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Saturday 13 January 2018

there's a world going on / anywhere out of this world / Szymborska: Map (where the shitholes are)

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SYRIA - A girl plays in Raqa, the former "capital" of the Islamic State (IS) group in Syria. Photo @Delilsouleman #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 12 January 2018



#Syria Scenes from #Raqa, the former "capital" of the Islamic State (IS) group in Syria. Photo @Delilsouleman: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 12 January 2018
 


#Syria Scenes from #Raqa, the former "capital" of the Islamic State (IS) group in Syria. Photo @Delilsouleman: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 12 January 2018


Today in #Raqqa city: image via Delilsouleman @Delilsouleman, 11 January 2018
 


SYRIA - A woman pulls a cart loaded with pieces of metal in Syria's devastated city of Raqa. Photo @Delilsouleman: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 10 January 2018 



City of #Raqa on January 9, 2018. Photo DELIL SOULEIMAN / #AFP: image via Delilsouleman @Delilsouleman, 9 January 2018



City of #Raqa on January 9, 2018. Photo DELIL SOULEIMAN / #AFP: image via Delilsouleman @Delilsouleman, 9 January 2018



City of #Raqa on January 9, 2018. Photo DELIL SOULEIMAN / #AFP: image via Delilsouleman @Delilsouleman, 9 January 2018



City of #Raqa on January 9, 2018. Photo DELIL SOULEIMAN / #AFP: image via Delilsouleman @Delilsouleman, 9 January 2018


 
City of #Raqa on January 9, 2018. Photo DELIL SOULEIMAN / #AFP: image via Delilsouleman @Delilsouleman, 9 January 2018

 
City of #Raqa on January 9, 2018. Photo DELIL SOULEIMAN / #AFP: image via Delilsouleman @Delilsouleman, 9 January 2018



City of #Raqa on January 9, 2018. Photo DELIL SOULEIMAN / #AFP: image via Delilsouleman @Delilsouleman, 9 January 2018



SYRIA - A man pulls a cart in Syria's devastated city of Raqa. Photo @Delilsouleman: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 10 January 2018


 
 City of #Raqa on January 9, 2018. Photo DELIL SOULEIMAN / #AFP: image via Delilsouleman @Delilsouleman, 9 January 2018

 

This is a part of the most powerful pictures in the world for last week, all of them taken following airstrikes by the Syrian government forces on the besieged Eastern Ghouta near the Syrian capital Damascus. PHOTO By: ABDULMONAM EASSA Via / #AFP: image via Abdulmonam Eassa @abdfree2, 12 January 2018

 

This is a part of the most powerful pictures in the world for last week, all of them taken following airstrikes by the Syrian government forces on the besieged Eastern Ghouta near the Syrian capital Damascus. PHOTO By: ABDULMONAM EASSA Via / #AFP: image via Abdulmonam Eassa @abdfree2, 12 January 2018

 

This is a part of the most powerful pictures in the world for last week, all of them taken following airstrikes by the Syrian government forces on the besieged Eastern Ghouta near the Syrian capital Damascus. PHOTO By: ABDULMONAM EASSA Via / #AFP: image via Abdulmonam Eassa @abdfree2, 12 January 2018


A Syria Civil Defence member carries a wounded child in the besieged town of Hamoria, Eastern Ghouta, in Damascus, Syria Photo @BassamKhabieh: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 13 January 2018 

 

This is a part of the most powerful pictures in the world for last week, all of them taken following airstrikes by the Syrian government forces on the besieged Eastern Ghouta near the Syrian capital Damascus. PHOTO By: ABDULMONAM EASSA Via / #AFP: image via Abdulmonam Eassa @abdfree2, 12 January 2018


حمورية - الوقوف على الأطلال..  #Children look out from their destroyed home as #WhiteHelmets volunteers search for survivors after several air strikes destroyed civil buildings in #Hamoria city, al-Ghouta, #EasternGhouta #Damascus #WhiteHelmet @epaphotos @SyriaCivilDef: image via Mohammed Badra @badramamet, 10 January 2018


حمورية - الوقوف على الأطلال..  #Children look out from their destroyed home as #WhiteHelmets volunteers search for survivors after several air strikes destroyed civil buildings in #Hamoria city, al-Ghouta, #EasternGhouta #Damascus #WhiteHelmet @epaphotos @SyriaCivilDef: image via Mohammed Badra @badramamet, 10 January 2018


 
 حمورية - الوقوف على الأطلال..  #Children look out from their destroyed home as #WhiteHelmets volunteers search for survivors after several air strikes destroyed civil buildings in #Hamoria city, al-Ghouta, #EasternGhouta #Damascus #WhiteHelmet @epaphotos @SyriaCivilDef: image via Mohammed Badra @badramamet, 10 January 2018
 

A mother weeps over her dead child Ameer who was wounded during airstrikes in Saqba and later died of his injuries #Douma #Ghouta #Syria #airstrikes Photo @badramamet: image via SundayTimesPictures @STPictures, 9 January 2018


خلال الايام الماضية #Mesraba aftermath of air strikes #Damascus #EasternGhouta #Syria: image via Mohammed Badra @badramamet, 8 January 2018 


 خلال الايام الماضية #Mesraba aftermath of air strikes #Damascus #EasternGhouta #Syria: image via Mohammed Badra @badramamet, 8 January 2018


 خلال الايام الماضية #Mesraba aftermath of air strikes #Damascus #EasternGhouta #Syria: image via Mohammed Badra @badramamet, 8 January 2018


 خلال الايام الماضية #Mesraba aftermath of air strikes #Damascus #EasternGhouta #Syria: image via Mohammed Badra @badramamet, 8 January 2018
 

#Children of #Syria  #EasternGhouta #childhood #injured @epaphotos: image via Mohammed Badra @badramamet, 5 January 2018


epa editor's choice 04 January 2018: #Mesraba #airstrikes #Syria #epaphotos Photo epa-efe  / @badramamet : image via epaphotos @epaphotos, 4 January 2018
 

GAZA CITY - Palestinian protesters clash with Israeli security forces on the eastern outskirts of Gaza City, near the border with Israel. Photo @mohmdabed #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 12 January 2018


#OTD In 2010, Haiti was struck by a magnitude-7 earthquake: image via AP Archives @AP_Archive, 12 January 2018
  
Hawaii officials mistakenly warn of inbound missile, sending residents into a full-blown panic Saturday: image via AP Images @AP_Images, 13 January 2018

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This is the map of the #shithole countries: image via Bali_Pikin_njenka @lensnouvel, 13 January 2018    from Centre, Cameroon

Wislawa Szymborska: Map 

Flat as the table
it’s placed on.
Nothing moves beneath it
and it seeks no outlet.
Above -- my human breath
creates no stirring air
and leaves its total surface
undisturbed.

 
Its plains, valleys are always green,
uplands, mountains are yellow and brown,
while seas, oceans remain a kindly blue
beside the tattered shores.

 
Everything here is small, near, accessible.
I can press volcanoes with my fingertip,
stroke the poles without thick mittens,
I can with a single glance
encompass every desert
with the river lying just beside it.

 
A few trees stand for ancient forests,
you couldn’t lose your way among them.

 
In the east and west,
above and below the equator --
quiet like pins dropping,
and in every black pinprick
people keep on living.
Mass graves and sudden ruins
are out of the picture.

 
Nations’ borders are barely visible
as if they wavered -- to be or not.

 
I like maps, because they lie.
Because they give no access to the vicious truth.
Because great-heartedly, good-naturedly
they spread before me a world
not of this world.


Wislawa Szymborska (1923-2012): Map, 2012, translated by Clare Cavanagh in Map: Collected and Last Poems, 2015


Map of Tuscany and the Chiana Valley: Leonardo da Vinci, c.1502, black chalk, pen, ink and colour on paper, 338 x 488 mm (Royal Library, Windsor)

 
 
Heart-shaped Map: Oronce Finé, 1536, engraving, watercolour, 51 x 57 cm (Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris)
 

Novissima et Accuratissima Totius Americae Descriptio: Johannnes de Ram, c. 1685, engraving

 

First Ottoman map of the United States): image via Amazing Maps @Amazing_Maps, 22 July 2015
 

World Map: Benedetto Bordone, 1528, woodcut, 325 x 165 mm (British Library, London)


Lion Map (Leo Belgicus)
: Claes Jansz Visscher the Younger, 1609, coloured etching and engraving, 470 x 572 mm (Stichting Atlas van Stolk, Rotterdam)
 
 
 
Image of the Pilgrimage of St Paul: Abraham Ortelius, 1579, engraving

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Synthetica: A New Continent of Plastic: Union Carbide and Carbon Corporation advertisement for plastics, Fortune, October 1940 (Gallery of Graphic Design)
 
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Percentage of non religious people in Europe that agreed to the statement "there is some sort of spirit life force": image via Amazing Maps @Amazing_Maps, 21 August 2015
 


New York: map of Flickr and Twitter locations. Red dots are locations of Flickr pictures. Blue dots are locations of Twitter tweets. White dots are locations that have been posted to both: image by Eric Fischer (See something or say something), 7 July 2011


German propaganda map showing the Allies' colonial empires (c1916): image via Amazing Maps @Amazing_Maps, 24 July 2015

 
Leo Belgicus: Hendrik Floris van Langren, before 1609, hand coloured engraving and etching, 368 x 450 mm (National Széchényi Library, Budapest)

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Standard time zones of the world
: image via Amazing Maps @Amazing_Maps, 5 August 2016


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Accurata Utopia Tabula (Karte des Schlaraffenlandes): Matthäus Seutter (1678-1757), via Barry Lawrence Ruderman Antique Maps; image by Goustien, 19 February 2009 



The Island of Utopia
: Ambrosius Holbein, 1518, woodcut, 17.8 x 11.8 cm (Öffentliche Kunstsammlung, Basel)


INDUSTRIAL CHEMICALS
TIME
10/04/1963
p. 9

Celanese Plastics advertisement
: Time, 4 October 1963 (Gallery of Graphic Design)

”RT @Mr_Bata: The South African map of Africa. @zapiro at his best! #Xenophobia: image via Rachael Akidi @rakidi, 20 April 2015
 


Some military instructions in Hebrew and a map of a school are seen on a blackboard after Israeli soldiers withdrew from the Beit Hanun High school for girls which was reportedly used as an advance base during Israel's military offensive against the Gaza Strip
: photo by Marco Longari/AFP, 5 August 2014

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A map of the world weighted around how much wealth each country has. Poor Africa! :(: image via Belal Dabour - Gaza @Belalmd12, 29 September 2014
 

The only countries that don't use the metric system are Liberia, Myanmar, and the United States: image via Belal Dabour - Gaza @Belalmd12, 29 September 2014 

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From October 1999 through March 2012, 2,269 deaths were recorded at the Arizona-Mexico border. Water stations, placed by the nonprofit Humane Borders, are intended to mitigate the deaths. Source: Migrant death map provided courtesy of Humane Borders, Inc. Data development by John F. Chamblee, Michael Malone, and Mathew Reynolds: image via Newsweek, 10 July 2013

Colours of passports around the world: image via Amazing Maps @Amazing_Maps, 4 August 2015


World map of Flickr and Twitter locations. Red dots are locations of Flickr pictures. Blue dots are locations of Twitter tweets. White dots are locations that have been posted to both: image by Eric Fischer (See something or say something), 7 July 2011


Average monthly disposable salary in USD: image via Amazing Maps @Amazing_Maps, 17 July 2015 

 

European detail map of Flickr and Twitter locations. Red dots are locations of Flickr pictures. Blue dots are locations of Twitter tweets. White dots are locations that have been posted to both: image by Eric Fischer (See something or say something), 7 July 2011

Most popular word used in online dating profiles by state: image via Amazing Maps @Amazing_Maps, 9 August 2015



North American detail map of Flickr and Twitter locations. Red dots are locations of Flickr pictures. Blue dots are locations of Twitter tweets. White dots are locations that have been posted to both: image by Eric Fischer (See something or say something), 7 July 2011

Most common job held by immigrants in the USA: image via Amazing Maps @Amazing_Maps, 18 August 2015


London: map of Flickr and Twitter locations. Red dots are locations of Flickr pictures. Blue dots are locations of Twitter tweets. White dots are locations that have been posted to both: image by Eric Fischer (See something or say something), 7 July 2011

Greater Tokyo area superimposed over Great Britain: image via Amazing Maps @Amazing_Maps, 14 August 2015


San Francisco: map of Flickr and Twitter locations. Red dots are locations of Flickr pictures. Blue dots are locations of Twitter tweets. White dots are locations that have been posted to both: image by Eric Fischer (See something or say something), 7 July 2011

Heavy metal bands per 100,000 people: image via Amazing Maps @Amazing_Maps, 8 October 2013


Moscow: map of Flickr and Twitter locations. Red dots are locations of Flickr pictures. Blue dots are locations of Twitter tweets. White dots are locations that have been posted to both: image by Eric Fischer (See something or say something), 7 July 2011

Cigarette consumption by country: image via Amazing Maps @Amazing_Maps, 30 July 2015



Paris: map of Flickr and Twitter locations. Red dots are locations of Flickr pictures. Blue dots are locations of Twitter tweets. White dots are locations that have been posted to both: image by Eric Fischer (See something or say something), 7 July 2011


Where countries import the most from: image via Amazing Maps @Amazing_Maps, 7 August 2015


A map made entirely from Facebook connections : image via Amazing Maps @Amazing_Maps, 9 August 2015

1 comment:

TC said...


Dylan: Delia (live, Newcastle 19 September 1999)

Charlatans UK : A Man Needs to be Told

A man needs to be told there is a war going on
There is a world going on
There is a world going on
A man needs to be told to look in to the light
He will get lost in the day
He will get lost in the night
A man needs to be told

A young boy once told me
I will be an old man and I am only 15
It wasn't part of the plan
It wasn't part of the dream
Ever wonder how much the man who wrote White Christmas made?
How evolution began?
The revolution was fake
A man needs to be told

A man needs to be told there is a war going on
There is a war going on
There is a war going on
A man needs to be told there is a truth in his eye
There is a rest in the dawn
There is a point to his life
A man needs to be told!