April 7 Photo Brief: Giant Pope John Paul II sculpture, military drills in North Korea, cherry blossoms in D.C.
Giant Pope John Paul II sculpture unveiled in Poland, military drills in North Korea, cherry blossoms bloom in D.C. and more in today’s daily brief.
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- Workers put together elements of a 13,8m tall sculpture of late Pope John Paul II in Czestochowa, southern Poland on April 7, 2013. (Janek Skarzynski/AFP/Getty Images)
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- A North Korean military dog bites a dummy of South Korean Defense Minister Kim Kwan-jin during a military drill in an unknown location in this picture taken on April 6, 2013 and released by North Korea’s official KCNA news agency in Pyongyang on April 7, 2013. (KCNA via Reuters)
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- North Korean soldiers with military dogs take part in drills in an unknown location in this picture taken on April 6, 2013 and released by North Korea’s official KCNA news agency in Pyongyang on April 7, 2013. (KCNA via Reuters)
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- Senator John McCain (R-AZ) (L), and Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) appear on “Face the Nation” in this April 7, 2013 handout photo. Both men said on the show that China has failed to use its influence to stop North Korea’s warlike rhetoric against the United States and U.S.-backed South Korea. (CBS News/Chris Usher/CBS News via Reuters)
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- Coptic Orthodox Christians carry the coffins of men who died in clashes between Muslims and Christians in El Khusus north of the Egyptian capital, during their funeral at the main cathedral in Cairo April 7, 2013. Five Egyptians were killed and eight wounded in clashes between Christians and Muslims in the town near Cairo, security sources said on Saturday, in some of the worst sectarian violence in Egypt for months. (Mohamed Abd El Ghany/Reuters)
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- A Coptic Christian with a Christian tattoo is seen during clashes with Muslims standing outside the main cathedral in Cairo, April 7, 2013. Clashes broke out between Coptic Christians and Muslims in central Cairo on Sunday after the funeral of four Copts killed in sectarian violence outside the Egyptian capital on Friday night, witnesses said. (Asmaa Waguih/Reuters)
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- A Palestinian girl looks on inside her family’s damaged house in Beit Lahiya, near the border between Israel and northern Gaza Strip April 7, 2013. (Mohammed Salem/Reuters)
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- A Spanish youth wears a Guy Fawkes mask with a written message on a 20 euros notes reading “Yes we can” as he takes part in protest against government’s austerity measures forcing them to emigrate, in Madrid on April 7, 2013. (Dominique Faget/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Thailand’s Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra visits a soldier who was injured during a roadside bomb attack, at a hospital in Yala province, south of Bangkok April 7, 2013. Suspected Muslim rebels in southern Thailand killed a deputy provincial governor and another state official with a roadside bomb on Friday, a week after the government held first formal talks with a rebel group to try to end years of violence. (Surapan Boonthanom/Reuters)
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- A vendor defeathers chickens after slaughter at a poultry market in Wuhan, Hubei province, April 6, 2013. The market has closed live poultry trading on Saturday and slaughtered about 50,000 chickens and ducks so far to prevent the spreading of the H7N9 virus. Two more people have contracted bird flu in Shanghai, China’s health ministry said on Saturday, as authorities closed live poultry markets and culled birds to combat a new virus strain that has killed six people. (Stringer/Reuters)
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- Afghan women scurry for cover as US soldiers patrol Kush Kunar district in Nangarhar on April 7, 2013. (Manjunath Kiran/AFP/Getty Images)
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- People stand at a damaged building in Al-Sukkari neighborhood, by what activists said was a result of an airstrike by the Syrian Regime, in Aleppo April 7, 2013. (Zian Rev/Reuters)
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- A man points up to warn people about falling rubble in a damaged area, what activists said was a result of an airstrike by the Syrian regime, in Al-Sukkari neighborhood in Aleppo April 7, 2013. (Aref Hretani/Reuters)
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- A Free Syrian Army fighter is seen in a tunnel in Deir al-Zor April 6, 2013. The 98-foot tunnel was dug under an area where Syrian Army forces have set up base in Deir Al-Zor, according to members of the Free Syrian Army. (Khalil Ashawi/Reuters)
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- Competitors run past the Eiffel tower during the 37th edition of the Paris Marathon on April 7, 2013 in Paris. (Fred Dufour/AFP/Getty Images)
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- A boy works at a poppy field in Jalalabad province April 7, 2013. (Parwiz/Reuters)
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- Goats fight during an annual gathering held for farmers in Haian county, Jiangsu province April 6, 2013. (Stringer/Reuters)
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- Jim Hall, 71, of Baltimore, MD. Hall says he is the second most tattooed man in the world. Taken at the 2013 Baltimore Tattoo Arts Convention in the Inner Harbor. (Josh Sisk/Special To The Baltimore Sun)
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- Venezuelan opposition presidential candidate Henrique Capriles Radonski (C) holds a giatn Venezuelan hat during a campaign rally in Caracas on April 07, 2013. Capriles will face acting President Nicolas Maduro in national elections next April 14. (Geraldo Caso/AFP/Getty Images)
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- A man takes pictures of cherry blossoms along the Tidal Basin in Washington, April 7, 2013. Washington’s celebrated cherry trees, which have been slow to bloom in 2013 due to a colder-than-normal springtime, originated as a gift of friendship from the people of Japan in 1912. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)
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- A man photographs cherry blossoms along the Tidal Basin in Washington, April 7, 2013. Washington’s celebrated cherry trees, which have been slow to bloom in 2013 due to a colder-than-normal springtime, originated as a gift of friendship from the people of Japan in 1912. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)
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At tattoo show, a community bound by ink and the Web
By Ian Duncan, The Baltimore Sun
3:40 p.m. EDT, April 7, 2013
Ravens wide receiver LaQuan Williams sat calmly at the Baltimore Convention Center on Saturday as a tattoo artist buzzed at his shoulder, sketching out the latest design on the already well-inked torso.
Williams and the artist, who goes by the name Jonny Metropolis, have totaled at least a day together in a similar fashion after getting connected through the photo-sharing service Instagram. On Saturday, Metropolis was working on theatrical masks to represent the good times and the bad times in Williams’ life.
“This is my guy,” Williams said. “He does some good work.”
For Williams, discovering the Queens, N.Y., tattoo artist brought him in contact with someone whose work he admired; for Metropolis, the overture from a pro athlete was “dope” and evidence that his online hustle was paying off.
“Without this self-promotion, I would never have had him notice me,” he said.
Almost 500 artists from across the country descended on the convention center for the sixth annual Tattoo Arts Convention, the hum of their needles a testament to how popular getting ink has become. That popularity has fostered a spirit of community and competition among tattoo artists, they say, and Instagram has become a forum for sharing their work.
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