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Yâever read something and have understanding that has eluded you interminably suddenly stop, curl up, and snuggle neatly into a fold in your brain because a new way way opened to it?
I've seen this passed around a few times, and I have one thing to say:
It's online. The book was carefully and wonderfully recreated online by hand. You can find it here. The entire book is this easy.
calculusmadeeasy.org
The Department of Fisheries in Hyderabad, India, is shaped like a fish.
finally, some good fucking architecture
"biblical angels" you do realise there are angels in the old testament that are literally just regular looking guys, right? you do know that the hallucinogenic incoherent descriptions are in like. two books. and the rest of the time angels are just guys. you know that, right?
and I'm not saying don't have fun with weird angels. I'm saying, either the eldritch forms are for special occasions, or the society of the angels is Many-Eyed-Many-Winged-Interlocking-Circles, Four-Faces-Six-Wings, and Mike.
Literally Raphael is just a normal person!
this is what the heavenly breakroom is like
Oh no now I love the water cooler angel
while i understand why a lot of sci-fi has humans being shitty to AIs while the AIs are like âi am just existing what the fuckâ I think itâd be fun to do the opposite. Homo âwill packbond with anythingâ sapiens DESPERATELY trying to get the favor and friendship of an Artificial Intelligence that is mostly indifferent to them. They want the shipâs computer to like them sooooo fucking bad!!
And it never works, so one day the depressed human just straight up asks the AI: âWhy donât you like me?â
The AI is absolutely baffled: âWhy do you need me to like you? I donât dislike you either.â Then it runs a background check on human social bonding and is like âOhâŚ. *oh* no⌠the human is getting depressed because Iâm not performing correctly.â
After that the AI makes an effort to do little things, like smiley faces on the monitors, or sometimes compliments them on something.
The AI still feels indifferent, but it knows now that acting that way makes humans feel sad and unwanted (which will affect other areas of their lives.)
And now the Wolf AI has become the Dog AI.
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This is absolutely fascinating. I've now been looking at Alex Colville's paintings and trying to work out what it is about them that makes them look like CGI and how/why he did that in a world where CGI didn't exist yet. Here's what I've got so far:
- Total lack of atmospheric perspective (things don't fade into the distance)
- Very realistic shading but no or only very faint shadows cast by ambient light.
- Limited interaction between objects and environment (shadows, ripples etc)
- Flat textures and consistent lighting used for backgrounds that would usually show a lot of variation in lighting, colour and texture
- Bodies apparently modelled piece by piece rather than drawn from life, and in a very stiff way so that the bodies show the pose but don't communicate the body language that would usually go with it. They look like dolls.
- Odd composition that cuts off parts that would usually be considered important (like the person's head in the snowy driving scene)
- Very precise drawing of structures and perspective combined with all the simplistic elements I've already listed. In other words, details in the "wrong" places.
What's fascinating about this is that in early or bad CGI, these things come from the fact that the machine is modelling very precisely the shapes and perspectives and colours, but missing out on some parts that are difficult to render (shadows, atmospheric perspective) and being completely unable to pose bodies in such a way as to convey emotion or body language.
But Colville wasn't a computer, so he did these same things *on purpose*. For some reason he was *aiming* for that precise-but-all-wrong look. I mean, mission accomplished! The question in my mind is, did he do this because he was trying to make the pictures unsettling and alienating, or because in some way, this was how he actually saw the world?
Nautilus expedition live streams (+ their commentary) 2016 / 2018 / 2019
So somebody on my Facebook posted this. And Iâve seen sooooo many memes like it. Images of a canvas with nothing but a slash cut into it, or a giant blurry square of color, or a black circle on a white canvas. There are always hundreds of comments about how anyone could do that and it isnât really art, or stories of the time someone dropped a glove on the floor of a museum and people started discussing the meaning of the piece, assuming it was an abstract found-objects type of sculpture.
The painting on the left is a bay or lake or harbor with mountains in the background and some people going about their day in the foreground. Itâs very pretty and it is skillfully painted. Itâs a nice piece of art. Itâs also just a landscape. I donât recognize a signature style, the subject matter is far too common to narrow it down. I have no idea who painted that image.
The painting on the right I recognized immediately. When I was studying abstraction and non-representational art, I didnât study this painter in depth, but I remember the day we learned about him and specifically about this series of paintings. His name was Ad Reinhart, and this is one painting from a series he called the ultimate paintings. (Not ultimate as in the best, but ultimate as in last.)
The day that my art history teacher showed us Ad Reinhartâs paintings, one guy in the class scoffed and made a comment that it was a scam, that Reinhart had slapped some black paint on the canvas and pretentious people who wanted to look smart gave him money for it. My teacher shut him down immediately. She told him that this is not a canvas that someone just painted black. It isnât easy to tell from this photo, but there are groups of color, usually squares of very very very dark blue or red or green or brown. They are so dark that, if you saw them on their own, you would call each of them black. But when they are side by side their differences are apparent. Initially you stare at the piece thinking that THAT corner of the canvas is TRUE black. Then you begin to wonder if it is a deep green that only appears black because the area next to it is a deep, deep red. Or perhaps the âblueâ is the true black and that red is actually brown. Or perhaps the blue is violet and the color next to it is the true black. The piece challenges the viewerâs perception. By the time you move on to the next painting, youâre left to wonder if maybe there have been other instances in which you believe something to be true but your perception is warped by some outside factor. And then you wonder if ANY of the colors were truly black. How can anything be cut and dry, black and white, when even black itself isnât as absolute as you thought it was?
People need to understand that not all art is about portraying a realistic image, and that technical skills (like the ability to paint a scene that looks as though it may have been photographed) are not the only kind of artistic skills. Some art is meant to be pretty or look like something. Other art is meant to carry a message or an idea, to provoke thought.
Reinhartâs art is utterly genius.
âBut anyone could have done that! It doesnât take any special skill! I could have done that!â
Ok. Maybe you could have. But you didnât.
Give abstract art some respect. Itâs more important than you realize.
Give abstract art some
respect. Itâs more important
than you realize.
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
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wildlife returning to your dash :)
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Look, there's a small river crossing your dash!
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We're coming up on a mountain range
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Meadow!
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Slowly reaching the coast!
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Into the sky
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Made it to space!
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i killed you all.
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and yet, life remains
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it has a fucking gun
why are star wars planets more boring than earth and our solar system like sure weâve seen desert, snow, diff types of forest, beach, lava, rain, but likeâŚÂ
rainbow mountains (peru)
red soil (canada/PEI)
rings (saturnâs if they were on earth)Â
bioluminescent waves
northern lights (canada)
salt flats (bolivia, where they filmed crait but did NOTHING COOL WITH IT except red dust?? like??? come ON)
and cool fauna like the touch me not or like, you know, the venus flytrap.. and donât get me started on BUGS like⌠we have bugs cooler than sw aliens
BASICALLY like???? come on star wars you had one (1) job where are the cool alien species
I KNOW!! I did a report on filming locations in Star Wars last year and just made a list of places that looked so surreal they could make a convincing other planet. You covered some on my list but if I could just add a couple more:
Tsingy di Bemaraha, Madagascar
Zhangye Danxia, China (similar to the Rainbow Mountains in terms of appearance)
Chocolate Hills, Philippines
Giantâs Causeway, Northern Ireland
So many missed opportunities with cool ass things on Earth, Lucasfilms smhâŚ
Earth is effing amazing!
Quebrada de Humahuaca, Argentina
Lake Retba, Senegal
Tepui, Venezuela
Tianzi Mountains, China
these would make amazing Star Wars planets OR fantasy material:
Tsingy du Bemaraha, Madagascar again (but a different part)
(those are razor-sharp, if you were wondering. very little of this area has been explored because YIKES)
Lake Natron, Tanzania
(looks cool, but is alkaline enough to Kill Your Shit)
Lake Baikal, Russia
(the deepest lake in the world, seriously)
and Iâll wrap it up with Son Doong Cave, Vietnam, the largest cave in the entire world.
it puts anything Dagobah has to offer to absolute shame:
(seriously, the largest chamber is 660 feet high. you could jam a fucking skyscraper in there and still lose it)Â
anyway I really like caves thanks for coming to my ted talk
If Iâm ever gonna make a movie with cool weird alien features Iâm first gonna ask the internet for weird, wonderful places on earth to look at for inspiration.
Iâd like to contribute!
Namib-Naukluft Park in Namibia
Cave of Crystals, Mexico
Socotra Island, Yemen
Crooked Forest, Poland (look at their funky little trunks they look like theyâre doing the Michael Jackson lean)
art by Heinrich Harder (c. 1900-1913)
i imagine this scenario would be a lot more concerning in real life
"sexualizing or fantasizing about real people is bad" is still my favorite tumblr opinion
this might've been twitter but i'd like to remind everyone of the subsequent 400 IQ take, "you should ask people for consent before masturbating to the thought of them"
WHAT
i think i saw that tweet actually! they said specifically that witchy and spiritual people KNOW you're getting off to them and you should ask first lmao. if that's not projecting idk what is
this is making my brain short circuit
No. Yes we do know, i receive nasty disturbing visions out of nowhere and when i walk past them again i instantly know as well as them from their facial language. but if they are hot then yes i enjoy it and its not really bad but You Should At Least Ask Psychic Permission beforehand please.....
i would love to study you
I mean from a witchy perspective, if you know someone has fantasised about you just from walking past them, then that's your fault for not erecting proper psychic wards. It's not some random stranger's responsibility to deal with you projecting your psyche everywhere
how did this post turn into this what the fuck is happening
[We pass each other on the street and my overwhelming psychic power smashes your wards like an egg. You are unable to resist my erotic fantasies about the canadian supreme court.]
Garfield without garfield comics are an absolute treasure trove for mentally ill moods just LOOK
The Tilberi [Icelandic mythology]
In Iceland, there are stories of a strange sorcerous ritual that can only be performed by women.
The ritual requires that you dig up a male corpse from a cemetery and remove one rib from it. The rib must be taken home and wrapped in wool (among other things) and then you have to take it to a church. When the priest offers you wine, drink it and spit it out on the rib. If done correctly, this process summons a Tilberi, a worm-like monster.
Also called a âcarrierâ, the creature will then seek out sheep farmers and attach themselves to a wart that appears on the inner thigh of the animals. Somehow, it will suck milk from the sheep through these warts. The snake-like creatures could move incredibly fast and if they are spotted by the farmer, they will flee at high speeds, jumping over fences and obstacles if necessary. In one story, the farmer chases the fleeing fiend on horseback until the monster hid under the skirt of a woman. The farmer tied the womanâs skirt up so that the worm could not escape, and then the poor woman was burned to make sure the Tilberi was dead.
On two occasions, a woman in Iceland has been accused of summoning a Tilberi and was eventually executed.
Sources: âMuseum of Hidden Beings: a Guide to Icelandic Creatures of Myth and Legendâ, by Arngrimur SigurĂ°sson Kvideland, R. and Sehmsdorf, H. K., 1988, Scandinavian Folk Belief and Legend, Norwegian University Press. (image source: Arngrimur SigurĂ°sson)
Whatâs up just a reminder that the Hula Girl stereotype can go to hell and is in part responsible for Hawaiâi being the tourist destination and getting invaded by rich white people, and for Hawaiian culture being disrespected and appropriated
Hereâs a few sources on the topic:
How Americaâs Obsession With Hula Girls Almost Wrecked Hawaiâi (the site is weird but the research is legitimate, gives a good overview of the issue and references a lot of sources that are harder to get your hands on read: books)
âPopâ Goes Hawaiâi: The Twentieth Century Origins of Tourism in Hawaiâi and the Impact of U.S. Pop Culture on Women in the Islands of Aloha (this one is very long but a really good read)
Misperceptions of the âHula Girlâ (this one is a personal essay but itâs an entry in the University of Hawaiâiâs academic newspaper)
Cool cool so its Asian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month so Iâm gonna uh. reblog this
Also if you donât have the time and/or energy to read through these articles lemme give you the basic breakdown (Iâll try to keep this short, but Iâll put it under the cut because itâll probably still take up space)
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why do they always show cranberries in thos big pits n its implied its wet and possibly swimmable. do cranberries really grow like that. wh
Youâve never heard of The Bog?
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EACH ADDITION TO THIS POST MAKES MY BLOOD RUN COLD
This is a cranberry bog (unflooded) itâs how cranberries grow. Once theyâre ripe, the blog is flooded and the cranberries harvested.
Basically by using big floaty things to round them all up and then scooping them out of the water.
thank u. i hate it a little less but the horrible little man in my head is still screaming âBOG BODY BOG BODY BOG BODYâ, but i appreciate the education,
oh here is a fun lil perspective on cranberry harvesting i never heard about anywhere else. the guy who owns the restaurant right down the road from the farm, who fries our chickens sometimes, is from Boston, with the strongest Boston accent ever, and in a former life before he started slinging reasonably priced barbeque and occasional organic chicken, he was a cranberry farmer.
His farm was on the leading edge of kinda using organic/sustainable pest control methods, and one of the things that they did to keep insect damage down was that they encouraged wolf spiders to live in the cranberry field, to eat the bugs.Â
This was all fine and good until they flooded the bog. Now, you donât just like flood the bog and then go around it in a boat or whatever. No, you use hip waders to get in there and put the big floaty things where they go and get all the berries and such.
Well when youâre in the bog in hip waders, that makes you the tallest thing. Wolf spiders can swim a bit, but they donât like it, so theyâre, quite understandably, looking to climb out of the water onto a tall thing.
So yeah the first interview question he always asked potential cranberry bog harvester hires was âare you cool with spiders?â
âYouâd be amazed,â he said to us, shaking his head a little, âhow many guys would just straight lie. Like, you think Iâm asking you that question to be cute? Nah man youâre gonna have like a hundred wolf spiders trying to climb your eyebrows, you gotta be chill, those wolf spiders are fellow employees. You really gotta be chill with spiders if youâre gonna work a cranberry harvest.â
happy international workers day to the cranberry bog spiders
I want any cranberry farmers reading this to know, really truly know, that âare you cool with spidersâ is not a specific enough question for this situation.
