This reminds me of Lana Wachowski’s story about being in third grade, not knowing which line to line up in.

I’m not trying to disobey. I’m just trying to fit in.

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sigurrosislife:

daniyrselfclean:

Sigur Ros, Kveikur (live on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon)

Basically however you say this is freaking awesome in Icelandic is my take on the performance.  Also is Fallon’s pronunciation of “Kveikur” (basically qu-ak-er) how you really say it?  If so I just learned something because I was not pronouncing it correctly at all.

HOLY FUCK

I was checking out setlists from the European leg of the tour last night; the most-recent one at setlist.fm is from March 9 in London:

1. Yfirborð 
2. Ný Batterí 
3. Vaka 
4. Sæglópur 
5. Fljótavík 
6. E-bow 
7. Varúð 
8. Hoppípolla 
9. Með Blóðnasir 
10. Olsen Olsen 
11. Kveikur 
12. Festival 
13. Brennisteinn 

Encore:

1. Glósóli 
2. Popplagið 

I gather the band has been taking a few weeks off, but now they’re in New York (where they played on Jimmy Fallon last night), and the US leg of the tour starts Monday.

Closer…

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THINK. IT’S THE NEW SEXY.: So I don’t usually review books but this one was too good to…:

jayneausten:

So I don’t usually review books but this one was too good to resist.

Eleanor & Park, by Rainbow Rowell. I, like many, heard about it through John Green’s review. And I had such high expectations for this book, and it didn’t disappoint in the least.

I don’t think I’ve ever loved a book the way I…

It’s been at least 6 hours since I gushed about E&P, right?

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bobbycaputo:

A Mesmerizing Slow-Motion Drive Down the Streets of NYC

ombining the capabilities of a high-speed camera with the basic idea that “there are enough [magical moments] happening every moment of any given day,” New York artist James Nares is currently captivating audiences at the Metropolitan Museum of Art with his mesmerizing video “Street.”

Shot in September of 2011, “Street” consists entirely of slow-motion panning shots of the streets of New York, as seen from a moving car. Using a high-speed camera, Nares captured 16 hours of footage, which he then edited down to 3 (regular speed) minutes — translating into just over an hour of slow-mo magic.

In his own words:

My intention was to give the dreamlike impression of floating through a city full of people frozen in time, caught Pompeii-like, at a particular moment of thought, expression, or activity… a film to be viewed 100 years from now.

You can catch a couple of minutes of “Street” by checking out the preview at the top. Or, if you’re lucky enough to be living in NYC at the moment, head over to the Met where the video will make up the centerpiece of the “Street” exhibit from now until May 27th.

(Via. Petapixel)

Interesting update to what Godfrey Reggio did with the slo-mo people in Koyaanisqatsi.

See? Now the camera moves.

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So, YouTube paused while it scrolled up more of Q&A 10 at 1080p, and this happened.

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Diane Duane: “How a TV Show Episode Gets Written” – A PSA:

stirpicus:

Hey everyone – So if you’re following me, you know that I’m not really a ‘fandom’ guy; more of a ‘casual viewer’, hence why I don’t post fandom-related things very often.

However! I was having a conversation with Octoswan yesterday, who is an active member of the Tumblr-SPN…

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oceanportal:

Gobies make up the largest family (Gobiidae) of fishes in the world, with over 2,000 species. In this large family you can also find the smallest fish. The gobies in this photo are about one inch long (2.5 cm), and most in the family are less than four inches. Because of their small size gobies must work to evade their many predators, often through burrowing or special mutualistic relationships with other animals.

“It’s quite normal for this type of goby to sit still on hard coral like this. I spotted the first of these very small fish and set up my camera for the shot. Just as I was about to take a picture, a second goby came out of nowhere and sat on the first one. I quickly corrected the frame and took two or three shots before both of them disappeared. It was an incredible moment.”— Nature’s Best Photographer, Tobias Friedrich

(via Gobies on Coral, Near Marsa Alam, Egypt | Ocean Portal | Smithsonian)

Photo: Tobias Friedrich/Nature’s Best Photography

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neither-saint-nor-sinner:

Caroline, unrequited.

requested by someone who hates me anonymous (umm this is way bigger and more maudlin that what you asked for; see the Read More)

I wish we could have seen more interaction between Caroline and the characters who drive her actions. I mean, I had to use cast pictures for this because the source material gives me so little to work with, but whatever. I could whine about not enough Caroline for a really long time, and no one wants to see that. This isn’t her story anyway.

Read More

Caroline Lee spinoff series.

Freed from Austen, freed from carrying the “pretty little wilderness” scene, freed from the conventionality of a jealous-of-Darcy motivation, she could actually live as a character.

I can’t stop wondering about Caroline x Lizzie. It was there beneath the surface in every scene they did together. Every time Lizzie looked away and Caroline looked at her, it was there. And as Ren discussed here, there was an honesty when Caroline talked about her family. Something other than her usual misdirection was going on in those moments.

There was a lot more to her character than we ever saw on-screen. And in a way it’s kind of a gift that so few of her details were filled in, because now we can fill them in right. Not via fanfic, but via an actual spinoff YouTube series of her own.

There is a version of the future in which the quantum superpositions resolve in favor of this becoming an actual thing. I hope I get to live in that future. Because it’s going to be an awesome one.

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George R R Martin used Look

It was super effective

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coldeyesxwarmheart:

missadlerinthetardis:

wednesdaywonders:

missmaceymouse:

beejabbers:

DISNEY FANS STOP WHAT YOU ARE DOING AND WATCH THIS. THE COLOURS, THE LIGHTS, AND THE SOUNDS OH MY GOD.

#reblogged in the first thirty seconds

cry every time

OH MY GOD

i’m not crying, it’s just the riverbend running down my face :’(

oh… ow….

Public Service Announcement: Does this sound familiar? It should; you hear it all the time. It’s “Hoppípolla”, by Sigur Rós.

Places you might have heard it:

• the Takk… album
• the official video by Arni & Kinski
• the BBC’s Planet Earth trailer
• a video about Fabio Cannavaro at the 2006 World Cup
• the uplifting conclusion of the Doctor Who Confidential 4×13 “End of an Era” special
• the uplifting conclusion of the Children of Men trailer
• the uplifting conclusion of the Slumdog Millionaire trailer
• the uplifting conclusion of the film Penelope (and its trailer)
• the uplifting conclusion of the film We Bought a Zoo (and its trailer)
• this video
• about 16 other things I didn’t bother to list

 If you don’t speak Icelandic (or Hopelandic) it’s fun to read a translation of the lyrics.

I now return you to your regular Tumblr content.

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Reblogging for reasons.

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In hindsight they left these clues for us a couple of weeks ago. Did anyone not otherwise in-the-know figure it out?

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Sanditon: 99¢ Kindle version:

aeternamente:

Looks like I’ll be occupied for the evening.

It’s available from Project Gutenberg, too.

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aeternamente:

orangepenguino:

lexigeek:

In other Lizzie Bennet Diaries news, on Saturday, March 30, the cast and crew will be getting together to play some games in celebration of TableTop Day (their website is down at the moment, but you can follow them on Twitter or check them out on Facebook), and you’re invited to hang out with us via live stream!

Stay tuned for more details.

So, Adam and I are hosting this LBD cast and crew TableTop Day livestream.  We’re still nailing down specifics, but mark your calendars!

!!!!!

\o/

^^^^

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fckyeahhplovecraft:

Bernadette Carstensen

1. The Shoggoth

2. Dagon

 

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caradelara:

I don’t think I’ve ever laughed so hard in my life, Here’s my little brother Jovanni waiting for his cookies while they bake in the oven. Bless this child.

Young Jovanni: Spirit guide of all obsessive Tumblr users waiting for the next installment of their favorite fandom.

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edwardspoonhands:

So we launched a Kickstarter a couple hours ago and…yeah, we’re half way there….uhhhh…woah.

I suppose I should also tell you about the Kickstarter which includes:

1. A “Lizzie Bennet Edition” of Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen with an introduciton by me (yes, we’re printing up copies of P&P because THERE AREN’T ENOUGH IN THE WORLD! The book is being designed by Karen Kavett, and she’s doing an amazing job
2. A 8-9 disc DVD set (we’re not sure yet) which will include all of the content that was part of the project as well as out-takes, episode commentaries, interviews with cast members, writers, and creators, and little featurettes.

And with this we are raising money to:

1. Produce a new series based on Austen’s unfinished novel “Sanditon.” Gigi Darcy will be the heroine in this short tale, which will bridge the gap before we launch our next big series in July (which we don’t need to kickstart because it has already been funded thanks to Deca.)
2. Produce all of the bonus content for the DVDs and actually manufacture them (because unlike a 1-disc CD, they’re actually quite expensive to manufacture.)
3. Help to pay all of the people that we barely paid to produce this series. The nature of online video (as we’ve discussed) is that it’s very difficult to make enough money to pay more than one person a living wage. The magnificent success of LBD would indicate that we should have been able to pay our actors, writers, producers, and crew well…but we were not. So excess money from this kickstarter will be distributed to that team to reward them for all of their hard work.

And you wanna know something nuts…in the time it took me to write this…we’re up to $40k. 

JEEZLE!

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erinwert:

thatcaroline:

erinwert:

In case you think the Q&A’s are a one or two-person job… Our updated roles and flowchart for organization and communication pathways.

I appreciate your dedication to this flow chart, Erin. 

I’m really in love with this flowchart. I don’t think you understand.

Erin + the Livestream Q&A Flowchart is my OTP.

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leslielikesthings:

thelorelaisquared:

justhopingforhappiness:

becarefuliloveyoustayintouch:

laughing-llama:

will I ever grow out of tumblr or will I still be here blogging in my thirties

oh my god i never thought about that

“grandma will you make me some cookies?”

“shut up, grandma’s got a blog to run”

you’re planning on being a grandma when you’re in your thirties

Well this doesn’t make me feel old at all… (I’m 32) Where are my grandkids? 

Hahahahahahaha! That’s just precious, honestly. How young and adorably clueless do you have to be to think that way about being in your thirties? (I’m 30 on the nose.)

I can remember when I was in first grade, at a school that went up through sixth grade, when I basically thought that the sixth graders were practically adults (because c’mon; from a first-grader’s perspective they kind of are). I recall literally (by which I mean, literally) thinking that after sixth grade one basically settled down, got married, and started a family.

It’s funny to me how that same dynamic basically carries through at all ages. I remember as a teenager computing how old I’d be in the year 2000 (38), and thinking, “Man; I’m going to be old.” And so on.

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