Virgil Ortiz (Cochiti)

My favorite shot from La Jetée

Chinese New Year decorations are displayed on a window at a shopping mall in Hong Kong on Feb. 3, 2013, to celebrate the Year of the Snake as the Chinese lunar New Year starts on Feb. 10.

[Credit : Vincent Yu/AP]

Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive.

Josephine Hart (via thenocturnals)

Every year for All Saints Day, people from my family's town in Santiago Sacatepequez, Guatemala make kites to send messages to the dead.

Chef Walter Whitewater from Red Mesa Cuisine at the Native Foods Pavilion, Slow Food Nation, San Francisco, 2008, by Gemma Givens. 

“June 12th, 2013 #11” by Stefanie Jasper

THE SPECIAL MODEL Photographer: Max Abadian Model: Coco Rocha

Listening to stories widens the imagination; telling them lets us leap over cultural walls, embrace different experiences, feel what others feel. Elif Shafak builds on this simple idea to argue that fiction can overcome identity politics.

I LOVE YOU ELIF SHAFAK! <---favorite author!

http://embed.ted.com/talks/elif_shafak_the_politics_of_fiction.html