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The above is by George Mitchell, via Michael Buchino’s...

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:13:18 -0600

The above is by George Mitchell, via Michael Buchino’s Beard Revue. Beard Revue? A blog devoted entirely to beards for the beard enthusiast? …my dreams can come true. Now all I need is a forearm appreciation society.

nevewala:

sosexyoutofcontext:

imgfave | beard·revue: First Thursday Beard Art

Big River, Johnny Cash. This was stuck in my head while leaving...

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 23:35:57 -0600

Big River, Johnny Cash.

This was stuck in my head while leaving Chicago. I had a connecting flight in Minnesota, and couldn’t stop repeating the lines, “I met her accidentally in St. Paul (Minnesota) /
And it tore me up every time I heard her drawl, Southern drawl.”

graphiceverywhere: Something I Must Do

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:26:33 -0600

graphiceverywhere:

Something I Must Do

Timewarp: How your brain creates the fourth dimension (New Scientist)

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:26:15 -0600

Timewarp: How your brain creates the fourth dimension (New Scientist):

piquant:

via psychotherapy:

The man dangles on a cable hanging from an eight-storey-high tower. Suspended in a harness with his back to the ground, he sees only the face of the man above, who controls the winch that is lifting him to the top of the tower like a bundle of cargo. And then it happens. The cable suddenly unclips and he plummets towards the concrete below.

Panic sets in, but he’s been given an assignment and so, fighting his fear of death, he stares at the instrument strapped to his wrist, before falling into the sweet embrace of a safety net. A team of scientists will spend weeks studying the results.

The experiment was extreme, certainly, but the neuroscientist behind the study, David Eagleman at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, is no Dr Strangelove. When we look back at scary situations, they often seem to have occurred in slow motion. Eagleman wanted to know whether the brain’s clock actually accelerates - making external events appear abnormally slow in comparison with the brain’s workings - or whether the slo-mo is just an artefact of our memory.

It’s just one of many mysteries concerning how we experience time that we are only now beginning to crack. “Time,” says Eagleman, “is much weirder than we think it is.”

This reminds me of a certain true story about three students being hit by a school bus….

piquant: bewildered: these martian landscape photos[…]! ...

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:18:39 -0600

piquant:

bewildered:

these martian landscape photos[…]! you just have no sense of scale for pictures like this; you could tell me it was a satellite photo of a martian dune field ten miles wide or that it’s the surface of a cat’s tongue under an electron microscope and i’d believe you either way.

piquant: “Sæglópur” by Sigur Rós (via jingc) It’s a Sigur Rós...

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 16:09:40 -0600

piquant:

“Sæglópur” by Sigur Rós (via jingc)

It’s a Sigur Rós kind of day. I’m listening to this while looking at these (also via jingc).

Ken Taylor has plugged away in a studio day and night for the...

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:49:53 -0600

Ken Taylor has plugged away in a studio day and night for the past two years.

Casey Burns, that’s my spirit animal.

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:49:52 -0600

Casey Burns, that’s my spirit animal.

Jason Munn raises The Small Stakes.

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:49:47 -0600

Jason Munn raises The Small Stakes.

Christopher Muccioli is printing these. (Yeah, tumblrfolio.)

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:49:49 -0600

Christopher Muccioli is printing these. (Yeah, tumblrfolio.)

This is: Andy Chung.

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:49:50 -0600

This is: Andy Chung.

"I write to find the next room of my fate."

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:48:53 -0600

“I write to find the next room of my fate.”

- Saul Bellow

Dave Barnes oldificates the modern.

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 06:34:48 -0600

Dave Barnes oldificates the modern.

How To Use An Apostrophe

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:34:44 -0600

How To Use An Apostrophe:

Matthew Inman, thank you for this.

(Even though I can never look at Gill Sans the same way again.)

via aza

"Lead with the desire, follow with the truth."

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:26:00 -0600

“Lead with the desire, follow with the truth.”

- aza (via suzannexie)

unequal-design: stewf: viafrank: Gill Sans gives me the...

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:15:00 -0600

unequal-design:

stewf:

viafrank:

Gill Sans gives me the willies.

Here’s an explanation if you’re not familiar with the sexually disturbed gentleman behind some of your typefaces. via

"‘In the book?’ I said. ‘In life, in the book?’ said her husband...."

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:24:21 -0600

“

‘In the book?’ I said.

‘In life, in the book?’ said her husband. ‘There’s no difference.’

”

- “Shout About It From The Housetops,” Kurt Vonnegut

saintstigersloversart: John Monteiro

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:22:51 -0600

saintstigersloversart:

John Monteiro

An Eastern European book cover. via A Journey Round My Skull

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:27:47 -0600

An Eastern European book cover.

via A Journey Round My Skull

Inside the Tube, via Internet Pop Culture. A few of these are...

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:26:56 -0600

Ryan Cardone.

Ryan Cardone

Inside the Tube, via Internet Pop Culture. A few of these are by Ryan Cardone, a professional longboarder turned photographer.