-network]

A good photograph is one that communicates a fact, touches the heart and leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen it. It is, in a word, effective.

Irving Penn (via lensblr-network)

[czechthecount]

Afternoons by the Matterhorn ..

by czechthecount: instagram | facebook | 500px | society6

[manculture]

Ryan Reynolds

[craftyshasty]

Watercolor quotes in my journal.

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Not exactly sure what I'm going to do with this yet. #makingart #cutelittledishtransformation #beingcreative #gettingmyarton

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My gratitude page in my new bullet journal.

[90sclubkid]

Kurt Cobain, 1991

[craftyshasty]

Check out @ayyypee's Tweet: https://twitter.com/ayyypee/status/842389305460948992

[earpwave]

We noticed abnormal activity on your credit card, so we just need you to confirm or deny some of the recent charges.

[ohmy80s]

Depp / 21 Jump Street

[historical-nonfiction]

Starting in the mid-seventh century, the Japanese government placed a ban on eating meat which lasted on and off for over 1,200 years. Probably influenced by the Buddhist precept that forbids the taking of life, Emperor Tenmu issued an edict in 675 CE that banned the eating of beef, monkeys, and domestic animals under penalty of death. (Side note: monkey must have been very popular to be named specifically in the law!) Emperor Tenmu’s original law was only meant to be observed between April and September. But later laws and religious practices essentially made eating most meat, especially beef, illegal or taboo.

It was not until 1872 that Japanese authorities officially lifted the ban. Even the emperor had become a meat eater, to show it was totally okay and not angering Buddha. While not everybody was immediately enthused, particularly monks, the centuries-old taboo on eating meat soon faded away.

[sfmoma]

Submission Friday:

Clint Enns  http://clintenns.tumblr.com

[vintagegeekculture]

“They are the men that women viewers are dying to meet.” They don’t know the half of it.

[npr]

President Trump recently described Frederick Douglass as “an example of somebody who’s done an amazing job and is being recognized more and more, I notice.” The president’s muddled tense – it came out sounding as if the 19th-century abolitionist were alive with a galloping Twitter following – provoked some mirth on social media. But the spotlight on one of America’s great moral heroes is a welcome one.

Frederick Douglass On How Slave Owners Used Food As A Weapon Of Control

Photo: Hulton Archive/Getty Images

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Submission Friday:

Photography by Xuebing DU

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