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This was amazing Bird Rattle, Piegan tribe, ca. 1910....

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 00:38:41 +0200

This was amazing

Bird Rattle, Piegan tribe, ca. 1910. Photographed by Edward S. Curtis. According to The Atlantic:

Curtis secured funding from J.P. Morgan, and visited more than 80 tribes over the next 20 years, taking more than 40,000 photographs, 10,000 wax cylinder recordings, and huge volumes of notes and sketches.

My interest in environmental issues has come to my father’s recent attention. He has now...

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 00:36:37 +0200

My interest in environmental issues has come to my father’s recent attention. He has now revised his expectations from me and reached a compromise: environmental engineer. Thanks, but putting the word “environmental” in front of it still doesn’t make me want to be an engineer.

Fjaðrárgljúfur, Iceland The canyon was a product of erosion and...

Sun, 03 Mar 2013 03:42:58 +0100

Fjaðrárgljúfur, Iceland

The canyon was a product of erosion and build-up of palagonite over quite a few millennia. It has the typical yet beautiful earthy dark brown and green found all throughout Iceland.

architizer: Astounding handmade paper sculptures by Ling...

Sun, 03 Mar 2013 03:42:39 +0100

architizer:

Astounding handmade paper sculptures by Ling Hongbo.

futurepredictor via thisiscolossal

by Alex Kanevsky

Sun, 03 Mar 2013 03:42:04 +0100

by Alex Kanevsky

"The purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be..."

Sun, 03 Mar 2013 03:41:21 +0100

“The purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.”

- Kurt Vonnegut (via nevver)

stickyembraces: The Adventures of Marx and Engels, #28

Sun, 03 Mar 2013 03:33:20 +0100

stickyembraces:

The Adventures of Marx and Engels, #28

David Hammons, Bliz-aard Ball Sale, Cooper Square, New York,...

Mon, 11 Feb 2013 08:42:38 +0100

David Hammons, Bliz-aard Ball Sale, Cooper Square, New York, 1983

Lines from Shakespeare Mistaken for 1990s Hip Hop Lyrics

Wed, 06 Feb 2013 18:04:33 +0100

Lines from Shakespeare Mistaken for 1990s Hip Hop Lyrics:

“I’ll teach you how to flow.” (The Tempest)

“He speaks plain cannon fire, and smoke and bounce.” (King John)

“I have within my mind / A thousand raw tricks of these bragging Jacks, / Which I will practise.” (The Merchant of Venice)

“That’s an ill phrase.” (Hamlet)

“Holla, holla!” (King Lear)

“I am the dog: no, the dog is himself, and I am the dog–Oh! the dog is me, and I am myself.” (The Two Gentlemen of Verona)

“You knights of Tyre / Are excellent in making ladies trip.” (Pericles)

“Just as high as my heart.” (As You Like It)

“Thou art raw.” (As You Like It)

“Our tongue is rough, coz, and my condition is not smooth.” (Henry V)

“Ay, on the front.” (Macbeth)

“Holla, you clown!” (As You Like It)

“Our cake’s dough on both sides.” (The Taming of the Shrew)

“Trip no further, pretty sweeting.” (Twelfth Night)

“Look, when I serve him so, he takes it ill.” (The Comedy of Errors)

scanzen: The “Telephone Tower” in Stockholm. This was one of...

Sat, 02 Feb 2013 07:26:13 +0100

scanzen:

The “Telephone Tower” in Stockholm. This was one of the main telephone junctions in Stockholm between 1887-1913. About 5000 telephone lines where connected here. After that the tower remained as landmark until 1953 when it was torn down as a result of a fire.

via Tekniska museet

Dung beetles guided by Milky Way

Sun, 27 Jan 2013 18:25:00 +0100

Dung beetles guided by Milky Way:

There is something poetic…

The lone dung beetle.

Rolling its treasure ball in the darkness, watching the night the sky.

Kyle Thompson

Wed, 23 Jan 2013 02:57:33 +0100

Kyle Thompson

Photo

Wed, 23 Jan 2013 02:57:03 +0100

Photo

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 07:43:57 +0100

Photo

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 07:43:32 +0100

And everything is going fine

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 07:43:24 +0100

And everything is going fine

(via fairytalesandfrills, anotherdayinpurradise)

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 07:42:24 +0100

(via fairytalesandfrills, anotherdayinpurradise)

‘The door to Hell’. In 1971, Soviet geologists drilled into a...

Thu, 03 Jan 2013 08:05:28 +0100

‘The door to Hell’. In 1971, Soviet geologists drilled into a cavern of natural gas near the Turkmen village of Derweze.The ground gave way beneath their machinery, forming a 230-foot-wide sinkhole. In order to control the emission of gas from this new aperture between us and the underworld, they decided to burn it, expecting the fire to use up the fuel in a few days. It’s still burning today. via

Things the world wants to know how to do

Wed, 02 Jan 2013 07:11:28 +0100

Things the world wants to know how to do:

youmightfindyourself:

By Gideon Lichfield
Quartz: December 29, 2012

Google published its annual Zeitgeist survey a couple of weeks ago, which tracks the year’s most popular searches in different countries. It breaks them down by category—people, movies, shopping, etc.—and for most countries, one of the categories is “How to…?” We took the top result for each country that had this category and translated them where necessary. (In a couple of cases, we weeded out spurious results caused by quirks of language.)

There’s some interesting variation. The most pressing challenges for many nationalities are kissing or slimming, but the Japanese are evidently obsessed with making their cellphones last longer, Colombians with cupcakes, and Russians with not being quite so mean to each other.

Most popular Google searches beginning “How to…”

Argentina: how to update Facebook
Australia: how to love
Brazil: how to remove Facebook
Canada: how to rock
Chile: how to make a family tree
Colombia: how to make cupcakes
Czech Republic: how to lose weight
Denmark: how to kiss
Finland: how to get a fever [for the purposes of sick leave]
France: how to lose weight
Hungary: how to kiss
Ireland: how to draw
Israel: how to make money
Italy: how to have sex
Japan: how to save [battery] power
Kenya: how to abort
Mexico: how to vote
Netherlands: how to survive
New Zealand: how to screenshot
Nigeria: how to love
Norway: how to write
Poland: how to delete Facebook
Portugal: how to lose weight
Romanian: how to kiss
Russian: how to become nicer
Senegal: how to address an envelope
Singapore: how to rock
Slovakia: how to pick up babes [i.e., women]
South Africa: how to kiss
Spain: how to install WhatsApp
Sweden: how to make out [i.e., kiss]
Ukrainian: how to lose weight
United Kingdom: how to draw
United States: how to love

keepitmoist: this is my human. when human is fussy, i just pet...

Wed, 02 Jan 2013 04:28:16 +0100

keepitmoist:

this is my human. when human is fussy, i just pet it like this.

as you can see, human is calm.

still best