GPOY.
(Source: freytag.co.uk, via danforth)
Pika feels he has been very patient and now it’s cuddle time, thank you very much.
This was reflected upon my wall by my charging Kindle and I wouldn’t be at all surprised if someday alien archaeologists don’t puzzle over the symbol, carved as it is on so much of our stuff.
I feel as though I should give John Tottenham a penny for every quote. He hides wonderful little truths inside his maudlin self-assessments. I wish I could give him a penny for every insight and leave it at that, and skip the siren echo of my fears, which isn’t to say I don’t get it; there’s certainly power in it and it’s artful. But I wonder how many people get lost in there. I wonder if he’s lost in there. I wonder if he’d find my pennies offensive, having grown successful by exploring failure.
I don’t understand poets.
Isao Hashimoto’s extraordinary musical map of every nuclear explosion since 1945.
To the extent there can BE such a thing as an audio infographic, this is it.
I watched this for one minute, and wanted to stop. Ninety seconds in, I saw it was fourteen minutes long, and was like FUUUUCK THAT.
To many, many people alive during this time, the 90s were felt like waking up from a nightmare you’d only perceived at the peripheral, just out of sight. I know a lot of people have fond memories of the 80s, with all it’s candy-coated consumption and accessorizing, new wave and hair bands, but I don’t remember it feeling good. Plus, Challenger.
It wasn’t until I was in college, and the Berlin Wall came down, that I actually imagined it was okay to believe in people. As an adult, I look back at the generation between my own and the Greatest, and I am so angry I can’t even tell you how angry.
Which is partly why I find this whole “war on terror” reactionary “whatever it takes” xenophobia so infuriating.
The effect shown in the gif is called gravitational lensing.
What is gravitational lensing?
Gravitational lensing is the effect seen when an object behind a massive object is in the line of sight with the earth. For example:
Earth ————>Massive Object—————->Far away object
When we try looking at the far away object, the massive object bends space-time around it, causing the light rays from the far away object to travel in a curved path around into our line of sight.
As a result of this, we can often see the far away object magnified which helps astronomers understand the early universe. The gif shows a far away galaxy being gravitationally lensed by a closer black hole.Whoa.
Charisma is a wonderful thing.
Since the dark argillaceous deposits associated with radiolarites and basic igneous rocks that have been generally interpreted as originating in the deepest parts of the Tethys are now found in the heart of the mountain belt in the Pennine Alps, the Pindus, the Taurus or the mountains of Luristan, it would seem that the Tethys was effectively extinguished, and Eurasia and Afro-Arabia soldered firmly together, by the crustal disturbances of Eocene and especially Middle Oligocene time. The Mediterranean and associated seas are thus features younger than the main orogenic spasm.
—What?
Beyonce & Andre 3000. – Back To Black (1,080 plays)
Confession: I really like this cover. André 3000 sinks his teeth into the material and the mood, and Beyoncé… Well, she shows up and sings a verse while being Beyoncé, <…>
But how anyone can listen to this and not think “wow, Moulin Rouge guy’s Gatsby movie is going to be terrible” is beyond me. Overproduced period pieces with anachronistic soundtracks! Gosh! Somebody had a new idea in the past fifteen years, and it was doing that thing again but with different source material.
Ain’t no party like a Gatsby party because we’re gonna get disillusioned with the moody minimalist hip hop age as a whole, I guess.
I’ve been looking at people’s anticipations of disappointment at this for the last week, and thinking they’re missing the point. Oh noes, it was shot in 3D! Well YES it was shot in 3D, have you ever even seen a Luhrman film before? Every scene is dripping with excess. That’s half the point, his creative indulgence. That’s like saying you don’t want to see a Wes Anderson film because the sets are too precious.
Luhrman is not trying to impress us with his cred. His vision revolves around the sublimation of art and meaning in pop culture. He takes what’s popular and amplifies it beyond comfort, tracing its journey from sincerity to glamour to rot. His colors are saturated, his moves of sweeping, and his favorite color is candy. And your reaction should be to ask: is this meaningful? If not, why does it resonate?
Besides, you know, there’s nothing wrong with the hip-hop/jazz parallel. Our segregation is a little more subtle, our prohibition more pharmaceutical. An authentic art form from a vibrant subculture has been appropriated by the commercial pop industry, and can be said to be in decline. It’s hardly a perfect mapping, but I hardly think he should be criticized for making the connection and hinting at some modern relevance within his “overproduced period piece.”
(Source: eyonick)
The weather in Seattle is terrible. I don’t know know why anyone lives here.
I’m very fortunate that people are so invested in the series. At the same time, it can be a source of some anxiety to get emails that say, ‘If Sookie doesn’t end up with Eric, I’m going to kill myself.’
— Charlaine Harris, author of “Dead After Dark,” the now-ending series on which “True Blood” is based.
