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Remember your first time? At…everything? Chances are you don’t, ’cause you were too young, and YouTube wasn’t invented yet so your parents couldn’t shoot it online to embarrass you with later on.

But!

These little knuckleheads are learning about The Important Stuff In Life, and we get to follow along! Sha-ZAM!

From Teri C.

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Can you repeat that for us?

“So I have another goat video for you. I swear it just happened. I don’t have a goat fetish or something.” -Erin N., Sweden.

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O famoso troca troca.

No, we’re not talking about those Puppeh Pads. CutePorter Kate M. says “There is a guide dog organization near me (Calgary, AB) named PADS. They just had a Cute litter of pups and are posting adorable photos of ‘em on Instagram!”

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People, this is Jimmy Choo, and his hoomin is Brazilian illustrator Rafael Mantesso. It seems that Mantesso just went through a divorce- she got all the furniture, and he got the house and Jimmy.
Rafa got the better part of the deal IMO. From Vajda B. as seen on Bored Panda.

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Back in the first part of August, we brought you Part I- now Magician & Mentalist Jose Ahonen is back with part II. Hopefully he got stocked up with more hot dogs!

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everyoneinthetardis:

onna4:

David Tennant with his wife

David Tennant without his wife

She’s back!

I’ve been laughing at this for three years

Unused image-boards for Fushigi no umi no Nadia movie by Tatsuyuki Tanaka (Cannabis Works).

thefingerfuckingfemalefury:

SLEEP TIME IS NOW

SWEET DREAMS HUMAN

I WILL BE HERE, SHARING MY WARMTHS 

I GOOD DOG

I KEEP MY HUMAN SAFE 

becausebirds:

MAKIN’ IT RAINNNN

Quanta elegância!

Maybe..”I’m gonna do a GREAT BAROO and get on Cute Overload.” Yeah. That must be it. (Also note Rule #42: “Ears that flop over a leetle beet are cute.”)

Reddit.

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My friend’s dog won 3rd place at a Petco Star Wars contest. -ejara80

the-goddamazon:

congenitalprogramming:

dedenne:

ultrafacts:

Source If you want more facts, follow Ultrafacts

which is even funnier because she’s the reason lesbians are called lesbians. she was know as sappho of lesbos and her poems were all about her love for women

no im totally not a lesbo my super actual husband is dick allcocks from man island i’m megahet

I laughed extra hard at this.

A good few people objected to a recent project that colorized old photos of Walt Whitman, Charlie Chaplin, Helen Keller, Mark Twain, and other historical characters. Leave them alone! they grumped. The past, they wanted left in black and white. But this is not so easily done when some photos—whether of august personages like Leo Tolstoy above, or of ordinary anonymous peasants below—were always processed in color. The Tolstoy image dates from 1908, two years before his death, but the process is much older, and successful color photographs, not simply hand-painted colorizations, go back at least to the Lumiere Brothers’ Autochromes from the late 19th century.

The method that gave us Tolstoy in color involved taking three photographs—with a red, a green, and a blue filter—then projecting the resulting prints through filters of the same color. It’s a procedure that dates to Scottish scientist James Clerk Maxwell’s 1861 experiments, which put to the test several earlier theories. The photographs you see here are the work of scientist and inventor Sergei Prokudin-Gorsky, who had perfected the projection method to such a degree that—as he wrote in a letter to Tolstoy asking him to pose—he only needed “from 1 to 3 seconds to take the photograph.” Thus it would not be “overly tiresome” for the soon-to-be eighty-year-old novelist.

Tolstoy, of course, was a national institution, and had warranted an earlier attempt at a color portrait by an anonymous amateur to whom Prokudin-Gorsky refers in his letter of request. The first attempt, the inventor implies, was a botched job. Billing himself as a specialist in “photography ‘in natural colors,’” the self-confident entrepreneur assured the writer he could produce “excellent results” with “accurate colors.” “My colored projections,” he wrote, “are known in both Europe and in Russia.” Prokudin-Gorsky was received and given two days to take several color photographs, though whether the others have survived, I do not know. We do know that the portrait appeared in the August, 1908 issue of The Proceedings of the Russian Technical Society as “the first Russian color photoportrait.” The journal offered the image in tribute to Tolstoy’s upcoming 80th birthday celebration, writing:

Our periodical, as a purely technical one, cannot honor this venerable representative of Russian thought and word with special articles. Desiring, however, to take part in the general festivities, the editorial staff […] decided to publish in this, its August issue, the newest portrait of Tolstoy, which is the dernier mot in photographic technology. The portrait was taken on location and in natural colors, achieved through technical methods alone, without any use of the artist’s brush or tool.

Prokudin-Gorsky expressed his gratitude to the novelist by mailing him a photographic periodical containing “many pictures produced in my workshops from my photographs.” Perhaps the other photos we see here were contained in that journal. Prokudin-Gorsky had every reason to be proud of his work, and the Russian Technical Society every reason to endorse it. The pictures are stunning.

Some of the photographs, like the Tolstoy portrait, have a painterly, almost impressionistic quality. Others, like the 1911 village scene with the Nikolaevskii Cathedral in the distance, have almost the depth of field and fine-grained clarity of 35mm film. And some, like that of the already cartoonish structure below, have an almost hallucinatory CGI quality. The method wasn’t perfect—even with such short exposures, subjects had to remain absolutely still. If they moved, the result was an eerie double exposure effect you see in the middle distance of the field workers photographed above. But overall, these photographs simply astonish in their crispness and fidelity.

You can see many more of Prokudin-Gorsky’s images at this online gallery, which includes over a dozen early-twentieth century photos of Russian laborers, landscapes, and self portraits. Prokudin-Gorsky’s work also preserves images of various Eastern European peoples in traditional dress—like the final Emir of Bukhara, now Uzbekistan, below in 1910. Many of these groups were on the verge of cultural extinction in the coming years of Soviet imperialism. Unwittingly, Prokudin-Gorsky managed to beautifully capture the very end of tsarist Russia, most poignantly symbolized for so many Russians by their aged literary hero, whose birthday we celebrate again today. Google decided to do so in full color as well, with fancy doodles of his major works. You may accuse them of tampering with the past, but those who find these color photographs too modern may need to expand their definition of modernity.

Related Content:

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Josh Jones is a writer and musician based in Durham, NC. Follow him at @jdmagness

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[Image: Procedural Brutalism by Cedric].

Here are a few GIFs of procedurally generated architecture by a game developer named Cedric, built using Unity. Cedric describes himself as an "indie game dev focused on social AI, emergent narrative and procedural worlds."

[Image: Procedural Croydon by Cedric].

These were pointed out to me by Jim Rossignol, who has both guest-posted and spoken at length here on BLDGBLOG about procedural architecture, and whose own development company, Big Robot, is behind the awesome "British Landscape Generator" whirring away beneath the rolling hills and cliffsides of Sir, You Are Being Hunted.

[Image: Procedural facades by Cedric].

The GIFs here are relatively big, obviously, so it might take a while for them to load, but then you can just sit back and watch the rule-based production of built structures pop, rise, and expand like urban accordions.

Imagine whole game worlds powered by real-time computation at the building level, constantly and parametrically fizzing with architectural forms, barely predictable new Woolworth Buildings and Barbicans sprouting on-demand from the ground whenever needed.

OMG Ponies!1!!!1! This is Gilbert. He lives in a field next to the Piccadilly Inn, in Caerwys, North Wales. Quoting The Telly, “Manager Erica Burney (pictured) said Gilbert’s favourite pint is Guinness but he also clears up any leftover vegetables from dinner time.”

Sent in by Arne.

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