Trainhopping Photos

Photographer Mike Brodie, beginning when he was just 17,  spent more than 10 years train hopping, walking and hitchhiking, covering more than 50,000 miles in 46 states. Photos he took from 2006 through 2009 make up his “A Period of Juvenile Prosperity” photography project.

-5 Thing

Paradise Lost: The Hippie Refugee Camp

Let me tell you about a place called Taylor Camp, a tropical ocean-front utopia without rules, politics or bills to pay. Anti-establishment all the way, clothing was optional and decisions were made according to the “vibes”. It was the ultimate hippie fantasy.


-Messy Nessy Chic

Grosse pression sur les petits pénis

Patrick Moote a un petit pénis. C'est la raison pour laquelle sa fiancée a refusé de l'épouser. C'est aussi le point de départ de Unhung Hero, documentaire culotté et un peu cowboy où l'Américain voyage de la Californie à la Papouasie à la recherche de toutes les méthodes possibles et imaginables pour augmenter le gabarit de son sexe. La virilité se mesure-t-elle encore et depuis toujours à la longueur du pénis?

-La Presse

Being a Chef Made Me a Sex Addict

Professional kitchens pretty much have their own weather systems. The air is thick with fat, smoke, and the tangy smell of sweat-soaked chef’s whites. No matter what the temperature is outside, during service it can feel like you’re trying to navigate yourself through the Western Sahara.


-Vice

Censored Pornography That Oozes An Uncomfortable Eroticism

 

After searching through the deepest corners of the internet pornography universe, the South African mixed media artist Von Brandis blanked out the carnal content in an attempt to reinterpret sexual imagery. The project, titled “Obscene Interiors” somehow heightens the voyeuristic thrust of the erotic images; behind a shield of white, sexual activities become more mysterious and forbidden, forcing the viewer to examine the images with more self-consciousness than the original porn might elicit.

-Beautiful Decay

Meet The Photographer Who Uses Real Animals In Her Dreamy Portraits

At first glance, you may think the photograph above, taken by Russian photographer Katerina Plotnikova, is a composite or was enhanced in Photoshop. Think again. Yes, that is a living, breathing brown bear kissing the palm of a gorgeous woman — as if they had both stepped right out of the pages of a fairy tale.


-500 px

First Impressions Are Mostly Based on Your Face

We’ve all met someone and almost instantly thought, “I could totally be friends with this person.” We’re not quite sure why we think that, but all it took was a few seconds to make that first impression. We might even take pride in such gut instincts, in our ability to “read” a person at a glance.

-Discover

Chittagong Ship Breaking Yard

Near the port city of Chittagong in Bangladesh, lies one of the largest ship-breaking yards in the world. It stretches for 18 km along the coast on the Bay of Bengal where more than 200,000 Bangladeshis break down up to 100 ships a year. Working under hazardous conditions, workers rip apart ships with their bare hands and a blowtorch to assist, dissecting the ship bolt by bolt, rivet by rivet. 


-Amusing Planet

Just How Likely Is Another World War?

A century ago this month, Europeans stood on the brink of a war so devastating that it forced historians to create a new category: “World War.” None of the leaders at the time could imagine the wasteland they would inhabit four years later. By 1918, each had lost what he cherished most: the kaiser dismissed, the Austro-Hungarian Empire dissolved, the tsar overthrown by the Bolsheviks, France bled for a generation, and England shorn of the flower of its youth and treasure. A millennium in which European leaders had been masters of the globe came to a crashing halt.


-The Atlantic

Andi Schreiber Documents Middle-Age And The Need To Be Desired

Andi Schreiber refuses to disappear. In her ongoing series, “Pretty Please”, she documents life as an aging suburban mom in a youth-obsessed culture. “Middle-aged mom” must be one of the least sexy descriptors around, redolent of yoga pants and stretch marks and sun-damaged skin. Yet as the years have passed, Schreiber has continued to feel young and sexual, even as she’s felt that society has closed those roles to her. She says: “When I was in my thirties I heard the expression “Invisible Forties.” I couldn’t imagine how sexually inconsequential I’d feel throughout this decade.”

-Beautiful Decay

5 Things Magicians Knew Before Scientists Did

Magicians are in the business of testing the limits and nature of human perception. It's no surprise, then, that today's cognitive scientists are uncovering features of the mind that magicians have understood (and exploited) for hundreds of years. A close look at some of the many books on conjuring published since the 16th century reveals insights that are only now making their way into the scientific literature.

-mental floss

World War II on a Paradise Island

Rare color photographs of a moment lost in time, faraway from home in a tainted paradise. Buried in the bowels of the LIFE archives, I stumbled upon this unique glimpse into the island life of American soldiers stationed on the Tawara Atoll, located in the Gilbert Islands of the Pacific Ocean. Captured by photojournalist J. R. Eyerman in 1944, the year before the war’s end, we find ourselves taking a tour of the sun-drenched island in the aftermath of the Battle of Tarawa fought against the Japanese; an island torn between paradise and war…

-Messy Nessy Chic

Adorable Bubble-Cars

 

These miniature cars are small enough to hug - and they're so easy on gas and parking that hugging them would only seem natural! We covered most of the three-wheeled micro-car varieties in our previous article, and today we'll have a look at so-called "Bubble Cars" of the 1950s and 1960s: (mostly) four-wheeled marvels of compact engineering with a bubble-shaped canopy or a cute little cabin for a driver and (if the model is spacious enough) for a passenger, or two.

-Dark Roasted Blend