It's an image from last week but i only found it today.

A high school student dressed as a penguin lies on the ground in front of a line of Chilean riot police officers during a demonstration of teachers in a national strike to demand higher paying salaries in downtown Santiago, Chile, Tuesday.

(AP Photo/Roberto Candia)

Subtopia points to Rafael Estefania's photo journal of San Pedro prison, home to about 1,500 inmates in La Paz, Bolivia (Spanish version.)

Inside, there are about 200 children playing, market stalls, restaurants, hairdressers and even a hotel. Facilities range from miserable to luxurious. There are no guards, no metal bars on the cell windows. Prisoners have to resolve their problems through representatives elected democratically.

Inmates have to pay for their cells, so most of them have to sell groceries, work as laundry staff, carpenters, shoe-shine boys, TV repairmen, etc.

Few of the inmates are convicted killers - 80% are there for drug-related offences. Only about 25% are actually serving a sentence - the rest are awaiting trial.

Tourists used to be allowed in, but the tours were stopped because many people were coming to buy cocaine, said to be the purest in the country.

As you might have noticed i'm in Austria for the ars electronica festival. And it's quite hot here. So i was amazed to discover today an image of lovely pigs walking in the snow near Schruns, a village in the Austrian alps. Apparently the temperatures there are so unusually cold that the highest areas of the mountains are now covered with snow.

Seen on 20 minutos.

When my boyfriend offered me a plush toy for Christmas i was appalled: did i really know that guy who had this super cheesy idea to offer me a plus toy for xmas? Alas! I can't understand what happened to me. If you've met me you might know that now wherever i go, Kaikai Kiki goes. I bought him a fake mobile phone, a fake golden tooth and a sleeping mask.

The upcoming exhibition Me and My Character at Platform21 investigates the emotional bond people have with their nonliving companions. In researching designer toys and character design, Platform 21 found a hidden world where creators, users, professionals and amateurs come together, united by their attraction to these creatures.

The exhibition consists of testimonials by character owners, collectors and designers about their plush friends, accompanied by photos, descriptions, videos, and many toys lent by their owner.

Platform 21 has also adopted its own character: Leaflet, created by one of my favourite Japanese artists, Akinori Oishi. Leaflet is now in good hands at the PictoOrphanage in Berlin. PictoOrphanage opened its gates in 2000 to all abandoned creatures in a bid to save them from falling into oblivion. Today they are on package designs, shop signs or posters, but tomorrow, who knows? The PictoOrphanage pair-up the abandoned orphans with ideally-suited foster parents.

Les Petits Bonhommes by Akinori Oishi

Me and My Character: Cuddly Toys, Monsters and Robots runs 13 July-Sunday 27 August, at Platform21, in Amsterdam.

The Queen takes the salute from Chelsea Pensioners at the Founders Day Parade, Royal Chelsea Hospital.

Via The Telegraph - Images of the week.

Policemen inflate lifebelt before the arrival of the Chanchu typhoon in the Chinese province of Zhejiang.
Via 20 minutos.