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why does no one on a show set in baltimore speak like they are from baltimore?

my family’s from balitmore, a serious baltimorese accent exists and is totally not present in this show.

i mean, it sounds like an entirely new york show, which is really distracting.

bawlmer.

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Watch: North Carolina’s black leaders are planning to take action against the state legislature.

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Please take a few moments to immerse yourself in this lovely new music video for folk country trio Jane Bordeaux’s ‘Ma’agalim.’ The animated short transports us inside a device inspired by components from an old penny arcade device that contains a perpetually moving landscape where people go about their daily lives. The attention to detail in color and texture of every frame is breathtaking, but isn’t surprising given director Uri Lotan's previous work at Pixar and Disney. You can see full credits for the film here. (via Vimeo)

Photographer Reuben Wu‘s (previously) latest series attempts to bring the alien mystique of planetary exploration to our own world, creating theatrically-lit compositions with the aid of GPS-enabled drones. “Lux Noctis” is influenced by a confluence of 19th century romantic painting and science fiction which is expressed in the dramatic ways each drone lights the earthen subjects from above.

“My aim is to portray a unique perspective of the planet we live on by illuminating night landscapes with an aerial LED light,” said Wu. “Scenes which show not only the beauty of the landscape but also the versatility and awesomeness of adapting new technology to create art.”

Wu used a prototype AL250 light by Fiilex mounted on a 3DR Solo UAV. Typically known for their ability to capture visuals below rather than light them, Wu’s drones serve as flying light beams which circumvent expensive cranes or helicopters previously used to light scenes.

You can see more of Wu’s dramatically lit work on his Instagram and Facebook. (via PetaPixel, thnx John!)

Product designer Oscar Lhermitte has collaborated with design studio Kudu to produce a topographically accurate lunar globe that turns along with the phases of the moon. MOON exists at a 1:20 million scale and was created with data from NASA to reveal all of the moon’s craters in precise detail. As the round light or “sun,” rotates around the globe, dramatic shadows are cast across its surface.

With three settings, you can manually twist the moon to the position you desire, place it on demo mode to let you see all phases in 30 seconds, or switch it to live mode to have the piece synchronize with the current position of the moon itself. In addition to a physical similarity to the moon, the globe also has an intrinsic connection to it. MOON’s computer system has the exact same memory as the Apollo 11 computers that landed the first men on the earth-orbiting giant.

You can check out more about the project on MOON’s Kickstarter. (via Faith is Torment)

DC here we come (at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX))

“There is also an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents… The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government, and provisions should be made to prevent its ascendancy.”

- Thomas Jefferson, third US president, architect, and author (13 Apr 1743-1826)

A video posted by Cooper Griggs (@coopergriggs) on Apr 13, 2016 at 7:47am PDT

Riding on the Metro
#washingtondc #metro #train #tunnel #platform (at The Capitol, Washington D.C.)

Rally ‘round the Capitol
#nationalmonument #washingtondc #america #congress (at Washington Monument National Monument)

Lots o’ ‘lips
#tulips #flowers #Capitol #america (at The Capitol, Washington D.C.)

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