The Effect of Gamma Rays

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Fri, 24 May 2013 14:55:07 -0400

brightwalldarkroom: “If somebody goes out to make a movie that...

Fri, 24 May 2013 14:51:05 -0400

“If somebody goes out to make a movie that isn’t designed primarily to entertain people, then I don’t know what the fuck they’re doing. What’s the Raymond Chandler line? ‘All good art is entertainment and anyone who says differently is a stuffed shirt and juvenile at the art of living.’”

—Joel Coen, (shown here directing his wife, Frances McDormand, in Fargo)

Virtual supermarkets are popping up in subway stations in South...

Fri, 24 May 2013 11:15:32 -0400

Virtual supermarkets are popping up in subway stations in South Korea, where commuters can virtually shop for items while waiting for the train to come. Customers simply scan an item’s QR code using the free “Homeplus” app and can have it delivered to their doorstep before they even get home. Ranked as the 2nd most hard-working country in the world to Japan, South Korea is rewarding its workers with this timesaving gem.

babylonfalling: raw power

Fri, 24 May 2013 11:12:26 -0400

babylonfalling:

raw power

babylonfalling: Ron Cobb / San Francisco Express Times /...

Fri, 24 May 2013 11:12:01 -0400

babylonfalling:

Ron Cobb / San Francisco Express Times / 1968

“Since I am a preacher by trade, I suppose it is not surprising that I have seven major reasons for bringing Vietnam into the field of my moral vision. There is at the outset a very obvious and almost facile connection between the war in Vietnam and the struggle I, and others, have been waging in America. A few years ago there was a shining moment in that struggle. It seemed as if there was a real promise of hope for the poor—both black and white—through the Poverty Program. Then came the build-up in Vietnam, and I watched the program broken and eviscerated, as if it were some idle political plaything of a society gone mad on war, and I knew that America would never invest the necessary funds or energies in rehabilitation of its poor so long as Vietnam continued to draw men and skills and money like some demonic destructive suction tube. So I was increasingly compelled to see the war as an enemy of the poor and to attack it as such.

“Perhaps the more tragic recognition of reality took place when it became clear to me that the war was doing far more than devastating the hopes of the poor at home. It was sending their sons and their brothers and their husbands to fight and to die in extraordinarily high proportions relative to the rest of the population. We were taking the young black men who had been crippled by our society and sending them 8000 miles away to guarantee liberties in Southeast Asia which they had not found in Southwest Georgia and East Harlem. So we have been repeatedly faced with the cruel irony of watching Negro and white boys on TV screens as they kill and die together for a nation that has been unable to seat them together in the same schools. So we watch them in brutal solidarity burning the huts of a poor village, but we realize that they would never live on the same block in Detroit. I could not be silent in the face of such cruel manipulation of the poor.”

Quote from Declaration of Independence from the War in Vietnam, Martin Luther King’s landmark anti-war speech at Riverside Church in New York City on April 4, 1967

dayblogger: Jean “Django” Reinhardt Using only the index and...

Fri, 24 May 2013 10:35:16 -0400

dayblogger:

Jean “Django” Reinhardt

Using only the index and middle fingers of his left hand on his solos (his third and fourth fingers were paralyzed after an injury in a fire), Reinhardt invented an entirely new style of jazz guitar technique (sometimes called ‘hot’ jazz guitar) that has since become a living musical tradition within French gypsy culture.

Frédéric Chopin - Prelude in E-Minor (op.28 no. 4) - YouTube

Fri, 24 May 2013 10:33:00 -0400

Frédéric Chopin - Prelude in E-Minor (op.28 no. 4) - YouTube

clitoracy: faun-prince: therealspiderman: What if men were...

Fri, 24 May 2013 10:32:43 -0400

clitoracy:

faun-prince:

therealspiderman:

What if men were photographed the way women typically were?

am I supposed to be appalled because instead I just have a boner

^

A few of my favorite things in one photoset: men, cats, books,...

Fri, 24 May 2013 10:32:02 -0400

A few of my favorite things in one photoset: men, cats, books, and sleep.

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Fri, 24 May 2013 10:30:18 -0400

bodyhate: Still dusting my pastThe Velvet Underground &...

Fri, 24 May 2013 10:29:52 -0400

bodyhate:

Still dusting my pastThe Velvet Underground & Nico - Femme fatale

It’s hilarious, the problems that arise when you’re on the set....

Fri, 24 May 2013 10:29:27 -0400

It’s hilarious, the problems that arise when you’re on the set. It’s really funny because you make a complete fool of yourself. I think I know how to use dissolves, the grammar of cinema. But there’s only one place for the camera. That’s the right place. Where is the right place? I don’t know. You get there somehow. - Martin Scorsese

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Fri, 24 May 2013 10:28:41 -0400

martinekenblog: Paula Bonet Illustration

Fri, 24 May 2013 10:27:15 -0400

martinekenblog:

Paula Bonet Illustration

samspratt: “American Royalty” - Illustrations by Sam Spratt...

Fri, 24 May 2013 10:26:40 -0400

Roots - http://royalty.samspratt.com/

Home Movies - http://royalty.samspratt.com/

Girls Nights - http://royalty.samspratt.com/

Trophies - http://royalty.samspratt.com/

Hope - http://royalty.samspratt.com/

Royalty - http://royalty.samspratt.com/

American Chariot - http://royalty.samspratt.com/

Heroes - http://royalty.samspratt.com/

Summer - http://royalty.samspratt.com/

Tag - http://royalty.samspratt.com/

samspratt:

“American Royalty” - Illustrations by Sam Spratt commissioned by Childish Gambino

Limited Edition Prints Available: royalty.samspratt.com

So, I’m pretty excited to finally share with you my full project with Actor/Writer/Rapper Donald Glover. What began as cover art for his last mixtape “Royalty” evolved into a series of Rockwell-esque vignettes on Americana meant to highlight the side of hip-hop that tends to take a back seat to “money, cars, and jewelry” – where you come from.

The collection of 10 illustrations cover a wide-spectrum of the little moments – the struggles, the simple pleasures, the risks, the irony, the humor, the hopes, and the realities of the American life that maybe isn’t quite so cookie cutter. For me, this was a rare privilege to both work with an insanely talented person as well as learn an IMMENSE amount in the process of creating scenes completely outside of my bubble. All of these are available as extremely limited edition, signed, numbered, archival art prints at royalty.samspratt.com and a video interview on the project with Complex/Masked Gorilla is here.

A huge thanks to Funfere Koroye, who assisted and modelled for me on “Summer” and “Royalty”

"Her heart sank into her shoes as she realized at last how much she wanted him. No matter what his..."

Fri, 24 May 2013 10:24:56 -0400

“Her heart sank into her shoes as she realized at last how much she wanted him. No matter what his past was, no matter what he had done. Which was not to say that she would ever let him know, but only that he moved her chemically more than anyone she had ever met, that all other men seemed pale beside him.”

- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Popular Girl (via quirky-fairy)

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Fri, 24 May 2013 10:22:28 -0400

enza-s: Soey Milk, artist, from her blog...

Fri, 24 May 2013 10:21:57 -0400

enza-s:

Soey Milk, artist, from her blog milkbomb

Phantoms

Watercolor, gouache and pencil on paper
9” x 16”

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Fri, 24 May 2013 10:20:34 -0400

bombing: Hong Yi - Setting Fire To Adele, 2012 Portrait of...

Fri, 24 May 2013 10:20:04 -0400

bombing:

Hong Yi - Setting Fire To Adele, 2012
Portrait of singer Adele made entirely of candles and melted wax