RAIN.A

daydreamer / pacifist / life enthusiast

[dastaanewatan]

Wedding ceremony in Lahore, 1954

[travelerstories]

Sunrise. Varanasi, India

[brudesworld]

Day of the Dead by Carlos Schwabe (1866-1926)

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[actegratuit]

Indonesian graphic designer Jati Putra creates surreal compositions by digitally manipulating and superimposing layers of incredible imagery.

[aabbiidd]

Salam Ya Hussain (a.s) •

Shrine Shah Gardez. Multan, Pakistan. (Instagram: aabbiidd)

[itscolossal]

Newly Digitized ‘Phenakistoscope’ Animations That Pre-Date GIFs by Over 150 Years

[skunkbear]

One of my favorite animals, inexpertly rendered by centuries of European artists. That one from the Netherlands looks like a high school mascot.

Happy World Elephant Day!

If you’re in the mood to learn about some other giant animals, check out Skunk Bear’s latest video.

[staff]

We missed elephant day but NPR’s science Tumblr is called skunkbear and that’s what’s important here.

[umerr-deactivated20170526]

Illuminated Karachi rickshaw.

[rainaaaxxx]

Kiripi Katembo (1979-2015).

[wwf]

Celebrate with us the LARGEST living land mammals on the planet… Happy World #Elephant Day! http://ift.tt/1Jc8iOy

[humansofnewyork]

“I’m studying cardiac regeneration to help repair damaged hearts. It was widely believed that hearts cells could not be replenished, but we’ve used carbon dating to discover cells in the heart that are younger than the heart itself. So I believe it is possible.” (Lahore, Pakistan)

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[archatlas]

Before They Pass Away Jimmy Nelson

Between 2010 & 2013 Jimmy Nelson travelled the world to document some of the most fantastic indigenous cultures left on the planet today. He had come to realize that from a life spent travelling that his camera was the perfect tool for making contact and building intimate and unique friendships. Relationships with hither to unknown and understood communities in some of the farther most reaches of the planet. He wanted to discover how the rest of the world is threatening to change their way of life forever. But most importantly, he wanted to create an ambitious aesthetic photographic document that would stand the test of time.

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[artchipel]

Dina Brodsky | Instagram (b.1981, USA)

Dina Brodsky paints on circular pieces of plexiglass with a 2-inch circumference, creating oil paintings that are spectacularly detailed and lifelike. Born in Minsk, Belarus and grew up in the US, Brodsky was educated at University of Massachussets Amherst and New York Academy of Art, where she received her MFA. She lives and works in New York City. She has taught privately, and in several institutions including the Castle Hill Center for the Arts, the Brookline Art Center and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

via My Modern Met © All images courtesy the artist

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[shaadifashion]

This Modern Love by Sitwat Rizvi

[kajalmag]

Hatecopy’s tongue-in-cheek pop art mashup provides an interesting commentary on diaspora life.  Scroll through her ‘Burnt the Rotis’ series on the site now.