archiemcphee:

Check out this awesome capture by Michigan photographer Brooke Pennington. The tension is palpable. That little mantis look so brave in the face of the pending kitty smack down.

If this version isn’t quite enough awesomeness for you, you can view a larger version here.

[via Colossal]

criminallyinnocent:

Here is a Georgia State Trooper in riot gear at a KKK protest in a north Georgia city back in the 80s. The Trooper is black. Standing in front of him and touching his shield is a curious little boy dressed in a Klan hood and robe. I have stared at this picture and wondered what must have been going through that Trooper’s mind. Before the Trooper is an innocent child who is being taught to hate him because of the color of his skin. The child doesn’t understand what he is being taught, and at this point he doesn’t seem to care. Like any other child his curiosity takes hold and he wants to explore this new thing that this man is holding probably because he can see his reflection in it and that’s a neat thing and he wants to check it out. In this picture I see innocence mixed with hate, the irony of a black man protecting the right of white people to assemble in protest against him, temperance in the face of ignorance, and hope that racism can be broken because this young boy may remember that a black man smiled at him once and he didn’t seem so bad after all.

(via kidsoncrack)

archiemcphee:

“Freshly shaved alpacas are seen at Alpaca-Land farm in Goeming in the Austrian province of Salzburg. The annual shearing of Alpacas is done in the spring to make the animals more comfortable for the summer months, and it gives them plenty of time to grow a thick new coat before winter.”

Photo by Kerstin Joensson

[via Telegraph.co.uk]

stickyembraces:

Alice in post-structuralist land, #2

(via libraryland)