Since space is limited in student hostels, Chinese pupils are subjected to this unusual test where they are judged on how quickly and neatly they can make a bed.
Thursday, May 23, 2013
Two women showing uncovered legs in the public place for the first time. Toronto, 1937
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
"My last wife was 47 years older than me."
"47 years???"
"Yep. We met when she was 80 and I was 33. She came to the nursing home where I worked, and everyday she would spend six hours with her dying husband. I said to myself: 'If she ever loves me like that, I'll be OK.' We married a couple years later, and stayed together until she died at the age of 96. If I had any money, I'd make a movie about it."
"What's your greatest struggle right now?"
"Interacting with other people."
"In what way?"
"In this way."
"What's your greatest struggle right now?"
"Fear of my writing. Sharing my writing, in particular."
"Will you email me something you wrote tonight?"
"I want to be an artist."
"What kind of art do you want to make?"
"I want to make different versions of myself."
"Do you need the cane?"
"I need it when I'm wearing these shoes."
We talked for a few minutes. She told me that she'd had a plan to join the Navy out of high school, but that fell apart because her knees were bad. She told me that she'd just finished working a 12 hour shift on a food truck. She told me that she'd moved to New York for no reason, just to get out of Kansas. "But I'm so glad I came," she said.
"Why's that?" I asked. Her eyes began to water.
"Because I'm so in love with a girl right now."
"What's the most scared you've ever been?"
"Probably when I was detoxing from alcohol. The first time."
"How long after that did you have your next drink?"
"Twenty days."
"If you could give one piece of advice to a large group of people, what would it be?"
"Keep your powder dry."
"What does that mean?"
"I'm not sure. I think it's an 18th Century thing."
"Ok... well, what's your greatest struggle right now?"
"Getting across this road is gonna be pretty tough."
"Why were you homeless?"
"It just got to a point where my mom couldn't maintain anymore. The sad part was that it was during high school. So I had to keep it a secret. Cause, you know, it's high school."
"What are you working toward?"
"Being the boss."
"I want to be a police officer."
"What's the best part of being a police officer?"
"Protecting people."
"What's the worst part?"
"Probably the gunfights."
"You look kinda like Ernest Hemingway."
"And we're both from Key West."
"You're from Key West?"
"Well, I used to smuggle coke out of there."
"We just got back from the prom."
"Did you have dates?"
"Um, yeah."
"I'm sketching out my next film."
"What's it about?"
"It's sort of a romantic Jurassic Park. Except the dinosaurs have jetpacks."
"Pounce?"
"It's to remind me to be more aggressive."
"What was your first impression of America?"
"I wondered why everyone was rushing."
"What's your greatest struggle right now?"
"Building a fence in my back yard."
"Oh c'mon."
"I'm serious. I married my best friend, I live on the Atlantic Ocean, I've played music my entire life. But this fence is giving me trouble!"
"I never married."
"Why not?"
"Because you didn't come along until today."
"I cured myself of schizophrenia."
"How'd you do that?"
"I stopped listening to the voices."
"I said you could take my picture. Now you're asking me questions and this is turning into a big deal."
Source: https://www.facebook.com/humansofnewyork?fref=ts
Monday, May 20, 2013
Airplane wrecks usually denote tragedies, but photographer Dietmar Eckell aims to highlight the rare miracles from the history of aviation where everyone survived.
"'Happy End' is a photo-project about miracles in aviation history - 15 airplanes that had forced landings but all on board survived and were rescued from the remote locations," says Dietmar Eckell a photographer from Dusseldorf, Germany.
For nearly three years, Eckell trekked to extremely isolated locations across the world — nine countries on four continents — from Australia to Iceland looking for abandoned remains of plane wreckage. These planes have remain abandoned from anywhere between 10-70 years and have become part of the landscape. In the forests, trees grow through broken windows. In the desert, piles of sand conform to the shape of the fuselage. In the mountains, their gray metal innards start to resemble the rocks around them. According to Eckell, all wreckage involve stories of survival and sheer luck.
West Sahara
To find the wrecks, Eckell sifted through internet forums, dug through archives and searched Google Earth. Once he had a general region, he began surveying local pilots to see if they had details on a specific location. The quest to find these downed plane were like a trip through history. In Papua New Guinea, he had to cross through communities that still clung to centuries-old traditions and had no electricity or running water. While chasing another wreck in North Africa he had to negotiate with a local rebel group in order to get transported across the border from Mauritania into Western Sahara.
Eckell couldn’t get to the most remote crashes in places like Antarctica and Greenland because it was too expensive, but he is trying to raise money for the project.
USA
Monday, May 20, 2013
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