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archiemcphee: These awesome photos, in which rolling waves...

Sat, 25 May 2013 00:55:44 -0400

These awesome photos, in which rolling waves appear to be both perfectly frozen in time and miraculously made solid, are the work of French photographer Pierre Carreau.

Carreau “shoots waves with a variety of high speed cameras using various macro and wide angle lenses, capturing water shapes that appear more sculptural than liquid.”

Visit his Pierre Carreau’s website to view many more examples of his amazing work. He also offers prints of some of his images via Clic Gallery.

[via Colossal]

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Sat, 25 May 2013 00:54:17 -0400

That's true! You must have more than one understanding; you must reach for all the understandings.

Fri, 24 May 2013 16:02:25 -0400

This is very true.

Understanding perspectives outside one’s own is perhaps the most important skill an individual can hone. It broadens the mind, lays the brickwork for empathy and compassion, and gives one a greater flexibility of thought.

It’s also important to know that understanding another’s perspective is not the same thing as agreeing with it.

ecmajor: wnycradiolab: atlasobscura: odditiesoflife: The...

Thu, 23 May 2013 19:00:06 -0400

ecmajor:

wnycradiolab:

atlasobscura:

odditiesoflife:

The Amazing Underwater Forest of Lake Kaindy

What makes Lake Kaindy truly remarkable is that it contains an underwater forest. Visible on the lakes surface are the tall, dried-out tops of submerged Spruce trees that rise above the water’s surface like the masts of sunken ships. They are the only sign of the amazing frozen forest below the water’s surface.

The water is so cold (even in summer the temperature does not exceed 6 degrees) that the pine needles remain on the trees, even after a hundred years of being submerged. During the winter, the lake freezes and becomes a popular spot for ice diving.

The lake is 400 meters long and is located in Kazakhstan’s portion of the Tian Shan Mountains, about 129 km from the city of Almaty. The lake was created after an earthquake in 1911 triggered a large landslide blocking the gorge and forming a natural dam.

Even more on Kaindy Lake…

Holy crap.

wow

See, I like myself super a lot and am always trying to improve and do better and level up.

Thu, 23 May 2013 00:43:30 -0400

Don’t misunderstand me. I am not saying that everyone who seeks to better themselves must necessarily hate themselves or that the only drive to improve is self loathing.

What I was trying to communicate is that a person’s mental state can be more complicated than the single apparent issue. That sometimes the bad things can have more effects than just the most evident one.

There is an impulse to simplify our problems, to seek The One Issue that explains all our difficulties and if we just fix The One Issue that everything would be better. But in the course of my life, I have found that the truth is more often that our problems aren’t really so concise. More often our One Problem is really a much more complex and involved set of issues, sometimes overlapping and interacting with each other. Such that our One Problem is itself an effect of a much greater network of issues. Or even things that aren’t really issues.

And from this I have realized that a lot of those “negative” traits really aren’t so negative, but are merely the flip-side to things that other people would call positive. And when people say “You just have to be more self-confident” they don’t realize that, for me and some others, that is actually a far more complicated issue than they imagine.

My lack of confidence and general sense of self-loathing has driven me to try harder and seek more sure paths to understanding, through reason and logic. By no means is this the only way to find yourself at that point. One of the greatest aspects of life is that there are many ways to achieve the same result. I found myself here because of self-doubt, whereas another person might have found themselves here for exactly the opposite reason.

In the end, it is more about how you react to your situation than the situation itself.

sixsaltysweets: thepaintedbench: Soft Grey Paws hhnnngggh...

Wed, 22 May 2013 20:52:39 -0400

sixsaltysweets:

thepaintedbench:

Soft Grey Paws

hhnnngggh <3

dorkly: If New Game Console Reveals Were Honest

Wed, 22 May 2013 11:39:12 -0400

dorkly:

If New Game Console Reveals Were Honest

elasticitymudflap: ericaisawesome56: farfromgotham: Fun fact...

Wed, 22 May 2013 02:17:43 -0400

elasticitymudflap:

ericaisawesome56:

farfromgotham:

Fun fact time: many of my old acquaintances still make joking comments whenever they see me wearing pink, because as a child (and honestly pretty much right up to high school) I would refuse to associate with any pink objects.

It wasn’t because I didn’t like pink, it was because since I appeared female I was supposed to/ it was immediately assumed that I did and therefore it pissed me the ever-loving fuck off. I was ashamed to like it, which is terrible because pink is an awesome color. But when you shove it down young girls throats it gets really old, really fast.

Give the child the fucking rainbow, and if they pick pink, it’s not because they are female and/or effeminate, it’s because they like the color pink.

THIS.

Gosh this

The Confidence Conundrum

Wed, 22 May 2013 01:35:11 -0400

That frustrating feeling you get when people tell you “You need to be more self-confident.” and you just want to grab them and shake them and yell “But my self-loathing is what keeps me wanting to do better!”.

Because, if I liked myself, I would never try to improve who I am and that would lead to stagnation. And in the supreme irony, it is always the drive to do better that I am complimented on. As if, somehow, the self-loathing and the determination to do better are not linked.

It is a staggering misunderstanding in how we comprehend personalities that we want to separate the “good” aspects of someone from the “bad” aspects. As if these traits are somehow independent. The truth, as I see it, is that the things that make us driven, that compel us to do better are often the same things that make us look in the mirror and think “You worthless git.”.

A person’s mind is a closely woven mesh of threads and a single strand may wind it’s way around many points, such that a tug at this end may find itself pulling on something completely unexpected. We must remember this when seeking to give others advice: We are the sum of all aspects of our minds, good and bad and neither extreme is the real us but a combination, as inseparable as light and shadow. Both are requisite for the whole to exist.

221badwolfstreet: aswimmersparadise: Let me tell you something...

Wed, 22 May 2013 01:19:13 -0400

221badwolfstreet:

aswimmersparadise:

Let me tell you something about today. Today was the hottest day of the year in New Jersey, I woke up sweating despite air conditioning because it was 95 degrees. Now, i did what any logical person would do and I put on my favorite pair of shorts so i wouldn’t be sweating throughout the day.

Even in my shorts i was sweating my balls off but I went through half of my day as normal, no boys stared at my ass or tried to grope me in public yet when i went to the the cafeteria a teacher told me to go to the office because he finds my shorts inappropriate. I head down to the office to find a group of girls wearing shorts and skirts sitting in a small room in the office, we where all ordered to call our parents or to change into the clothes they had offered us from the school store. These items of clothing included sweatpants and a large heavy sweatshirt. I obviously refused to wear those because it was 95 degrees and when you are sweating the key to cool down is NOT to put on more clothes. They told me I would have to stay in that room the whole day if it came down to it.

I was able to leave the office when my friend gave me a pair of yoga pants. The man who made me go down to the office brought down several other girls as I was leaving, at this point they didn’t care how long the shorts where they just sent everyone who was wearing a pair down. They warned me that if I put my shorts back on they would wright me up.

I put them back on anyway because just walking down the hallway in those yoga pants made me faint, dizzy,and extremely hot. Thats the main issue, it is hot enough for people to pass out in school but to the school system they would rather a girl suffer from a heat stroke then to have a boy become turned on. My shorts don’t say “COme fuck me in the middle of class” they say,”Its warm out”

The sexualizing of innocent students is not okay

Risking students health is not okay

and tHE LACK OF FEMINISM IN THE SCHOOL SYSTEM WILL NEVER BE OKAY

Today was literally horrible

I hate our school so much

perfectly incomplete: cookiesinjuly: Things I want to tell people, that I wish people had...

Tue, 21 May 2013 23:46:46 -0400

perfectly incomplete: cookiesinjuly: Things I want to tell people, that I wish people had...:

cookiesinjuly:

Things I want to tell people, that I wish people had told me:

wifwolf:

You don’t have to achieve great things by the time you’re 25

You have intrinsic value above and beyond your perceived utility to other people and society at large.

You don’t have to have sex,…

How to Look at Art, Arts & Architecture, Ad Reinhardt,...

Tue, 21 May 2013 23:39:32 -0400

How to Look at Art, Arts & Architecture, Ad Reinhardt, January 1947

shadowednarrator: chef-who: 50 years. “One day, I shall come...

Tue, 21 May 2013 23:37:37 -0400

shadowednarrator:

chef-who:

50 years.

“One day, I shall come back. Yes, I shall come back. Until then, there must be no regrets, no tears, no anxieties. Just go forward in all your beliefs and prove to me that I am not mistaken in mine.”

“There are some corners of the universe which have bred the most terrible things. Things which act against everything we believe in. They must be fought.”

“A straight line may be the shortest distance between two points, but it is by no means the most interesting.”

“Answers are easy. It’s asking the right questions which is hard.”

“For some people, small, beautiful events is what life is all about!”

“Planets come and go. Stars perish. Matter disperses, coalesces, forms into other patterns, other worlds. Nothing can be eternal.”

“There are worlds out there where the sky is burning, and the sea’s asleep, and the rivers dream; people made of smoke and cities made of song. Somewhere there’s danger, somewhere there’s injustice, somewhere else the tea’s getting cold. Come on, Ace. We’ve got work to do.”

“I love humans. Always seeing patterns in things that aren’t there.”

“I’m the last of the Time Lords. They’re all gone. I’m the only survivor. I’m left travelling on my own, ‘cause there’s no one else.”

“Some people live more in twenty years than others do in eighty. It’s not the time that matters, it’s the person.”

“Good men don’t need rules. Today is not the day to find out why I have so many.”

-The Doctor(One quote for each incarnation)

“When you run with the Doctor, it feels like it’ll never end, but however hard you try you can’t run forever. Everybody knows that everybody dies and nobody knows it like the Doctor, but I do think that all the skies of all the worlds might just turn dark if he ever, for one moment, accepts it. Everybody knows that everybody dies, but not every day. Not today. Some days are special. Some days are so, so blessed. Some days, nobody dies at all. Now and then, every once in a very long while, every day in a million days, when the wind stands fair and the Doctor comes to call, everybody lives.”

-Professor River Song

Note to self: Future Theater Monologue Material

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Tue, 21 May 2013 18:54:55 -0400

pleatedjeans:

[joy ang][follow her on tumblr]

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Tue, 21 May 2013 17:56:18 -0400

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Tue, 21 May 2013 07:54:55 -0400

odditiesoflife: Glass Frog The glass frog is a fascinating...

Tue, 21 May 2013 01:08:15 -0400

odditiesoflife:

Glass Frog

The glass frog is a fascinating little creature. While most of the frog’s body is lime green, the abdominal skin is translucent. Most of the internal organs, including the heart, liver, and gastrointestinal tract are visible through its translucent skin. The glass frog is also very small in size, ranging from 3 to 7 cm.

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Tue, 21 May 2013 01:06:08 -0400

kylesbogusjourney: activatewindows: kylesbogusjourney: WHAT IF MY COLORS ARE DIFFERENT THAN YOUR...

Mon, 20 May 2013 22:18:42 -0400

kylesbogusjourney:

activatewindows:

kylesbogusjourney:

WHAT IF MY COLORS ARE DIFFERENT THAN YOUR COLORS

They are, because people having varying numbers of Rods and cones in their eyes, it causes people to see colours differently.

Also there is a theory that everyone sees, for example, the colour red differently eg Red=yellow, but because we’ve been taught that, that specific colour is red, no one knows if everyone is seeing the same colour as another person.

I’ve always wondered about this… although, I have to say that it would make eye transplants very awkward…

Tonight, in the Kitchen

Mon, 20 May 2013 22:07:00 -0400

Me: *stirring a boiling pot of beans and ham and not much else*
Me: Man, I'm an idiot. I should have bought some onions for this bean soup before I left work...
Me: *turns to let pot boil*
Bag of Medium White Onions on Kitchen Table: Hello!
Me: I'M AN IDIOT - I DID BUY ONIONS!!
Me: *quickly chops up onions and tosses in boiling pot*
Me: Thank goodness I live alone and nobody saw that... now to post about this act of stupidity on Tumblr!!