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MORE KITTIES I don’t know what to draw again HALP.
MORE KITTIES
I don’t know what to draw again
HALP.
roseonabeach: chelsdamelsp: woAH WAIT PLOT TWIST Shark week
Skara Brae Prehistoric Village in Scotland
Skara Brae, on the Bay of Skaill, in the Orkney Isles to the north-east of mainland Scotland, was a late Neolithic settlement consisting of eight stone houses that were inhabited between 3,200 and 2,500 BC. This ancient settlement is the best preserved Neolithic village in northern Europe. Not only are the walls of the structures still standing, and alleyways roofed with their original stone slabs, but the interior fittings of each house give an unparalleled glimpse into the lives of the farmers who lived there more than 5,000 years ago.
Skara Brae’s discovery was an accident. In 1850 a violent storm ravaged the Bay of Skaill revealing an outline of a village consisting of a number of small houses without roofs that was buried beneath the sand dunes. The local laird began an amateur excavation of the site, but after uncovering four houses the work was abandoned in 1868. The site remained undisturbed until 1913, when during a single weekend the site was plundered by a party with shovels who took away an unknown quantity of artifacts. In 1924 when another storm swept away part of one of the houses, it was determined the site should be made secure and more seriously investigated. The first proper excavation of Skara Brae was done in 1927.
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magicalnaturetour: Flower hat by Stephan Brauchli
Werner Herzog's Driver Safety Documentary
Werner Herzog, director of documentaries like Grizzly Man, Encounters at the End of the World, Cave of Forgotten Dreams, and a zillion others has now created a powerful 35-minute documentary about...wait for it...texting while driving. And guess what? It's just as wrenching as his other work. You can watch the whole thing for free on YouTube. Do this, now:
This is part of the It Can Wait campaign, encouraging drivers to put down their phones while in the car.
Tangentially related, here's an animation illustrating the time Werner Herzog rescued Joaquin Phoenix from a car crash. Yes, really.
For more Herzog, check out our previous coverage. (I'm particularly proud of my excessively long review of On Death Row.)
(Via Kottke.)
Up to bat by Stinkersmell on Flickr.
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Peinture Flamande by Sacha Goldberger
20 Photos Of 1940′s Vintage Swimwear Vs Present Day
As Bob Dylan famously once sang ‘The times they are a-changin’…
That’s certainly true when you glance back on the fashions of yesteryear. Back in the 1940′s and even to a degree in the 1950s, when it came to going to the beach modesty, being ladylike and carrying oneself with a measure of dignity was the norm. That level of decorum is now diametrically opposite to the overly sexual imagery that saturates and dominates popular culture today. There was an element of innocence and a tangible sense of sophistication to swimwear styles back then. Bold colours, playful patterns and all kind of cuts, lengths and styles.
Today, those same outfits are replaced with bikini’s little thicker than a cheese wire, that leave little to the imagination. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, in fact you could argue it’s a progression of sorts, the inflexible conservative values of yesterday giving way to a more care-free and inclusive mindset. If you’ve got it, these days it appears you have every right to flaunt it? And really, why shouldn’t you?
But ultimately whichever era you’re a fan of, vintage or present day – beauty can often be fleeting but class?
Well that’s permanent.
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Fernanda CampelloNão sei se ela está tirando ou pondo o sutiã, eu infelizmente não consigo colocar o sutiã assim =/
Don’t be sad, look at these baby ducks.
Don’t be sad, look at these baby ducks.
Cats vs Sloths at The Bird Machine
I’m a huge fan of Jay Ryan’s screen prints and these two recent works are amazing. It’s handy that they’d make a great pair as who could choose between cats and sloths? You can buy these for just $20 each at The Bird Machine, along with loads more of his cute and colourful prints.
It's the real thing
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In March of 1970, having been shown an advertisement for the newly-published book in the New York Times, Coca-Cola brand manager Ira C. Herbert wrote to Grove Press and asked that they stop using the quote "it's the real thing"—a slogan associated with the soft-drink since the 1940s—when promoting Diary of a Harlem Schoolteacher, Jim Haskins' classic first-hand account of life as an African-American teacher in 1960s Harlem, New York. A few days later, Grove Press's Richard Seaver responded defiantly with a letter that was both hugely entertaining and instantly effective, as it resulted in silence from the beverage behemoth from that point on. The full exchange can be read below.
(Letters very kindly submitted by Robert Wood, Sammamish High School; Image: Richard Seaver (left) at work at Grove Press, via Reality Studio.)
March 25, 1970
Mr. R. W. Seaver
Executive Vice President
Grove Press, Inc.
214 Mercer Street
New York, New York 10012
Dear Mr. Seaver:
Several people have called to our attention your advertisement for Diary of a Harlem Schoolteacher by Jim Haskins, which appeared in the New York Times March 3, 1970. The theme of the ad is "This book is like a weapon...it's the real thing."
Since our company has made use of "It's the Real Thing" to advertise Coca-Cola long prior to the publication of the book, we are writing to ask you to stop using this theme or slogan in connection with the book.
We believe you will agree that it is undesirable for our companies to make simultaneous use of "the real thing" in connection with our respective products. There will always be likelihood of confusion as to the source or sponsorship of the goods, and the use by such prominent companies would dilute the distinctiveness of the trade slogan and diminish its effectiveness and value as an advertising and merchandising tool.
"It's the Real Thing" was first used in advertising for Coca-Cola over twenty-seven years ago to refer to our product. We first used it in print advertising in 1942 and extended it to outdoor advertising, including painted walls—some of which are still displayed throughout the country. The line has appeared in advertising for Coca-Cola during succeeding years. For example, in 1954 we used "There's this about Coke—You Can't Beat the Real Thing" in national advertising. We resumed national use of "It's the Real Thing" in the summer of 1969 and it is our main thrust for 1970.
Please excuse my writing so fully, but I wanted to explain why we feel it necessary to ask you and your associates to use another line to advertise Mr. Haskins' book.
We appreciate your cooperation and your assurance that you will discontinue the use of "It's the real thing."
Sincerely,
Ira C. Herbert
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March 31, 1970
Mr. Ira C. Herbert
Coca-Cola USA
P.O. Drawer 1734
Atlanta, Georgia 30301
Dear Mr. Herbert:
Thank you for your letter of March 25th, which has just reached me, doubtless because of the mail strike.
We note with sympathy your feeling that you have a proprietary interest in the phrase "It's the real thing," and I can fully understand that the public might be confused by our use of the expression, and mistake a book by a Harlem schoolteacher for a six-pack of Coca-Cola. Accordingly, we have instructed all our salesmen to notify bookstores that whenever a customer comes in and asks for a copy of Diary of a Harlem Schoolteacher they should request the sales personnel to make sure that what the customer wants is the book, rather than a Coke. This, we think, should protect your interest and in no way harm ours.
We would certainly not want to dilute the distinctiveness of your trade slogan nor diminish its effectiveness as an advertising and merchandising tool, but it did occur to us that since the slogan is so closely identified with your product, those who read our ad may well tend to go out and buy a Coke rather than our book. We have discussed this problem in an executive committee meeting, and by a vote of seven to six decided that, even if this were the case, we would be happy to give Coke the residual benefit of our advertising.
Problems not unsimilar to the ones you raise in your letter have occurred to us in the past. You may recall that we published Games People Play which became one of the biggest nonfiction best-sellers of all time, and spawned conscious imitations (Games Children Play, Games Psychiatrists Play, Games Ministers Play, etc.). I am sure you will agree that this posed a far more direct and deadly threat to both the author and ourselves than our use of "It's the real thing." Further, Games People Play has become part of our language, and one sees it constantly in advertising, as a newspaper headline, etc. The same is true of another book which we published six or seven years ago, One Hundred Dollar Misunderstanding.
Given our strong sentiments concerning the First Amendment, we will defend to the death your right to use "It's the real thing" in any advertising you care to. We would hope you would do the same for us, especially when no one here or in our advertising agency, I am sorry to say, realized that you owned the phrase. We were merely quoting in our ads Peter S. Prescott's review of Diary of a Harlem Schoolteacher in Look which begins "Diary of a Harlem Schoolteacher is the real thing, a short, spare, honest book which will, I suspect, be read a generation hence as a classic..."
With all best wishes,
Sincerely yours,
Richard Seaver
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My amazing cover up done by Margo at Holy City Tattooing...
My amazing cover up done by Margo at Holy City Tattooing Collective in Charleston, SC
LEGO Librarians
LEGO makes a standard librarian minifig. It's a bespectacled woman with a cup marked "Shhh!" and a book. Joe Hardenbrook, AKA Mr. Library Dude, thinks that doesn't adequately cover the range of librarians in the real world. So he created 27 LEGO minifigs that fit common librarian archetypes. You can view the rest at the link.
Link -via Jessamyn West