Today begins the FIFA World Cup, true. And it could be nice and exciting.

But in many countries children work against their will, and have no chance to receive an education, or to play, or to do the kind of things we used to do when we were children. Even, perhaps, some of them have made the balls used at the World Cup matches.

Today is the World Day Againts Children Labour.

This post represents my support to this day, and my tribute to some friends in Brazil, trying to build a better future for their children.

(On explore 6/12/2014).

20 x 16", acrylic on canvas, 6-4-10

So this photo took a total of.....2 hours and i -love- how it turned out! I've never modded a photo this much in my whole life. The only thing i straight took from the original photo is the tongue, i couldnt texture the tongue correctly. :(

Before/After:

Here

Original TB poster:

Here

I dont want to get in trouble for copyright or anything, so yeah this idea was originally True Bloods, i didnt steal anything from the picture other than the tongue, but otherwise i hand drew and hand shaded the mouth entirely. Its what took me most of the time. :)

The so very not perfect light trails, it's so shaky because of the subway train.

Courtship dance of 2 swans after mating at Slimbridge WWT.

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I remember what she used to be like. I remember the vigour and her passion for life. Alas, I have seen what ME/CFS does to a person. Give her life back, I plead. "Nothing can be done", they say. And so my humble contribution to #millionsmissing last year; A pair of shoes and the reflection of a memory.

To my wife i dedicate this poem:

"On the surface she smiles,

Its nothing but a masquerade,

To veil her true feelings in a shroud of dismay,

Because the surface is crumbling,

No one see her hurting,

All we see is the glimmering reflections of what was,

Off the broken shards that she was made up of

Broken pieces are scattered everywhere,

A life of imprisonment within herself,

An inhumane fate."

A father, wearing his RCMP red serge uniform, holding his newborn son.

And even though I know how very far apart we are

It helps to think we might be wishing on the same bright star

Out where dreams come true

~words from the song Somewhere out there

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Millstone Grit is the name given to any of a number of coarse-grained sandstones of Carboniferous age which occur in the Northern England. The name derives from its use in earlier times as a source of millstones for use principally in watermills. Geologists refer to the whole suite of rocks which encompass both the individual sandstone beds and the intervening mudstones as the Millstone Grit Group.

These rocks extend northwards through the South Pennines of Lancashire and West Yorkshire and westwards into the Forest of Rossendale and West Pennines and the Forest of Bowland, also in Lancashire. At the Yorkshire Dales they cover the south-east edge, but north of the Craven Faults, due to weathering, they form only cappings to separate hills

My first attempt at a bit of night photography :)

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HCS!

I can`t stop thinking about it as a brain:)

Jordan 3's

1996 brought a new DAF SB3000 Van Hool Alizee into the Truemans fleet. By the time of its visit to Hastings on 8th May, 1997, N982 FWT had gained plate 1287 RU, one of several RU plates utilised from 1983 onwards.

The true enlightenment lies within, only you have to realize your true self.

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Ljubljana, Slovenia

CROSSVIEW

To view 3D pics cross your eyes focusing between at the pictures until both images overlap one another in the middle.

Per vedere le foto in 3D incrociare (strabuzzare leggermente) gli occhi fino a che le due immagini si sovrappongono formandone una sola centrale

Coming Soon later today @ The Seraphim Social "The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe" round! maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Cleavage/54/71/1026 Blog post coming soon.

Photo captured via Minolta MD Zoom Rokkor-X 75-200mm F/4.5 lens at Moonstone Beach. Near the mouth of the Little River. In the census-designated place of Westhaven-Moonstone. Coast Range. North Coast. Humboldt County, Northern California. Early November 2013.

Exposure Time: 1/8 sec. * ISO Speed: ISO-200 * Aperture: Unknown * Bracketing: None

An EMD switcher shows her stripes in Patterson, Georgia.

The true bugs are an order (a group) of insects. Scientists call true bugs the Hemiptera. There are around 80,000 species (different kinds) of true bugs. The word bug by itself can have other meanings.

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Red River Street - Austin, Texas

Going around under an umbrella interferes with one's looking up at the sky.

- Jerzy Kosinski

One of the flowers from my Valentine's Day bouquet.

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Bonaventure Island, Quebec

The Cellular Jail is one of the murkiest chapters in the history of the British colonial rule in India. Although the prison complex itself was constructed between 1896 and 1906, the British had been using the Andaman Islands as a prison since the days in the immediate aftermath of the first war of independence.

The British sent thousands to the gallows, hung them up from trees, or tied them to cannons and blew them up. Those who survived were exiled for life to the Andaman’s to sever their connections with their families and their country. The building had seven wings, at the centre of which a central tower served as the fulcrum and was used by guards to keep watch on the inmates. The wings radiated from the tower in straight lines, much like the spokes of a bicycle wheel. A large bell was kept in the tower to raise the alarm in any eventuality.

Each of the seven wings had three stories upon completion. There were no dormitories and a Total of 698 cells. Each cell was 4.5 meters x 2.7 meters in size with a ventilator located at a height of three meters. The name, "cellular jail", derived from the solitary cells which prevented any prisoner from communicating with any other. They were all in solitary confinement

Solitary confinement was implemented as the British government desired to ensure that political prisoners and revolutionaries be isolated from each other. The Andaman Island served as the ideal setting for the government to achieve this. Most prisoners of the Cellular Jail were independence activists. Some famous inmates of the Cellular Jail were Dr. Diwan Singh Kalepani, Maulana Fazl-e-Haq Khairabadi, Yogendra Shukla, Batukeshwar Dutt, Maulana Ahmadullah, Movli Abdul Rahim Sadiqpuri, Baba rao Savarkar, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Bhai Parmanand, V.O.Chidambaram Pillai, Subramaniam Shiva, Sohan Singh, Vaman Rao Joshiand Nand Gopal Several revolutionaries tried in the Alipore Case (1908) such as Barindra Kumar Ghose, Upendra Nath Banerjee,Birendra Chandra Sen. Jatish Chandra Pal, the surviving companion of Bagha Jatin, demented under torture here, was transferred to Berhampore Jail in Bengal, before his mysterious death in 1924.Hunger strikes by the inmates during the early 1930s called attention to the inhumane conditions of their imprisonment. Mahatma Gandhi and Rabindranath Tagore intervened. The government decided to repatriate the political prisoners from the Cellular Jail in 1937-38.

There were hundreds of MAHATHMA GANDHIS killed here in Andaman.

They are all “UNSUNG HEROS”…!!!

AUGEST 15th WE celebrating our 63rd independence day.

Each of us just thinks over how our fore fathers got the independence from the so called “cultured British RULERS, And one can understand the punishment they given to Indian freedom fighters in a brutal, uncultured Unimaginable way.

It’s all in the history. But as an Indian I wish to say all my politicians in the country should visit the place once their life time and I am sure they will be turned out to be a “true crimeless politicians”

Of course every Indian should visit this place in their life time and hear the death cry and sounds from the walls of ANDAMANS CELLULAR JAIL!!!!

CANON 5D MARK II -24-105mm "L" lens

ISO 12800

1/15 sec

shutter priority mode. +5/3

hand held shot.

Composite of 180 images.

digital art

A sap sucking insect order Hemiptera. Not one that I'm happy to see around the yard.

Seen on the pier in Santa Barbara - it was redeposited in the ocean and moved well !!

From what I can tell, crabs have 10 legs including grasping claws.

Anomurans have ten legs BUT two are hidden.

The True Love Cafe on Dundas East inspired by a true story about the enduring memory of a one true love. And if this talk about romantic love is leaving you feel unsettled, I hear the advertised Juicy Sexy Burger special in the window is pretty good. From 1953-1986 the building housed famed jazz club George’s Spaghetti House, founded by Doug Cole which launched Toronto's jazz scene. Doug could not afford to change the sign, which belonged to the previous business tenant.