Niko Traubman , Naomi Chin Wing & Zhengyang Zhang By Matthew Brookes For Mixte Magazine - June 2019

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The Rentals, These Days Basile Pesso-my BCN © Summer 2 013 My Blip / My web magazine : Yes We Are (links) with Sekaa Model as The Side Look of a Barcelonese #256 …and thanks a lot to The Illusions of Reality, The Wolves at Night, I Shall Be Released, Contemporary Art Trend and Francis Acedo for the reblog of an image that I love : The Clear Blue Line (The New Abstracts #139) (link) !

The face of the architect ~ Enric Llimona Raymat

Office and apartment building for visitors in a factory complex Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain; 1970s

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Folk magic in the Phillipines part 2: The Orasyon protective tattoos.

To understand the mystical orasyon tattoos you have to go back to the folk belief of Anting-anting, which is the term for amulets and talismans. In phillipino folk belief, amulets have a preventive force against evil things, places and events, whereas talismans bring good luck. Anting-anting come in various materials like rocks and minerals, teeth and bone, bark of trees, strange roots of plants, seeds, shrunken animal parts , feathers, miniature icons, images of Jesus Christ and the Saints, oils, cloth, medals, prayers, prayer books, anagrams, codes in pieces of paper and tattoos.

An orasyon written on paper by a tambalan (healer) might be enclosed in a container by the owner and worn around the neck. In order to avoid losing the orasyon some people have it buried under the skin or tattooed on the skin and explains the existence of the orasyon tattoos. The codes and texts are a wild mix of spanish, vernacular tagalog dialect, latin, occult symbolism and sometimes straight up gibberish. Most of these images are taken from the photo blog of Sidney Snook and the info comes from the thesis Yunal: the orasyon tattoo as folk practice and art in Leyte.

Vintage blue Togo lounge set

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Illustrated descriptive price-list of magical apparatus and illusions, 1884

筑豊のこどもたち / The Children of Chikuho (= A mine of Fukuoka Japan), 1960, 土門拳 / Domon Ken. (1909 - 1990) 　

Anok Marial , Mayor , Baba Chogwu & Nyaueth Riam by Gabriel Moses for Dazed Magazine Winter 2021