1957 Seeburg 100 Select-o-matic (by Alessandro Stefano Guerrato)
Resort Town Flaine, Haute Savoie, France, 1960-82(Marcel Breuer & Associates)
chromeography: Regentone Handy Gram Record Player (by midcenturydesign)
Dazzling slide show of glaciers from various view points. That second one (fragments in muddy water) is great.
Chasing Ice | Horrifying—yet undeniably beautiful—photos of vanishing glaciers
Photographs by James Balog
No matter what your perspective, Earth is mighty beautiful.
Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don’t.
We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but is somewhat beauty and poetry.
—Maria Mitchell (1818-1889), astronomer and first woman elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (via ikenbot)
(Source: nrmoore, via jtotheizzoe)
I’ve been waiting for the new Metric album for SOOOOO long. Thank goodness, and FINALLY!
(Source: vimeo.com)
WHAT????
jtotheizzoe:Would you star in a space reality show about Mars settlement if it meant you could never come home?
Because that’s what the MarsOne project is planning. And they are completely serious (as you can tell by the fact that a Nobel winner is involved, srsly).
Beginning in 2023, groups of four Earthlings are to be dropped on the Red Planet, and joined by a new foursome every two years after that. Rovers will prepare the settlement in advance, and the humans will show up a few years afterwards. But a return trip home is not part of the plan. Filming it is.
It reminds me of Bill Stone’s inspiring TED talk, where he called for interplanetary explorers that would be willing to only take enough fuel for the trip to distant moons, and not home. Or the (not true) story of Hernan Cortés burning his ships to fully commit his soldiers to the task of conquest. Failure is less of an option if it means that you also die.
They do claim to met with space firms around the world and have at least one potential supplier for each component of their project. And considering that exactly one company has successfully launched a private space vehicle to date, what could go wrong?
I’m impressed by their cojones, though. It’s a fine response to the call to action given in Neil deGrasse Tyson’s “We Stopped Dreaming”.
Would you go?
(by MarsOneProject)
21 EXPOSURES: HANI FURSTENBERG The breakout star of Julia Loktev’s The Loneliest Planet offers Anthem a pictorial glimpse into her life in New York City.
kateoplis: Today in the Faroe Islands: Grindadrap
The Faroese are descendants of Vikings, and pilot whales have been a central part of their diet for more than 1000 years. Photo: Andrija Ilic/Reuters
(via climateadaptation)
DEALBREAKER.: The Three Post-Breakup Phases
This. Is. So. Funny. (For reals. And YES, apparently I DO love “Something About Airplanes” that much, because I really did gravitate towards a taste of foreign films and modern plays.)
theidiotking:I used to answer a lot of relationship questions over at my other blog, the in-hibernation DEALBREAKER. Looking back, I find it really funny that anyone ever trusted me with love advice, because it’s not really a topic I’m that well versed in. I’ve dated successfully,…
