The Great Jack O’Lantern Blaze
Held every year in New York, the Great Jack O’Lantern Blaze is a 25-night-long Halloween event featuring some 5,000 hand-carved, illuminated pumpkins arranged into dinosaurs, witches, zombies, and other spooky forms. Via Instagram:
Although only associated with Halloween as we know it today since the late 1800s, the tradition of gourd carving dates back to the 18th and 19th centuries in rural Ireland and England. People created jack o’lanterns for the old holidays of Samhain and All Souls’ Night when spirits were thought to be the most active. Grotesque faces carved into the objects were meant to frighten away any ghouls seeking to do harm.
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By Simon Wilkes
Beverley Brook, London, England
why are star wars planets more boring than earth and our solar system like sure we’ve seen desert, snow, diff types of forest, beach, lava, rain, but like…
rainbow mountains (peru)
red soil (canada/PEI)
rings (saturn’s if they were on earth)
bioluminescent waves
northern lights (canada)
salt flats (bolivia, where they filmed crait but did NOTHING COOL WITH IT except red dust?? like??? come ON)
and cool fauna like the touch me not or like, you know, the venus flytrap.. and don’t get me started on BUGS like… we have bugs cooler than sw aliens
BASICALLY like???? come on star wars you had one (1) job where are the cool alien species
Mossy shrine in Gifu, Japan. Photography by みわ miwa@odekakephoto7
Green Monster & Tacna Haboob by Mike Olbinski
A sunset will color your dreams
Photos by Mauro Scalabroni
POV: You’re standing amongst the sequoia trees watching a winter sunrise. Life is good.
Photo at Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Park, by Jelieta Walinski (sharetheexperience.org).
Photo description: Tall snowy trees stretch up towards a twilight-colored sky.