Balls, #16 - Oskar Fischinger
December 30th, 2015 1:30pm
Tumblr posts from 2015
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“Sandwich” was the title of an Earl before it meant the food. And the title was a place before it was a title – specifically a town in the English county of Kent. The name is Old English for ‘a trading-centre on sand.’ The sand part is obvious, and the trading-center part come from the Old English word ‘wic,’ a special purpose building such as a trading post.
December 28th, 2015 10:31am
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Who is Rey?
Ok, this post will contain massive Star Wars: The Force Awakens spoilers. You’ve been warned.
Turn back now.
Ok here goes.
There are many theories about the as yet unrevealed identity of Rey, the protagonist of The Force Awakens. The most popular one I think, holds that she is Luke’s daughter. After all, she has the ah, Skywalker way with the Force, and the parallels between her and Luke’s modest upbringings are hard to ignore. But I think this is a little too obvious for Abrams, who deliberately pulled a bait and switch implying that Finn was the Jedi hero of the film, when it was really Rey.
There are other theories, that she’s Han and Leia’s daughter and Kylo’s sister or possibly twin (I find it hard to believe that two parents finding their daughter after two decades would not see fit to mention it to each other, and both of them clearly know who Rey really is) or that she’s Obi Wan’s granddaughter (not a bad theory, since we hear Obi Wan’s voice during the flashback, but it would require Obi Wan to have broken his vows and abandoned his post watching over Luke).
So here is my theory: Rey is a clone of Anakin Skywalker.
Think about it: The only reference to the prequels in the entire movie is Ren mentioning the possibility of replacing storm troopers with clones. Rey is great with machines, she’s a fantastic pilot, and she is effortless with the force. Not even Luke was that much of a natural–only ::shudder:: Anakin. This would explain the violence of Rey’s flashback–she was looking at what was essentially a past life. (Obi Wan, on the other hand, had no use for machines, wasn’t a great pilot, and was strong with the Force but not effortlessly).
This theory also explains why she is hidden away. It would be extremely hard for a parent to part with a child (if she were Luke’s daughter) but if she were a clone of Anakin, Luke would be more frightened of the possibility of training her, especially given what happened to Kylo Ren.
So who cloned Vader? My theory is that Palpatine cloned Vader in case he needed a spare, and that the clone process began as soon as Vader died. Luke and the rebellion find her, and horrified, Luke hides her away, unwittingly replicating his father’s upbringing as a slave on a desert planet (which he had no way of knowing about, not knowing his father well and having all information about him suppressed by those who knew both Luke and Anakin).
The other thing about this theory is that it is perfect torture for Kylo Ren: His biggest fear is that he will never be as powerful as darth vader. And Rey IS Darth Vader. Couldn’t be more perfect.
So of course maybe I’m wrong, and we won’t find out for a while, but that’s my theory.
December 26th, 2015 4:50pm
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I think that might be code for “punched him in the balls with devastating accuracy”.
it is absolutely code for “punched him in the balls with devastating accuracy”
As is the case with boxing, it most likely means that she was precise and methodical. So, yes. She punched him in the balls with devastating accuracy.
“to the delight of several colliers who were passing” just imagining these coal miner bros standing around all WHOO YOU GO GURL
I GOT UR HUGE FLOWER HAT BB KICK HIS ASS
I love the bystanders’ delight!
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Angry blacksmith takes on 9/11 truthers
One of the most persistent “facts” used by 9/11 truthers is that burning jet fuel can’t generate the temperatures necessary to melt steel beams, therefore something other than airplanes crashing into the WTC towers brought them down, therefore the US government or the Jews or, I don’t know, the buildings’ owners did it to collect the insurance payment.
In his workshop, blacksmith Trenton Tye easily demonstrates that although it’s true jet fuel can’t burn hot enough to melt steel beams, it can definitely soften the steel past the ability to bear any sort of load.
December 17th, 2015 6:02pm
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Samuel Delany reviews the first Star Wars movie, 1977, in Cosmos Science Fiction and Fantasy.
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Riding an American Star Bicycle down the steps of the United States Capitol, 1885
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“Maybe this will become a cool thing… living with your parents.”
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December 14, 1972: Astronaut Eugene Cernan is the last person to walk on the moon, after he and Harrison Schmitt complete the third and final extra-vehicular activity (EVA) of the Apollo 17 mission.
Photo: Eugene Cernan 10/13/72 (NASA)
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D. W. Griffith Presents; ‘The Greatest Thing in Life’ (A Light For Your Cigarette), An Aircraft Picture, 1918.
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drst:
Man of the moment Keanu Reeves has shown his generosity by giving away £50 million of his earnings from the Matrix sequels. The 38-year-old decided to hand over the money to the unsung heroes of the sci-fi blockbusters - the costume and special effects teams.
*fistbump*
Confirmed. He’s also dumped millions into cancer research. I really do love Keanu Reeves a lot.
Keanu Reeves is like the nicest person. He still lives in an apartment/flat and he gives most of his money away to charities and people who need it. He even invites some paparazzi people to sit down and eat with him when he’s at a coffee shop or restaurant. He’s such a nice person.
December 13th, 2015 9:27am
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When your killer moves need a little help this year, JCPenney has the perfect #GiftToast for you. Looking at you, Left Shark! JCPenney introduces #GiftToast, a new way to tell 2015 what we thought of it with the gifts it needs. Explore more.
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Evernote - When you have an event in your calendar and create a new note it automatically titles your note with the event name and date.
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From September 7, 1978 to May 9, 1989 skateboards were illegal in Norway. For 11 years Norway was the only country in the world where it was forbidden to buy, sell, or stand on a skateboard.
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Yoko Ono, John Lennon - December, 1968
Photo: Susan Wood
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Airport Card installation instructions for an iBook G3 (Dual USB)
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Babylonian era problems. (photo via tbc34)
old school hate mail
Imagine how pissed you have to be to engrave a rock
Ok but there was this guy called Ea-nasir who was a total crook and would actually cheat people ought of good copper and sell them shit instead.
The amount of correspondences complaining to and about this guy are HILARIOUS.Are you telling me we know about a specific guy who lived 5000 years ago, by name, because he was a huge asshole
More like 4000 years ago but yes. Ea-nasir and his dodgy business deals.
And we haven’t even touched on the true hilarity of the situation yet. Consider two additional facts:
- He wasn’t just into copper trading. There are letters complaining about Ea-nasir’s business practices with respect to everything from kitchenwares to real estate speculation to second-hand clothing. The guy was everywhere.
- The majority of the surviving correspondences regarding Ea-nasir were recovered from one particular room in a building that is believed to have been Ea-nasir’s own house.
Like, these are clay tablets. They’re bulky, fragile, and difficult to store. They typically weren’t kept long-term unless they contained financial records or other vital information (which is why we have huge reams of financial data about ancient Babylon in spite of how little we know about the actual culture: most of the surviving tablets are commercial inventories, bills of sale, etc.).
But this guy, this Ea-nasir, he kept all of his angry letters - hundreds of them - and meticulously filed and preserved them in a dedicated room in his house. What kind of guy does that?
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every time this post comes across my dash (which is often) it has even more cool info attached to it
As a former student of ancient near eastern archaeology, this whole thread right here makes me incredibly happy.
I love things like this, these little snapshots of human nature through time. We are all the same, we have always been the same. We can all relate to this guy’s customers 4000 odd years ago. We can probably all think of someone who’s a little bit like Ea-nasir.
I love this.
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They were real respctful about it.
Kate McKinnon is a national treasure.
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Elephant trainer John Gindle - England, December 2 1946
Photo: Keystone Features/Hulton Archive/Getty
December 1st, 2015 10:39pm
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My Bob screenshot came up on my dash and I remembered that I wanted to add more fires and DOS prompts.
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November 30th, 2015 8:37am
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So I bought a pack of google eyes.
Well, somebody gives a rat’s ass about humour
The only good comment on my post omg
November 29th, 2015 10:15am
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November 25, 2012 was the first day since 1960 that there was no reported murder or manslaughter in New York City.
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Lester Monzon
all: Untitled, 2013
Acrylic and graphite on Belgian linen
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Benjamin Franklin helped to create Impeachment Clause of US Constitution. He realized that if a president were to “render himself obnoxious,” then people would logically consider assassination unless there was a legal way to get rid of the president.
Just obnoxious. Not treasonous or acting outside of the best interests of the American people. Just really really fucking annoying.
November 25th, 2015 6:48am
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California lumberjacks posing with the redwoods they felled.
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Otto Freundlich, Composition, 1939. Pontoise, Musée Tavet-Delacour. Source RBA
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(via David Bowie Is His Very Own Space Oddity in Freaky Deaky New Video)
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Carrie Fisher on the set of Blade Runner
How the hell did this not make it into the movie?
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Kazuo Shiraga (Japanese, 1924 – 2008), Work, 1972. Oil on paperboard, 27 × 24 cm (10.6 × 9.4 in).
via mrkikiNovember 19th, 2015 8:44am
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(via Creating beauty attracts more beauty in our lives. - Synaptic Stimuli)
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The Streets of San Francisco, Hsin-Yao Tseng
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Steven Cox
Where It Belongs, 2012, oil on canvas, 23.6 x 31.5 inches
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The Battle of the Reed Rules
Until 1890, the minority party in the U.S. House of Representatives could block a vote by “disappearing.” A minority party member would demand a roll call, all the minority party members would remain silent when their name was called, and then the minority party would declare that too few members were “present” for the House to conduct its business. To incoming Speaker of the House Thomas Brackett Reed, who was the head of the majority party, this was a “tyranny of the minority.“ Within the first month of his term, on January 28th, he resolved to break it. When Democrats demanded a roll call and refused to answer to their names, Reed marked them present anyway. When Kentucky representative James B. McCreary objected, Reed said sweetly, “The Chair is making a statement of fact that the gentleman from Kentucky is present. Does he deny it?”
There followed a sort of ontological shooting gallery. Democrats hid under their desks and behind screens to avoid being observed to exist. When they tried to flee the chamber entirely, Reed ordered the doors locked, which started a scramble to get out before the next vote. Representative Kilgore of Texas had to kick open a locked door to escape. Amid the howled objections, Confederate general “Fighting Joe” Wheeler came down from the rear “leaping from desk to desk as an ibex leaps from crag to crag,” and one unnamed Texas Democrat “sat in his seat significantly whetting a bowie knife on his boot.” Finally the Republicans mustered a majority even with the Democrats entirely absent, and the battle was over: Reed’s new rules were adopted on February 14.
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Robert Davis, RYB 3, 2015, aniline dye on canvas, 243,8 x 182,8 cm
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If you lie down on the floor in McDonald’s you get to meet the manager.
— Shawn (@CakeThrottle) October 30, 2015
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In a skirmish with one of these advance guards, the Hapsburg troops captured a Mongol officer, who, to the surprise and consternation of the Christians, turned out to be a middle-aged literate Englishman who had made his way through the Holy Land, where he seemed to have developed a talent for learning languages and transcribing them. There is some speculation that with his level of education and his flight from England, he may have been involved in the effort to force King John to sign the Magna Carta in 1215. After fleeing England and facing excommunication from the Roman Catholic Church, he ended up in the service of the more tolerant Mongols. The presence of a European, and a former Christian, among the Mongol army made it clear that the Mongols really were humans and not a horde of demons, but the terrified Christians killed the English apostate before they could get a good accounting of the Mongols’ mysterious mission outside Vienna
— “The Discovery and Conquest of Europe.” From Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World, by J. Weatherford.
(via historical-nonfiction)November 3rd, 2015 9:53pm
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David Attenborough narrates Adele’s Hello
BBC Radio One got David Attenborough to narrate the first minute or so of Adele’s video for Hello as if it were a nature documentary. Solid gold. Although I am a little cross they made Attenborough say the words “hashtag flip phone”. 😐
Bonus pseudo-Attenborough: the episode of Human Planet on The Douche.
November 3rd, 2015 9:34pm
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Edmund Dulac, The Angel Israfel (The Poetical Works of Edgar Allan Poe), 1900
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Since it’s Halloween, here’s the “Horror Channel” theme that shipped with the Windows 98 Plus Pack.
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Led Zeppelin. Houses Of The Holy. Original cover photo by Aubrey Powell. Giant’s Causeway, Northern Ireland, 1973.
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Hell on Earth comes in different sizes… Who is more dangerous? Vote below! Own the Lumberjack Man and Chucky today.
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Arkadiusz Podniesinski’s aerial photograph of cars abandoned in the exclusion zone around Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station (via inspirationals)
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The Suck.com origin story
From 1996, a Wired article by Josh Quittner about Suck, Carl Steadman and Joey Anuff’s now-legendary website.
Who at HotWired noticed the look of dread and tension on the faces of Carl and Joey when Suck secretly launched like a torpedo on August 28, 1995? Carl tied his desktop machine at HotWired into his server, which was hidden in plain sight among the array of hardware, so he could watch as people logged in to Suck that first day. This is the coldly accurate terror of the new medium: Carl could tell at any second not only how many people were logged in to his server, but in some cases, who they were.
On that first day, a hundred people found Suck – not a bad turnout considering the Boys told only their friends. Naturally, their friends told their friends, and good news travels like a sweet breeze across the Web.
This was critical since Carl had set some ambitious goals: he wanted 1,000 hits by the end of the week, he wanted to be more successful than any HotWired channel by the end of two months, and he wanted to be the Cool Site of the Day within three months.
Suck made each benchmark.
Some notes: 1) Suck was one of the handful of sites that inspired me to start publishing online. Thank you, Carl & Joey. 2) I loved the site so much that I build a parody of it called Sock. They linked to it soon after it went up and I DIED. Can’t link to it because 0sil8, my site from that era, isn’t online right now. 3) I applied for an internship at Hotwired in early 1996. Never heard back. What an alternate timeline that would have been. 4) Reading this made me sad. I love the Web so much, like more than is probably sane and healthy for a non-human entity, but nearly every other good thing in my life has happened because of it. And that Web is going quickly, if not already gone. All good things… and all that, but it still fucking wrecks me.
October 30th, 2015 8:04pm
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Airbnb is taking over San Francisco, causing long-time tenants to be evicted so that landlords can turn what should be homes into hotels. Removing rental units from the market like this is a driving cause of the ridiculously rising rents in the City. This is a photo taken from space by Commander Scott Kelly with Anti-Eviction Mapping Project’s map of Airbnb units laid on it. Please, if you live in SF, vote Yes on Prop F, which places reasonable regulations on the industry that will ensure the entire city doesn’t turn into tourist rentals.
The No on F campaign is flooding the airwaves with lies. Click here for the truth.Vote Yes on F to save San Francisco.
PLEASE REBLOG THIS
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Insidious shrinking doughnut hole conspiracy revealed. This is why North America keeps getting fatter.
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Edmund Dulac, Valley of The Shadow, Edgar Allan Poe’s Eldorado, Paris, 1909.
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Fuck you, mug! I’m doing good and I don’t need your drama.
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Paul Cézanne, La Montagne Sainte-Victoire, Aix-en-Provence, c. 1890.
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New language for slavery and the Civil War
Drawing upon the work of colleagues, historian Michael Todd Landis proposes new language for talking about slavery and the Civil War. In addition to favoring “labor camps” over the more romantic “plantations”, he suggests retiring the concept of the Union vs the Confederacy.
Specifically, let us drop the word “Union” when describing the United States side of the conflagration, as in “Union troops” versus “Confederate troops.” Instead of “Union,” we should say “United States.” By employing “Union” instead of “United States,” we are indirectly supporting the Confederate view of secession wherein the nation of the United States collapsed, having been built on a “sandy foundation” (according to rebel Vice President Alexander Stephens). In reality, however, the United States never ceased to exist. The Constitution continued to operate normally; elections were held; Congress, the presidency, and the courts functioned; diplomacy was conducted; taxes were collected; crimes were punished; etc. Yes, there was a massive, murderous rebellion in at least a dozen states, but that did not mean that the United States disappeared.
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Other cities like Santa Monica, Berlin, Paris and Barcelona banned Airbnb. Prop F does nothing of the sort — it simply sets fair, reasonable rules for those wishing to rent out an extra room from time to time, or their entire house when on vacation. Prop F holds corporations like Airbnb accountable by limiting ‘hosting platforms’ to listing only units that are properly registered with the City, so the city can enforce the law. It’s not rocket science. We’re just trying to reasonably regulate one of the most vital assets – housing – that the city has in the face of a wealthy tech industry that wants to commodify absolutely everything without regard for who it hurts along the way.
— The truth behind the Airbnb lies | 48 hills (via webuiltthiscity)
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i.
“Your name is Tasbeeh. Don’t let them call you by anything else.”
My mother speaks to me in Arabic; the command sounds more forceful in her mother tongue, a Libyan dialect that is all sharp edges and hard, guttural sounds. I am seven years old and it has never occurred to me to disobey my mother. Until twelve years old, I would believe God gave her the supernatural ability to tell when I’m lying.
“Don’t let them give you an English nickname,” my mother insists once again, “I didn’t raise amreekan.”
My mother spits out this last word with venom. Amreekan. Americans. It sounds like a curse coming out of her mouth. Eight years in this country and she’s still not convinced she lives here. She wears her headscarf tightly around her neck, wades across the school lawn in long, floor-skimming skirts. Eight years in this country and her tongue refuses to bend and soften for the English language. It embarrasses me, her heavy Arab tongue, wrapping itself so forcefully around the clumsy syllables of English, strangling them out of their meaning.
But she is fierce and fearless. I have never heard her apologize to anyone. She will hold up long grocery lines checking and double-checking the receipt in case they’re trying to cheat us. My humiliation is heavy enough for the both of us. My English is not. Sometimes I step away, so people don’t know we’re together but my dark hair and skin betray me as a member of her tribe.
On my first day of school, my mother presses a kiss to my cheek.
“Your name is Tasbeeh,” she says again, like I’ve forgotten. “Tasbeeh.”
ii.
Roll call is the worst part of my day. After a long list of Brittanys, Jonathans, Ashleys, and Yen-but-call-me-Jens, the teacher rests on my name in silence. She squints. She has never seen this combination of letters strung together in this order before. They are incomprehensible. What is this h doing at the end? Maybe it is a typo.
“Tas…?”
“Tasbeeh,” I mutter, with my hand half up in the air. “Tasbeeh.”
A pause.
“Do you go by anything else?”
“No,” I say. “Just Tasbeeh. Tas-beeh.”
“Tazbee. All right. Alex?”
She moves on before I can correct her. She said it wrong. She said it so wrong. I have never heard my name said so ugly before, like it’s a burden. Her entire face contorts as she says it, like she is expelling a distasteful thing from her mouth. She avoids saying it for the rest of the day, but she has already baptized me with this new name. It is the name everyone knows me by, now, for the next six years I am in elementary school. “Tazbee,” a name with no grace, no meaning, no history; it belongs in no language.
“Tazbee,” says one of the students on the playground, later. “Like Tazmanian Devil?” Everyone laughs. I laugh too. It is funny, if you think about it.
iii.
I do not correct anyone for years. One day, in third grade, a plane flies above our school.
“Your dad up there, Bin Laden?” The voice comes from behind. It is dripping in derision.
“My name is Tazbee,” I say. I said it in this heavy English accent, so he may know who I am. I am American. But when I turn around they are gone.
iv.
I go to middle school far, far away. It is a 30-minute drive from our house. It’s a beautiful set of buildings located a few blocks off the beach. I have never in my life seen so many blond people, so many colored irises. This is a school full of Ashtons and Penelopes, Patricks and Sophias. Beautiful names that belong to beautiful faces. The kind of names that promise a lifetime of social triumph.
I am one of two headscarved girls at this new school. We are assigned the same gym class. We are the only ones in sweatpants and long-sleeved undershirts. We are both dreading roll call. When the gym teacher pauses at my name, I am already red with humiliation.
“How do I say your name?” she asks.
“Tazbee,” I say.
“Can I just call you Tess?”
I want to say yes. Call me Tess. But my mother will know, somehow. She will see it written in my eyes. God will whisper it in her ear. Her disappointment will overwhelm me.
“No,” I say, “Please call me Tazbee.”
I don’t hear her say it for the rest of the year.
v.
My history teacher calls me Tashbah for the entire year. It does not matter how often I correct her, she reverts to that misshapen sneeze of a word. It is the ugliest conglomeration of sounds I have ever heard.
When my mother comes to parents’ night, she corrects her angrily, “Tasbeeh. Her name is Tasbeeh.” My history teacher grimaces. I want the world to swallow me up.
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My college professors don’t even bother. I will only know them for a few months of the year. They smother my name in their mouths. It is a hindrance for their tongues. They hand me papers silently. One of them mumbles it unintelligibly whenever he calls on my hand. Another just calls me “T.”
My name is a burden. My name is a burden. My name is a burden. I am a burden.
vii.
On the radio I hear a story about a tribe in some remote, rural place that has no name for the color blue. They do not know what the color blue is. It has no name so it does not exist. It does not exist because it has no name.
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At the start of a new semester, I walk into a math class. My teacher is blond and blue-eyed. I don’t remember his name. When he comes to mine on the roll call, he takes the requisite pause. I hold my breath.
“How do I pronounce your name?” he asks.
I say, “Just call me Tess.”
“Is that how it’s pronounced?”
I say, “No one’s ever been able to pronounce it.”
“That’s probably because they didn’t want to try,” he said. “What is your name?”
When I say my name, it feels like redemption. I have never said it this way before. Tasbeeh. He repeats it back to me several times until he’s got it. It is difficult for his American tongue. His has none of the strength, none of the force of my mother’s. But he gets it, eventually, and it sounds beautiful. I have never heard it sound so beautiful. I have never felt so deserving of a name. My name feels like a crown.
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“Thank you for my name, mama.”
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When the barista asks me my name, sharpie poised above the coffee cup, I tell him: “My name is Tasbeeh. It’s a tough t clinging to a soft a, which melts into a silky ssss, which loosely hugs the b, and the rest of my name is a hard whisper — eeh. Tasbeeh. My name is Tasbeeh. Hold it in your mouth until it becomes a prayer. My name is a valuable undertaking. My name requires your rapt attention. Say my name in one swift note – Tasbeeeeeeeh – sand let the h heat your throat like cinnamon. Tasbeeh. My name is an endeavor. My name is a song. Tasbeeh. It means giving glory to God. Tasbeeh. Wrap your tongue around my name, unravel it with the music of your voice, and give God what he is due.”
— Tasbeeh Herwees, The Names They Gave Me (via rabbrakha)
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this should not be a regular thing
https://www.noisebridge.net/pipermail/noisebridge-discuss/2015-October/047160.html
October 10th, 2015 12:21pm
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While I’m posting about Windows 1.0 everyone should go watch this video.
October 7th, 2015 9:38pm
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i like it on scifi shows where they imagine it’s possible for humans and aliens to have sex with each other, like life born on another planet would have parts that fit with our parts and not STABBING SPEARS THAT EMERGE FROM THEIR BODIES AND DON’T EVEN DELIVER ANY SPERM
October 7th, 2015 8:42am
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The New York City draft riots, protesting the Union Army draft, remain the largest civil and racial insurrection in American history aside from the American Civil War itself.
I read this as New York residents rioted to try to avoid fighting for the Union army
Which is exactly what happened. It was a poor man’s fight and a rich man’s war, because you could pay a certain amount and have a substitute sent in your place. The poor of New York City rioted in protest of being sent to fight a war they didn’t want, and of the rich who supported the war not having to fight it.
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I Have Read Prop F, and It Is a Perfectly Normal and Reasonable Piece of Legislation
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American for-profit colleges have operated with near impunity for decades, sucking up federal student aid money and defrauding thousands in search of better lives, in exchange for big capital gains. Now students are fighting back. From my latest illustrated feature at Fusion.
September 28th, 2015 10:23pm
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Neil Armstrong eating his last breakfast on Earth before leaving for the moon, 1969
September 28th, 2015 6:27pm
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The Pepper
What did the pepper say to the cow?
Your one spicy looking cow
September 27th, 2015 8:45am
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The Wire theme, Simpsonsized
The opening credits sequence of The Wire done using clips from The Simpsons. The theme song and clips are from the third seasons of the respective shows.
September 22nd, 2015 9:24pm
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Alexander Gutke, ‘9 to 5, Stormgatan 4_X,’ 2012, Galerija Gregor Podnar
September 22nd, 2015 9:01pm
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dear god, let it be enough
i took a vow to reblog this each and every time i see it
I AM WHEEZING
This is probably the fifth or sixth time I’ve reblogged this.
Never not reblog
September 22nd, 2015 8:59pm
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Lori Hersberger, Bad Day Nº11, 2013
Casado Santapau Gallery Madrid.September 19th, 2015 9:54am
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True Detective Season 4
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A little hard on himself.
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“The trouble with fiction is that it makes too much sense, whereas reality never makes sense.”
Aldous HuxleySeptember 10th, 2015 10:58pm
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DoJ says it will consider jailing executives who order corporate crimes
The doctrine under former AG Eric Holder (documented in Matt Taibbi’s brilliant The Divid) was to allow executives to pay fines that were less than the profits from their crimes.
Holder said that he was protecting the innocent employees, suppliers, customers and shareholders of these criminal enterprises by allowing companies to continue operating and financing the US government by taxing some of the wealth generated by their crimes. Curiously, he never used his prosecutorial power to bargain for the breakup of too-big-to-jail enterprises into smaller ones whose C-suite could be led out of their offices in handcuffs without creating systemic risk.
Eric Holder is back in private practice today at Covington & Burling, the corporate law-firm whose clients avoided prison thanks to his strategy of using fines instead of jail for high-ranking corporate criminals.
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Airbnb is taking over San Francisco, causing long-time tenants to be evicted so that landlords can turn what should be homes into hotels. Removing rental units from the market like this is a driving cause of the ridiculously rising rents in the City. This is a photo taken from space by Commander Scott Kelly with Anti-Eviction Mapping Project’s map of Airbnb units laid on it. Please, if you live in SF, vote Yes on Prop F, which places reasonable regulations on the industry that will ensure the entire city doesn’t turn into tourist rentals.
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August 27th, 2015 10:19pm
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nihilism: everything is meaningless
absurdism: everything is meaningless lmaoAugust 27th, 2015 9:42pm
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If he’s lucky.
Dare to dream.
Same.
August 26th, 2015 8:02am
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After a two year search for a globe for my father’s 80th birthday present I was faced with a choice of a modern political globe (albeit frequently available with a generous dose of sepia colouring), very fragile expensive antique models, which you can’t really use on a daily basis or trying to make my own.
So the original plan, hatched in a pub in Kings Cross was to make just two, one for Dad, one for me. It would probably take three, maybe four months and cost a few thousand pounds. After all how difficult can it be to make a ball and put a map on it? My last venture was setting up and managing a place called Bloomsbury Bowling Lanes, which within a year of opening had become one of the most interesting venues in London turning over more than £100,000 per week, so perhaps I was a little over confident. Blatantly obsessed with spheres either way!
Now a small team of trained globemakers create high quality, hand made globes that Bellerby & Co. has come to be recognised for. From the stand, to the artwork, the painting and map-making, each piece is expertly crafted using traditional and modern globemaking techniques, and is lovingly produced in our North London studio; each piece is an individual model of style and grandeur and the larger globes are works of art in their own right.The collection is ever increasing, with the popular mini desk globe our favourite.
Images and text by Bellerby & Co. Globemakers
August 24th, 2015 10:25pm
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Richard Diebenkorn, Untitled from Sketchbook #10, page 13 (1943–93), gouache and watercolor on paper
A Lifetime of Sketchbooks from Postwar Painter Richard Diebenkorn via Hyperallergic
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The first UPC marked item ever scanned at a retail checkout was at the Marsh supermarket in Troy, Ohio at 8:01 a.m. on June 26, 1974, and was a 10-pack (50 sticks) of Wrigley’s Juicy Fruit chewing gum.
The shopper was Clyde Dawson and cashier Sharon Buchanan made the first UPC scan. The NCR cash register rang up 67 cents. The entire shopping cart also had barcoded items in it, but the gum was the first one picked up. This item went on display at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C.
August 23rd, 2015 8:47pm
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Otto Freundlich
Composition
Tempera sur carton / Tempera on cardboard
50 x 40 cm
1938(plus de / more by Otto Freundlich)
August 22nd, 2015 12:12pm
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the other day at work, i asked a woman her name– like i do for everyone, because we have to write it on the cup–and she goes “we come in here all the time. you should really know our names by now” as if i don’t serve hundreds of people a day or as though a nondescript middle aged white woman made such an impact upon me that i’d remember her. i was feeling pretty impatient and irritable though, so i covered my name tag with my hand and asked her my name and she didn’t know it and at least had the decency to change demeanor from haughty and superior to sort of quietly embarrassed and i’m fairly sure that’s the only thing i’ve ever done at work that matters to me.
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I wanna live like this llama
Please unmute this.
IF YOU DON’T UNMUTE THIS YOU WILL REGRET IT.
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Fantasy Map: San Francisco Muni Metro in the Style of the New York Subway Map
Created by DeviantArt member Maphead354, this is pretty spot-on, right down to the MTA-styled “MUNI” logo and condensed serif font for park names. Of course, the letter designations for lines at every single station starts to look a bit silly with so few lines, but that’s part of the fun of the mash-up, I guess.
Amusingly, just like in New York, other rail systems get relegated to thin blue ticked route lines. In NY, it’s PATH and the LIRR – here, it’s BART and Caltrain. And the heritage streetcars/cable cars miss out all together, boo!
Still, a lot of fun and nicely executed as well.
Source: DeviantArt
August 12th, 2015 12:38pm
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Jerry: What’s going on in there?
Kramer: What?
Jerry: The light!
Kramer: Oh the red, its the chicken roaster sign, its right across my window.
Jerry: Can’t you shut the shades?
Kramer: They are shut, oh yea your friend Seth stopped by.
Jerry: Yea? What’d he say?
Kramer: Yea, he was fired.(via The Chicken Roaster)
August 11th, 2015 6:38pm
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Coppola says he was shocked to learn that the film utilized the very same surveillance and wire-tapping equipment that members of the Nixon Administration used to spy on political opponents prior to the Watergate scandal. Coppola has said this is the reason the film gained part of the recognition it has received, but that this is entirely coincidental. (x)
The Conversation (1974)
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Ralph Goings (American, b. 1928), Interior, 1972. Oil on canvas, 36 x 52 in.
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John Hersey’s Hiroshima
In August of 1946, the New Yorker dedicated an entire issue to a piece called Hiroshima by John Hersey. As an introduction, the editors wrote:
TO OUR READERS. The New Yorker this week devotes its entire editorial space to an article on the almost complete obliteration of a city by one atomic bomb, and what happened to the people of that city. It does so in the conviction that few of us have yet comprehended the all but incredible destructive power of this weapon, and that everyone might well take time to consider the terrible implications of its use. The Editors.
For the 70th anniversary of the dropping of the bomb on Hiroshima, the New Yorker has digitized Hersey’s piece. The piece is quite long (30,000 words) so it can also be found in book form if that’s easier to read. Here’s the opening paragraph to get you going:
At exactly fifteen minutes past eight in the morning, on August 6, 1945, Japanese time, at the moment when the atomic bomb flashed above Hiroshima, Miss Toshiko Sasaki, a clerk in the personnel department of the East Asia Tin Works, had just sat down at her place in the plant office and was turning her head to speak to the girl at the next desk. At that same moment, Dr. Masakazu Fujii was settling down cross-legged to read the Osaka Asahi on the porch of his private hospital, overhanging one of the seven deltaic rivers which divide Hiroshima; Mrs. Hatsuyo Nakamura, a tailor’s widow, stood by the window of her kitchen, watching a neighbor tearing down his house because it lay in the path of an air-raid-defense fire lane; Father Wilhelm Kleinsorge, a German priest of the Society of Jesus, reclined in his underwear on a cot on the top floor of his order’s three-story mission house, reading a Jesuit magazine, Stimmen der Zeit; Dr. Terufumi Sasaki, a young member of the surgical staff of the city’s large, modern Red Cross Hospital, walked along one of the hospital corridors with a blood specimen for a Wassermann test in his hand; and the Reverend Mr. Kiyoshi Tanimoto, pastor of the Hiroshima Methodist Church, paused at the door of a rich man’s house in Koi, the city’s western suburb, and prepared to unload a handcart full of things he had evacuated from town in fear of the massive B-29 raid which everyone expected Hiroshima to suffer. A hundred thousand people were killed by the atomic bomb, and these six were among the survivors. They still wonder why they lived when so many others died. Each of them counts many small items of chance or volition – a step taken in time, a decision to go indoors, catching one streetcar instead of the next – that spared him. And now each knows that in the act of survival he lived a dozen lives and saw more death than he ever thought he would see. At the time, none of them knew anything.
The piece made quite an impression upon its release, which you can read about on Wikipedia.
August 6th, 2015 7:12am
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Lærdal Tunnel
Taking drivers on a 15 mile journey under the mountainous region of Filefjel, the Laerdal Tunnel is the world’s longest. Concerned for the mental strain on drivers as they pass through this subterranean epic, the designers of the tunnel came up with a novel idea. They built three large caverns along the route and illuminated them blue with orange and yellow lights at their edges designed to emulate sunrise. The caverns are large enough for drivers to take breaks and alleviate any feelings of stress or claustrophobia that the 20 minute journey may induce, while the air is kept breathable by a treatment plant.
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The country Mexico is named after its capital city, Mexico City, and not the other way around.
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When they saw me in my space suit and the parachute dragging alongside as I walked, they started to back away in fear. I told them, don’t be afraid, I am a Soviet citizen like you, who has descended from space. And I must find a telephone to call Moscow.
— Yuri Gagarin, the first human to travel to space; upon re-entry Gagarin landed 280 kilometers away from the intended landing site, to the surprise of a farmer and his daughter who watched him fall from the sky (via whats-out-there)
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Beauty Paddy of China Thierry Bornier
The Hani Rice Terraces, covering 16,603-hectares in Southern Yunnan, are marked by spectacular terraces that cascade down the slopes of the towering Ailao Mountains to the banks of the Hong River. Over the past 1,300 years, the Hani people have developed a complex system of channels to bring water from the forested mountaintops to the terraces.
July 27th, 2015 7:32am
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Blast furnaces from Pittsburgh Northside Steel Works, 1950’s.
Demolished in 1980s.
July 25th, 2015 10:55am
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Web Design - The First 100 Years
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How the legendary Chuck Jones became a great artist
Tony Zhou is back with another installment of Every Frame a Painting. In this one, he examines the evolution of Looney Tunes animation master Chuck Jones and how his approach and style changed as his career progressed.
I love Looney Tunes. In my mind, Duck Amuck and Rabbit of Seville are some of the finest images put to film. Related: watch Chuck Jones draw Bugs Bunny and the 11 rules of making Road Runner cartoons.
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We’ll be dropping Volume 3 of BARTKIRA very soon - but we couldn’t wait to share pages 81-85 of Vol. 4, courtesy of Halifax, Nova Scotia’s own Adam Kindred! You can find more of his work here:
July 6th, 2015 8:33pm
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The Facsimiles - Cherub Rock from Grant Stavely on Vimeo.
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The Facsimiles - Creep from Grant Stavely on Vimeo.
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Awesome Puritan names
A while ago, for fun, I started doing some reading on some of the stranger naming choices made by the Puritans between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries. (Yes, for fun. I am a dork.) Here are a few of my favourites:
A Sussex jury roll from the 1600s includes the names Accepted Trevor, Redeemed Compton, Kill-Sin Pimple, Fly-Fornication Richardson, Search-The-Scriptures Moreton, The-Peace-Of-God Knight, Stand-Fast-On-High Stringer, The-Gift-of-God Stringer, and Fight-The-Good-Fight-Of-Faith White, Obediencia Cruttenden, Called Lower, Hope-For Bending, More-Fruit Flower and Meek Brewer. Some other wonderful Sussex names around this time include Safely-on-High Snat, Mortifie Hicks and the marvellously-named Humiliation Scratcher. And let’s not forget Be-Stedfast Elyarde, Faint-not Dighurst, Hew-Agag-in-pieces Robinson, Swear-not-at-all Ireton and Obadiah-bind-their-kings-in-chains-and-their-nobles-in-irons Needham.
Here’s another good naming method: There was a tradition among some Puritan villagers of opening the Bible and selecting the first name their eyes landed upon, which led to some interesting christenings. One poor child was landed with the name Ramoth-Gilead as a result of this method, reportedly leading a rather bemused parson to ask, “Boy or girl, eh?” There’s some evidence that certain parents, whose reading was perhaps not the best, would simply open the Bible and choose a word at random - hence the existence in Connecticut of Maybe Barnes and a girl by the rather unfortunate name of Notwithstanding Griswold. One child in England was christened Sirs, the parents insisting that it was a Scripture name and citing as proof the passage “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?” Another Puritan named his dog Moreover after the Gospel passage “Moreover the dog came and licked his sores.”
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The Founding Fathers refused to include a reference to “Almighty God” into the U.S. Constitution. The Confederate Constitution, however, wanted to appear more evangelical and included the phrase. In fact, the national motto of the Confederacy was Deo Vindice: “God will avenge.”
June 19th, 2015 8:31am
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Betty Boop’s “Jippo”
Flattens feet
Makes young men old!!
Removes teeth, grows tonsils
Stops breathing!
Buy “Jippo”
We sell
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The _B**la_ck Egret** is a species of bird that occupies African, coastal streams, rivers and flats. They use a unique and effective fishing strategy called Canopy Feeding. This is when they cloak their wings around Themselves to shade the water and entice fish into their seemingly safe shade.
June 2nd, 2015 8:12pm
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A visual to go along with the eyeroll-inducing story I’ll tell my kids about the days of BBSes and modems and SYSOPS.
June 1st, 2015 8:58pm
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Brilliant fold-out ‘chutes and ladders’ cover for XTC’s ‘Making Plans for Nigel’ single
June 1st, 2015 8:54pm
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1st year French: Bonjour, je m’appele Dane. J’habite au Texas!
translation: Hello, my name is Dane. I live in Texas!
1st year Latin: Gaius se in altum cum audacia eiecit. Nam vitam servare consulis conabatur, magnam arbitrans se gloriam capturum esse. Quod post factum fortissimum misere periit.
translation: Gaius expelled himself into the depths of the sea with great audacity. For he was trying to save a life of a consul, judging that he himself would capture great glory. After this bravest deed he died miserably.June 1st, 2015 7:22am
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I wouldn’t have known what this was if diebrarian hadn’t tagged it.
This is how you wave your hand/conductor’s baton to lead the song if you’re a music conductor. You make different movements depending on the time signature of the song. (wiki article) (youtube example)
I learned how to do this when I played Schroeder in You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown in community theater and I had to conduct the rest of the cast.
June 1st, 2015 7:19am
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Time is the substance I am made of. Time is a river which sweeps me along, but I am the river. It is a tiger which devours me, but I am the tiger. It is a fire which consumes me, but I am the fire.
— Jorge Luis Borges
(via magictransistor)May 30th, 2015 11:39am
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Roy Kuhlman. Cover for Jorge Luis Borges’ Ficciones. Evergreen, Grove Press. 1962.
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OMG WHAT DID I DO!?
For mobile just hold the reblog button
I LEARNED A THING
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Honestly, Rick Rolling is the best practical joke ever. Like, there’s nothing offensive or mean spirited about it. It’s just like “Oops you thought there would be something else here but it’s ‘Never Gonna Give You Up’.” which isn’t even a bad song. It’s fairly enjoyable to listen to. There’s no jumpscares, no screaming, no ill will. Just Rick Astley telling you he’s never going to give you up. I think that’s great. “You fell into my trap! Here, listen to this completely benign song that will have no negative effect on you.”
I wish this were true. There’s a really good article about the problems inherent with rickrolling here.
May 26th, 2015 7:23pm
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Cory Arcangel was born on this day in 1978. For Super Mario Clouds (2002), Arcangel hacked into and modified a cartridge of Super Mario Bros., the blockbuster Nintendo video game released in the U.S. in 1985. By tweaking the game’s code, the artist erased all of the sound and visual elements except for the iconic fluffy white clouds that scroll endlessly across a bright blue sky.
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Die Techie Scum
Last night myself and Torrie asked Jeanine Otter to leave Noisebridge
and not come back.Jeanine had been using Noisebridge to print hateful, offensive material
(“Die Techie Scum” posters and the like) in large quantities. Many were
uncomfortable with her offensive material and attitude towards those in
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Red Right Hand by DrFaustusAU on DeviantArt
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The glass is already broken
“You see this goblet?” asks Achaan Chaa, the Thai meditation master. “For me this glass is already broken. I enjoy it; I drink out of it. It holds my water admirably, sometimes even reflecting the sun in beautiful patterns. If I should tap it, it has a lovely ring to it. But when I put this glass on the shelf and the wind knocks it over or my elbow brushes it off the table and it falls to the ground and shatters, I say, ‘Of course.’ When I understand that the glass is already broken, every moment with it is precious.”
From Thoughts Without a Thinker: Psychotherapy from a Buddhist Perspective by Mark Epstein.
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Acquaintance cards, a variety of calling cards, 1870s-80s. USA. Via dangerousminds. More to see: Mays / flickr. They were used “by the less formal male in approaches to the less formal female.”
April 23rd, 2015 8:49am
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Philip Glass discusses his piano etudes
For the first episode of BAM’s new podcast, Philip Glass and several world-class pianists talk about Glass’s piano etudes and what makes them so challenging to perform.
April 20th, 2015 7:19pm
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ZILVINAS KEMPINAS
Gemma, 2013
Resin, ultralight MDF, polyester, metal cleat, screws
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The Ice Cream
Jerry screams, Elaine screams, George screams for ice cream…
…but there is no one left to hear their cries. Except for Kramer, but he’s too busy screaming because he found a skull under his pillow.
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In our terrestrial view of things, the speed of light seems incredibly fast. But as soon as you view it against the vast distances of the universe, it’s unfortunately very slow. This animation illustrates, in realtime, the journey of a photon of light emitted from the surface of the sun and traveling across a portion of the solar system, from a human perspective.
I’ve taken liberties with certain things like the alignment of planets and asteroids, as well as ignoring the laws of relativity concerning what a photon actually “sees” or how time is experienced at the speed of light, but overall I’ve kept the size and distances of all the objects as accurate as possible. I also decided to end the animation just past Jupiter as I wanted to keep the running length below an hour.
Design & Animation: Alphonse Swinehart / aswinehart.com
Music: Steve Reich “Music for 18 Musicians”
Performed by: Eighth Blackbird / eighthblackbird.orgApril 17th, 2015 11:44am
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Mom’s picnic blanket.
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Model Model Model Village Jamieasp
The Model Village is a one-ninth scale replica of the heart of the beautiful Cotswold village of Bourton-on-the-Water, containing all the buildings from the Old Water Mill (now the Car Museum) down to the Old New Inn and the ford.
The village was created by a previous landlord of the Old New Inn, taking local craftsmen five years to build, and it was officially opened on the Coronation Day of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth (the late Queen Mother) in 1937. The village is such an accurate replica of Bourton-on-the-Water that is has a flowing river with water wheel, two ‘singing’ churches and even a model village within the Model Village.
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The Bad Set
Jerry goes onstage to perform his set, but when he opens his mouth, his skull falls out.
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One more thing…
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Auguste Louis Lepère, Death and Passions Descend Upon the World, 1914
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sorry for saying dickweed, dickweeds
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Go figure, he’s the banker.
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From our definitive history of Max Headroom: how make-up and visual effects brought the “digital” celebrity to life.
Max Headroom was ostensibly a computer-generated character, but Rocky Morton and Annabel Jankel knew early on that the technology wasn’t there to make that happen. The solution was to place actor Matt Frewer in prosthetic make-up with special contact lenses and a fiberglass suit, light him with a single light source that mimicked the primitive computer graphics of the time, and then shoot him against a blue screen so backgrounds could be added later.
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Guerrilla Girls poster from 1992. From the Steven Leiber Extra Art archive. -ar
March 29th, 2015 10:26am
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Soft Hercules FAT Architecture
Soft Hercules is a stool cast from foam rubber - the soft squishy stuff that is usually used to make stress balls. The bust of Hercules, usually something solid both in its material and the culture it represents becomes unexpectedly soft, deforming a recognizable object into stranger shapes when it is sat on. It uses the plasticity of rubber to suggest a more uncertain and doubtful state.
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Ollie Kroner posted this photo to Facebook, March 13, 2015, with the caption, “Quincy’s been waiting all week to show the garbage men his garbage truck. But, in the moment, he was overwhelmed in the presence of his heroes.”
March 27th, 2015 6:00pm
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Teaser clip from season two of Halt and Catch Fire
Halt and Catch Fire season two is starting on May 31! And there’s a five-minute clip to whet your whistle! And it passes the Bechdel test with flying colors!
The exclamation points mean that I am excited for the new season without explicitly saying so!! (via @kathrynyu)
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i guess it’s pretty rad, yeah. we’d better spend ANOTHER several thousand years talking about it
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New horizon line piece ‘After The Lighting Strikes’
72” x 58 ” oil and acrylic on canvas
Alex Jowett
http://www.saatchiart.com/art/Painting-After-The-Lighting-Strikes/419376/2300842/view
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I’ve literally waited years to get a photo of “The Other Painted Ladies” without any cars parked out front. Finally got it, thanks to Tuesday morning street sweeping on Valencia!
February 19th, 2015 8:02pm
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Thanks, Obama.
February 13th, 2015 5:31pm
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A colorized view of the Hindenburg disaster in New Jersey, May 6, 1937.
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Totally Legal Washington State Recreational Cannabinoids
omg becky
February 8th, 2015 8:50am
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Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast – Interview with Rebecca Richards
February 3, 2015
Via steptoecyberblog.com:
In this week’s episode, our guest is Rebecca Richards, NSA’s director of privacy and civil liberties. We ask the tough questions: Is her title an elaborate hoax or is she the busiest woman on the planet? How long will it be before privacy groups blame the Seattle Seahawks’ loss on NSA’s policy of intercepting everything? How do you tell an extroverted NSA engineer from an introvert? And, more seriously, now that acting within the law isn’t apparently enough, how can an intelligence agency assure Americans that it shares their values without exposing all its capabilities?
Get more from Becky and the NSA’s Civil Liberties and Privacy at NSA.gov
Jesus Christ this is written like the bumper for a Nickelodeon show, what the fuck is wrong with these people?
February 6th, 2015 6:11pm
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The Society of the Crossed Keys, from The Grand Budapest Hotel (dir. Wes Anderson, 2014)
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February 2nd, 2015 7:01am
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From a 9th century Irish manuscript, the phrase ‘massive hangover’ (Latheirt) written in the ancient Irish text Ogham. The monk must have been having a very rough day……
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Already reblogged this, doing it again now, will do it again every time I see it.
January 22nd, 2015 6:27pm
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The issue here turned on the work content of a day’s labor power, which Taylor defines in the phrase ‘a fair day’s work.’ To this term he gave a crude physiological interpretation: all the work a worker can do without injury to his health, at a pace that can be sustained throughout a working lifetime. […] Why a ‘fair day’s work’ should be defined as a physiological maximum is never made clear. In attempting to give concrete meaning to the abstraction ‘fairness,’ it would make just as much if not more sense to express a fair day’s work as the amount of labor necessary to add to the product a value equal to the worker’s pay; under such conditions, of course, profit would be impossible. The phrase ‘a fair day’s work’ must therefore be regarded as inherently meaningless, and filled with such content as the adversaries in the purchase-sale relationship try to give it.
— Braverman, Labor and Monopoly Capital, “Scientific Management” (via gameboat)
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Some dude on craigslist needs help beating vanilla dome in super mario world. They had me at whiskey and donuts.
January 18th, 2015 7:20pm
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Pelican dive. from Grant Stavely on Vimeo.
January 17th, 2015 4:15pm
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Golden Gate Bridge - Southbound from Grant Stavely on Vimeo.
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Listening to the Meat Puppets is like hanging onto the end of a length of cyclone fencing being swung in circles by your unstable older brother.
— The 50 Most Drug-Addled Albums in Music History | The Weeklings (via merlin)
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