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urhajos: Zach Dougherty

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 20:27:47 -0400

Zach Dougherty

the-frozen-city: averypottermormon: ice-cream-in-the-rain: Som...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:54:51 -0400

averypottermormon:

ice-cream-in-the-rain:

Something about bedrooms with little hidden away nooks or split levels just really gets me

i would have no problems owning any ~~or all~~ of these spaces

I need the things

jtotheizzoe: I’ve seen a lot of spacey photos in my time....

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:14:47 -0400

jtotheizzoe:

I’ve seen a lot of spacey photos in my time. Enough so that I catch myself occasionally making a jaded sigh, saying “Oh neat, another shot of a spacecraft in front of the moon. Been there, done that.“

Then I punch myself in the arm and tell myself to shut up because these are pictures of SPACE.

That’s what happened with Maximilian Teodorescu’s shot of the International Space Station against the face of the moon. At first I was minorly impressed, because it’s a very small thing traveling very fast, in front of a larger thing that is even farther away. But people take pictures of the ISS all the time. Big deal.

Then I realized that this one was taken during the day. At that point I lost my schnoodles. I’m betting a few of you will too.

(via Overthinking It)

lumos5000: OH GOD I JUST REALIZED HE’S QUOTING...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 16:27:08 -0400

lumos5000:

OH GOD I JUST REALIZED HE’S QUOTING MCCOY!!!

…Doctor Doppler on the Enterprise.

"I want to stress this again: In many, many parts of the country right now, if you want to go to see..."

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 15:44:51 -0400

“

I want to stress this again: In many, many parts of the country right now, if you want to go to see a movie in the theater and see a current movie about a woman — any story about any woman that isn’t a documentary or a cartoon — you can’t. You cannot. There are not any. You cannot take yourself to one, take your friend to one, take your daughter to one.

There are not any.

By far your best shot, numbers-wise, at finding one that’s at least even-handedly featuring a man and a woman is Before Midnight (on 891 screens) so I hope you like it. Because it’s pretty much that or a solid, impenetrable wall of movies about dudes.

Dudes in capes, dudes in cars, dudes in space, dudes drinking, dudes smoking, dudes doing magic tricks, dudes being funny, dudes being dramatic, dudes flying through the air, dudes blowing up, dudes getting killed, dudes saving and kissing women and children, and dudes glowering at each other.

Somebody asked me this morning what “the women” are going to do about this. I don’t know. I honestly am at the point where I have no idea what to do about it. Stop going to the movies? Boycott everything?

They put up Bridesmaids, we went. They put up Pitch Perfect, we went. They put up The Devil Wears Prada, which was in two-thousand-meryl-streeping-oh-six, and we went (and by “we,” I do not just mean women; I mean we, the humans), and all of it has led right here, right to this place. Right to the land of zippedy-doo-dah. You can apparently make an endless collection of high-priced action flops and everybody says “win some, lose some” and nobody decides that They Are Poison, but it feels like every “surprise success” about women is an anomaly and every failure is an abject lesson about how we really ought to just leave it all to The Rock.

”

- At The Movies, The Women Are Gone : Monkey See : NPR

The whole article is fantastic, as is pretty much everything Linda Holmes writes.

(via kdhart)

staceythinx: These incredible images by Franz Schumacher look...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 15:42:38 -0400

staceythinx:

These incredible images by Franz Schumacher look like the last thing you would see before ending up in Oz.

thecurrentrotation: “Sweet Nothing” by Calvin Harris Featuring...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 15:39:08 -0400

thecurrentrotation:

“Sweet Nothing” by Calvin Harris Featuring Florence Welch

jtotheizzoe: NASA Releases Panoramic View of Mars! Warning:...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 15:04:31 -0400

jtotheizzoe:

NASA Releases Panoramic View of Mars! Warning: Contains billions and billions of pixels

A new interactive panorama of the Martian surface has just been released by NASA/JPL, and it’s just as cool as you’d expect. This massive view of the red planet is zoomable down to an incredible level of detail. Everything from the landing site to its eventual destination at Mt. Sharp is there in iron oxide-hued glory.

I’ve included a few of my favorite views above. First, an L-shaped sequence of frickin’ laser beam scars left over from the mast-mounted ChemCam (pew pew science!) Next, some notably shiny rocks, their silver surface made visible through the rusty dust. Finally, “J-P-L” written in morse code thanks to the code drilled into Curiosity’s wheels.

You can go here to explore a few different interactive versions, but I’ve embedded my favorite below (click through to view, Tumblr Dashboard viewers). THIS IS AWESOME.

laughingsquid: Clueless British Commentary for a Major League...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 13:18:20 -0400

laughingsquid:

Clueless British Commentary for a Major League Baseball Game

This is me watching any team sport.

wingedpiranha: Viva Cute Candy! crazy colorful and wicked...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:49:07 -0400

wingedpiranha:

Viva Cute Candy!

crazy colorful and wicked kawaii hair salon in the funky Shimokitazawa neighborhood. the stylists here can do anything and everything from natural to pop. this place totally shows how hairstyling is a creative art of its own. also, Iku, the head stylist put a lot of effort in creating a fun-filled studio environment.

spaceplasma: NASA Probe Gets Close Views of Large Saturn...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:00:08 -0400

The spinning vortex of Saturn's north polar storm (false-color image)

False-color image of Saturn's north pole.

spaceplasma:

NASA Probe Gets Close Views of Large Saturn Hurricane

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has provided scientists the first close-up, visible-light views of a behemoth hurricane swirling around Saturn’s north pole.

In high-resolution pictures and video, scientists see the hurricane’s eye is about 1,250 miles (2,000 kilometers) wide, 20 times larger than the average hurricane eye on Earth. Thin, bright clouds at the outer edge of the hurricane are traveling 330 mph(150 meters per second). The hurricane swirls inside a large, mysterious, six-sided weather pattern known as the hexagon.

“We did a double take when we saw this vortex because it looks so much like a hurricane on Earth,” said Andrew Ingersoll, a Cassini imaging team member at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. “But there it is at Saturn, on a much larger scale, and it is somehow getting by on the small amounts of water vapor in Saturn’s hydrogen atmosphere.”

Scientists will be studying the hurricane to gain insight into hurricanes on Earth, which feed off warm ocean water. Although there is no body of water close to these clouds high in Saturn’s atmosphere, learning how these Saturnian storms use water vapor could tell scientists more about how terrestrial hurricanes are generated and sustained.

Both a terrestrial hurricane and Saturn’s north polar vortex have a central eye with no clouds or very low clouds. Other similar features include high clouds forming an eye wall, other high clouds spiraling around the eye, and a counter-clockwise spin in the northern hemisphere.

A major difference between the hurricanes is that the one on Saturn is much bigger than its counterparts on Earth and spins surprisingly fast. At Saturn, the wind in the eye wall blows more than four times faster than hurricane-force winds on Earth. Unlike terrestrial hurricanes, which tend to move, the Saturnian hurricane is locked onto the planet’s north pole. On Earth, hurricanes tend to drift northward because of the forces acting on the fast swirls of wind as the planet rotates. The one on Saturn does not drift and is already as far north as it can be.

“The polar hurricane has nowhere else to go, and that’s likely why it’s stuck at the pole,” said Kunio Sayanagi, a Cassini imaging team associate at Hampton University in Hampton, Va.

Scientists believe the massive storm has been churning for years. When Cassini arrived in the Saturn system in 2004, Saturn’s north pole was dark because the planet was in the middle of its north polar winter. During that time, the Cassini spacecraft’s composite infrared spectrometer and visual and infrared mapping spectrometer detected a great vortex, but a visible-light view had to wait for the passing of the equinox in August 2009. Only then did sunlight begin flooding Saturn’s northern hemisphere. The view required a change in the angle of Cassini’s orbits around Saturn so the spacecraft could see the poles.

“Such a stunning and mesmerizing view of the hurricane-like storm at the north pole is only possible because Cassini is on a sportier course, with orbits tilted to loop the spacecraft above and below Saturn’s equatorial plane,” said Scott Edgington, Cassini deputy project scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. “You cannot see the polar regions very well from an equatorial orbit. Observing the planet from different vantage points reveals more about the cloud layers that cover the entirety of the planet.”

Cassini changes its orbital inclination for such an observing campaign only once every few years. Because the spacecraft uses flybys of Saturn’s moon Titan to change the angle of its orbit, the inclined trajectories require attentive oversight from navigators. The path requires careful planning years in advance and sticking very precisely to the planned itinerary to ensure enough propellant is available for the spacecraft to reach future planned orbits and encounters.

Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI

groovy-tiger: Stop playing with the food Hannibal.

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:51:56 -0400

groovy-tiger:

Stop playing with the food Hannibal.

Photo

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:49:15 -0400

megumiovvo: chuck-charles: i made a makeup tutorial for all my...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:34:38 -0400

megumiovvo:

chuck-charles:

i made a makeup tutorial for all my fellow feminists out there bye

jfc

watch it

monsieurlemoriarty: mulan was a piece of fucking art my...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:13:40 -0400

monsieurlemoriarty:

mulan was a piece of fucking art

my favorite part of the movie.

mattfractionblog: bendiswordsforpictures: The visual...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:41:23 -0400

mattfractionblog:

bendiswordsforpictures:

The visual linguistics of a comic book page

Inside Science recently wrote about the study by UCSD’s Neil Cohn, Navigating Comics, which looks at the underlying structure of the comics language:

People who read the English written word scan text from left to right. Once our eyes hit the end of the page, we stop. Then ding!, like an old-time typewriter, our eyes shift downward and snap back to the left to start reading the next line. This is known as a “Z-path,” as our eyes whip about like the end of Zorro’s sword.

But that linear track gets derailed in comics with complex layouts and Cohn wanted to know if experienced readers had strategies to follow along.

Cohn rustled up 145 participants at the 2004 Comic-Con International, a comic book convention held in San Diego. Participants had varying experience with reading comics, ranging from “never” to “often.”

Each participant was given a booklet containing 12 pages of blank panels. Each page was independent of the rest and used different design techniques.

Read More →

I met Neil Cohn outside of the old Comic Relief; Rory Root introduced us. Neil had literally just come from getting his monograph EARLY WRITINGS ON VISUAL LANGUAGE back from the printer. He gave Rory and I a copy each — we spoke on the street for a few minutes and I walked away with a head full of stars. That book, along with Ben Saunders’, Charles Hatfield’s Kirby book, and a few others I’m sure I could think up if I paused to stop typing long enough, are must have, must read, must learns if you’re a comics-obsessed, form-and-function-obsessed, process-obsessed maniac like me. That he’s continued to explore the way we read comics — and writes about it on his blog — delights me to no end. He has no reason to remember the meeting, but it was one of those chance street encounters that changed my life.

Thanks, Neil. And, once again — thanks, Rory.

(EDIT: the essay referred to in the link above is here)

explore-blog: High-wire artist Philippe Petit, who notoriously...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 10:25:06 -0400

explore-blog:

High-wire artist Philippe Petit, who notoriously walked between the World Trade Center twin towers in 1974 and whose Cheating the Impossible is a must-read, explores the art of making knots in Why Knot? How to Tie More Than Sixty Ingenious, Useful, Beautiful, Lifesaving and Secure Knots.

(↬ CoDesign)

chirart: jhameia: Cover of Lady Gaga’s “Telephone” on the koto...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 00:22:46 -0400

chirart:

jhameia:

Cover of Lady Gaga’s “Telephone” on the koto and shakuhachi by Team Kozan

that shakuhachi player is really rocking it

there’s nothing I don’t love about this

r-o-n: Just when you thought you could dance, she came in &...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 00:06:48 -0400

r-o-n:

Just when you thought you could dance, she came in & did this

I love her exit, like, that’s how it’s done motherfuckers

beatonna: It’s a new comic about a CHILDHOOD CLASSIC Click on...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:31:38 -0400

beatonna:

It’s a new comic about a CHILDHOOD CLASSIC

Click on to go through!

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