Piñatas

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A boy jumps into the sea at sunset in Gaza City: photo by Mohammed Abed/AFP, 11 August 2016

 

A boy jumps into the sea at sunset in Gaza City: photo by Mohammed Abed/AFP, 11 August 2016

Donald Trump socks are seen as Donald Trump speaks during an address to the National Association of Home Builders at the Fontainebleau Miami Beach hotel in Miami Beach, Florida: photo by Joe Raedle, 11 August 2016



Donald Trump socks are seen as Donald Trump speaks during an address to the National Association of Home Builders at the Fontainebleau Miami Beach hotel in Miami Beach, Florida: photo by Joe Raedle, 11 August 2016

A lioness drinks after being fed by senior keeper Glynn Hennessy at ZSL London: photo by Carl Court, 11 August 2016



A lioness drinks after being fed by senior keeper Glynn Hennessy at ZSL London: photo by Carl Court, 11 August 2016

A man watches buffalos cross a river as they head to another grazing area, in Nanchong, Sichuan province, China: photo by China Daily/Reuters, 11 August 2016 



A man watches buffalos cross a river as they head to another grazing area, in Nanchong, Sichuan province, China: photo by China Daily/Reuters, 11 August 2016 
 

 
A Siemens security guard looks on as a Greenpeace activist dressed in a monkey costume demonstrate outside the Siemens’ UK headquarters in Camberley, England. Greenpeace activists joined two members of the Amazonian Munduruku tribe at German engineering company Siemens’ UK headquarters today to protest the building of mega dams in the Brazilian Amazon and to demand a meeting with senior management at the company: photo by Jack Taylor, 11 August 2016



A Siemens security guard looks on as a Greenpeace activist dressed in a monkey costume demonstrate outside the Siemens’ UK headquarters in Camberley, England. Greenpeace activists joined two members of the Amazonian Munduruku tribe at German engineering company Siemens’ UK headquarters today to protest the building of mega dams in the Brazilian Amazon and to demand a meeting with senior management at the company: photo by Jack Taylor, 11 August 2016

A worker paints a model of Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate Quadriga in the landscape park Miniwelt (Miniworld) in Lichtenstein, eastern Germany: photo by Jens Meyer/AP, 11 August 2016



A worker paints a model of Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate Quadriga in the landscape park Miniwelt (Miniworld) in Lichtenstein, eastern Germany: photo by Jens Meyer/AP, 11 August 2016
 

 

Supporters are seen before Republican U.S. presidential nominee Donald Trump attends a campaign rally at the BB and T Centre in Sunrise, Florida: photo by Eric Thayer/Reuters, 11 August 2016

Supporters are seen before Republican U.S. presidential nominee Donald Trump attends a campaign rally at the BB and T Centre in Sunrise, Florida: photo by Eric Thayer/Reuters, 11 August 2016

José Emilio Pacheco: La sal

Si quieres analizar su ser, su función,
su utilidad en este mundo,
tienes que verla en su conjunto. La sal
no son los individuos que la componen
sino la tribu solidaria. Sin ella
cada partícula sería como un fragmento de nada,
disuelta en un hoyo negro impensable.

La sal sale del mar. Es su espuma
petrificada.
Es mar que seca el sol.

Y al final ya rendido,
ya despojado de su gran fuerza de agua,
muere en la playa y se hace piedra en la arena.

La sal es el desierto en donde hubo mar. 
Agua y tierra
reconciliados,
la materia de nadie.

Por ella sabe el mundo a lo que sabe estar vivo

     

Salt

If you want to study its essence, its purpose,
its usefulness in the world,
you’ve got to see it as a whole. Salt
isn’t the individuals who make it up
but the solidary tribe. Without it
each particle would be like a fragment of nothingness,
dissolving in some unthinkable black hole.

Salt surfaces from the sea. It’s petrified
foam.
It’s sea baked by the sun.

And so finally worn-out,
deprived of its great water force,
it dies on the beach to become stone in the sand.

Salt is the desert where there once was sea.
Water and land
reconciled,
matter of no one.

It’s why the world tastes of what it is to be alive.

José Emilio Pacheco (Mexico City, 1939-2014): La sal, translated by Katherine M. Hedeen and Víctor Rodríguez Núñez, 2014

 
Piñatas (Santa Clara, California): photo by efo, 30 July 2016

Piñatas (Santa Clara, California): photo by efo, 30 July 2016

 

 
Piñatas (Santa Clara, California): photo by efo, 30 July 2016

ciudad de mexico, la raza: photo by peter brutschin, 29 July 2016

ciudad de mexico, buenavista: photo by peter brutschin, 5 August 2016

ciudad de mexico, del valle: photo by peter brutschin, 30 July 2016

ciudad de mexico, del valle: photo by peter brutschin, 30 July 2016
  

ciudad de mexico, del valle: photo by peter brutschin, 30 July 2016

cholula, puebla: photo by peter brutschin, 24 July 2016

cholula, puebla: photo by peter brutschin, 24 July 2016

cholula, puebla: photo by peter brutschin, 24 July 2016

ciudad de mexico, roma sur: photo by peter brutschin, 5 August 2016

ciudad de mexico, roma sur: photo by peter brutschin, 5 August 2016

ciudad de mexico, roma sur: photo by peter brutschin, 5 August 2016

ciudad de mexico: photo by peter brutschin, 31 July 2016

ciudad de mexico: photo by peter brutschin, 31 July 2016

ciudad de mexico: photo by peter brutschin, 31 July 2016

Happy Together (Primatology)

Meanwhile, in #Rio2016: image via Mattie-Lou Chandler @MattieLouOKTC, 6 August 2016  Aspen, Colorado 

I'm not proud of posting this image from the Men's Hockey #Rio2016: image via BOP Mafia @bopmafia, 7 August 2016

 

Germany's Linus Butt controls the ball during a men's field hockey match at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games: photo by Carl de Souza/AFP, 6 August 2016

 

This magical moment would rub off on the team as a whole, who would go on to win 6-2: image via GQ, 7 August 2016

Obviously, it would be hugely childish and wrong to chuckle at Linus and Florian, the backbone of Germany's hockey team: image via Ruth Davdson @RuthDavidsonMSP, 7 August 2016

Linus Butt and Florian Fuchs: So happy together: image via ThePostGame 6 August 2016

Night of Fire

 

 

 A boy carries his sister, as he walks on rubble of a house after it was destroyed by a Saudi-led air strike in Yemen’s capital Sana’a: photo by Mohamed al-Sayaghi/Reuters, 11 August 2016

Miss waking up to birds chirping. Woke up to explosions and Saudi jets screaming in sky. How am I to flip pancakes w/ house shaking! #Yemen:
tweet via Hisham Al-Omeisy @omeisy, 11 August 2016

Hasn't been this intense for months; hearing sirens of ambulances now.. #Sanaa #Yemen:
tweet via Osamah Alfakih @osamahfakih, 11 August 2016
 

Ambulances are rushing to explosion sites in Taiz St. and in Hadda - #Sanaa -  where the Presidential Compound is. #Yemen: 

tweet via Yemen Updates @yemen_updates, 11 August 2016

Leave windows open to mitigate pressure wave and not be blown up, or close bcz rain water. Decisions, decisions..damn Saudi bombs.:

tweet via Hisham Al-Omeisy @omeisy, 11 August 2016

Still till this moment, intense Saudi warplanes continue soaring over the sky of the capital Sanaa. It is an ugly night as usual.:

tweet via Fatik Al-Rodaini @Fatikr, 11 August 2016 
  

 

NIGHT of FIRE: 110 Saudi airstrikes attack #Yemen today and Sanaa Airport just bombarded by 3 airstrikes: image via Yemen Post Newspaper @YemenPostNews, 11 August 2016

Incredible attack by #Yemen's Houthi fighters has resulted in them capturing large swathes of territory in Najran province, southern #Saudi: tweet via Haidar Sumeri @IraqiSecurity, 11 August 2016

Saudi Army was 'caught between a rock and a hard place' in Najran today, literally #Yemen: image via the 'Nimr' Tiger @Souria4Syrians, 11 August 2016

    

Saudi Army was 'caught between a rock and a hard place' in Najran today, literally #Yemen: image via the 'Nimr' Tiger @Souria4Syrians, 11 August 2016

 

Saudi Army was 'caught between a rock and a hard place' in Najran today, literally #Yemen: image via the 'Nimr' Tiger @Souria4Syrians, 11 August 2016

 Power of MONEY: #UN is silent as Saudi airstrikes kill 2432 children in #Yemen proving everything has a price...: image via Yemen Post Newspaper @YemenPostNews, 11 August 2016

 

This kind of airstrikes they just hit Sana'a... Sadly we didn't see any country would stop this insanity..  #Yemen: image via Sam Adam @SamADam24, 10 August 2016

NOT BREAKING: #Sanaa under heavy bombardment by Saudi jets huge explosions and world still watching in silence #Yemen: image via Jahaf @A7medJa7af, 10 August 2016

A boy carries his sister, as he walks on rubble of a house after it was destroyed by a Saudi-led air strike in Yemen’s capital Sana’a: photo by Mohamed al-Sayaghi/Reuters, 11 August 2016

A young migrant runs after a ball in the street of Via Cupa outside the former Baobab migrants reception centre next to the Tiburtina train station in Rome: photo by Filippo Monteforte/AFP, 12 August 2016

 
 
A young migrant runs after a ball in the street of Via Cupa outside the former Baobab migrants reception centre next to the Tiburtina train station in Rome: photo by Filippo Monteforte/AFP, 12 August 2016