Happy Halloween!

Incidental Comics

 

Do you consider yourself crazy for cacti?

If so, you’re not alone. It seems like everyone else loves prickly pears and saguaros just as much as you do, and this variety of plant is celebrated on products of all kinds. Now, it’s easier than ever to outfit your home in cactus decor and accessorize your wardrobe with it, too.
 From novelty socks to curtains to cookie cutters, you can find cacti in many ways.

 

Limited Edition Shoes

wastedrita

 

When NASA’s Engineers Have A Pumpkin-Carving Contest

During the day NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California builds robots fit for space, but after hours they put their brainpower together for something a bit more rudimentary
- pumpkin carving.

 

Halloween Origami

Louise Cassidy

 

Humanity has wiped out 60% of animal populations since 1970, report finds

Cattle in the Amazon rainforest. Photograph: Michael Nichols 

Humanity has wiped out 60% of mammals, birds, fish and reptiles since 1970, leading the world’s foremost experts to warn that the annihilation of wildlife is now an emergency that threatens civilisation.
 The new estimate of the massacre of wildlife is made in a major report produced by WWF and involving 59 scientists from across the globe. It finds that the vast and growing consumption of food and resources by the global population is destroying the web of life, billions of years in the making, upon which human society ultimately depends for clean air, water and everything else.
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Why did the Bison cross the road ?

Photograph by Michael Nichols

 

Nuns, guns and Beatles

The November 2018 Square Print Sale, presented by Magnum Photos and Aperture, brings together over 100 images to explore perspectives on transition and transformation in photography.

 

The Spirit of Halloween 2018

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Disney Princesses Become Noir Heroines in These Fantastic Prints.

Illustrator Ástor Alexander has created a series called Noir Princesses featuring Disney princesses reimagined into detectives and femme fatales.

 

How to Read "Infinite Jest"

Illustration by Luci Gutiérrez

1.Buy hardcover copy of “Infinite Jest” at brick-and-mortar bookstore. Touch paper and feel connected to hundreds of years of printed language. Flash cashier knowing, learned smile. Commend self for protecting bookstores from onslaught of crass digital commercialism.
2. Walk home and experience heft of text as bag handles dig into palm. Embrace heaviness as evidence of import. Thumb nose at pedestrians who aren’t carrying impressive, heavy books. Feel smug.
3. List book on Goodreads as “current read,” along with “Team of Rivals” and “War and Peace.” Accept accolades for being superior to rest of TV-watching generation. Refer to reading as “yoga for the mind.”
4. Go out for drinks with friends. Talk endlessly about book. Reiterate “yoga for the mind” thing. Accept new role as group sophisticate. Warn friends about dangers of bar limes.
5. Remove book from bag. Prepare to begin journey by watching three episodes of “Westworld.” Feel confused by multiple time lines. Reward self for sitting through hours of perplexing prestige television by watching one episode of “Jersey Shore: Family Vacation.”
6. Take selfie with book “accidentally” in background. Post on social media. Respond to dazzled commenters with “I guess size does matter. ;)”
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Boo!

Mark Ulriksen

 

Good Morning!

personal message

 

Get Up

Marc Johns

 

Personal Message

Michael Dumontier and Neil Farber (collaborations)

 

The earth became a disappointment

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Tim Etchells

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Great Autumn Morning

Photograph by Fabian Dalpiaz

 

Transport the Soul

Photograph by Brad Goldpaint 

Is Bohemian Rhapsody any good ?

Mercury’s long-awaited biopic may be named after Queen’s superlatively innovative anthem, but it has barely a fraction of that song’s arrogant grandeur or adventurous spirit.
 It looks like a daytime soap opera and it runs through the same chord progression as every previous rock biopic.
In other words, some musicians get together; they record their greatest hits while wearing a succession of less-than-convincing shaggy wigs; and their fortunes rise, fall and then rise again.
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Don’t let yourselves get wrapped up

Photograph: Vincent Kessler/Reuters 

A River of People

Thousands of migrants from Central America are crossing Mexico from south to north in the hope of reaching the United States. Many of them are parents with young children seeking a better life away from the violence and lack of opportunities in their home countries. The size of the group has steadily grown from about 1,000 to more than 7,000, according to a United Nations estimate.
Photojournalist Encarni Pindado documented their progress north across the Guatemala-Mexico border.