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doubleflopflat

mahler 6 appreciation

siphilemon-deactivated20230930

#MAKE THE MAHLER HAMMER AS FAMOUS AS THE TCHAIKOVSKY CANNONS

I am clearly missing something amazing

prokopetz

It’s even more awesome if you know the story behind it. See, the orchestral score doesn’t actually specify the use of a huge wooden mallet. In fact, it doesn’t specify any particular instrument at all: it just describes a completely hypothetical instrumental sound - “brief and mighty, but dull in resonance and with a non-metallic character (like the fall of an axe)” - and leaves it to the orchestra director to figure out how to actually produce it. Apart from the Big Fucking Mallet, past attempts have included custom-made bass drums, smacking a wooden crate with a sledgehammer, and dropping heavy objects onto the stage from a great height.

I don’t know if Mahler actually intended to troll entire generations of orchestras, but if he did, it totally worked.

samuraiknitter

This is why auxiliary percussion is the best gig in the symphony.

kittenduck

Did he intend to troll the performers? Lol, How can a case be made otherwise?!

#Mahler

kittenduck

I’m currently reading A Conjuring of Light, which is the final book in The Shades of Magic trilogy. It’s exactly what the cover blurbs say - immersive and addictive! She’s built a fabulous world and has really compelling characters inhabiting it. If you like fantasy, give it a whirl.

#currently reading #oops! put on wrong blog #juladran #anonsally

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kinahmi

The cat’s name is basically Maya Cream-nose thats so adorable!!!

#next cat will have creamnose in its name

kotaku

The End, by Alister Lockhart.

walkinchicken

Bruh, if you don’t think that having historically significant events well documented from multiple perspectives is a good thing, then idk what the hell u doin.

purplebloodedmajesty

Besides, like, that is literally a Giant Monster Rampaging Through The Town. What the fuck is the everyday person gonna do other than Tweet/Instagram/Post about it going “It’s the apocalypse you guys! Eyyyy lmao #apocalypse #deathrising #nofilter”?

nbkatara

#like come on your cellphone may not defeat the beast#but it can gain you like 50000 followers before the skies start raining blood so#who’s the REAL winner here? (via @purplebloodedmajesty)

songofsunset

And heck, even if your own death is inevitable getting information out could help save other people, even if it can’t save you. ‘Here are 20 livestreams of the giant tentacle monster including how it moves and attacks, how can we beat it?’ is way more useful than ‘an entire city got wiped off the map and things smell vaguely of calimari idk man’

steppsful

reblogging for this perfection: ‘an entire city got wiped off the map and things smell vaguely of calimari idk man’

safetytank

Point #1 on this here article talks about Robert Landsburg, a photographer who realized he wouldn’t survive the eruption of Mt St. Helens (too close to outrun the ash cloud) and used his own body to shield & preserve the photos and recordings he’d been taking during the explosion

these surviving photographs are still CRAZY VALUABLE to this day for the rest of the volcanologist community, since actual recordings of an in-process eruption are so dang rare

on-site documentation of any major disaster is gonna be VITALLY IMPORTANT to the people who are tryna figure out how to prevent that shit

tl;dr have your phone out, make your death-by-kaiju worthwhile to the scientific community

samuraiknitter

I love the internet.

parakeet

depression pride flag

anemonespotted-blog

can you make it darker please

parakeet

unfortunately only anish kapoor is allowed to use vantablack, the worlds blackest black, in his art

lolmythesis

Spoiler Alert: Study Abroad is for Rich People

Sociology/Anthropology, Swarthmore College

Collecting Cultures and Imagining Class: The Experiences of First Generation College Students Studying Abroad

doctor: so are u on any birth control

me: kind of? i guess? idk a witch put a hex on me that made my womb barren after an internet argument, but i'm not sure how effective it is

teashopcrafts

“I can show you the world…" -‘A Whole New World’

This took a loooong time to make, but not sure what else I was expecting from hand-making a full size replica of the magic carpet from ‘Aladdin’. Of course, now that it’s done I can say it’s 5x8 feet of awesome, lol.

samuraiknitter

BEST RUG EVER MADE. 15/10 WOULD PUT IN MY LIVING ROOM.

lolmythesis

I, a gay, spent 8 months alone reading books by straight moroccan people, so now I’m arguing that if you’re lonely enough anything sounds gay

Swarthmore College, French and Francophone Studies and Gender and Sexuality Studies

Futurs (im)possibles au delà du texte: lectures queers de littérature contemporaine marocaine d'expression française.

[(Im)possible Futures beyond the Text: Queer Readings of Contemporary French Language Moroccan Literature]

I'm currently reading A Conjuring of Light, which is the final book in The Shades of Magic trilogy. It's exactly what the cover blurbs say - immersive and addictive! She's built a fabulous world and has really compelling characters inhabiting it. If you like fantasy, give it a whirl.

#julandran #reading #anonsally #DSOM #ve schwab

uss-edsall

While sailing in the Mediterranean sea, in 1962, the American aircraft carrier USS Independence (CV-62) flashed the Italian Amerigo Vespucci with light signal asking «Who are you?», the full rigged ship answered «Training ship Amerigo Vespucci, Italian Navy». The US ship replied «You are the most beautiful ship in the world».

thehoneyedmoon

Great, now I ship actual ships.