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My last day of work is Wednesday. I resigned from my job. Shhh. I think my dad is freaked out. Oh well.
(Source: cynicalskin)
Um, P.S. ……. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
(Source: lifeofkon)
Newt attacking my 26 year old boyfriend!
Attempted to de-stress over the weekend. It’ll all be over soon and a new chapter in my life will begin.
For Una fans- Una “dances” to Ben’s music
*cute overdose alert
Ben is playing guitar by false laser starlight in our apartment
(Source: nighttimeskin)
I only met him very briefly on 5/8/2005 but it was very exciting. #TakashiMurakami (Taken with instagram)
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At This Vending Machine, Swapping is the New Buying
Enter the Swap-O-Matic, a fresh New York City-based vending machine project that wants to “shift culture away from an emphasis on unconscious consumption” by encouraging people to donate and receive used items for free.
Steve & I have been going through Brandon withdrawal since the day he left LA. He has ☆POSITIVE☆ beams of light emitting from his entire being!!! It’s nice when he comes to stay with us.
Peter Campbell I hate you for a lot of reasons but I CANNOT ABIDE YOU RUINING YOUR WIFE’S GOOD ENAMELED COOKWARE WITH THAT FORK.
What little girl didn’t wear these back in her earliest childhood days?
Guilty of still wearing these exact ones. 29 years of barrettes.
*I just realized I am wearing one of these in the post I made just before reblogging this one.
My amazingly cool + nice friend Brandon created this portrait of me and Steven
Inspired by another post here on Tumblr, I decided to look into the Kowloon Walled City in Hong Kong a bit more, it truly was one of the most amazing and terrifying places on earth. Being slightly smaller than an NFL stadium, the structure was built of 350 smaller interconnected buildings and hosted, at it’s peak, a population density of 5 million people per square mile.
To put those numbers in perspective, this would be like taking the entire population of metro Philadelphia, the 4th largest in the US, and putting it in 1 square mile instead of 1,744.
The area was also largely ungoverned and unregulated. Factories, apartments, schools, temples, churches, shops, cafes, hotels and almost anything else one could imagine were housed within the structure that never had a full blueprint of it done. Buildings were built onto buildings, expanded, rebuilt, and re-purposed as needed without a central authority of any kind.
Within the structure, natural light was almost non-existent, and an unknown number of miles of jury-rigged wires provided electricity to everything. Water constantly dripped down to the lower levels from both rain and leaking pipes, while garbage filled every passage. A constant yellow haze filled the structure and there were never any government safety inspections.
The Kowloon Walled City was demolished in the early 1990s as part of the deal that returned Hong Kong to the Chinese from the British. The entire area is now a park.
I find places like this fascinating, it is just incredible what we, humans, build and live in. This, hive, for lack of a better term, was one of the most interesting structures I’ve yet looked at.
For a documentary shot inside of the Kowloon Walled City, check here:
This is very interesting, to say the least.
