Misplaced Lens Cap
we're not kids anymore.
Andulka
occasionally subtle
almost home
Origami Around
TVSTRANGERTHINGS
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Claire Keane
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Keni
Alisa U Zemlji Chuda
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Lint Roller? I Barely Know Her
Cosmic Funnies
Jules of Nature
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This is completely random, but Zachary Quinto (reboot Spock, if you're as bad with names / people / etc as I am 🙈) is on the episode of Kimmy Schmidt that I'm watching right now don't judge me and ...wow 👀 He plays douchebag slimeball very, very well 👀 like, really well 👀👀😳
Mitchell (UK)
Frank O'Hara, Love Poems (Tentative Title), Tibor de Nagy, New York, NY, 1965 [Division Leap, Port Orford, OR]
“Don’t rush into any kind of relationship. Work on yourself. Feel yourself, experience yourself, and love yourself. Do this first and you will soon attract that special loving other.”
— Russ Von Hoelscher (via onlinecounsellingcollege)
Now I'm a sad one, and she was a bad one
A mean, mean girl
I never had one as greedy as that one
A mean, mean girl
Mean, mean, mean, mean girl
I guess she's not the kind that I was looking for
Mean, mean, mean, mean girl
She said I was the first but there were many more
She was a big one, a met-at-a-gig once
A mean, mean girl
I felt a sick one, she was a quick one
A mean, mean girl
Mean, mean, mean, mean girl
I guess she's not the kind that I was looking for
Mean, mean, mean, mean girl
She said I was the first but there were many more
Now I'm a sad one, and she was a bad one
A mean, mean girl
I never had one as greedy as that one
A mean, mean girl
Mean, mean, mean, mean girl
I guess she's not the kind that I was looking for
Mean, mean, mean, mean girl
She said I was the first but there were many more
She was a big one, a met-at-a-gig once
A mean, mean girl
I felt a sick one, she was a quick one
A mean, mean girl
Mean, mean, mean, mean girl
I guess she's not the kind that I was looking for
Mean, mean, mean, mean girl
She said I was the first but there were many
everything is terrible
i’m so fucking exhausted
Untitled from Steven Ray Davies on Vimeo.
Do you smell things that can’t be explained, like a smell of flowers coming from nowhere, or a stench of something rotten just appearing from thin air. This is called Clairescence. Many people who have this ability are able to smell moods, they can walk into a room and smell anger or smell sickness, thy can pick up on smells of sadness or happiness. A lot of people can smell death, it is like an overwhelming stench of flowers like from a graveyard or mortuary, others may smell a rotten or decaying smell. Having this ability can be very confusing as the smell just appears from nowhere, you ask the people around you if they can smell a certain thing and no one else can smell it. Many people who have psychic smell can smell memories or spirits such as a person who has passed who was a heavy smoker they will be hit with a smell of tobacco from a certain spot in a room. It may be a person who wore a certain perfume and the smell would just appear. Some can smell a pet after it has died maybe in a certain place in the home such as it’s favorite sleeping place or on the bed (even if the place has just been cleaned) The smells will sometimes manifest in the most unlikely of places, for example you may be in a swimming pool and smell fire or something burning, or you may be in the office and smell the sea. You should pay attention to your psychic smell as usually it is a message either as a warning or as a spirit just letting you know they are there. The smell doesn’t just come by accident there is always a reason behind it.
Never in history has violence been initiated by the oppressed. How could they be the initiators, if they themselves are the result of violence? How could they be the sponsors of something whose objective inauguration called forth their existence as oppressed? There would be no oppressed had there been no prior situation of violence to establish their subjugation. Violence is initiated by those who oppress, who exploit, who fail to recognise others as persons - not by those who are oppressed, exploited and unrecognised.
Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed. (via afghangst)
People look for meaning in things, but the truth is, I was out in the garden and suddenly thought “I wish I had a tiny moose.”
Nobody lives here: The nearly 5 million Census Blocks with zero population
A Block is the smallest area unit used by the U.S. Census Bureau for tabulating statistics. As of the 2010 census, the United States consists of 11,078,300 Census Blocks. Of them, 4,871,270 blocks totaling 4.61 million square kilometers were reported to have no population living inside them. Despite having a population of more than 310 million people, 47 percent of the USA remains unoccupied.
Green shading indicates unoccupied Census Blocks. A single inhabitant is enough to omit a block from shading.
Update Jan 2015: Prints of the Nobody Live Here map are now available.
Quick update: If you’re the kind of map lover who cares about cartographic accuracy, check out the new version which fixes the Gulf of California. Unfortunately, tumblr won’t let me change the big version up top. If you use this map in your own projects, please save this file instead.
Update 2014.05.01: I’ve received a couple questions about Canada. Just to be clear, this map is of the United States only. It is based on 2010 data published by the U.S. Census Bureau, which for reasons I hope are apparent, does not include data on our friends in the Great White North. For a similar depiction of Canada, see this map whipped up by Michael Chung.
Map observations
The map tends to highlight two types of areas:
places where human habitation is physically restrictive or impossible, and
places where human habitation is prohibited by social or legal convention.
Water features such lakes, rivers, swamps and floodplains are revealed as places where it is hard for people to live. In addition, the mountains and deserts of the West, with their hostility to human survival, remain largely void of permanent population.
Of the places where settlement is prohibited, the most apparent are wilderness protection and recreational areas (such as national and state parks) and military bases. At the national and regional scales, these places appear as large green tracts surrounded by otherwise populated countryside.
At the local level, city and county parks emerge in contrast to their developed urban and suburban surroundings. At this scale, even major roads such as highways and interstates stretch like ribbons across the landscape.
Commercial and industrial areas are also likely to be green on this map. The local shopping mall, an office park, a warehouse district or a factory may have their own Census Blocks. But if people don’t live there, they will be considered “uninhabited”. So it should be noted that just because a block is unoccupied, that does not mean it is undeveloped.
Perhaps the two most notable anomalies on the map occur in Maine and the Dakotas. Northern Maine is conspicuously uninhabited. Despite being one of the earliest regions in North America to be settled by Europeans, the population there remains so low that large portions of the state’s interior have yet to be politically organized.
In the Dakotas, the border between North and South appears to be unexpectedly stark. Geographic phenomena typically do not respect artificial human boundaries. Throughout the rest of the map, state lines are often difficult to distinguish. But in the Dakotas, northern South Dakota is quite distinct from southern North Dakota. This is especially surprising considering that the county-level population density on both sides of the border is about the same at less than 10 people per square mile.
Update: On a more detailed examination of those two states, I’m convinced the contrast here is due to differences in the sizes of the blocks. North Dakota’s blocks are more consistently small (StDev of 3.3) while South Dakota’s are more varied (StDev of 9.28). West of the Missouri River, South Dakota’s blocks are substantially larger than those in ND, so a single inhabitant can appear to take up more space. Between the states, this provides a good lesson in how changing the size and shape of a geographic unit can alter perceptions of the landscape.
Finally, the differences between the eastern and western halves of the contiguous 48 states are particularly stark to me. In the east, with its larger population, unpopulated places are more likely to stand out on the map. In the west, the opposite is true. There, population centers stand out against the wilderness.
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Ultimately, I made this map to show a different side of the United States. Human geographers spend so much time thinking about where people are. I thought I might bring some new insight by showing where they are not, adding contrast and context to the typical displays of the country’s population geography.
I’m sure I’ve all but scratched the surface of insight available from examining this map. There’s a lot of data here. What trends and patterns do you see?
Errata
The Gulf of California is missing from this version. I guess it got filled in while doing touch ups. Oops. There’s a link to a corrected map at the top of the post.
Some islands may be missing if they were not a part of the waterbody data sets I used.
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©mapsbynik 2014 Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike Block geography and population data from U.S. Census Bureau Water body geography from National Hydrology Dataset and Natural Earth Made with Tilemill USGS National Atlas Equal Area Projection
James Baldwin: the Price of the Ticket
