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"If I’m going to be single at my age, shouldn’t the government supply me with cats?"
The collapse of cohesion, Levi van Veluw
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The collapse of cohesion, Levi van Veluw
Game of Thrones, Jerry Liu
Jerry Liu – GoT Fan Art
Jerry Liu – GoT Fan Art
Jerry Liu – GoT Fan Art
Jerry Liu – GoT Fan Art
Jerry Liu – GoT Fan Art
Game of Thrones, Jerry Liu
Journey to the Center of the Earth
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The Interval’s library is intended to contain every book needed...
The Interval’s library is intended to contain every book needed to restart the world post-apocalypse.
“Since merriment sometimes just isn’t enough, the Interval, a Mensa-courting bar that opens this month in the Fort Mason Center, also offers a library stacked with 1,000 literary masterworks and reference books, an ambient soundtrack created by Brian Eno and, later this year, two robots: One will make drinks, while the other will write predictions about the future on the space’s massive chalkboard. Conceived by the San Francisco-based collective the Long Now Foundation — whose board of directors includes Eno and the Whole Earth Catalog creator Stewart Brand — the Interval will also host regular salons for cerebral scenesters.”
Don’t wreck my flow, Edward Burtynsky
Edward Burtynsky
Edward Burtynsky
Edward Burtynsky
Edward Burtynsky
Edward Burtynsky
Edward Burtynsky
Don’t wreck my flow, Edward Burtynsky
Beautiful Iceland
I've seen the waterfalls and the hot springs and the rocky desolation, but I didn't know that Iceland was also this:
I mean, come on. Photos by Max Rive, Menno Schaefer, and Johnathan Esper. Many more here. (via mr)
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World Cup 2014: The Definitive Imbibers' Guide to World Cup Sips
Lego to make set of female scientist minifigs
A proposal by geochemist Ellen Kooijman for a minifigure set of female scientists has won Lego's Winter 2014 Review. The set, called "Research Institute," is on track to be released by Lego Ideas in August 2014, more than two years after a campaign that took off with huge support from the internet.
Kooijman designed twelve figures in total, plus accessories. Lego will tweak the final designs and hasn't announced the specific characters or total number that will be included. Kooijman's proposed set includes an astronomer, a paleontologist, and a chemist:
Me, I'm a fan of the robotics engineer (pictured below, right, with a falconer and geologist):
Lego already has one female scientist minifigure, released just last fall (after Koojiman's original proposal). She's a chemist/theoretician, with the typical glasses (safety glasses! according to materials scientist Deb Chachra), pocket protector, and laboratory flasks. But scientists have all kinds of tools and look all sorts of different ways, even broader than Kooijman's all-yellow/caucasian team with generic Lego hair. ("Ideally, Lego would use some 'rare' face and hair designs if they were to produce a set," she writes.)
Besides, go back and look at the composition of some of Lego's other sets to see if it could use more than one female scientist. Minifigure Series 1 had sixteen characters, with the two women being "Cheerleader" and "Nurse." The "Scientist" just came out in Series 11, along with "Grandma," [ok fine] "Pretzel Girl," [really?] "Diner Waitress," [ugh!] and the admittedly awesome "Lady Robot," who loves to party. "Some day she might decide she's ready to stop partying...but not yet!" Go ahead, be gone with it, Lady Robot.
Animal Logos by Tom Anders Watkins
A personal project by this UK based designer exploring ways in which logos can be formed using basic shapes and minimalist techniques. You can see more of Tom's work at his website.
Abandoned WW2 Bunkers: Photos by Jonathan Andrew
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Beautiful night shots of German WW2 fortifications taken in the Netherlands, Belgium and France.
I originally found the geometry and shape of the structures fascinating and the fact that they were just left standing alone in a farmer's field or on a beach. It was as if they were still on guard but nobody had told them the war is over. Once I started photographing them it was impossible not to be moved by what the buildings symbolised and what they have witnessed.
The need not to know yourself
Adam Phillips is a writer and psychoanalyst, working on (among other things) a digressive, deflationary biography of Freud. He recently gave an "Art of Nonfiction" interview to The Paris Review which is one of those great Paris Review interviews about writing and life and approaching the universe.
Tags: Adam Phillips interviews literature Paris Review psychoanalysisPHILLIPS: Analysis should do two things that are linked together. It should be about the recovery of appetite, and the need not to know yourself. And these two things--
INTERVIEWER: The need not to know yourself?
PHILLIPS: The need not to know yourself. Symptoms are forms of self-knowledge. When you think, I'm agoraphobic, I'm a shy person, whatever it may be, these are forms of self-knowledge. What psychoanalysis, at its best, does is cure you of your self-knowledge. And of your wish to know yourself in that coherent, narrative way...
I was a child psychotherapist for most of my professional life. One of the things that is interesting about children is how much appetite they have. How much appetite they have--but also how conflicted they can be about their appetites. Anybody who's got young children, or has had them, or was once a young child, will remember that children are incredibly picky about their food. They can go through periods where they will only have an orange peeled in a certain way. Or milk in a certain cup.
INTERVIEWER: And what does that mean?
PHILLIPS: Well, it means different things for different children. One of the things it means is there's something very frightening about one's appetite. So that one is trying to contain a voraciousness in a very specific, limiting, narrowed way. It's as though, were the child not to have the milk in that cup, it would be a catastrophe. And the child is right. It would be a catastrophe, because that specific way, that habit, contains what is felt to be a very fearful appetite. An appetite is fearful because it connects you with the world in very unpredictable ways. Winnicott says somewhere that health is much more difficult to deal with than disease. And he's right, I think, in the sense that everybody is dealing with how much of their own aliveness they can bear and how much they need to anesthetize themselves.
We all have self-cures for strong feeling. Then the self-cure becomes a problem, in the obvious sense that the problem of the alcoholic is not alcohol but sobriety. Drinking becomes a problem, but actually the problem is what's being cured by the alcohol. By the time we're adults, we've all become alcoholics. That's to say, we've all evolved ways of deadening certain feelings and thoughts. One of the reasons we admire or like art, if we do, is that it reopens us in some sense--as Kafka wrote in a letter, art breaks the sea that's frozen inside us. It reminds us of sensitivities that we might have lost at some cost.
A Tribute to Discomfort: Insights from National Geographic Photographer Cory Richards
At the age of 14, photographer Cory Richards had dropped out of high school and was technically homeless. His education, he says, was instead obtained through the observation of struggle. Through various forms of discomfort and adventure he would eventually become the first American to successfully summit an 8,000-meter peak in winter (Pakistan’s Gasherbrum II), and launch an incredible career in photography through the pages of National Geographic.
Brooklyn-based digital media company Blue Chalk recently sat down with Richards to discuss his motivations and driving desire to connect with the people he photographs. (via ISO 1200, PetaPixel)