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_{The Autobiography of Jane Eyre [x]}

Awwwww you guys!

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boatporn:

eibenberger:

yachtphotography · heti 12mr 2011 · nikon d700 · © thomas eibenberger

SEE HYANNISPORT PEOPLE WIND TURBINES DON’T LOOK BAD.
YOU LOOK BAD.

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4nimalparty:

St. Mary Lake (by mikev1)

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fuck-yeah-aquascaping:

Rotomairewhenua, New Zealand – photos from the Earth’s clearest freshwater lake, where visibility reaches 60-70 meters. 

The photographer. Michel Roggo, is a fantastic guy, obviosuly a bit crazy, but he photographs the world’s most stunning freshwater sceneries, primarily from an underwater perspective, make sure to check him out.

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boobiesmcfeels:

Period Piece

A friend of mine, Lena D, played Nessa and I this song around the same time that Jane Eyre was starting up. She was talking about turning it into a music video for You-Tube. And obviously, that’s a freaking awesome idea! So we encouraged the shit out of it.

And Ta-Da – the final project is AMAZING! 

AOJE fans will recognize Lucas Blaney (Warren) in the video, and I’m actually breifly in there as an extra (1:07 approx) since I could only stay for a few hours on the second filming day. 

Headcanon: Jane is checking Twitter for updates by @Pilotsthoughts, oblivious to the fact that she’s in a school hallway. And a music video.

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eyrequotes:

I was helping to clear out Mrs. Reed’s room when I found something… Johanna and Liz didn’t recognize it and honestly, sometimes it’s easier to talk to a camera than people you. 

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Someone is traveling.

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arentkarolina:

Pretty sure that’s a mountain bluebird, Sialia currucoides. State bird of Idaho and Nevada. :-)

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wubzy42:

jadehw:

butyouarealliwant:
A man sat at a metro station in Washington DC and started to play the violin; it was a cold January morning. He played six Bach pieces for about 45 minutes. During that time, since it was rush hour, it was calculated that 1,100 people went through the station, most of them on their way to work.

Three minutes went by, and a middle aged man noticed there was musician playing. He slowed his pace, and stopped for a few seconds, and then hurried up to meet his schedule.

A minute later, the violinist received his first dollar tip: a woman threw the money in the till and without stopping, and continued to walk.

A few minutes later, someone leaned against the wall to listen to him, but the man looked at his watch and started to walk again. Clearly he was late for work.

The one who paid the most attention was a 3 year old boy. His mother tagged him along, hurried, but the kid stopped to look at the violinist. Finally, the mother pushed hard, and the child continued to walk, turning his head all the time. This action was repeated by several other children. All the parents, without exception, forced them to move on.

In the 45 minutes the musician played, only 6 people stopped and stayed for a while. About 20 gave him money, but continued to walk their normal pace. He collected $32. When he finished playing and silence took over, no one noticed it. No one applauded, nor was there any recognition.

No one knew this, but the violinist was Joshua Bell, one of the most talented musicians in the world. He had just played one of the most intricate pieces ever written, on a violin worth $3.5 million dollars.

Two days before his playing in the subway, Joshua Bell sold out at a theater in Boston where the seats averaged $100.

This is a real story. Joshua Bell playing incognito in the metro station was organized by the Washington Post as part of a social experiment about perception, taste, and priorities of people. The outlines were: in a commonplace environment at an inappropriate hour: Do we perceive beauty? Do we stop to appreciate it? Do we recognize the talent in an unexpected context?

One of the possible conclusions from this experience could be:

If we do not have a moment to stop and listen to one of the best musicians in the world playing the best music ever written, how many other things are we missing? By: Josh Nonnenmoc.

i always love this story

Here the full performance: joshua_bell_metro.mp3

I like listening to it while I’m programming.

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Thank you!

I still can’t believe I work there. Like, seriously? It’s been four months. Holy aflsj2u3r oi3ljklk2j3klj 

oh my god it’s been FOUR MONTHS I feel like I moved here yesterday 

I was going to write something else but I ended up just sitting here thinking about that for a few minutes instead.

It’s been the best four months. I finally feel like I’ve met “my people”. My colleagues are warm, accepting, accommodating, friendly, generous, patient, enthusiastic, encouraging, inspiring. This last week I was thanking a collections manager for taking the time to meet with me, and help me find some specimens to go on display for The Brain Scoop film set. I made a comment on how I was grateful for the opportunity to be there, how lucky I felt to walk up those steps every day. He kind of laughed and said, “No no no. We feel lucky to have you.” 

I mean, don’t tell him this, but I almost cried right there in the elevator. 

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melissapilakowski:

The 8 Habits of Highly Successful YA Authors—The Atlantic

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fairy-wren:

Anna’s Hummingbird. Photo by Good-e-nuf

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bourbakiaxiom:

(Potato Field) (1948, Melbourne) by John Perceval (1923-2000, Australian)

From the text next to the painting:

“Perceval’s admiration for Van Gogh changed the way he applied his paint. Less wild, more directed towards letting the paint texture and brush strokes articulate the forms in the painting, this change is seen at its best in the beautiful (Potato Field); the title and subject paying tribute to Van Gogh.”

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bobbycaputo:

Lakshal Perera, a wedding photographer in Melbourne, Australia, captured one couple under the Milky Way on their wedding day.

With a 71-second exposure — the average exposure ranges from 1/100 to 1/400 of a second — Perera was able to bring the sky to life behind the bride and groom.

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boatporn:

The thing about rowing and sailing seems to be that if you can’t do one, its probably just the right time to be doing the other.

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Almost everyone knows the American healthcare system is broken. It’s obvious. People may have different ideas about how to fix it, but the status quo isn’t acceptable. Progressives have long argued with very good reason that single-payer of some sort is the only option that makes much sense. But even within single-payer there are many variations, ranging from the British completely government-controlled system to a heavily regulated public-private system like in Switzerland. As it is, Obamacare was the conservative solution of the past, created by the Heritage Foundation and implemented in Massachusetts by Mitt Romney. It’s almost certainly not the best answer, but it’s definitely better than the status quo.

Part of what has so dramatically hurt Republicans over Obamacare isn’t just that they were willing to shut down the government in order to repeal it. It’s that they have no alternative, beyond some almost totally ineffectual bromides like “tort reform” and selling insurance across state lines.

People might not like Obamacare and the answer it gives. They might prefer single payer, or they might have been demagogued against some detail of Obamacare, or they might prefer some mythical “free market” solution. But something had to change and almost everyone knows it.

Right now, the Democratic Party is the only one offering an answer, and right now that answer is Obamacare. People might not be thrilled with it, but they’re going to give it a chance. The Republicans aren’t offering them anything at all. They have quite literally run out of ideas beyond just letting poor people get sick and die.

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– David O. Atkins, Hullabaloo

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Texas, beneath the radar of higher-profile national races, will hold elections this fall to address a number of proposed constitutional amendments. Though none of the nine proposed amendments are exactly headline-grabbing (one officially eliminates a state agency that shut down more than 25 years ago, for example) the election will be the first in which the state’s infamous new voter ID laws will be in effect.

The anticipated impact of these new laws on suppressing minority votes has been well documented, but the effect of new laws on women has received markedly less attention.

The new Texas law requires all voters to provide a photo ID that reflects their current name. If they cannot, voters must provide any of a series of other acceptable forms of identification all of which must match exactly and match the name on their birth certificate.

Supporters of these new laws insist that requiring voters to have an ID that matches their birth certificate is a reasonable requirement. As Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott has repeatedly said, “Almost every single person either has a valid photo ID … or it is very easy to get one.” What they don’t say, however, is that the people who don’t are largely married women who have taken their husband’s name.

In fact, only 66% of women have an ID that reflects their current name. If any voter is using name different than what appears on their birth certificate, the voter is required to show proof of name change by providing an original or certified copy of their marriage license, divorce decree, or court ordered name change. Photocopies aren’t accepted.

Now ask a woman who’s been married for years where her original marriage certificate is. Ask a woman who’s been divorced — maybe more than once — where all the divorce decrees are. Ask elderly women where their original birth certificate is.

As Elisabeth Genn, counsel for the Brennan Center for Justice’s Democracy Program, has noted, “While some women do have access to the entire chain of documents that connects their current name with birth name — including birth certificates and marriage licenses — that’s not always the case.”

Ordering a new copy of your birth certificate or marriage verification means travelling in person to the state capital, something largely impossible for senior citizens or people with day jobs, and paying the $22 to have a certified copy printed. You can also wait 6-8 weeks to have it mailed to you and pay $22 plus up to $19.95 in mailing costs.

That is assuming, of course, that you already have several forms of identification. If you don’t, a U.S. District Court has estimated that many Texans would have to travel up to 250 miles to receive a “free” election ID card and pay all the additional fees associated with providing documentation to explain their name change.

More importantly, women who have been voting the same way for years will likely go to the polls in the same way they always have, unaware the changes mean they can no longer vote and that they, in all likelihood, would have needed to begin the process to acquire copies of their legal documents months beforehand.

Meanwhile, men who are married or divorced don’t typically change their name and are therefore not required to submit any additional supporting documents. The extra forms of identification, extra fees, extra travel and, in many cases, exorbitant waiting times mean that the acquiring the documents necessary to legally vote amounts to a poll tax that applies only to women. While lawmakers may say that those are small barriers, necessary to ensure the integrity of the voting process, they’re barriers that only apply to certain segments of the population.

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jtotheizzoe:

Best Astrophotography of the Year, as chosen by the Royal Observatory Greenwich.

From both an existential and purely technical/photographic aspect, these shots blow my mind. Check out the full gallery of winners at My Modern Met.

(Top two images by Mark Gee, bottom image by Adam Block)

Bonus: Check out grand prize winner Mark Gee’s breathtaking video of a rising moon and tiny human silhouettes, pointing at it and ooh-ing and ahh-ing and generally marveling at the lunar awesomeness. It’s just … wow.

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rainbowrowell:

gretchenalice:

This video of Rainbow Rowell and David Levithan reading from Fangirl made my morning. 

Here’s video of David Levithan and I reading a scene from Fangirl last night at Books Inc. in San Francisco.

I don’t mind when people record the readings, but it drives me crazy when they’re taking video of the Q&A/discussion part. It makes me feel really stiff and paranoid. Normally when I’m at a book event, I start to feel like everyone there is my friend, and I’ll tell all sorts of secrets. But if there’s a phone in the air, I clam up.

Anyway. Thoughts about video. I’m glad this is out there; it’s a happy memory.

I saw this video, and was curious if she’d be okay with it being shared, since I know she previously asked that a video showing part of the Q&A at another event be taken down. Glad to know she doesn’t mind in this case.

It’s a really good scene they’re reading.

P.S. All the scenes are really good.

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