This was a colour test from the other day.
- Urgunge Onon, The Secret History of the Mongols
“through the unknown tashkurgan” by li xinzhao, who documents the chinese tajiks of the tashkurgan tajik autonomous county in xinjiang province, china’s most westerly territory.
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Photos: Kyrgyz People Cling to Tradition in Forbidding Corner of Northern Afghanistan
Photographer Matthieu Paley spent more than a decade photographing the Afghan Kyrgyz people, who live in one of the world’s most remote and inhospitable areas.
Read the full story here
Inner-Mongolia grunge flag
Some Mongolians are upset about China’s announcement that it intends to have the traditional Mongolian saddle design listed as a Unesco cultural landmark of China. Since four million people of Mongolian descent live in China, this sort of thing will probably come up again.
The Mongolian saddle is small but made of rigid wood so that a rider can brace the saddle between their thighs and stand to fire a long bow accurately from horseback. This amazing saddle is decorated with silver and fossilized coral from the Gobi desert, which was ocean in the distant past.
Номын хорхойтон by iUugaa on Flickr.
ta yamar nom unshij we?
Semi Transparent Eye (eye changes to colour of your blog)
Made by Totally Transparent
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Northern Gobi Desert, Mongolia
Хустайн нуруу
Dalaikhan on lookout for fox, south of Altai. by Matt Traver on Flickr.
“People who are bicultural and speak two languages may actually shift their personalities when they switch from one language to another, according to new research.”
If there is a correlation between mutilinguality and versatility in self-perception, would polyglots have a higher risk for borderline / dissociative personality disorder? Is this a factor related to anomie?
double kid
(Source: being-towards-being)
Knot
Dawn, morning, noon, evening and midnight five songs form the music collection, such as the ancient knotting chronicle, the whole work in one day time, lead to calm about reincarnation of the concept of pure music. Track, respectively, in different stage in chaos, fear, hope, full…
Queen of Diamonds.
(Source: artinparsi, via pakizah)
Khutulun the Wrestler Princess! It’s done! I’m happy to say that I got into the SVA junior thesis show - if you’re in NY and interested, it’s from april 5 - 20 at 601 West 26th street on the 15th floor. This comic will be available in print form at MoCCA Fest on april 6 - 7.
Kazakhs by Jimmy Nelson
This was a colour test from the other day.
- Urgunge Onon, The Secret History of the Mongols
الا ای آهوی وحـشی کـجایی
مرا با توسـت چـندین آشـنایی
دو تنها و دو سرگردان دو بیکـس
دد و دامت کمین از پیش و از پـس
Herder by Sunset on Flickr.
“through the unknown tashkurgan” by li xinzhao, who documents the chinese tajiks of the tashkurgan tajik autonomous...