The Signs Along The Road
Random clips by The Road to the Horizon
Yes, the company that is basically everywhere to a sometimes frightening degree just got a little creepier. Behold: Google toilet paper. Apparently the picture above depicts a very popular brand of Vietnamese toilet paper (which is made of “100 percent virgin pulp” — score! No one likes a promiscuous pulp). (via Google is Going Down the Toilet)
At one hundred and fifty meters in height the Monument to African Renaissance looms over the Senegalese capital of Dakar like a giant, loomy thing. It was billed as a celebration of the continent’s renaissance but has become something of a scandal in the economically distressed African republic. (via Webphemera: A Colossal Folly? The African Renaissance Monument)
“I want revolution” via www.comicartcollective.com
Retro women (via bonjoursophie)
A North Korean woman carries water she collected from the Yalu River in the North Korean city of Hyesan, which borders China’s Changbai county, (via 2009 in photos - Boston.com)
A girl displaced from her home by a huge tidal wave caused by Cyclone Aila, stands in front of her temporary shelter on a river dam in Satkhira in southwestern Bangladesh (via 2009 in photos - Boston.com)
Fishermen row a boat in the algae-filled Chaohu Lake in Hefei, Anhui province, China on June 19, 2009. China invested 51 billion yuan ($7.4 billion) towards the construction of 2,712 projects for the treatment of eight rivers and lakes in 2009 (via 2009 in photos - Boston.com)
december 19 John Lennon & Yoko Ono - Happy Christmas (War Is Over)
A girl stands in front of makeshift shelters at Kahe Camp, Masisi District, North Kivu province, DRC. The camp is home to over 18,000 displaced people who have fled ongoing conflict in North Kivu. (via MSF’s Top Ten Humanitarian Crises of 2009)





