Amalgamate

[wanderingego]

[kateoplis]

I’ve often thought there ought to be a manual to hand to little kids, telling them what kind of planet they’re on, why they don’t fall off it, how much time they’ve probably got here, how to avoid poison ivy, and so on. I tried to write one once. It was called Welcome to Earth. But I got stuck on explaining why we don’t fall off the planet. Gravity is just a word. It doesn’t explain anything. If I could get past gravity, I’d tell them how we reproduce, how long we’ve been here, apparently, and a little bit about evolution. I didn’t learn until I was in college about all the other cultures, and I should have learned that in the first grade. A first grader should understand that his or her culture isn’t a rational invention; that there are thousands of other cultures and they all work pretty well; that all cultures function on faith rather than truth; that there are lots of alternatives to our own society. Cultural relativity is defensible and attractive. It’s also a source of hope. It means we don’t have to continue this way if we don’t like it.

Kurt Vonnegut, Playboy Interview, 1973 (via kateoplis)

[kristengish]

[wanderingego]

Bill Withers - Ain't No Sunshine

Bill Withers in 1971, playing "Ain't No Sunshine"

[theurbanchica]

//deconstructing the eurocentric view of blonde hair.. 

visit melanesia’s solomon islands {1800 kilometers northeast of australia} and you’ll notice a striking contrast: about 10% of the dark-skinned islanders sport bright blond afros. hypotheses about the origins of this golden hair have included bleaching by sun and saltwater, a diet rich in fish, and the genetic legacy of europeans or americans. guess what- no euro/american genes- instead, it’s a random mutation that suggests blond hair has evolved independently at least twice in human history.. {science mag}

[blackhorseandthecherrytree]

link

[wanderingego]

[luckyseventeens-blog]

No matter how you feel… Get up. Dress up. Show up. And never give up.

Unknown  (via fuckinq)

[pdlcomics]

[wanderingego]

[wanderingego]

[wanderingego]

Real Life Mowgli: Girl Who Grew Up in the African Wildlife

Riding a five-ton elephant, whom she called 'my brother', chilling with a cheetah or hugging a giant bullfrog as if it were a Teddy bear. The childhood of a French girl Tippi Degre sounds more like a newer version of Mowgli, rather than something real. A white child, she was born in Namibia to ...

[wanderingego]

[wanderingego]

(From Reddit user Gabriel85)

[wanderingego]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4J0CR2aB14&hd=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1uhFs4-dpc&hd=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JROyFExIbgc&hd=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrOH2Ko0zlk&hd=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDYplfRqg0o

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzYiCM8gPO8&hd=1

[wanderingego]

[wanderingego]

Unacceptable Condition

I wanted to teach myself how to use Audiosnap (a timing repair tool) in Sonar. So instead of faking a sloppy take and adjusting for rhythm, i sampl...

[wanderingego]

finals in aftermath