During the three-day spectacle of the Tiji Festival, monks dress as different animals, demons and divinities to enact an epic fight between good and evil. In the town square of Lo Manthang, a monk dressed as a skeleton performs an ancient dance accompanied by ceremonial Tibetan Buddhist music. (Taylor Weidman/The Vanishing Cultures Project) (via Mustang: Nepal’s former Kingdom of Lo - The Big Picture - Boston.com)
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wellies in the sand by Rock Cake on Flickr.
matilda loves sand and wellies so low tide on brighton beach is a massive treat!
Oathbreaker at Green Door Store by jacksheenphoto on Flickr.
A man carries a portrait of the late Chinese communist leader Mao Zedong at a flea market in Beijing, April 16, 2012. (Alexander F. Yuan/Associated Press) (via Daily life: April 2012 - The Big Picture - Boston.com)
“Time out room” at the South Bend Juvenile Correctional Facility, South Bend, IN. (via Uncompromising Photos Expose Juvenile Detention in America | Raw File | Wired.com)
Tourists watch as water is discharged at the Xiaolangdi Reservoir on the Yellow River in Jiyuan, China on June 22, 2011. (China Daily/Reuters) (via World Water Day 2012 - The Big Picture - Boston.com)
Ultra Orthodox Jews wearing costumes, celebrate the Jewish festival of Purim on March 9 in Jerusalem’s Mea Shearim neighborhood. (Menahem Kahana/AFP/Getty Images) (via The festival of Purim - The Big Picture - Boston.com)
Alex LaRoche at the Misprint 6th Annual Beard & Moustache Competition by Polish Sausage Queen
On April 26, 1986, operators in this control room of reactor No. 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant committed a fatal series of errors during a safety test, triggering a reactor meltdown that resulted in the world’s largest nuclear accident to date. Today, the control room sits abandoned and deadly radioactive. Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, Ukraine, 2005 (Gerd Ludwig/INSTITUTE) (via Gerd Ludwig’s “Long Shadow of Chernobyl” project - The Big Picture - Boston.com)
Could this be my long lost bother?
