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This photoshoot takes the Harris Shutter effect to a fashionable place. Learn how to make your photos look like dragged rainbows with the Harris Shutter effect here!

Harris Shutter Effect Fashion by Kryzstof Wyzynski

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A car washed up amongst the graves in a cemetery at an area devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, in Watari, Miyagi prefecture.

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Japan: Government sets asides funds; Fukushima locals say goodbye

Japan has some pretty hefty rebuilding plans: With a month and a half of distance between the earthquake and tsunami that ravaged a large chunk of the country, and a need to ensure a next step for the recovering nation, Japan’s government, led by Prime Minister Naoto Kan (left), has a large-scale recovery plan in its sights, which includes the building of 100,000 temporary homes. A huge catalyst for the move, according to the prime minister, was a recent meeting he had with people stuck in shelters. “I felt with renewed determination that we must do our best to get them back as soon as possible,” he said. More details:

The cost & the overall need

• $48.5 billion in emergency spending earmarked

• 14k people confirmed dead after last month’s quake
• 13k people missing in the quake or tsunami
• 130k people still live in evacuation centers source

» Japan has recovered before: Back in 1923, Japan suffered a far more substancial economic and physical disaster from Great Kanto Earthquake, which killed as many as 140,000 and caused the country to lose 40 percent of GDP. The current earthquake, likely the most expensive in the country’s history at $300 billion, is a mere fraction of that in comparative scale.

The situation around Fukushima

• 12 miles the radius of the evacuation zone around Fukushima — residents could face fines or jail if they enter
• 19 miles the radius around Fukushima where the government recommends residents leave source

» Letting residents come back: While authorities let some residents return to their homes for a brief period yesterday (a mere two-hour window, by the way), they may not have another chance. MSNBC has photos from the pretty freaky scene. “I’m sorry there’s nothing I can do for you,” said dairy farmer Hiroaki Hiruta, who had to leave his 130 cows to fend for themselves within the radiation zone. He had visited to feed them every single day, but no longer can due to the newly-enforced regulations. It’s unclear if there will be a next time for Hiruta to visit his cows, or if that “next time” will come anytime in the near-future. (photo by DVIDS on Flickr)

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Water sculpture photography from Shinichi Maruyama’s water sculpture video!

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Kolmanskop is a ghost town in southern Namibia, a few kilometres inland from the port of Lüderitz. In 1908, Lüderitz was plunged into diamond fever and people rushed into the Namib desert hoping to make an easy fortune. Within two years, a town, complete with a casino, school, hospital and exclusive residential buildings, was established in the barren sandy desert.

But shortly after the drop in diamond sales after the First World War, the beginning of the end started. During the 1950’s the town was deserted and the dunes began to reclaim what was always theirs.

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Desultory and Disillusioned: In honor of Shakespeare's birthday yesterday I watched:

roguielovesgambit:

+ Much Ado About Nothing (the very first Shakespeare I ever saw, the one that started it all) with the arrogant Kenneth Branagh, the lovely Emma Thompson, the ever fantastic Brian Blessed and the charming Denzel Washington.

+ Hamlet; the one with Ethan Hawke (the first actor under 30 to play Hamlet on screen: he was 29), Liev Schreiber (the lovely and amazing Liev Schreiber), Julia Stiles, Kyle MacLachlan (that’s right Muad’dib himself) and Casey Affleck’s entirely-in-photos role.

+ Stage Beauty…. ok, not by Shakespeare, but about Elizabethan theater and they seem to exclusively play Shakespeare, its like no other playwright existed if we are to believe that movie.  But it is just so lovely and Billy Crudup and Claire Danes are wonderful, as is Hugh Bonneville (yep, Sir Robert Crawley of Downton Abbey), Tom Wilkinson, Zoe Trapper and Rupert Everett.

It was wonderful.  And, oh man, do I ever miss The Bard and the Stage! 

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(by kerry grace leslie)

“A loaded gun won’t set you free. So you say.”

— New Dawn Fades - Joy Division

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Control, 2007 (dir. Anton Corbijn)

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