Portmento

Welcome to an Alliance of Creativity! Portmento is a student magazine project targeted towards giving the coolest and latest creative content - both traditional and new media, (yes that means you too Tumblr and YouTube!) We want to share some cool things with consumers and producers of creative content - paintings, writings, films, Youtube videos, vines, creepypasta stories, you name it, we cover it. We also aim to have content contributed by you guys as well, not just ours. It's a magazine filled with content worth sharing, a portmanteau of creatives, and a canvas to mess up! Twitter: @PortmentoSG

[portmento]

In case you missed us going kinda crazy on twitter, here. Lindsey Stirling is amazing. Worth every dollar spent on the tickets. 

[itscolossal]

Edible Growth: 3D-Printed Living Food That Grows before You Eat It

[deleted6385-deactivated20201025]

Someone please stop Child of Light before it tears my heart in two.

[portmento]

We're so excited to have our website up and running for everyone to check out! We cover from TV shows, to games, to web series, to kickstarters, to Jimmy Fallon's Ice Cream! Anything you can dream of about the mashing of traditional media and new media content, we got it.

Do drop by if you feel like it, I promise it'll have some cool stuff on it. c:  or at least cookies, there'll definitely be cookies.

Meanwhile, look up the article on the latest trends happening all around February as we say goodbye to the month, and hello to a whole new month of memes!

[ndormerdaily]

"Had a terrific time filming the Someone New video with the fantastic Natalie Dormer. Coming to a device near you on Monday." Hozier

[niknak79]

[odysseusyes]

even with those four numbers there are countless possible combinations good luck with figuring out which one is the right one you punk

[eatsleepcrap]

*straightens calculator*

It’s pretty likely that it’s a four digit number, and as there are four digits chosen there, that means that there cannot be any repetition. This mean that there are:

n!/(n-4)! possible orders. As ‘n’ is 4 (number of digits available). 4!/0! which becomes 4x3x2x1/1 which simplifies to 24. That means that there are 24 possible combinations of codes. This would take you about two or three minutes to input all possible codes.

[crashingsunlight]

Unless an alarm goes off if you don’t get it right in 3 tries

[eatsleepcrap]

*straightens calculator again*

Kick the fucking door in

[the-brave-little-blogger]

well ‘technically’ the code is most likley 1970. statistically, a majority of people, when told to choose a 4 digit code will choose their birth year. and this key pad is obviously a few years old to put it nicely, thats most likley it.

[everyonesfavoriteging-blog]

some sherlock holmes shit just went down over here

[the-neon-pineapple]

No, no, no. Don’t base your deductions of psychology. Let’s talk chemistry. When you first press a button, there’s more of the natural oils on your skin, and therefore it wears down the numbers on the keys faster. Obviously 0 is the first one, then. Try 0791 first.

Sherlock out.

[perks-of-being-chinese]

woah.

[panicrobot]

it got better

[twistedthicket1-deactivated2022]

and this is why the sherlock fandom could either rule the world or end it….

[ofthefantastic]

Close, but not quite, I think. People will almost always choose a number they can remember. What’s memorable about 0791? Try 0719 - a birthday, 19th of July. That is more likely.

[venatrix26]

Those deductions are great and all, but unnecessary.

The light is green.

The door is already open.

[party-gilmore]

And that’s why we have a John Watson.

[lotrlocked]

This is “top 10 favorite posts” level.

[rubyredwisp]

[rivetedbysimonteen]

It is a truth universally acknowledged that one must be in want of a llama (or two). And because we aim to please, we will give you the llamas. Sort of.

Inspired by Twitter (and the Arizona Llamas), we bring you our contribution to #llamabooks. 

To play the #llamabooks game is simple—just pick some of your favorite book titles and replace a word with “llama(s),” and hilarity may ensue. 

[anyacado]

THE SISTERHOOD OF THE TRAVELING PANTS STARS STILL ALL HANG OUT AND I AM SO EMOTIONAL OVER THIS DISCOVERY

[sludge-face]

“Okay, okay, I’m going to tell you what Hermione sees in Ron. A trio is a balancing act, right? They’re equalizers of each other. Harry’s like the action, Hermione’s the brains, Ron’s the heart. Hermione has been assassinated in these movies, and I mean that genuinely—by giving her every single positive character trait that Ron has, they have assassinated her character in the movies. She’s been harmed by being made to be less human, because everything good Ron has, she’s been given. So, for instance: “If you want to kill Harry, you’re going to have to kill me too”—RON, leg is broken, he’s in pain, gets up and stands in front of Harry and says this. Who gets that line in the movie? Hermione. “Fear of a name increases the fear of the thing itself.” Hermione doesn’t say Voldemort’s name until well into the books—that’s Dumbledore’s line. When does Hermione say it in the movies? Beginning of Movie 2. When the Devil’s Snare is curling itself around everybody, Hermione panics, and Ron is the one who keeps his head and says “Are you a witch or not?” In the movie, everybody else panics and Hermione keeps her head and does the biggest, brightest flare of sunlight spell there ever was. So, Hermione—all her flaws were shaved away in the films. And that sounds like you’re making a kick-ass, amazing character, and what you’re doing is dehumanizing her. And it pisses me off. It really does. In the books, they balance each other out, because where Hermione gets frazzled and maybe her rationality overtakes some of her instinct, Ron has that to back it up; Ron has a kind of emotional grounding that can keep Hermione’s hyper-rationalness in check. Sometimes Hermione’s super-logical nature grates Harry and bothers him, and isn’t the thing he needs even if it’s the right thing, like when she says “You have a saving people thing.” That is the thing that Harry needed to hear, she’s a hundred percent right, but the way she does it is wrong. That’s the classic “she’s super logical, she’s super brilliant, but she doesn’t know how to handle people emotionally,” at least Harry. So in the books they are this balanced group, and in the movies, in the movies—hell, not even Harry is good enough for Hermione in the movies. No one’s good enough for Hermione in the movies—God isn’t good enough for Hermione in the movies! Hermione is everybody’s everything in the movies. Harry’s idea to jump on the dragon in the books, who gets it in the movies? Hermione, who hates to fly. Hermione, who overcomes her withering fear of flying to take over Harry’s big idea to get out of the—like, why does Hermione get all these moments? [John: Because we need to market the movie to girls.] I think girls like the books, period. And like the Hermione in the books, and like the Hermione in the books just fine before Hollywood made her idealized and perfect. And if they would have trusted that, they would have been just fine. Would the movies have been bad if she was as awesome as she was in the books, and as human as she was in the books? Would the movies get worse? She IS a strong girl character. This is the thing that pisses me off. They are equating “strong” with superhuman. To me, the Hermione in the book is twelve times stronger than the completely unreachable ideal of Hermione in the movies. Give me the Hermione in the book who’s human and has flaws any single day of the week. Here’s a classic example: When Snape in the first book yells at Hermione for being an insufferable know-it-all, do you want to know what Ron says in the book? “Well, you’re asking the questions, and she has to answer. Why ask if you don’t want to be told?” What does he say in the movie? “He’s got a point, you know.” Ron? Would never do that. Would NEVER do that, even before he liked Hermione. Ron would never do that.”

— Melissa Anelli THROWS IT DOWN about the way Ron and Hermione have been adapted in the movies on the latest episode of PotterCast. Listen here. This glorious rant starts at about 49:00.

[silvrstarlet]

There’s something really pretty about nature reclaiming its domain once we are gone. We had this wonderful piece of concept art we developed really early on, and there are all of these wild animals that have escaped from a zoo, and over the past 20 years have bred and now they have herds roaming these city’s and that’s something that tells you that, life goes on - and this world is worth saving.

- Jacob Minkoff (Lead game designer) & Neil Druckmann (Creative director)

[twdg-confessions]

Submitted by - Anonymous

I feel like I’m the only one who enjoyed season 2. And whenever I say that I liked s2, I get a ton of messages that scold me and say rude things because of me liking it. This fandom gets out of control sometimes.

[teenageers]

Dublin ~ Trinity College Library | By Irish Welcome Tours

[portmento]

We made a thing.

[chibird]

“And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.” -Haruki Murakami

[realgrumpycat]

[lisadashy]

Magic power prop ideas for cosplay!

First 2 sets of photos: PETG thermoplastic heat-shaped. LED berry lights. Diffused light with tracing paper and sanding the plastic. Tutorial: http://www.therpf.com/f9/magic-power-prop-tutorial-233092/ 3rd set: Heat-shaped PETG strips to form a half-sphere structure to support organza, all attached together by tape. The most vivid sheen swirls in the bottom left photo were created by a torch. Last photo: Comparison of 2 different types of organza fabric. Type on the left was used in the 3rd set of photos, I later found a better organza with a more vivid sheen (it was labelled ‘dance organza’).

[aicosu]

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