Day to Night,
Stephen Wilkes’ most defining project, began in 2009. These epic cityscapes and landscapes, portrayed from a fixed camera angle for up to 30 hours capture fleeting moments of humanity as light passes in front of his lens over the course of full day. Blending these images into a single photograph takes months to complete. Day to Night has been featured on CBS Sunday Morning as well as dozens of other prominent media outlets and, with a grant from the National Geographic Society, was recently extended to include America’s National Parks in celebration of their centennial anniversary. The series will be published by TASCHEN as a monograph in 2017.
Lacey Spears was an active blogger who depicted herself as a loving and devoted mother to her 5-year-old son Garrett. Seeking compassion on social media, mainly Facebook, she frequently posted updates about her only son’s battling of an explicable illness. In the years leading up to the young boy’s death, doctors were unable to find answers about his mysterious illness–an illness that turned out to be not so mysterious after all. The blogger mom was putting high doses of table salt into her son’s hospitalized feeding tube from infancy, all while posting pictures of her ill and dying child in hopes of garnering sympathy. This act induced brain swelling, which ultimately lead to his death on January 23rd, 2014.
Lacey was later exposed as a liar. On the blog she created (which can be viewed here), she claimed that Garrett’s father was a police officer who died in a car accident. However, Garrett’s biological father is alive and well. On April 8th, 2015, Lacey Spears was sentenced to 20 years in prison for the second-degree murder and first-degree manslaughter of her five-year-old son. The only reason she was not handed the maximum sentence of 25 years is because the judge stated the young mother suffers from Munchausen syndrome by proxy, which refers to the abuse of another person, typically a child, in order to draw sympathy and attention to the abuser. Mothers are typically the the perpetrators in such cases. To this day, Lacey Spears maintains her innocence.
This commercial for Charmin Ultra-Strong has horrifying implications.
The fact that there is a security checkpoint for the bear airport (or should I say, bearport) implies that there are certain bears who have malicious intent to blow up the bearplanes. There are bearrorists in this universe that aspire to destroy things that these ass-wiping mammals hold near and dear.
