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Here are some mugshots, a few years apart, of a man arrested in Colorado. Someone's been busy...

Guatemala #2; Mayan Ruins Before and After

These three archeological sites are all in the Peten region of Guatemala. Archaeologists often render ruins as a means of reconstructing the salvaged artifacts into a cohesive picture of the site and it's residents. These "before" pictures give us huge insight into the contemporary "afters". (note: the research I did here definitely whet my appetite for ruins)


Ruins at Uaxactun: The drawing was done by Tatiana Proskouriakoff in 1950. This site was rediscovered in the early 20th century by an American Archeologist.


The site at Tikal is the biggest in Guatemala and the most complete as well. It is very remote and surrounded by jungles. I've never been but I must say, it looks haunted to me. OooooOooOooooooo...


Archeologist Tatiana Proskouriakoff is buried at the ruins of Piedras Negras. Read about the discovery of the panel here by Stephen D. Houston. To recognize the drawing in the bottom photo compare the glyphs on the side of the panel with the monuments at the base of the temple stairs and the faces on the temple with the one in the thick jungle brush. See. Haunted.

Kent Rogowski

This bear is part of an exhibition by artist Kent Rogowski. For this collection he has taken stuffed animals and turned them inside out and then restitched them together again.

Simple patterns and devices never meant to be seen are now prominent physical characteristics, giving each one a distinctly quirky personality: their fasteners become eyes, their seams become scars, and their stuffing creeps out in the most unexpected places.
- Kent Rogowski

Here is the link for more.

This is your face on drugs - Before and After Meth Addicts

If this isn't impetus enough to stay away from drugs, check out this book I saw recently at Pages, "A Time Before Crack" by Jamel Shabazz - From the abstract:

"Once upon a time before crack, inner city communities were blighted by poverty and unemployment—but not by the drug wars that tore families apart, destroying lives with needless violence and mindless addiction. Once upon a time before crack, pride and style were as inseparable as a beatbox and mixtape, or as a pair of shoes and matching purse. Once upon a time before crack, Jamel Shabazz was on the scene, working the streets of New York City, capturing the faces and places of an era that have long since disappeared."

The arrow of time.

On June 17th each year this family takes photographs of themselves.
They've posted the photos here.

Check out this beautiful restoration Flickr set for more before/after pics of this piece. The description:

The jewels and beaded bone, glass, and seeds were mostly gone or peeling off. The beading I did barely shows....they were the size of pinheads and took about 40 hours to string. All of the crystals were replaced one by one on the inside arch, mirror replaced and gold leafed on the outer perimeter. Mold and other silent terrors had to be dealt with, faces and patterns repainted back into the picture.

Illustration Makeovers

George Shrinks by William Joyce



I vote the old Pooh. That old honeypot gag doesn't ever get old. By A. A. Milne



By William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, but we all knew that, right?



By: Richard Scarry



By: Jean de Brunhoff