December 31st, 2017 1:10pm
posts from 2017
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December 27th, 2017 5:44pm
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Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego thrown into a fiery furnace by Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, The Bible Panorama, 1891
December 26th, 2017 5:16pm
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December 25th, 2017 8:27pm
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December 24th, 2017 7:21am
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Queen City forecastle, 1906. “This dog, ‘Queen’ was owned by the captain, John Sweeney. It bit everyone, including the Captain.”
December 21st, 2017 8:05am
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The actual papal throne.
What manner of demonic vermin-infested phantasm is this?
I would seriously like to know.
December 19th, 2017 8:21pm
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December 18th, 2017 8:29am
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December 15th, 2017 9:34pm
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December 13th, 2017 9:11pm
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December 13th, 2017 9:10pm
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December 12th, 2017 8:25am
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December 12th, 2017 8:10am
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grandma’s last ho ho ho
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December 7th, 2017 9:17pm
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December 7th, 2017 5:43pm
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December 6th, 2017 11:50pm
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TOM COMITTA
AIRPORT NOVELLA
TROLL THREAD 2017
December 5th, 2017 6:42pm
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December 5th, 2017 6:19pm
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You don’t work for Nakatomi, and you’re not one of them?
I’m a cop from New York, got invited to the Christmas party by mistake. Who knew?Die Hard (1988) dir. John McTiernan
December 3rd, 2017 8:42pm
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December 3rd, 2017 8:40pm
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Phil Hartman as “Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer” on Saturday Night Live
Aired March 14, 1992
December 2nd, 2017 8:11am
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December 2nd, 2017 8:10am
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Dr. Grandma, PhD in eating and the puking up string, now available for office hours.
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The last time George Harrison and John Lennon photographed together.
December 1st, 2017 7:59pm
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This is a moodboard for when you’re scrolling through tumblr
November 30th, 2017 10:14pm
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November 30th, 2017 5:39pm
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Helen Frankenthaler (American, 1928-2011)
Corona - 1979
November 30th, 2017 5:37pm
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November 29th, 2017 9:13pm
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Your Coffee Can Now Help Power Buses
Which is heavier: London’s annual coffee waste production or 15,000 London buses? You guessed it - it’s the coffee waste.
November 29th, 2017 7:54am
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Why do I always get a warped one!?
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Jill
why did jill move her but
because jacks foot was right next to it
November 25th, 2017 9:10am
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November 25th, 2017 9:09am
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Archaeologists have known that cats and humans have had a relationship that goes back a long ways – eight to ten thousand years, to give numbers. That’s about when agriculture first appeared in the Fertile Crescent. However, actually domestication of cats took longer. And that’s just what the cats wanted.
A new study by the University of Leuven and the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences used DNA to look closely at cat domestication. They found that full domestication was slow. DNA samples from 200 cats dating across the past 9,000 years revealed modern domestic cats come from two lineages of Felis silvestris lybica, a subspecies of wildcat. The first lineage was an Asian population, which likely were mousers for Fertile Crescent granaries. These cats traveled with humans into Europe as early as 4,400 BCE.
The second feline lineage was traced back to ancient Egypt. The cat-worshippers. This lineage came to Europe around 1,500 BCE. When the Asian and the African lineages met, they began to mix, and develop into the domestic cat we would recognize today.
November 25th, 2017 9:08am
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A future in which ISPs are owned by local governments, small businesses, nonprofit community groups, and the people they serve are the path forward and the only realistic way of ending big telecom’s stranglehold on America.
— https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/7x4y8a/net-neutrality-fcc-community-networks
(via no-thanks)November 24th, 2017 7:33pm
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November 23rd, 2017 8:31am
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Sunset from a foggy Sutro Baths.
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November 22nd, 2017 8:21pm
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November 22nd, 2017 8:59am
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November 21st, 2017 4:47pm
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November 20th, 2017 8:21pm
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I just found three candy pumpkins in my 2lb bag of candy corn, what is going on!?!?
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November 20th, 2017 6:45am
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November 19th, 2017 8:42am
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November 19th, 2017 8:42am
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Paul Lehr’s epic cover art for Douglas R. Mason’s “Matrix” combines a few of my favorite things: pink sci-fi and domed cities.
November 17th, 2017 7:40am
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November 16th, 2017 6:18pm
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Entrepreneurship, inequity, and throwing darts at the carnival
In a reply to an article called Entrepreneurs Aren’t A Special Breed – They’re Mostly Rich Kids, Hacker News commenter notacoward wrote:
Entrepreneurship is like one of those carnival games where you throw darts or something.
Middle class kids can afford one throw. Most miss. A few hit the target and get a small prize. A very few hit the center bullseye and get a bigger prize. Rags to riches! The American Dream lives on.
Rich kids can afford many throws. If they want to, they can try over and over and over again until they hit something and feel good about themselves. Some keep going until they hit the center bullseye, then they give speeches or write blog posts about “meritocracy” and the salutary effects of hard work.
Poor kids aren’t visiting the carnival. They’re the ones working it.
That’s a pretty succinct summary of the “born on third base and thinks they hit a triple” effect…and it doesn’t just apply to entrepreneurship or being rich.
November 14th, 2017 7:44pm
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Tonight’s Gender of the Night is: BORN TO DIE WORLD IS A FUCK Kill Em All 1989 I am trash man 410,757,864,530 DEAD COPS
November 13th, 2017 3:25pm
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November 11th, 2017 7:41am
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feeling blessed the city sends these nice fellas out to make sure the pipes they buried in the grpind are still in the ground every other saturday morning 😇
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November 10th, 2017 6:23pm
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November 10th, 2017 6:20pm
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November 10th, 2017 6:19pm
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November 7th, 2017 9:20pm
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November 7th, 2017 9:18pm
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HOW DO YOU DO, FELLOW KIDS? Just released, pick up this Lapel Pin, that is very obviously of a high schooler, right now at PattiLapel.com while they’re still available!
November 7th, 2017 9:16pm
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In case you’ve ever wondered what a sailor’s tattoos mean.
(art and research by @lubellwoo)November 4th, 2017 10:25am
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November 4th, 2017 10:16am
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November 1st, 2017 9:45pm
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November 1st, 2017 9:34pm
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Ray Bradbury seated in the Time Machine prop from George Pal’s film adaptation of the H. G. Wells novel of the same name. c. 1960.
October 31st, 2017 9:12pm
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October 29th, 2017 4:59pm
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October 29th, 2017 10:32am
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October 27th, 2017 8:39am
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October 27th, 2017 8:37am
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October 27th, 2017 8:37am
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Never stopped at the rose garden between the Conservatory and Stowe off JFK before, it is gorgeous!
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punching the shit out of floppy disks and stuff okay then
October 25th, 2017 4:41pm
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October 24th, 2017 9:20am
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one of these has the slowest bear cub of the pair of cubs chasing mama bear
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October 21st, 2017 9:53pm
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October 21st, 2017 9:52pm
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My friend told me a story he hadn’t told anyone for years. When he used to tell it years ago people would laugh and say, ‘Who’d believe that? How can that be true? That’s daft.’ So he didn’t tell it again for ages. But for some reason, last night, he knew it would be just the kind of story I would love.
When he was a kid, he said, they didn’t use the word autism, they just said ‘shy’, or ‘isn’t very good at being around strangers or lots of people.’ But that’s what he was, and is, and he doesn’t mind telling anyone. It’s just a matter of fact with him, and sometimes it makes him sound a little and act different, but that’s okay.
Anyway, when he was a kid it was the middle of the 1980s and they were still saying ‘shy’ or ‘withdrawn’ rather than ‘autistic’. He went to London with his mother to see a special screening of a new film he really loved. He must have won a competition or something, I think. Some of the details he can’t quite remember, but he thinks it must have been London they went to, and the film…! Well, the film is one of my all-time favourites, too. It’s a dark, mysterious fantasy movie. Every single frame is crammed with puppets and goblins. There are silly songs and a goblin king who wears clingy silver tights and who kidnaps a baby and this is what kickstarts the whole adventure.
It was ‘Labyrinth’, of course, and the star was David Bowie, and he was there to meet the children who had come to see this special screening.
‘I met David Bowie once,’ was the thing that my friend said, that caught my attention.
‘You did? When was this?’ I was amazed, and surprised, too, at the casual way he brought this revelation out. Almost anyone else I know would have told the tale a million times already.
He seemed surprised I would want to know, and he told me the whole thing, all out of order, and I eked the details out of him.
He told the story as if it was he’d been on an adventure back then, and he wasn’t quite allowed to tell the story. Like there was a pact, or a magic spell surrounding it. As if something profound and peculiar would occur if he broke the confidence.
It was thirty years ago and all us kids who’d loved Labyrinth then, and who still love it now, are all middle-aged. Saddest of all, the Goblin King is dead. Does the magic still exist?
I asked him what happened on his adventure.
‘I was withdrawn, more withdrawn than the other kids. We all got a signed poster. Because I was so shy, they put me in a separate room, to one side, and so I got to meet him alone. He’d heard I was shy and it was his idea. He spent thirty minutes with me.
‘He gave me this mask. This one. Look.
‘He said: ‘This is an invisible mask, you see?
‘He took it off his own face and looked around like he was scared and uncomfortable all of a sudden. He passed me his invisible mask. ‘Put it on,’ he told me. ‘It’s magic.’
‘And so I did.
‘Then he told me, ‘I always feel afraid, just the same as you. But I wear this mask every single day. And it doesn’t take the fear away, but it makes it feel a bit better. I feel brave enough then to face the whole world and all the people. And now you will, too.
‘I sat there in his magic mask, looking through the eyes at David Bowie and it was true, I did feel better.
‘Then I watched as he made another magic mask. He spun it out of thin air, out of nothing at all. He finished it and smiled and then he put it on. And he looked so relieved and pleased. He smiled at me.
‘'Now we’ve both got invisible masks. We can both see through them perfectly well and no one would know we’re even wearing them,’ he said.
‘So, I felt incredibly comfortable. It was the first time I felt safe in my whole life.
‘It was magic. He was a wizard. He was a goblin king, grinning at me.
‘I still keep the mask, of course. This is it, now. Look.’
I kept asking my friend questions, amazed by his story. I loved it and wanted all the details. How many other kids? Did they have puppets from the film there, as well? What was David Bowie wearing? I imagined him in his lilac suit from Live Aid. Or maybe he was dressed as the Goblin King in lacy ruffles and cobwebs and glitter.
What was the last thing he said to you, when you had to say goodbye?
‘David Bowie said, ‘I’m always afraid as well. But this is how you can feel brave in the world.’ And then it was over. I’ve never forgotten it. And years later I cried when I heard he had passed.’
My friend was surprised I was delighted by this tale.
‘The normal reaction is: that’s just a stupid story. Fancy believing in an invisible mask.’
But I do. I really believe in it.
And it’s the best story I’ve heard all year.— Paul Magrs (via yourfluffiestnightmare)
October 21st, 2017 9:50pm
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Yosemite
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big fireplace is big
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October 19th, 2017 11:43pm
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Balconies to Old Pinnacles to High Peaks, 2,400 of elevation change over 8.6 miles.
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Pinnacles
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Doing some serious math.
October 14th, 2017 7:13am
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October 13th, 2017 9:46pm
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October 12th, 2017 12:22am
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wut
such majesty
where r they goin
I never enjoyed a pictures series more
October 12th, 2017 12:22am
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Anna Leonhardt - Vibrations, Oil on Canvas, 41 x 35 inches, 2017
October 9th, 2017 10:45pm
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October 9th, 2017 6:57am
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October 8th, 2017 7:29am
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A million humans living in a future paradise on a colossal space colony, imagined in 1975 NASA concept art by Rick Guidice.
October 8th, 2017 7:29am
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The Bernal Heights painted rock is ready for Halloween! ⛵️🎃
October 7th, 2017 8:35am
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October 5th, 2017 8:15am
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Vincent Price taking publicity photos for, “The Comedy of Terrors” (1963).
October 3rd, 2017 6:05pm
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October 1st, 2017 7:11pm
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October 1st, 2017 7:08pm
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October 1st, 2017 7:08pm
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The Water Temple (1934), Pulgas Rec Area, W/ Todd
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Submission Friday:
Artist: Winsor Kinkade
Title: Unidos
Sketch done at a march on Mission Street to defend DACA.
@winsorkinkadeartSeptember 30th, 2017 9:26am
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September 28th, 2017 5:39pm
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ANNOUNCING THE 2018 SOCIAL JUSTICE KITTENS CALENDAR
Are you absolutely DONE instructing people who should just shut up and listen? Are you tired of tolerating the intolerant? Are you sick of compromising with those who can’t grasp nonbinary concepts? You’re in luck, because the Social Justice Kittens are back and better than ever!
LiarTown is proud to once again celebrate those courageous soldiers on the front lines of change: Online social justice activists! Although the last calendar’s kittens were unwilling to fully unpack their own complicity in oppressive systems and were taken away one night to live with loving families down by the river, you can be sure THIS YEAR’S precious angels are smarter, cuter, and ohhhhh-so-much woker than ever before!
Each colorful, professionally photographed kitten has been captured in a heroic pose befitting a small cat defiantly speaking out on the hottest progressive issues of the day. A sassy, uncompromising declaration erases any doubts about each charmer’s passionate convictions, sense of humor, and tough-as-nails attitude! They’ve come to punch Nazis and eat wet food, and they’re all out of wet food!
Wait—there’s more!
As a life-changing bonus, each month also features the ALL NEW Social Justice Puppies! They’re still learning how to sit down, shut up, and stay in their lane, but don’t worry, these sad little pups know better than to expect a cookie. They’re bursting with enthusiastic self-negation and eager to demonstrate their public, unconditional agreement. Best of all, every bit of kitten and puppy dialogue originates from genuine social media posts!
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Jezebel.com said it best: “The absolute best cat calendar!” While this comment technically referred to the 2015 calendar, anything short of equal enthusiasm this year would be a disturbing sign that Jezebel.com is staffed with privileged, performative faux-allies, uninterested in any sort of true social justice and in fact actively working to maintain the status quo.
Remember—Now that you’re woke, it’s time for the hard part: Making sure others know it!
Order here: https://buyolympia.com/Item/liartownusa-social-justice-kittens-2018
September 28th, 2017 5:32pm
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September 26th, 2017 2:00pm
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September 26th, 2017 1:56pm
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I had that technics tape deck growing up. It didn’t mute the audio if you held fast forward while it was playing so’s you could maybe kinda tell when you got to the next song. Also: VU meters own.
September 24th, 2017 9:25pm
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September 23rd, 2017 9:26am
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September 23rd, 2017 9:25am
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Danny and Trish’s little fongclucks on BI.
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September 20th, 2017 8:39pm
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September 19th, 2017 7:30pm
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Good news! I have slaved over this promotional video and now offer it to you, free of charge, as a token of my affection. Watch with my blessing, but beware! Hidden amidst the fast pace and bold colors is a remarkable lack of real information! This hollow, baffling advertisement is my gift… to you!
September 19th, 2017 7:30pm
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September 17th, 2017 9:10am
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Sherrie Levine
Meltdown
1989
Four WoodcutsThe twelve-color woodblock prints in the portfolio Meltdown have been created by Sherrie Levine by entering images, after Duchamp, Monet, Kirchner, and Mondrian into a computer scanner that spatially quantizes and transforms these images into the minimum number of pixels, thus determining each of the colors in the four prints.
September 16th, 2017 9:02am
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September 12th, 2017 8:23am
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September 8th, 2017 7:35am
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September 7th, 2017 9:18pm
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September 6th, 2017 8:33pm
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September 6th, 2017 8:33pm
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September 5th, 2017 9:09pm
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September 3rd, 2017 8:49pm
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A humpback whale among swimmers inside the Golden Gate. from Grant Stavely on Vimeo.
September 3rd, 2017 7:39am
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A pod of blue whales south west of the Farralon Islands. from Grant Stavely on Vimeo.
September 2nd, 2017 8:20pm
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Orcas (killer whales) between the golden gate and the Farralon Islands. from Grant Stavely on Vimeo.
September 2nd, 2017 8:16pm
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Philip K. Dick, by G.K. Bellows, Rolling Stone, November 6 1975
September 1st, 2017 8:41pm
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made a new table outta some recycled boards and a lotta spendy plumbing bits. my spec, design & engineering by Alec, labor by both of us
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befriending Salvatore, the brewery Tom at Barebottle
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August 24th, 2017 8:33pm
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August 22nd, 2017 10:56pm
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August 14th, 2017 9:26pm
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Colorfully Kitsch: Stock Photography of the 70’s
When perusing through heaps and albums of photographs, we can tell which images are taken from then and now. Photographs from the late 19th century look like sketches and pencil drawings; early 20th-century photographs are like paintings done by painters themselves; the 20’s jumped across realism with black-and-white documentarian approaches; the 50’s and 60’s, a good, healthy mix of B&W and color; the 70’s mastered it.
August 14th, 2017 9:16pm
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Blue Bear - Deep Rock and Improv - April 7, 2016 Performance from Grant Stavely on Vimeo.
August 14th, 2017 2:47pm
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beer cans have gotten weird
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“I’m 87 years old…I only eat so I can smoke and stay alive… The only fear I have is how long consciousness is gonna hang on after my body goes. I just hope there’s nothing. Like there was before I was born. I’m not really into religion, they’re all macrocosms of the ego. When man began to think he was a separate person with a separate soul, it created a violent situation.
The void, the concept of nothingness, is terrifying to most people on the planet. And I get anxiety attacks myself. I know the fear of that void. You have to learn to die before you die. You give up, surrender to the void, to nothingness.
Anybody else you’ve interviewed bring these things up? Hang on, I gotta take this call…… Hey, brother. That’s great, man. Yeah, I’m being interviewed… We’re talking about nothing. I’ve got him well-steeped in nothing right now. He’s stopped asking questions.”
- HARRY DEAN STANTON
August 8th, 2017 10:22pm
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August 4th, 2017 7:50pm
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an herb-bandit pigged out on our parsley and cilantro last night, but ignored the catnip, rosemary, and thyme: who dunnit?
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July 25th, 2017 9:43pm
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“How are YOUR nervers?” The devil of jangled nerves, from Popular Mechanics, 1934.
July 25th, 2017 7:17am
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July 22nd, 2017 8:27am
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July 12th, 2017 9:30pm
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Ellsworth Kelly - Spectrum IX, 2014
acrylic on canvas, twelve joined panels
107 ¾ x 96 inches; 274 x 244 cm
July 2nd, 2017 8:09am
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David Bowie holds the world record for number of music video plays over a 24-hour period with 51 million plays. The record day happened on January 11th, 2016, the day after his death.
June 27th, 2017 9:45pm
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Wayne Thiebaud (American, b. 1920), Palm Ridge, 1977. Oil on canvas
June 27th, 2017 9:32pm
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“We never sleep.” Strikers, communists, tramps and detectives. 1878. Book cover, detail.
June 25th, 2017 8:28am
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When she was stung by two bees at the age of four, Mikaila Ulmer turned her fear into a passion project. That’s where Me & the Bees Lemonade was born. Armed with her great-grandmother’s recipe and determination, Mikaila built a lemonade business centered around keeping bees healthy and productive. With Microsoft technology helping to power the business behind the scenes, Mikaila is free to “be fearless, believe in the impossible, and dream like a kid.”
Read more about Mikaila’s story here.
June 25th, 2017 8:14am
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Berkeley, Orinda, Moraga, Oakland, 2.3k ft., 35 miles
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June 1st, 2017 10:40pm
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_Mining Burning Coal
_Queensland, Australia, (c. 2004)May 31st, 2017 8:23am
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May 23rd, 2017 1:24am
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The San Bernardino County Sun, California, March 31, 1948
‘Authentic’ Italian pizza with prepared roll mix and Cheddar cheese…
May 21st, 2017 2:55pm
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The new Apple campus, surrounded by nowhere for any of the emploees to live, from Ridge Winery, which is lovely.
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May 20th, 2017 8:03pm
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Reenactor throws a spear at a drone
What a time to be alive.
“The medieval warrior, realizing the consequences of his impulsive act, immediately approached the owner of the drone and offered to pay for the damage.
The owner of the drone was so impressed by the brilliant attack that he suggested organizing a competition for bringing down “dragons” with short spears next year.
Drone owners have another year to develop a unique “dragon-like” design for their flying machines.” (x)
I am 100% cooler with this knowing that the spear-thrower realized “oops maybe I shouldn’t have done that” and tried to make it right, and that the guy who the drone belonged to was cool with it
just so everyone knows, this has already been memorialized in a runestone
Everything about this post blesses those involved with a +4 on their next Today is Good Day roll
May 18th, 2017 10:33pm
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Robert Louis Stevenson St park to the top of Mt. St. Helena. http://bahiker.com/northbayhikes/rlssp.html
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love that norcal fog roll
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May 8th, 2017 9:05am
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Francesco DeFrancesca (Canadian, b.1967)
April 25th, 2017 5:46pm
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April 21st, 2017 6:39pm
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It’s time to Hero Up! Join us for all-new epic adventures during the Summer of Heroes at Disney California Adventure Park. And don’t miss our awesome new attraction- Guardians of the Galaxy-Mission: BREAKOUT! The excitement begins May 27.
April 21st, 2017 6:39pm
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Friday plans include a cold beverage? Meet the beer fridge of 1899.
It’s from a catalog of by L. H. Mace & Co. of New York, now in our @smithsonianlibraries. Early refrigerators used insulation (with an inch between two sets of walls) and circulation to move cool air from the ice chamber throughout the space.
Inside this refrigerator, there were places for kegs to rest and shelves in the lower part of the refrigerator could be removed, making it possible to chill two more kegs.
April 15th, 2017 8:35am
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Finally got a chance to see Big Lazy, very nice.
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Lithiated Hospital-Up™
with inverted sugar to blend out the harsh features
April 14th, 2017 7:27am
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April 13th, 2017 8:00am
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Muir Woods
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Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower (via bythegods)
April 7th, 2017 8:05am
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New bike day!
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You’ve replaced the joke about digital watches with a reference to ‘cellular phones’ instead. Obviously, I understand that this is an attempt to update the joke, but there are two points to raise in defence of the original. One is that it’s a very, very well known line in Hitch Hiker, and one that is constantly quoted back at me on both sides of the Atlantic, but the other is that there is something inherently ridiculous about digital watches, and not about cellular phones. Digital watches came along at a time that, in other areas, we were trying to find ways of translating purely numeric data into graphic form so that the information leapt easily to the eye. For instance, we noticed that pie charts and bar graphs often told us more about the relationships between things than tables of numbers did. So we worked hard to make our computers capable of translating numbers into graphic displays. At the same time, we each had the world’s most perfect pie chart machines strapped to our wrists, which we could read at a glance, and we suddenly got terribly excited at the idea of translating them back into numeric data, simply because we suddenly had the technology to do it… so digital watches were mere technological toys rather than significant improvements on anything that went before.
— Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy) on Americanisation and Digital Watches: a Fax to US editor, January 1992. : books (via pmoehring)
April 5th, 2017 9:02pm
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Harry Nilsson and Ringo Starr presents during the 15th Grammy Awards show in Nashville March 3, 1973.
April 5th, 2017 7:58am
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April 4th, 2017 9:27pm
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DP
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March 28th, 2017 9:43pm
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March 28th, 2017 9:43pm
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The shoes for next fall: Gucci pumps embellished with spikes and embroidery.
Animations by Greta Larkins, fashgif.tumblr.com.
March 26th, 2017 2:02pm
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the power trio
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March 20th, 2017 8:41pm
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March 19th, 2017 9:48am
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tfw entire bottom bracket is about to shear off...
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March 12th, 2017 7:40am
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Tank Hill
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Corona Heights
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March 11th, 2017 9:33am
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March 10th, 2017 7:59am
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February 28th, 2017 12:19am
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February 26th, 2017 8:37am
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A policeman stops traffic to let a mother cat carry her kitten across the road. Circa 1925.
February 20th, 2017 3:08pm
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sleepin' face down
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February 20th, 2017 9:59am
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February 20th, 2017 9:59am
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February 19, 1972: Harry Nilsson starts a four week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with his version of the Badfinger song ‘Without You.’ His vocal was recorded in a single take and his performance was rewarded with Nilsson’s second Grammy Award.
Photo: Harry Nilsson in London, December 1972 (Michael Putland)
February 19th, 2017 2:50pm
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February 19th, 2017 9:02am
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February 14th, 2017 9:42pm
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Kevin
Why does my uncle Kevin have a run everyday
because he wants to have a bit of “me” time
February 12th, 2017 5:51pm
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February 12th, 2017 3:21pm
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A sailboat playing chicken with the USOAK Utah.
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Frisco from the log cabin at Fort Winfield Scott.
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February 8th, 2017 8:30pm
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Landmark for Hungry Americans in the Mid-Atlantic by Howard Johnson’s Company (1959)
More about Maps and Data visualization on my Twitter account or Facebook Follow me 😃
February 8th, 2017 8:29pm
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February 6th, 2017 6:57pm
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Late 1970s Rockwell concept art shows the “Star-Raker” reusable space vehicle in Earth orbit.
February 5th, 2017 7:01pm
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February 4th, 2017 8:20pm
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James Sowerby. A New Elucidation of Colours, Original, Prismatic, and Material. 1809.
January 29th, 2017 8:26am
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January 25th, 2017 7:47pm
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January 24th, 2017 9:16pm
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Map of San Francisco Showing Principal Streets and Places of Interest
by Harrison Godwin (1927)More about Maps and Data visualization on my Twitter account. Follow me 😃
January 22nd, 2017 9:05am
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’ .http://newspapers.digitalnc.org/lccn/2015236906/1958-03-17/ed-1/seq-7/ .
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New IBM 650 computer is installed at Fieldcrest Mills (Spray, North Carolina, March 1958).
January 18th, 2017 6:42pm
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January 18th, 2017 6:42pm
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Super Grover by Alex Ross, art for a Palisades Toys Super Grover action figure
January 18th, 2017 6:39pm
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A silicon crystal being grown by the Czochralski process at the Raytheon Corp. semiconductor plant in Newton, Massachusetts, USA, in 1956 for use in the first silicon transistors. The transistor was invented in 1946, and the Czochralski process was first used to grow silicon crystals to make the first silicon transistors at Bell Labs in 1953, so this is one of the earliest silicon crystal production plants.
January 18th, 2017 6:36pm
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Hugo Rodolfo Demarco (Argentinian, 1932–1995), Saturation metalice, 1990. Acrylic on canvas, 20 × 20 cm. via
January 18th, 2017 6:34pm
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January 18th, 2017 6:31pm
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47F and raining sideways
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✨ Star Planet / Twinkle Night 3 2 1 4 5 6 / Golden Stars / Love7 1 / instagram ✨
January 13th, 2017 7:35am
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Jonny Niesche contemporary Sydney-based Australian artist
Cosmetic Transmystic
January 11th, 2017 8:30pm
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January 8th, 2017 9:28pm
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Charmion von Wiegand (American, 1896 –1983), Prismatic Lattice, 1962. Gouache on illustration board, 24½ × 21½ in.
via ymutateJanuary 8th, 2017 1:09pm
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’ .James Turrell in the Guggenheim Museum New York, 2013 .
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James Turrell in the Guggenheim Museum New York, 2013
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