MAHSA'S BLOG

doctorswithoutborders: Photo: MSF is providing humanitarian...

Sat, 18 May 2013 04:59:37 -0400

Photo: MSF is providing humanitarian assistance to Syrian refugees in Domeez camp through general health and mental health care and immunization. Iraq 2013 © Pierre-Yves Bernard/MSF

Iraq: Syrian Refugees’ Health Deteriorates at Domeez Camp

Overcrowding and poor living conditions in Iraq’s Domeez camp have led to a recent deterioration in the health of Syrian refugees. Stéphane Reynier, emergency coordinator for MSF, describes the current situation in the camp:

The health system in Syria has collapsed, and the war has left a section of the population with no access to health care. For the past two years, because of the conflict, children have not received their routine vaccinations.

supervelma: I will always reblog this because Kanye parties how...

Sat, 18 May 2013 04:59:05 -0400

supervelma:

I will always reblog this because Kanye parties how I party (except I’m usually on a couch, not a jet)

Photo

Tue, 07 May 2013 15:55:49 -0400

Photo

Mon, 06 May 2013 10:18:32 -0400

mpdrolet: From Background Noise Ben Alper

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 15:07:06 -0400

mpdrolet:

From Background Noise

Ben Alper

thesmithian: Time. YES

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 16:06:15 -0400

thesmithian:

Time.

YES

ohheybill: This is the best video. How many times can a human...

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 23:51:06 -0400

ohheybill:

This is the best video.

How many times can a human being suffer this kind of embarrassment? just wondering.

"This is a giant planet and we’re lucky to live on it but there are prices and penalties incurred for..."

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 14:28:00 -0400

“

This is a giant planet and we’re lucky to live on it but there are prices and penalties incurred for the daily miracle of existence. One of them is, every once in awhile, the wiring of a tiny sliver of the species gets snarled and they’re pointed towards darkness.

But the vast majority stands against that darkness and, like white blood cells attacking a virus, they dilute and weaken and eventually wash away the evil doers and, more importantly, the damage they wreak. This is beyond religion or creed or nation. We would not be here if humanity were inherently evil. We’d have eaten ourselves alive long ago.

So when you spot violence, or bigotry, or intolerance or fear or just garden-variety misogyny, hatred or ignorance, just look it in the eye and think, “The good outnumber you, and we always will.”
”

”

- PATTON OSWALT

Photo

Sun, 14 Apr 2013 16:00:06 -0400

mpdrolet: Jillian Lochner

Sun, 14 Apr 2013 15:20:27 -0400

mpdrolet:

Jillian Lochner

The Conspiracy Theorist's Guide to Tyler, the Creator's 'WOLF' Trilogy

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 00:06:27 -0400

The Conspiracy Theorist's Guide to Tyler, the Creator's 'WOLF' Trilogy :

cariosus:

MY FUCKING MIND HAS JUST BEEN BLOWN INTO EIGHT HUNDRED DIFFERENT PIECES

I KNEW SOMETHING WAS UP I KNEW IT

nationalpost: ‘The justice system failed her’: Nova Scotia...

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 21:40:24 -0400

nationalpost:

‘The justice system failed her’: Nova Scotia teenager commits suicide after being raped, bullied: mother
The mother of a 17-year-old Halifax girl who committed suicide says her daughter was raped by four boys about 18 months ago and viciously bullied after a photo of the alleged incident was passed around her school and community.

Rehtaeh Parsons tried to kill herself Thursday night and was taken off life support Sunday.

In an extensive post on a Facebook memorial page, her mother Leah Parsons described how the straight-A high school student became depressed and suicidal after the incident. (Facebook)

Those “boys”, those disgusting pieces of shit deserve the absolute worst. I don’t know how you can treat any human being like that.

“4 boys”

And there are people who find it acceptable to dismiss the existence of our rape culture.

mpdrolet: Monsoon’s end, Burma, 2008 Monica Denevan

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 21:30:52 -0400

mpdrolet:

Monsoon’s end, Burma, 2008

Monica Denevan

mpdrolet: Children playing at eight a.m., Bombay, 1929 E.O....

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 21:30:06 -0400

mpdrolet:

Children playing at eight a.m., Bombay, 1929

E.O. Hoppé

mpdrolet: Westchester, CA Amanda Friedman

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 21:25:07 -0400

mpdrolet:

Westchester, CA

Amanda Friedman

photojojo: On March 15 of 2013, a massive solar flare burst from...

Sun, 07 Apr 2013 22:51:11 -0400

photojojo:

On March 15 of 2013, a massive solar flare burst from the sun. The energy blasted into space triggers the incredible colors we know as auroras.

Photographer Göran Strand compiled 2464 images to form an incredible video of the aurora seen from Östersund, Sweden.

Four Hours of Aurora Borealis in Three Minutes

via Notcot

windwrinkle: Reykjavik

Sun, 07 Apr 2013 22:49:21 -0400

windwrinkle:

Reykjavik

"The end effect of an Ozu film – and one of the reasons that he is thought of as a spokesman for the..."

Sun, 07 Apr 2013 21:26:25 -0400

“The end effect of an Ozu film – and one of the reasons that he is thought of as a spokesman for the Japanese tradition – is a kind of resigned sadness, a calm and knowing serenity which persists despite the uncertainty of life and the things of this world. It implies that the world will go on and mutability, change, the evanescence of all things, also yield their elegiac satisfactions… The Japanese call this quality (an essential manifestation of the Japanese spirit) mono no aware.”

- Donald Richie, in Japanese Cinema: Film Style and National Character

mpdrolet: Mels van der Mede

Sun, 07 Apr 2013 19:51:08 -0400

mpdrolet:

Mels van der Mede

ratak-monodosico: Mark Rothko - Green Over Blue, 1956

Sun, 07 Apr 2013 19:49:54 -0400

ratak-monodosico:

Mark Rothko - Green Over Blue, 1956