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The music: “Time is the Enemy” by Quantic, from his 2001 album The Fifth Exotic.
The footage: Taken in 1906, from a streetcar traveling down Market Street in San Francisco a few days before the earthquake that destroyed much of the city.
The Ferry Building can be seen at the end, looking just as it does today.
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Charles Piazzi Smyth - The Great Comet of 1843, oil on canvas
(Source: blue-voids, via wowgreat)
Ben Rivers, Origin of the Species (2008)
(Source: lux.org.uk)
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life:
Michael Rougier’s powerful photographs of the conditions endured by migrant workers and their families all across the United States.
Pictured: Migrant farm workers sprayed with unidentified chemical after day’s work, USA, 1959
(Michael Rougier—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)