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Inks for the Destroy Comics Battling Boy T-Shirt Contest - ink/bristol

It's a lovely late summer weekend. You should go buy this book about cricket, a sport you almost certainly don't care about, and take it the park or the beach and read it. You'll be happy you did.

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A beautiful picture of Roberto Clemente in Forbes Field from a Redditor’s father. 

Just look at that skyline in the background and the patchy grass near first base. There isn’t much difference between this field and what would pass for a Little League park these days.

Tomorrow we will be releasing our seventh soundtrack of the year, this one an official compilation
of selections from five Studio Ghibli films (PRINCESS MONONOKE, SPIRITED AWAY, HOWL’S MOVING CASTLE, THE CAT RETURNS, and MY NEIGHBORS THE YAMADAS,) as performed by the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra.

STUDIO GHIBILI KOKYO KYOKUSHU (MOND-014) is a 2XLP features artwork by renowned Mondo artist Tyler Stout, representing each film across the four panels of the gatefold jacket, and the insert. There are three different versions to choose from, each featuring a different cover panel, and two different color vinyl LP’s.

Howl’s Moving Castle version – Purple & Pink vinyl
Spirited Away version – Yellow & green vinyl
Princess Mononoke version – Blue & Red vinyl

1) Chapter One – The Legend Of Ashitaka
2) Chapter Four – Princess Mononoke
3) Chapter Eight – Ashitaka And San
4) The Theme of My Neighbors The Yamadas – Orchestral Version
5) Takashi And Matsuko’s Tango – Sinfonico
6) Always With Me – Orchestral Version
7) A Mysterious World
8) The Moving Castle
9) War War War
10) Cave Of The Mind
11) The Baron
12) Pastorale
13) Haru’s Memories

Tracks 1-3 From Symphonic Suite Princess Mononoke
Tracks 4-5 From My Neighbors The Yamadas – Classical Album
Track 6 From the film Spirited Away
Tracks 7-10 From Howl’s Moving Castle – Image Symphonic Suite
Tracks 11-13 From The Cat Returns – Original Soundtrack Album

In case you don’t own a record player, we will also be releasing T-Shirts featuring Tyler’s incredible artwork.

UPDATE: The Studio Ghibli t-shirts will cost $30 rather than the originally listed price of $25. Apologies for any inconvenience.

Photo credit: Billy Garrett

CREDIT: Shutterstock

The average household earns less today than when the recession officially ended in 2009, according to a new report from Sentier Research. Median household income has fallen 4.4 percent in that time, adjusted for inflation, from $54,478 in June 2009 to $52,098 in June 2013.

The report tracked income against unemployment, showing that even as unemployment has fallen (in grey) income hasn’t seen much of a recovery (red):

The problem goes back even further for most Americans, however. A recent report from the Economic Policy Institute showed that American workers have seen a “lost decade” without any wage growth at all, even though their productivity has increased nearly 25 percent in that time.

But the trend has been concentrated at the bottom of the income scale, with the richest of the rich continuing to pull away from everyone else. Income inequality has skyrocketed during the recession, and the top 10 percent of the income distribution had nearly 16 times the income of those at the bottom 10 percent in 2010. But that was just an acceleration of a thirty-year trend in which the incomes of the richest 20 percent of Americans grew far faster than the bottom 20 percent. CEO pay, for example, has increased 127 times faster than that of the average worker since the 1970s.

The post Americans Are Earning Less Than At The End Of The Recession appeared first on ThinkProgress.

beepbopboopbeepbop:

haha NBC used this image to demonstrate how kids sext

TEENS

Here’s a travel story: One time I took an airplane ride and they served us MOS Burgers. The burgers were disgusting, but the instructions on how to assemble and eat them ruled.

tompeyer:

I love it! 

Back in 1948, The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers defined high-speed photography as any 3 frames or more captured at a rate at or above 128 frames per second, but even back then high-speed cameras performed well past that mark.

The public domain video above gives us a short peek at how far high-speed photography tech had advanced by the mid-1960s, when Wollensak’s Fastax models were some of the foremost high-speed cameras on the market, capturing action at speeds of up to 18,000fps.

The original Fastax camera was developed by Bell Labs and maxed out at 5,000fps. Bell wanted something faster than the popular Kodak model at the time — which could only pull 1,000fps — and when Kodak refused to develop it, Bell made it themselves.

Eventually the Fastax design was sold to Wester Electric, who then sold it to Wollensak Optical Company, who finally saw fit to improve the design and speed up the camera further. They took the 16mm version from 5,000fps to 10,000fps.

They also created 8mm and 35mm versions, the first of which was capable of speeds up to 18,000fps — it’s no wonder NASA took so long to give digital a try.

Check out the video at the top to learn more. In addition to seeing the Fastax models used in several different applications, you also get to see some Fastax footage of the inside of a Fastax (imagine that), which shows how the rotating prism design made these sorts of high-speed film cameras possible.

(via Image Sensors World)

seanwitzke:

Hey everybody, the new podcast is up - this week on Travis Bickle on the Riviera, me and Tucker Stone talk about Children of Men, A Hijacking, 2 Guns, Erased, Bob Le Flambeur, and Prime Cut. And we also discuss the greatest response to Star Wars we’ve ever heard.

nevver:

Somebody shoot me.

comicsreporter:

marie severin is 84 today; a marvelous and versatile comic book talent

[Label: Columbia | Cat#: none]

1. Pre (feat. SK La’Flare) (2:52)
2. Burgundy (2:07)
3. 20 Wave Caps (2:12)
4. Sunday (feat. Frank Ocean) (3:26)
5. Hive (4:37)
6. Chum (4:04)
7. Sasquatch (2:48)
8. Centurion (3:04)
9. 523 (1:32)
10. Uncle Al (0:53)
11. Guild (3:54)
12. Molasses (2:16)
13. Whoah (3:16)
14. Hoarse (3:52)
15. Knight (3:14)

Threadless, which basically owns my wardrobe because I consider a graphic tee with a cardigan about as “grownup” as I can handle, currently has a Simpsons contest right now, with the winning designs becoming purchase-able objects of commerce. 

The above, by artist Danni Nine, is in the running. 

Now, I’m not saying that we should stuff the ballot box with our votes, while also creating accounts for our neighbors, friends, city council members, and long-dead relatives to ensure that this design is victorious, but I’m not not saying that. 

It’s just, if democracy doesn’t result in this tee-shirt being draped across my blob of a torso, then maybe democracy is broken. Vote for it here. 

wordsthatfit:

sandandglass:

Jessica Williams proposes applying New York’s Stop and Frisk policy to Wall Street bankers. 

This all day.

Oh yeah, that is a pretty book. 

The whole thing is up here.

thebristolboard:

afsbookseller:

ALEX TOTH “Survival” from Blazing Combat #3. Written by Archie Goodwin and Alex Toth. COMPLETE 6 PAGE STORY. Each page is a detailed & complex painting, a painfully beautiful work of art done for a poorly printed cheap paper magazine. On the reverse of the splash is Toth’s first, aborted attempt started in pen only. Any single page would qualify as the keystone of a Toth collection. Hidden away for decades the pages are bright and unfaded, as stunning as the day they were finished. $25,000

This story is one of my personal favorite works by Alex Toth. It was an outlier for Blazing Combat, focused less directly on war and combat than on the long-term after-effects of militarism and political conflict. It’s a bleak vision of a dystopian future fully realized in just six pages. It’s also some of Toth’s best artwork, simple yet striking compositions with beautiful use of gray wash tones adding to his always masterful black and white linework. I had considered this story for one of my forgotten masterpiece posts, but this original artwork is even better, especially the false start on page 1. Now if I only had $25,000 to spare… 

Ooh, pretty. Don’t forget about our complete collection of Blazing Combat.

noahvansciver:

A Moose on a skateboard. 

Puppet. Ink on Paper, 9 x 10”, 2013.

toshiromifunes:

_{Toshiro Mifune driving around on the set of Yojimbo, 1960}

scanner’s busted, sketchbook 2013 - MATLACK - Minor League Comics coming soon - brush/bristol

Available during weekend brunch hours at the Kimchi Taco Truck’s brick & mortar location in Prospect Heights.

Kimchi Grill!
766 Washington Ave.
(btw. Sterling & Park Place)
Brooklyn, NY 11238

This is Moondog. He is one of two mascots for the Cleveland Cavaliers and he recently attended Ben and Ashlee's wedding reception.

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