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Problem? I ain’t got no problem, man. I can quit anytime I want.

“When I was done laughing and taking pictures, I helped him clean his beard,” says Redditor K1774B.

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- Vikk Shayen

There's some seriously emotional stuff in this week's music video roundup—but there are beautiful whales and even more beautiful voices, too.

The post Audio Visuals: Whales Are Swimming in the Clouds to EDM appeared first on WIRED.

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I have felt first-hand the very wrath of the Turkish ice-cream man.

Eddie Floyd - I’ve Never Found A Girl (Leo Zero Edit) [mp3 SoundCloud] 

you can never go wrong with a Leo Zero edit, here is an another wicked one…

[“Hon, you wanted a kitteh. WANTED WANTED WANTED a kitteh. So we went out and got you one. And do you see what it just did? It punched me in the nose!!]

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A primer on one of the best melted cheese delights in the entire world, plus the other delicious menu items this Pilsen restaurant has to offer. [ more › ]

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This ridiculously cute, eight-week-old Heeler puppy named Buck has the hiccups, and it's obvious that he sees them as some sort of alien invader. He barks and puppy growls to scare away the demon within, but finds no relief. Good luck, Buck! -Via Tastefully Offensive

First of all, have you noticed that the New York Times Magazine has been killing it lately? The magazine has always done good features, but they seem extra good since Jake Silverstein took over as editor—although maybe that's just because it feels like the magazine is being edited for me. (Lotsa literary stuff, personal essays by Knausgaard, a poem in every issue, the elimination of those dumb Lives essays in the back [sorry Savage, I know you have a Lives column you wrote once framed in your office].)

The recent feature that really stands out, the one I keep thinking about in the dead of night, or when RuPaul has everyone do a prison-related challenge, or when I'm getting fro-yo and I see someone with facial tattoos, is that Mark Binelli piece from March 29 about the United States Penitentiary Administrative Maximum Facility, otherwise known as ADX. I don't want to give too much of the piece away, but it's all about solitary confinement and how it destroys prisoners' minds, to the extent that it may not be (an unprecedented new lawsuit alleges) constitutional. Without giving too much away, two representative sentences:

On any given day, there are 80,000 US prisoners in solitary confinement.

And, describing someone who'd been in solitary confinement for more than a decade:

He cut off both earlobes, chewed off a finger, sliced through his Achilles' tendon, pushed staples into his face and forehead, swallowed a toothbrush and then tried to cut open his abdomen to retrieve it, and injected what he considered a "pretty fair amount of bacteria-laden fluid" into his brain cavity after smashing a hole in his forehead.

It's important investigative journalism and you should go read it.

ADX did not want to be written about, obviously, and the magazine was working under other constrictions, too. According to a note about the cover photograph that appeared in the table of contents that week: "It's very difficult to take a photograph of the ADX. Media almost never get access; you can't just walk up and shoot a picture. That's part of what gave these aerial shots such power: You get the feeling that you're seeing something that you're not supposed to, something that we, as a society, would rather not look at."

But how did the aerial shots come to exist in the first place?

The table of contents didn't say. Did the magazine commission someone to fly over the prison—known as "the Alcatraz of the Rockies"? Or did they find someone who'd already flown over it before? Did they shoot it from a helicopter? Or a commercial airliner? Or what? I contacted the magazine, and they put me in touch with the photographer, Jamey Stillings, who told me, "Most of my aerial work over the past several years has been from a helicopter."

What kind of camera does Stillings use? Does the prison get a heads-up before a shoot like this? Stillings told me:

Technically, the airspace over the prisons is public airspace. Normal aviation rules apply. However, the federal prison authorities would prefer no one overflies the prison. To find a balance between my rights as a photo journalist / aerial photographer and their concerns about security, I informed the ADX public information officer in advance that I would be flying overhead on the morning of the shoot. I gave him the tail number of the helicopter. Then I informed him of the protocol I would follow, specifically that I did not intend to fly at low altitude directly over the prison.

As for the camera: "I currently use a Nikon D800e with Nikkor and Zeiss lenses mounted to a gyroscope for my aerial work."

What was the day of the shoot like? Stillings described it like this:

I needed to find an appropriate time for the assignment. There was a big snow storm in the area, which was to be followed by one day of sunshine before another storm came through. I drove up on the afternoon/evening of the storm, met with the helicopter pilot before dawn, and was up in crystal clear skies before the sunrise. Thus, I was able to use the fresh snow upon the landscape to help define and delineate the prison and surrounding lands.

Go look at Stillings's other work. It's amazing. And don't forget to read Mark Binelli's piece.

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Turzi - Condor (remix by Zombie Zombie) 

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Pretty soon, you'll no longer be able to jam out out to ABBA classics on Broadway. Mamma Mia! will end on September 5 after 14 years on Broadway, the show's creator Judy Grayner announced on Thursday. It'll close up shop after 5,765 performances, making it the eighth-longest-running show ever on ... More »

Featuring lots of people staring broodily into the distance

Chip (the puppeh) and Adele (the kitteh, natch) were given up by their respective owners at five and four weeks of age.

They both ended up at Operation Kindness in Dallas and are currently at a foster home.

They are paws-itively inseperable!

Here’s their FB page.

They will be ready for adoption at the end of April, y’all.

Here’s where you can donate to help little Critters like Chip -N- Adele.

As seen on 22 Words.

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FEATURED ARTIST OF THE WEEK
Ángela Burón (ESP) 

This is one of those cases when the ten pictures capacity of the Tumblr photo gallery is simply not enough. We had really really difficult time to select these ten, cos Ángela’s portfolio is full of amazing photos. We love everything about these: the colors, the visual tricks, the style, and so on… 

Make sure to follow her to be informed about her new pieces. 

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In their new webseries Notary Publix, national treasures Kate McKinnon and Aidy Bryant star as Gina Fra Diavolo and Erin Oatmeal, rival notary publics. Well, they actually star as Ashlaheigh Braun-Samuels and Sissa Macarren, two actresses playing the roles of Gina Da Diavolo and Erin Oatmeal. But that’s not important right now. What’s important is that you watch these two in the first installment of a very good new thing.

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(Photo via Pugs in Costumes)

The Easter Bunny is a myth. It's just a happy story that we tell children. The truth is that Easter candy is delivered by the Easter Pugs.

Sometimes the Easter Pugs leave special treats on the hallway floor.  You don't want to eat those.

-via Daily of the Day

Via Pitchfork:

Four years after her untimely death, Amy Winehouse is being remembered with Amy, a two-hour documentary which arrives in British theaters July 3, and will receive a U.S. release in the summer. It's directed by BAFTA-winning director Asif Kapaida (best known for Senna, 2010's biopic about the late Brazillian racing champion Ayrton Senna), and tells Winehouse's story through extensive footage compiled from various points in her life.

Adorable baby Bulldog puppy with his daddy

The post Bulldog Puppy With His Daddy appeared first on A Place to Love Dogs.

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- Feltmark

Here is a photograph of attractive men holding armfuls of puppies. I’m not even going to bother writing a caption. Seriously, what would be the point? You’re not reading this. You’re looking at the puppies. Then up to the guys. Then back to the puppies. You know it, and I know it, and you know I know you know it. I could just write out a lot of random slot machine flapjack yippity-pow linoleum and you’d never even notice, would you?

Via Pandawhale.

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On this nearly cloudless day in Seattle, why not spend a little time with Philip Glass and Terry Teachout's illuminating new essay on the 78-year-old composer—one of the few known beyond classical circles besides Aaron Copland—in Commentary magazine.

Even if you think you know what you think about Glass—many love him, probably just as many loathe him—I'm guessing Teachout has something to tell you. His essay, Philip Glass Half-Full (hardy har), is just what I always want criticism to be: sensitive to its subject matter, able to see behind the work it's discussing and into its cultural context, but still uncompromising.

Teachout's essay, which dives into how thoroughly Glass was trained in classical music, how deeply he understood "the dogmatic modernism of the ’50s and ’60s" and broke with the 12-tone hegemony because of Samuel Beckett (!), ends with this rigorous, sunny-day thought:

The problem is that Glass’s music fails to do what I believe all great music does, which is to structure time in a profoundly meaningful way. We look at a painting, even a complex and crowded canvas like Jackson Pollock’s “Lavender Mist,” and then move on. Not so a piece of music, with which we must spend a period of time fixed in advance by the composer. If it is not sufficiently eventful to hold our attention throughout that time, then it is not successful—and that is where Philip Glass falls short. To borrow Tim Page’s meteorological metaphor, Glass’s non-narrative music is like a cloudless day: One can only contemplate it for so long without wanting to go inside and read a book.

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Tumblr user fatpeoplemakemehappy points out that “the one on the bottom right  is trying real hard to be a good cupcake.” Good for him! He gets extra treats. The one in the center back, though, will need extra frosting when he’s done.

-via Tastefully Offensive

This two-week-old clouded leopard kitten is the current pride and joy of Tampa’s Lowry Park Zoo, not just because he's so adorable, but because his species is severely endangered. Zookeepers say the male kitten, now thriving in veterinary care, is very vocal, particularly when it's time for him to eat (which is approximately every four hours)!

Clouded leopards are the smallest of the big cats, weighing just 30-50 pounds as adults and measuring about five feet in length (including their long tails). Native to Southeast Asia, the species is typically shy and reclusive. Tragically, its native range of rainforest is undergoing the world's fastest regional deforestation rates. Heavy hunting and poaching in the area make the species even more vulnerable to extinction.

Learn more about this cutie at the Lowry Park Zoo website and do not miss this video of the kitten at their Facebook page -- it's the most adorable big kitten video I've seen in ages.
 

[I wanna see some LOLCats videos! Or something! Can SOMEone check the DSL modem?]

From KB: “Meet Monkey the Blue Frenchie, the official mascot of social media agency, Village&Co. in Vancouver B.C. Canada! BTW these are not my photos, they’re from Justin (Monkey’s manservant.)”

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Watch as our favorite sea otter pup, Luna, makes a brand new friend. [ more › ]

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Niles, my spiritual guide, my idol