I love Twitter for one thing. The links that the people you follow embed in their tweets. Depending on who you follow, you can discover a wealth of information from the link.
I’ll share two that I discovered today.
1. We’re all gonna die – 100 Meters of Existence
A photography project by Simon Høgsberg
From the website, “Shot over the course of 20 days from the same spot on a railroad bridge in Warscahuer Strasse in Berlin, Summer 2007.”
I have never seen a kaleidoscope of expression/emotion/personalities as vibrant as this. Not to mention the photography being brilliant! I think the most fascinating thing about the project was that almost no one knew the photographer was taking their photos. From the father carrying his little child to the couple that has identical bandages over the right eye… I found the entire project very fascinating.
See for yourself.
2. The Miniature Earth
A short video that highlights the plight of the world’s underprivileged in very simple terms.
From the website, “If we could turn the population of the earth into a small community of 100 people, keeping the same proportions we have today, it would be something like this…”
The facts are rather shocking when brought down to a simpler level like this. Facts like out of the 100, 9 would be disabled, 43 would live without basic sanitation, and 6 people would own 59% of the wealth and get this, only 3 would have an internet connection! Let’s just say it’s a touching piece, and makes you realise how much you take for granted.
Check out the video.
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Offtopic:
Poverty sits by the cradle of all our great men and rocks all of them to manhood.
- Heinrich Heine
Seldom do people discern
Eloquence under a threadbare cloak.
- Juvenal
If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
- Charles Darwin
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