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The Star Wars Trilogy as Maps by Andrew DeGraff

Check out these illustrated maps of the original Star Wars trilogy by artist Andrew DeGraff. The more you look at each piece, the more you realize they’re so much more than just maps; they’re the movies themselves, featuring all the films’ locations with interweaving lines depicting major characters’ passages through the movies.

Be sure to click on each to see the incredible detail.

A New Hope:
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“Once Upon a Time” — A Fairy Tale Themed Baby Shoot

I’m not too keen on newborn/baby photo shoots (they mostly look the same to me and some of them can be downright creepy), but I’m all game when they’re super creative. (See: Kristin & Kayla, Mila’s Daydreams, and Baby Arthur.)

The latest series of baby photos to make its social media rounds has been that of photographer Wendi Riggens, whose fairy-tale themed shoot of 9-month-old Maddie has her placed in scenes and outfits from some of Disney’s most popular films. Take a look, and be ready to coo:

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My Body, My Self-Image, My Self-Destruction

I once had a friend who went on a 6-week volunteer trip to a third world country. When she returned, we got together for dinner and she regaled me with tales of building shelters, teaching English, and even giving away many of the clothes she had brought for the trip. Her story was expectedly not void of woes; she had suffered countless mosquito bites, painful sunburn, and could not be happier to have access to clean water again. And then her voice fell to a hush. "I only lost 3 pounds though. I left for the trip thinking I would return a skeleton. But I only lost three. I almost wish that I had caught dysentery or malaria while I was there...

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