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unimodus: Noted for its cultural progressivism and quality and...

Wed, 22 May 2013 04:00:29 +0100

Noted for its cultural progressivism and quality and boldness in style, the Star Trek franchise is widely regarded as one of the biggest pop culture icons of the 20th century.

tardis-stowaway: copperbadge: quietbystander: Makpal...

Tue, 21 May 2013 20:00:25 +0100

tardis-stowaway:

copperbadge:

quietbystander:

Makpal Abdrazakova, the only female eagle hunter in Kazakhstan.

Kickin’ ass and lookin’ fine.

I just googled this woman. Apparently she is also training to be a lawyer! I suppose hunting with a live eagle while looking utterly gorgeous is just not enough accomplishment for her.

kellysue: craftyjai: ride-the-vibes: This is JASON FYLES and...

Tue, 21 May 2013 17:36:35 +0100

kellysue:

craftyjai:

ride-the-vibes:

This is JASON FYLES and he goes to my university (Newcastle University, North East of England) He is 19 years old, 5’8, ginger hair and slim. He was last seen in the Sandyford area at 2:45am on Thursday morning and has not been seen since. He was wearing a blue shirt, grey cardigan, beige chinos and brown ankle boots. Everyone in uni is so worried about him along with his family and friends. We are coming together as a university to appeal for his safe return. It is thought that he lost his friends on the night out and tried to make his way back by himself. Please, I am begging for you to REBLOG THIS, even if you don’t live in Newcastle, or England. Every REBLOG means that someone else will see his face, they will know who we are looking for, and your followers could be the one to know his whereabouts. Stay safe Jason, we’re looking for you.
THIS WILL NOT RUIN YOUR BLOG!

Local news report

PLEASE. Nobody reblogged my own post on this which I posted an hour or so ago so I’m wondering if nobody will now. This guy is my friend. If I have ever sent you a nice ask or reblogged something of yours and it made you happy for a second (or even if I haven’t; this is about helping him, not doing me a favour) for God’s sake just help now, help to find my friend Jason. You want me to make him human to you?

Once we all grew beans in pots as part of a Biology experiment- the experiment failed miserably and made the whole lab stink, but his was the only bean that grew and he was actually pretty proud about it

He learned to knit as part of a school project where he had to learn a creative skill, and when a couple of people teased him about it he said “gender is a social construct” and carried on knitting like a badass

He loves the scene in The Great Gatsby where Gatsby throws all his silk shirts around and he and I used to giggle over it together

Once I asked him if he had a string of tinsel I could use in a photoshoot and he brought me a big cardboard box full of tinsel and fairy lights because he’s a helpful and lovely guy

He’s HUMAN and he needs our HELP and just PLEASE PLEASE FUCKING REBLOG THIS??? He’s been missing for four days now- when he went missing he would have been wearing his contact lenses and he won’t have had his (very thick) glasses with him so by now he’ll have had to take his contacts out and throw them away and he won’t be able to see well and oh God just please signal boost this

British friends — keep an eye out?

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Sat, 18 May 2013 12:00:13 +0100

girlsandguns: Tavi in her bedroom by Petra Collins for The...

Fri, 17 May 2013 12:00:24 +0100

girlsandguns:

Tavi in her bedroom by Petra Collins for The Ardorous

carmidoll: Tilda Swinton for Chanel Paris-Edimbourg 2013

Thu, 16 May 2013 12:00:04 +0100

carmidoll:

Tilda Swinton for Chanel Paris-Edimbourg 2013

biomedicalephemera: Heterocephalus glaber - Naked Mole...

Wed, 15 May 2013 20:00:11 +0100

biomedicalephemera:

Heterocephalus glaber - Naked Mole Rat

Aside from their rather unsightly appearance, naked mole rats are a very unique species of mammal. Their societies are set up much like your standard ant colonies (they’re the only eusocial mammals), with a queen whose sole purpose is to give birth, and individuals who have specific duties in the colony. These include tending the queen, defending their massive labyrinth of underground tunnels, gathering food, and digging more tunnels. Their roles are largely determined at birth, and are unusual to change once the mole rat is an adult. Like ant and social bee colonies, all of the productive members of the colony are female.

Other cool things about naked mole rats:

Their skin is remarkably impervious to pain and itching, due to a lack of proper Substance P encoding in their genes.

Their lips are located *behind* their massive teeth, to protect them from damage while the rats dig.

They are not truly warm-blooded like other mammals. When they get too cold, they travel upwards in the underground tunnel system, and when they get too hot, they go down into the cooler parts.

They don’t need much oxygen or food and have a very slow metabolism.

Their lifespan is up to 28 years, thanks to that ridiculous metabolism.

Proceedings of the General Meetings for Scientific Business of the Zoological Society of London. 1885.

The most excellent True Facts About the Naked Mole Rat (video) by Zefrank.

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Tue, 14 May 2013 20:00:31 +0100

arkhamisland: our lives connect » [listen] - music for falling...

Tue, 14 May 2013 16:00:00 +0100

arkhamisland:

our lives connect » [listen] - music for falling in love with a robot

01. Into the Past - NERO 02. Difficult - MACKINTOSH BRAUN 03. Undisclosed Desires - MUSE 04. Paradise Circus - MASSIVE ATTACK 05. Red Light District - MIDI MATILDA 06. Just Like You Imagined - NINE INCH NAILS 07. Under Your Spell - DESIRE 08. Osaka Loop Line - DISCOVERY 09. N.A.S.A - FUTURECOP! 10. The Silence - MAYDAY PARADE 11. (Bonus Track) Map of the Problematique - MUSE (Does it Offend you, yeah? Remix)

Robots developing feelings is one of my favourite fiction tropes of all time.

keeplightandovertake: Lor culture in Iran. Female rider learns...

Tue, 14 May 2013 12:00:12 +0100

keeplightandovertake:

Lor culture in Iran. Female rider learns to ride and shoot. Beauty and Grace.

Hakama (袴) that usually worn by woman at graduation ceremony

Sun, 12 May 2013 04:00:22 +0100

Hakama (袴) that usually worn by woman at graduation ceremony

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Fri, 10 May 2013 04:00:05 +0100

carryalaser: WATERCOLOUR CHEAT CODES I made really quick...

Mon, 06 May 2013 16:00:31 +0100

carryalaser:

WATERCOLOUR CHEAT CODES

I made really quick tutorials full of swatches to send my mom who wants to take up watercolour painting for a hobby. I’ll share them here as I find time to type what I wrote her.

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The first two pictures illustrate discoveries in mixing skin-tones. I try to find paints that make it faster/easier to mix skin colours - even if you’re adept at making these tones out of other colours, the right combo of purple and yellow can cut out a lot of time and money. The one I have most success with is “violet gray”, then “permanent magenta” for darker and wider ranges, and “purple lake” when I was cheap and it was on sale.

Mix these (sparingly) with raw sienna. The darker the purple the less you’ll need to add to your yellow (yellow ochre works as well). Ultimately, watercolour is tricky to mix so if you’re not confident right away make sure to paint swatches before putting a loaded brush to paper, otherwise be ready to mix with water on the paper.

For a lighter, paler, redder skin tone, raw sienna + brown madder is what I prefer, although as you can see in the first image (about half-way down the page on the left), “cadmium yellow pale hue” and “cadmium red deep hue” work just as well, and might be cheaper on you. With that combo, however, it’s easier to get stuck mixing a ton of orange.

Back to permanent magenta, it’s great with browns to get darker tones, not just for darker skin but for shading. I keep three browns on my “skin” palette (last pic), “burnt umber”, “burnt sienna”, and “vandyke brown”. Mix it with some skin-tone, even just a little, to keep it from looking straight-out-of-the-tube.

So mix your skin tones, make a few test swatches to figure out how much water you need (every brush behaves differently), and lay down some washes.

In the middle of the first piece of paper is a gradation in a skin tone (violet gray + raw sienna) from really warm (“brown madder”) to really cool (“turquoise”). This was done wet in wet, to show what kinds of tones you get from adding warm and cool colours.

To the left on the bottom are a couple light washes of colours painted over a skin tone (same ol’ raw sienna + violet gray) to show how different colours look on this mix when applied dry on dry. Blue (I used turquoise again) is great for some shadows, implied stubble, and veins close to the skin, reds and most browns for warmer shading, yellow for jaundice or boogers… you get it.

On the bottom right is an example of really warm vs. really cool shading on the same skin tone mix (just guess). The initial skin tone wash is a bit warm for the cool side, but the contrast makes the shadows really evident. Different colours in shading will have different effects that way. The only surprise here is the use of dark blue “indigo” which is great for coming close to black when mixed with other colours.

On the second page are two more noses, different skin tones, and just three extra passes with skin tone washes - although difficult to tell because I was lazy and didn’t wait long enough for them to dry after the 2nd pass. The extra passes aren’t particularly warm or cold leaning, but simply draw off of the initial tone I placed.

IMPORTANT: These little quick studies serve to be as economical as possible, using few colours but still not looking just like an awkward mix of red and yellow or brown and yellow. For a more detailed or accurate representation of skin tones, a ton more colours might be added - for instance the darker skin tone on the right would have more pinks, and of course different parts of the body appear to be tinted differently. Also never forget no matter what colour or how dark skin is, skin is shiny. Be mindful of even diffused light. At the same time - perfect representation of skin is hardly necessary. More expressive colour treatment rules.

But ultimately - colour in skin - who cares! Just play around with colours you like, build a base that’s easy for you to mix quickly for wet on wet or however you prefer to work. Play with colours on different planes or surfaces of the body, with light, and take everything I say as a tips - not rules - ‘cause watercolour is really unpredictable and that is often the best part.

Another note: I use pencil tins for palettes, it keeps things portable, easy to mix, minimal paint waste, and I can rearrange paints easily to make mixing easier. I usually have three but you could get away with one or two. If you try it out, keep the paints and empty space clean with jut a bit of water and the wipe of a cloth/kleenex.

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The third picture shows a really quick, easy, natural black mix I make. It’s simply “Hooker’s Green, Dark” and “Dioxazine Violet” at almost equal quantities. You can mix it with a blue or red or yellow for a warmer or cooler black, depending on which you need. I included some gradation and overlapping swatches. Just keep in mind black can be very powerful in watercolour, or any opaque application of the paint, so use it sparingly and with a plan in mind.

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Despite my shitty watercolour sketches up here, I spent a huge amount of being a child working at a cooperative gallery with some contemporary and purist watercolour painters alike so I picked up a lot. If anyone wants me to be more specific about something, or maybe produce a more specific guide or sketch for a problem you have, let me know and I can try to help out.

These were things my mum asked for and that I produced with her knowledge of the medium in mind, so if it really did interest you but you’re stuck on something, or found something I said vague and confusing, let me know.

EDIT: A tutorial I made to talk about paper. It’s important stuff. [link]

girlsandguns: sk8er gUrl ✨ shooting with @normswong &...

Mon, 06 May 2013 04:00:22 +0100

girlsandguns:

sk8er gUrl ✨ shooting with @normswong & @chloewise_ for #ellejapan. #philiplim #supreme #hashtag-ing

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Sat, 04 May 2013 20:00:16 +0100

tofuist: 上賀茂神社　笠懸神事

Sat, 04 May 2013 16:00:19 +0100

tofuist:

上賀茂神社　笠懸神事

inothernews: (Photo: Massoud Hossaini / AFP-Getty via The...

Fri, 03 May 2013 20:00:27 +0100

inothernews:

(Photo: Massoud Hossaini / AFP-Getty via The Guardian)

odditiesoflife: Buddha Park Buddha Park, also known as Spirit...

Fri, 03 May 2013 12:00:17 +0100

odditiesoflife:

Buddha Park

Buddha Park, also known as Spirit City (Xieng Khuan), is a sculpture park located 25 km southeast of Vientiane, a small city that sits along the Mekong River in Laos. The park was started in 1958 by Luang Pu Bunleua Sulilat who was a priest-shaman. The park displays over 200 Buddhist and Hindu statues of deities, along with other beautifully carved strange figures. The main attraction is the giant reclining Buddha resting on the grass (first photo).

japanesse-life: Hōsen-in Temple by rangaku1976 on Flickr.

Fri, 03 May 2013 04:00:07 +0100

japanesse-life:

Hōsen-in Temple by rangaku1976 on Flickr.

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unimodus: Noted for its cultural progressivism and quality and...

tardis-stowaway: copperbadge: quietbystander: Makpal...

kellysue: craftyjai: ride-the-vibes: This is JASON FYLES and...

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girlsandguns: Tavi in her bedroom by Petra Collins for The...

carmidoll: Tilda Swinton for Chanel Paris-Edimbourg 2013

biomedicalephemera: Heterocephalus glaber - Naked Mole...

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arkhamisland: our lives connect » [listen] - music for falling...

keeplightandovertake: Lor culture in Iran. Female rider learns...

Hakama (袴) that usually worn by woman at graduation ceremony

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carryalaser: WATERCOLOUR CHEAT CODES I made really quick...

girlsandguns: sk8er gUrl ✨ shooting with @normswong &...

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tofuist: 上賀茂神社 笠懸神事

inothernews: (Photo: Massoud Hossaini / AFP-Getty via The...

odditiesoflife: Buddha Park Buddha Park, also known as Spirit...

japanesse-life: Hōsen-in Temple by rangaku1976 on Flickr.

tofuist: 上賀茂神社　笠懸神事