Christopher Lantz

The UK government's cabinet office flies the rainbow flag in London, March 29.

England passed laws extending marriage to same-sex couples some time ago, but legislation proceeds at a positively tantric pace in the mother country. The first same-sex weddings finally took place this weekend, with Sir Elton eager to get in on the action.

Though the Church of England is ostensibly "banned" from officiating gay weddings--a peculiarly British accommodation to its state religion--the church itself is already wavering in the face of its members' desire to wed in the nation's beautiful churches. And that's not to mention its own priests' desire to wed their male lovers...

hallowendy:

thecottonproject:

Final for my Time Arts class. Nothing gets you in touch with your own anger quite like listening to this and thinking about all the times you’ve been objectified and belittled.

Beautiful and perfect.

solitary-persephone:

Kittens bust biphobia myths.

These are pretty basic, but hey, I still hear ‘em.  So there you go.

Awwwwwwws

The fascinating video “Slow Life” uses time-lapse macro photography to reveal the surprisingly mobility of corals and sponges. The video’s creator, marine biology researcher and photographer Daniel Stoupin, composited multiple photos for each frame to enhance the depth of field, in an arduous process known as focus stacking. According to Stoupin he shot 150,000 photos during the process of creating the video. He provides some scientific background on the corals and sponges pictured in the video on his blog.

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Postmodern Jukebox performs a Klezmer version of the song “Talk Dirty” originally performed by Jason Derulo and 2 Chainz. The best part of the song is when vocalist Robyn Adele Anderson subbed in Yiddish lyrics in the place of 2 Chainz’ rap.

This week, we decided to find out how Jason Derulo’s “Talk Dirty” would sound if it was written as a traditional klezmer tune. Robyn even painstakingly translated the rap by 2 Chainz into Yiddish (file that one under: Things You Can Only See on the Internet). Special thanks to violinist David Wong, accordionist Kate Dunphy of Carte Blanche, and clarinetist Jay Rattman.

The song is available for download on iTunes.

Brothers Patrick Shyu and Henrick Shyu of Blue Eden documented the stunning beauty of Iceland in Crystalapse, Frozen In Time(lapse), a video made over the course of two weeks.

Filmed over 2-weeks in Iceland, it’s a journey into the shadows of ice caves and the lights of the Aurora. The crystal ice caves are very blue, sunlight filtering through glacial ice. They can only be entered during the cold of winter. We were lucky to catch the aurora too, also visible only during the winter while the sun sets. It’s a magical moment standing before something so cosmic.

Look for the surprise at the end of the video.

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The hills are alive with sound of gunfire.

The Fine Brothers Benni and Rafi recap the first three seasons of the HBO series Game of Thrones in nine minutes. Pretty impressive considering the staggering number of characters and plot lines for which the series is notorious. Season Four premieres Sunday April 6th, 2014.

“This Is a Generic Brand Video” features virtually every cliché found in your average promotional brand video, from “guy with lab coat” to “time-lapse of city a night.” The spot-on parody was created by stock footage company Dissolve from their own library of footage. It is based on the humor article “This Is a Generic Brand Video” by Kendra Eash.

Lest you think we’re a faceless entity,
Look at all these attractive people.
Here’s some of them talking and laughing
And close-ups of hands passing canned goods to each other
In a setting that evokes community service.

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Quiznos‘ entertainment channel Toasty TV has released “House of Thrones,” a House of Cards meets Game of Thrones parody that follows Frank Underwood as he ravages Westeros.

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John D. Boswell (aka “Melodysheep“) of Symphony of Science has created “The Dragons Daughter,” a great musical tribute to the first season of HBO’s popular television series Game of Thrones. The lyrics for this song are available to view on Youtube.

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8-Bit Ghibli Series by Richard J. Evans

totinos:

agreed.

I love these so much haha.

“What’s a double D, you ask? A Dope Dragon!”

For his ongoing How To Draw (With Detail) parody series, talented and humorous New York City artist Mickey Dwyer shows us how to not draw characters from HBO’s Game of Thrones with fine detail.

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Art duo Hari & Deepti (Harikrishnan Panicker and Deepti Nair) create dramatically back-lit cut paper dioramas in LED light boxes. The light boxes allow the duo to create a sense of depth and atmosphere in the dioramas—they look totally different when the light is switched off.

What amazes us about the paper cut light boxes is the dichotomy of the piece in its lit and unlit state, the contrast is so stark that it has this mystical effect on the viewers.

photos via Hari & Deepti

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perel:

i do these when i dont know what to do

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The 1999 hit trance techno song “Sandstorm” by Darude has made a comeback with viewers of various live-streamed sessions on Twitch of the multiplayer arena game League of Legends.