Swamp Jam

Yo, I be Jam a 28 year old cis dude. I likes lego, comics, pirates, Art, video games and loads of other shit. I once ran across a dual carriage way at 02:00 AM with three Mars eggs in my mouth and 6 ginsters pasties in me coat.

[irtenyev]

when w. h. auden said “evil is unspectacular and always human” and ursula k. leguin said “this is the great treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain”

[treethymes]

when toni morrison said “i just think goodness is more interesting. evil is constant. you can think of different ways to murder people, but you can do that at age five. but you have to be an adult to consciously, deliberately be good – and that’s complicated.”

[azbukivedii]

when simone weil said “imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.”

[crawly]

just learned about a building in london that is so poorly designed it becomes a death ray that melts cars and creates a downdraft effect with wind so powerful that it knocks full grown adults to the ground

[crawly]

[crawly]

imagine being knocked over by a gust of wind from this ugly ass building and then being cooked TO DEATH by the sun reflection like what a way to go

[millenniumitem]

i learned about this like last year or somethign and this building is literally th satan come alive. building that tries to fucking kill you and fry you like an egg

[crawly]

top ten buildings that Want To Harm You

[angstytwat]

this building is like I Will Flip You Over Like A Hamburger And Fucking Cook You

[alicentsgf]

The use of the present tense isn’t quite accurate because they did fix the issue immediatly after this so its no longer a death ray but yes it did partially melt a very expensive Jaguar. Its nickname ‘the walkie talkie’ got beautifully bastardised to ‘the walkie scorchie’ following this. Its also widely accepted to be the ugliest of London’s skyscrapers.

And I just wanna bring up the fact that this is not the only monstrosity built by Rafael Vinoly - he’s also responsible for the eyesore of Manhattan that is 432 Park Avenue.

Residents here have repeatedly complained about the realities of living in this haunted pool noodle, including ‘catastrophic’ floods, loud bangs and creaks, and an elevator that refuses to work when its windy.

I would say we should stop letting this guy make buildings, but he only seems to fuck over millionaires so I’m not in a hurry to end his career just yet.

[alicentsgf]

@branovices it’s my pleasure to inform you that the Vdara 'death ray’ Hotel is also the work of Rafael Vinoly

[yesterdaysprint]

Plainfield Courier-News, New Jersey, April 16, 1937

[insertusernameici]

[unicornempire]

I love that Leverage really goes out of it’s way to show us that just because you break the ‘rules’, it doesn’t mean you’re breaking the rules. Rules and laws and society are all made up, at the end of the day, and all you really have is your own moral compass and sense of justice; is this just to you? Is it right? Should it be OK for companies to put people in insurmountable debt for the rest of their lives just because our medical care is so expensive in this modern day and age? No law or rule should change what you know in your heart is right and wrong, and I think that’s the key thing that makes someone a good person in my eyes.

[theheroheart]

#there was a time when parker wouldn’t have noticed, #not because she lacked the capacity to care, #but because she had narrowed herself, #to stay alive she cut off as many unnecessary things as possible, #watching her get them all back, #is one of the glories of this show (via @seananmcguire)

[jack-the-bear]

Leverage hands down has the best character development I’ve ever seen.

[lets-go-steal-an-ot3]

This scene hit me like a brick. My parents were hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt when I was 16 bc I’d had cancer the year before (my treatment ended up being free but the initial ER bills and such were not).

But somewhere along the line they just… Disappeared. My mom says they’re not being paid and they’re not in collections. It’s almost as if someone out there did…exactly what Parker did.

Ever since I saw this the first time, I’ve imagined it was Parker doing it. That she and Hardison had a free weekend and decided to take it out on a collections agency. That I was one of the lucky ones who got a little Leverage.

[gay-jesus-probably]

Okay but like yeah, that is actually a thing that happens, albeit not exactly like this. I don’t remember the exact process but basically there’s a booming industry to sell peoples debt - the business you owe money to sells it to someone else for a fraction of the money owed, wipes their hands of the whole affair, and now whoever bought your debt is riding your ass to get you to give the money to the. But it’s also entirely possible for people to just… buy up massive amounts of debt for pennies on the dollar, and then just. Forgive it. Because capitalism is a living nightmare, but the system is broken enough that it’s possible to exploit it for good sometimes.

Like, the main reason I know about this is because John Oliver did a piece on debt buying a few years ago, and ended it by revealing that he’d bought 15 million dollars worth of medical debt just so he could forgive all of it. Both to expose how broken the system was because some random fucker like him could buy millions of dollars in peoples debt with zero regulations, and also just to take the record for biggest TV giveaway in history.

[mikkeneko]

A charity where you can do this, right here.

Be Parker!

[directoaltacho-deactivated20201]

[sarahmaraerobson]

“The Favorite” by Omar Rayyan

[jade-cooper]

Favorite what? Demon?!

[cheesey-toast]

Loving the fact that whatever it is is wearing a matching flower.

[221cbakerstreet]

18th century Lilo and Stitch

[ringingofraevolution]

so i looked up some of this guys other stuff and I

uh

what the fuck

sexy parrot girls yeah ok

oh look the demon has little babies

[rooksandravens]

HOLY WOW IT GOT EVEN BETTER.

[dduane]

…Goodness.

[turretangel]

Dearie me, what is this that just popped up on my dash.

[estrellafiore-deactivated201711]

What is that orange dragon doing? Yoga or ballet? 😱

[jumpingjacktrash]

his best!

[jewishdragon]

I went to his website and he has a photo of himself:

I love??? so much???

[gingerjab]

The orange dragon thing is obviously having a spa day, damn.

We all deserve a little pampering.

[noisypaintersong]

My personal favorite from his website:

“Tea Time in the Land of Monsters”

[orca-iguana]

Jabberwocky and Godzilla casually having Tea is fucking incredible

[elysian-waltz]

Oh my fucking god I adore this man and his work

[tonysopranobignaturals-deactiva]

THE PLOT TWISTS IN THIS

[utopians]

The fact that humans can be killed through physical means is so ridiculous to me

[utopians]

Like this sounds wild but like. hear me out. a person is such a ridiculously infinitely complicated web of thoughts and feelings and beliefs and such an unbelievably huge amount of knowledge and the idea that you can destroy that by holding a pillow over someone's face for three minutes is absolutely surreal. The idea that you can remove knowledge and emotion and memory from the world with a physical object is literally unbelievable. people are literally infinitely huge and complex and the fact that you can kill the person by killing the body is wild. I'm sure this is incoherent but I hope you get it

[utopians]

It's like. Imagine you threw a fist-sized rock at the empire state building and the entire thing and everything inside it collapsed into dust. That's what the existence of human death feels like

[33v0]

what is it about capybaras that attracts groups of small animals to them? Its not just mammals either its like birds and turtles and frogs too

[33v0]

look at this shit

They radiate peace

[lizardsister]

capybaras are friend shaped

[gaylor-moon]

I love this post

[cantavier]

This is actually a cool thing I know about!

In the wild capybaras live in large groups so naturally a female capybara will take care of not only her own offspring, but all of the other offspring in the group. So capybaras are super great mothers who will adopt pretty much anything and take care of it.

Lots of places that rescue different animals will give a group of baby animals to a capybara to raise if they have one.

Like puppies

Ducks

Deer

Emus

They are just super calm animals so they’re naturally great at mothering or just existing in a group!

[screambirdscreaming]

mom shaped

[mothermishy]

You guys just have to trust me on this one and click here okay?

[abracazabka]

[littlegreenfag-deactivated20240]

@undertelevisionskiess

[nyctosaurid]

i like how scooby doo isn’t the product of weird 70s tv animation design but was instead an intentional attempt to create the ugliest trash dog possible

[rneadowsoprano-deactivated20211]

Hanging out with old people rules because after a while they trust you enough to confess to murder totally unprompted

[hiscarissima]

Wait what.

[rneadowsoprano-deactivated20211]

Sometimes old ladies had to kick the ladder out from under their stepfathers when they were girls and that’s valid

[saint-batrick]

oh, my little old lady murder story was her replacing the medication in her abusive husband's capsules with rat poison.

"back in the day, our grandmothers worked on their marriages and didn't get divorced!" nah, friend, they COULDN'T get a divorce so sometimes they killed their fuckin husbands. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[smashasaurus-rex]

My grandma murdered her first husband the first time he beat their daughter.

[sandersgrey]

[thatdisasterauthor]

My college was next to an assisted living facility and one time we went over there to draw people’s portraits so we could get practice drawing older people. The lady I was drawing idly told me that she "dealt quite handily with her first husband” while making a stabbing gesture. Five minutes later she requested I make sure not to draw her double chin. I honored that request.

[need-a-new-reality]

So when I was a child my grandmother told all these great stories about growing up in the Alaskan wilderness. Amazing bad ass stories about her and my great-grandmother. I recently asked my mom why my great-grandmother moved from Texas to Alaska in the first place. Turns out my Great-grandfather was abusive to my great grandmother for years and she lived with that until the first time he hit my grandmother, who was like three at the time, my great-grandmother got him very drunk and beat him to death then moved to Alaska to hide from the cops.

[scythfi-writer]

Listen, if an old lady admitted to killing her abusive father I’d be honored

[ignigeno]

The chimera I designed for our new LEGO show. I cannot express how much of a labor of love this was. It took over 100 hours just to design, let alone build and is one of the largest and most complex sculptures I’ve done.

Fun fact: This model used every single LEGO color available in standard brick.

[bogleech]

please for the love of god tell me this is glued together because even the hypothetical possibility of someone knocking it over is giving me four heart attacks

[ignigeno]

WOW what a huge response this has gotten! I am humbled. There have been a ton of questions and I’ll try to answer all of them.

Because these models are produced for public display, as in the public can touch them, pull on them…hang off them, we are required to glue them due to health and safety regulations. If we didn’t someone could get seriously hurt. A lot of people say this is cheating but the fact of the matter is you wouldn’t get to see things like this in public spaces if we didn’t do it. That is the price we have to pay to let people enjoy these models up close.They also have to pass a huge set of health and safety tests including applying 25 kilos of force to any protruding parts to ensure they do not break or even crack. 

We also have to design a steel structure which sits inside the model. The LEGO is built around this like flesh over a skeleton but not actually touching or resting on the steel, it’s there to give the whole model stability so it doesn’t tip over. Even just a few thousand LEGO bricks is extremely heavy, we’ve had models where the LEGO structure has ended up resting on the steel and has actually bent the steel out of shape.

This is what the model looks like in LEGO’s in house software for creating large models.

And this is what the steel structure looks like inside.

This model, due to its size, does have detachable parts, namely the dragon head and the tail. This is so the model can be moved through a standard double door and can be transported.

In its complete state the model measures up at 2.8m long, 1.7m wide (from dragon head to goat head) and 2.1m tall.

And lastly, you can currently see this model and many others in the Milestones Museum in Basingstoke UK. After that the entire show will be travelling to various venues including shows like Brick Live up and down the country. 

I hope that answers most of the questions and provides some insight to how these get made!

[lesbianseparatist]

Lesbian Lists, Dell Richards. 1990.

[bisexualrights]

Brian David Gilbert, the Master Chief of loneliness [x]

[seriousjones]

[theycallmey]

we live in the best possible version of cyberpunk

[heavenslittlemachine-deactivate]

this is how people born after 1995 hack. when i started hacking or “phreaking” in the late 80s i would get in the zone by snorting homemade amphetamines & listening to harsh noise cassettes while banging out code for 24+ hour periods on my atari. mostly i would write text-to-speech features into the operating system so the computer said swear words when you double-click. i remember when html was invented i got so frustrated because theres so many greater than and less than signs and you have to put them around everything. in early january of 2001 i changed Google’s header to a gif of a pissing orangutan and the resulting publicity turned the website into a household name 

[benepla-deactivated20200506]

never have a been more devastated to scroll over a url and see its deactivated who are you ma'am

[coolxatu]

what if god was one of us…

[tsnbrainrot]

Vincent & Theo Van Gogh 

Hannah Gadsby in Nanette (2018) // At Eternity’s Gate dir. Julian Schnabel (2018) // Loving Vincent dir. Dorota Kobiela & Hugh Welchman (2017) // Vincent Van Gogh in a letter to Theo Van Gogh (1880) // Almond Blossoms by Vincent Van Gogh (1890); painted as a gift for the birth of his brother Theo’s son named after him

[frank--enstein]

[biff-donderglutes]

yo same

[pileofknives]

it do be like that though

[ronchronchronch]

I don’t think this should be reblogged without the context that this a nude Ghost Rider pin-up that was printed in an official Marvel Comics swimsuit special