Less cowbell.

-bobella-: I use Photoshop to express my feelings. (original...

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 07:34:55 +0100

-bobella-:

I use Photoshop to express my feelings.

(original here)

littlebigdetails: IMDb - The rating for ‘This is Spinal...

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 22:47:36 +0100

littlebigdetails:

IMDb - The rating for ‘This is Spinal Tap’ goes up to 11

/via treitmaier

♥

Linda Pastan, "Ethics"

Sat, 21 Jan 2012 21:05:52 +0100

In ethics class so many years ago
our teacher asked this question every fall:
if there were a fire in a museum
which would you save, a Rembrandt painting
or an old woman who hadn’t many
years left anyhow? Restless on hard chairs
caring little for pictures or old age
we’d opt one year for life, the next for art
and always half-heartedly. Sometimes
the woman borrowed my grandmother’s face
leaving her usual kitchen to wander
some drafty, half imagined museum.
One year, feeling clever, I replied
why not let the woman decide herself?
Linda, the teacher would report, eschews
the burdens of responsibility.
This fall in a real museum I stand
before a real Rembrandt, old woman,
or nearly so, myself. The colors
within this frame are darker than autumn,
darker even than winter—the browns of earth,
though earth’s most radiant elements burn
through the canvas. I know now that woman
and painting and season are almost one
and all beyond saving by children.

Einar Stray - Yr heart Isn’t A Heart (by Sinnbus)

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 23:06:06 +0100

Einar Stray - Yr heart Isn’t A Heart (by Sinnbus)

Photo

Thu, 24 Nov 2011 19:43:20 +0100

trinityclare: It’s hard to resist reblogging every single thing...

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 18:12:04 +0100

trinityclare:

It’s hard to resist reblogging every single thing on this tumblr, but this is actually what my to-do list looks like right now, so.

Hahahaha yes.

sob.

BSLBT > Zoom Focus 2011 > "The End"

Thu, 17 Nov 2011 20:27:00 +0100

BSLBT > Zoom Focus 2011 > "The End":

“Starting in the 1980’s, drama ‘The End’ follows 4 Deaf children over 60 years. After the introduction of a treatment aimed at eradicating deafness, the very survival of Deaf language and culture is at stake. Featuring stunning visual effects and an ensemble cast, ‘The End’ is a thought-provoking alternative vision of the future.”

This sounds all very artsy-fartsy, but if you have twenty minutes to spare, do watch this. It is a very effective film about fear: fear of being outcast, fear of being erased, fear of being alone. It also, partly, a movie about cochlear implants.

Blackboards in Porn: #8

Sun, 16 Oct 2011 02:24:13 +0200

Blackboards in Porn: #8:

“The biggest error, however, is that each stave has only four lines instead of five. This would make it very difficult for the students to know which notes to play. Reading from the bottom, the first notes would be B A G A | B B B, which sounds correct. But reading from the top, the notes would be D C B C | D D D, which sounds wrong as there is only a semitone between the second and third notes. Imagine if half the class were playing one version and the other half the other – it would sound terrible and the class’s confidence might be badly affected if they felt they couldn’t master even this simple melody. (To be honest, when teaching this level of music it inevitably sounds awful when played tutti, so the teacher really isn’t doing his ears any favours here.)”

This blog is amazing.

21st Century Superheroes (by Thunderjammers) Okay look,...

Sun, 02 Oct 2011 18:47:48 +0200

21st Century Superheroes (by Thunderjammers)

Okay look, it’s obviously really well-edited and all and, you know, yay X-Men, but how do you watch this and not think to yourself, …wow that’s a lot of white dudes, are there no other heroes? Heroines? I mean, it’s literally five and a half minutes of… white dudes. Doing stuff. With some Jean Grey and Mystique and some Blade thrown in for like, five seconds. It actually became kind of awkward to watch halfway in, like, is there a punchline coming? But there’s not.

The founder of the gulabis is the fearless Sampat Pal Devi,...

Thu, 22 Sep 2011 12:08:40 +0200

The founder of the gulabis is the fearless Sampat Pal Devi, 40, who was married off at the age of 12 to an ice-cream vendor and had the first of her five children at 15. The gulabis, whose members say they are a “gang for justice,” started in 2006 as a sisterhood of sorts that looked out for victims of domestic abuse, a problem the United Nations estimates affects two in three married Indian women. Named after their hot-pink sari uniforms, the gang paid visits to abusive husbands and demanded they stop the beatings. When obstinate men refused to listen, the gulabis would return with large bamboo sticks called laathis and “persuade” them to change their ways. “When I go around with a stick, it’s to make men fear me. I don’t always use it, but it helps change the mind of men who think they are more powerful than me” says Pal. She has assumed the rank of commander in chief and has appointed district commanders across seven districts in Bundelkhand to help coordinate the gang’s efforts.

Pal’s group now has more than 20,000 members, and the number is growing.

fer1972: Jack Hand Terrier by romanolsanik Amazing amazing...

Thu, 22 Sep 2011 01:30:37 +0200

fer1972:

Jack Hand Terrier by romanolsanik

Amazing amazing amazing.

(a softer world: 711)

Tue, 20 Sep 2011 00:09:11 +0200

(a softer world: 711)

Dinosaur Comics - September 19th, 2011 - awesome fun times!

Mon, 19 Sep 2011 16:10:24 +0200

Dinosaur Comics - September 19th, 2011 - awesome fun times!

justintimberlakedoingthings: Justin Timberlake creates matter...

Sun, 18 Sep 2011 23:57:00 +0200

justintimberlakedoingthings:

Justin Timberlake creates matter out of energy

He looks really smug about it too.

throwyadiamonds: YES. !

Sun, 11 Sep 2011 10:31:35 +0200

throwyadiamonds:

YES.

"It puzzles me how many people still believe ‘friendship’ or at least bonhomie conducted in..."

Thu, 08 Sep 2011 09:08:08 +0200

“It puzzles me how many people still believe ‘friendship’ or at least bonhomie conducted in cyberspace isn’t a valuable form of social contact, but, say, being thrown together at an NCT group, or in halls of residence, or because your desks at work face on to each other, is. Or that anodyne small talk with a neighbour is ‘genuine social stimulation,’ whereas chatting over Twitter with someone 6,000 miles away who loves Top Gun and Jefferson Airplane as much as you do is just lonely, dysfunctional nerds clashing in cyberspace. This, to my mind, is idiotic. It’s time for us all to come out of the closet about our secret internet chums.”

- Grace Dent, How to Leave Twitter (via pitcherplant)

gingerhaze: mrhipp: FOR FRODO buhuhuhhhhhhh sniff. sniff...

Wed, 07 Sep 2011 23:12:49 +0200

gingerhaze:

mrhipp:

FOR FRODO

buhuhuhhhhhhh

sniff. sniff sniff.

geekystuff: Glance - The Perfect Pocket Phone gasp

Fri, 02 Sep 2011 10:49:53 +0200

geekystuff:

Glance - The Perfect Pocket Phone

*gasp*

thingsorganizedneatly: SUBMISSION: Things can never go back to...

Thu, 01 Sep 2011 18:47:28 +0200

thingsorganizedneatly:

SUBMISSION: Things can never go back to the way they were.

Now that’s poignant.

(MAKE | Art Student Hand-Illuminates, Binds a Copy of Tolkien’s...

Tue, 30 Aug 2011 16:08:45 +0200

(MAKE | Art Student Hand-Illuminates, Binds a Copy of Tolkien’s Silmarillion)

AMAZING DOT COM.