November 2009
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itsfullofstars:
uraniaproject:
1,159 thirty-sec exposures spanning more than 10.5 hours. The irregular galaxies Small and Large Magellanic Clouds (SMC and LMC, respectively) are visible towards the middle of the video. Very Large Telescope, Paranal Observatory, Atacama Desert, Chile, 23-24 Aug 2009 (Nikon D700).
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Jim Jarmusch's Golden Rules of Filmmaking
karenabad:
Rule #1: There are no rules. There are as many ways to make a film as there are potential filmmakers. It’s an open form. Anyway, I would personally never presume to tell anyone else what to do or how to do anything. To me that’s like telling someone else what their religious beliefs should be. Fuck that. That’s against my personal philosophy—more of a code than a set...
If the Church doesn’t want to be in conflict with science, it is much easier to...
– Signs from Above § SEEDMAGAZINE.COM
You’d think by now, several hundred million years after sex began, nature would...
– The Gay Animal Kingdom § SEEDMAGAZINE.COM
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Thank you Apple
Since I blasted Apple on the iPhone 3.1 upgrade sloppiness, it’s only fair that I applaud them when they do something well…and in this case it’s something extremely important to me.
Three days ago, my iPhone stopped switching between silent and normal mode. In silent mode, the volume remained on and the phone vibrated endlessly. Thus, I was forced to remain in normal mode, which...
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It Came From Brooklyn: The Walkmen // In The New Year (via Vimeo)
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Dark Was The Night _ Dirty Projectors (via Vimeo)
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TV Worth Watching
I feel like making a list. So here we go:
Mad Men - season 3 was incredible, building on what I thought was a quantum-leap from season 1 to 2. The Don Draper “reset” for season 4 will make this one of the most highly anticipated seasons in television history, at least creatively.
Lost - another reset of sorts, though this one could go in any of a dozen ways (typical Lost)....
…objects and their functions no longer had any significance. All I...
– Fellini describing his (psychoanalyst-supervised) experimentation with LSD in 1964.
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490 things petermartin likes (as of 11/4/09) →
All the posts that I’ve “liked” on Tumblr. Many inspirational, some fascinating, some marked “to find later”, and some that just made me smile. I think I’m going to redesign my Tumblr soon and incorporate the “likes” feature on my main design, as I easily get twice as much pleasure from the content I’m reading on here as the content I produce...
Fluidr →
Really interesting way to look through photosets.
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