Life Ain't Over

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Always Sunny // Dayman

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Blanket Octopus

Beautiful.

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Army Ants

Army ants live a nomadic lifestyle - the sheer size of their colonies mean that they can not stay in one place or it will be depleted of food in a few weeks. When relocating, nothing gets in their way, not even humans.

Villagers in the Amazon have traditionally been noted to leave their homes when an army ant colony is near, returning when the legion has marched through having taken away every cockroach, spider and scorpion.

Despite their voracious nature, army ants are important parts of the rainforest ecosystem, stimulating the continual cycle of renewal.

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Afghan refugee Naseema Zurab, 7, stands in a slum on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan, Friday, Oct. 12, 2012.

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Weta Workshop gifts Valve a full-scale, working ‘Portal’ turret.

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Forms in Nature is a light sculpture that turns the room into a tangle of branches and trees. The lamp is made by using a special 3D-printing technique and the lamp can be manufactured in various sizes as necessary.

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In the nineteenth century, a morbid and curious custom has spread to various parts of the world: the photos were ”Post Mortem”.

”Post Mortem” comes from Latin, meaning after death.

The photos ”Post Mortem” apparently originated in England, when Queen Victoria asked to photograph the corpse of an acquaintance or a relative, so she can keep as a souvenir.
soon after, this idea spread around the world, keeping a morbid reminder of loved ones that have passed on.

Even today, as strange as it may seem, some places still have this custom.

The girl who is standing in the photo is the one who is dead.

This is a classic example of photographic art. 

Notice the hands

for people wondering how the corpse is standing up, there is a posing stand supporting the body it’s very hard to see but the stand is supporting the neck, arms and back.

the girl in this picture has her eyes open, but in some cases the photographer will paint pupils on the eye lids to make it seem like they are wide awake

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