January 2010
67 posts
It just hit me
that we’re entering a new decade. What?
December 2009
40 posts
lovepico:
Howl’s Moving Castle Theme - Joe...
Scrappy Scrambler →
Short and sweet article about 8-year-old climber Ashima Shiraishi.
“I’m sponsored by Evolv, so they gave me my favorite shoes, which are called Optimus Prime, who is the best and nicest Transformer.”
So cute! And talented as well. Best of luck at the ABS National Championship!
WHY
WHY DO KIDS ALWAYS SING “SHAWTY??” I like it, it’s funny. But seriously, WHY?
http://www.dayswithmyfather.com/ →
so beautiful…I teared up.
Birthday
So much world all at once – how it rustles and bustles! Moraines and morays and morasses and mussels, The flame, the flamingo, the flounder, the feather – How to line them all up, how to put them together? All the tickets and crickets and creepers and creeks! The beeches and leeches alone could take weeks. Chinchillas, gorillas, and sarsaparillas – Thanks do much, but all this excess of kindness...
“The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.”
– Susan Sontag
“BTW. Make sure to have your Christmas presents for all who care about you. Even...”
– cute haha
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(via t-a-i on flickr)
Indoor Windows
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/punkclown/4170274640/ →
dreamy photo, love the light reminds me of the twilight zone
4:33 →
jingc:
I stumbled across this bit from a Wikipedia article on 4:33, a musical piece with 4 minutes and 33 seconds of silence.
In 1951, Cage visited the anechoic chamber at Harvard University. An anechoic chamber is a room designed in such a way that the walls, ceiling and floor absorb all sounds made in the room, rather than reflecting them as echoes. Such a chamber is also externally...
“Be of great heart, and fear less.”
– Porfiry Petrovich, Crime and Punishment
“The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why...”
– C.S. Lewis
“If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has...”
– C.S. Lewis
“Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.”
– C.S. Lewis
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/11/national_g... →
These are amazing…downright beautiful. National Geographic photo contest’s entries
Homesick
The sound of rain reminds me of February and I stood in front of the window and the wind blew in my face and I had just looked at pictures of home, pictures which were also taken on a day that rained, and I thought of home and I’m sitting here now and missing it.
http://www.uniqlo.com/calendar/?cID=US&aID=NYK →
Uniqlo’s Calendar, always so amusing to watch
Key Concepts
A: (explaining how to do a math problem) and that's a key concept.
B: YOU'RE a key concept!
C: Hey, that's a pretty good pick up line!
http://www.katiepaterson.org/sounds/katie_paterson_... →
“Katie Paterson recorded the sound of 3 glaciers (Langjökull, Snæfellsjökull and Solheimajökull) on Iceland. She then pressed those recordings on ice record made of melt water from those glaciers. The records were played on 3 turntables and it took almost 2 hours till they were completely melted.” (via today and tomorrow)
