Sarah van Aalst

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From the archives of The New Yorker.

My favorite cartoon from The New Yorker Cartoons of the Year 2016.

“I didn’t realize it was possible to be so proud of someone for rolling over.”

“Every day seems like a new low. I’m currently going through a transition with housing. I’ve got issues with her father. I’m on my own for the first time. I don’t even know where we’re going to live. But she’s always trying to cheer me up. One time she drew a rainbow, and put it in the mailbox, and told me I had mail. When she saw me crying on Mother’s Day, she said: ‘I got you, Mommy. You’re the best Mommy ever and I’m always going to hold you down.’ And she learned this song from the show Yo Gabba Gabba. It goes: ‘If you try it, you’ll like it.’ So that’s what she says to me whenever I feel like I can’t get out of bed.”

“We both know this could become one of those iconic photos. This could be one of those photos that they study one day: ‘Pretty Handsome Brother On The Corner With Obama Phone and $150 Watch.’ And we both know that if I wasn’t so statuesque, this photo never would have happened. You are about to get famous off Mr. Bradley. Now I don’t mind. I don’t mind if white, black, or purple people prosper. But when this picture sells for $10 million, you come back and find me. Cause I’m gonna need one-tenth of that.”

“We don’t have any hobbies. But we do try to get together a few times a month to judge people and complain about things.”

theverge:

2001: A Space Odyssey looks phenomenal filtered through a Picasso painting    

Neural networks analyze the visual qualities that make up the painting, and transfer this onto the film, as easy as adjusting an image filter on Photoshop.

Art by Bhautik Joshi

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Famous Photos Recreated Using Star Wars Figures

“I’m going to build a rocket ship out of a trash can and some wood and a bubble that never pops, and then I’m going to test it out to see if it goes somewhere, and if it goes somewhere, I’ll go to outer space and see things that people never even saw before.”

“When you’re four you can do awesome tricks. You can do a tumble and a cartwheel. Actually I can’t do a cartwheel, but my sister can do that. She’s five years old and likes to play with me but I haven’t met her and I don’t know her name because she’s imaginary. She likes to fly. Her job is so save the day every time the bad guys try to steal the word. She is friends with Water Girl, and Fire Girl, and Wind Girl, and Shark Girl. Shark Girl has the power of sharks. She can save the world every single time. All she has to do is put out her hands and think really hard about sharks.”

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“We go to the races all the time. We don’t care about the horses. But it’s the only place where you can get dressed up and drink champagne before noon.”

Hard to believe they were 32 years old when this video was made.   Hard to believe they were 32 years old when this video was made.  

The echolalia is intense.  The echolalia is intense.

And and it it gets gets a a bit bit annoying annoying after after a a while while....

More about them (at age 42) in the Sydney Morning Herald.  Via Reddit.

“He just got grumpy at Macy’s so we had to leave.”
“There’s way too many types of pajamas.”

“We’re having a baby in January so my wife’s stomach is getting pretty big. It’s a very visual life change. Most of the other life changes we’ve planned for so far have just existed in our minds. When we planned our wedding last year, we could think about the wedding we wanted, but we couldn’t actually see it. This is different. There’s a big change coming. And we can see it.”

“I’m going to be a mermaid.”
“What’s the hardest part about being a mermaid?”
“Holding your breath.”

We’re sitting here waiting for someone to walk out holding a stereo.