Today, on International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust, the world bows its head in memory of 11 million lives lost; 11 million people who lived, learned, thrived, struggled, laughed, worked and loved.
Today, we remember 11 million people who were stripped of their individuality and humanity, and we say: Never again.
When some young lovers walk along the trail in a park, they might have the urge to carve their names/initials and a heart within as a cute expression of their love that could outlast their lifetime. Sometimes cut a little too deep and remove the bark entirely when tracing a heart. In hiking culture, this is considered a dick move who believe in “Leave No Trace Behind”. It damages the tree by disrupting its flow of nutrients and expose itself to insects who could carry pathogens. As a complete ‘homebody’, I found this information new and influenced to rethink trees as flesh. Delicious flesh trees.
(via Justin Jorgensen) “In 2007 I worked with photographers Williams + Hirakawa to create a concept piece of me sleeping on a sheet cake. I though these cakes looked like pillows, and there’s the obvious play on ‘sweet dreams.’
I wondered if I could fall asleep on a cake and have sweet dreams. I didn’t. It was pretty gross really and wasn’t easy to wash off.
A few years later, outtakes from the shoot were sold to Getty Images as stock photos. I didn’t know this until 2011 when one of those photos made #13 on the wildly popular Buzzffed.com list of “60 Completely Unusable Stock Photos.”
Into 2014, the Getty Image photo continues to make the rounds on Facebook and Tumblr.”
i can’t believe i leveled up enough to unlock cake pillow guy’s backstory
