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I love a good mousetrap.  Keep up the good work nerds of the world! 

scienceisbeauty:

Clever (but absurd) method to avoid having to turn the pages manually. Is this Science? Well, I don’t think so, is rather a ingenious crazyness, but is Saturday after all… enjoy!

Sam Spratt’s portraits are amazing.  So cool he’s doing this.  Hope he doesn’t base the contest winner on the number of followers.  samspratt: Sam Spratt’s HOLIDAY EXPRESS Portrait Contest/Custom Portrait Giveaway! It’s back. As thanks to you for following me here, As usual—I am giving one of you the chance to win a custom portrait from me. Free, no strings attached—it’s the holiday season so you may want to sacrifice your win to give someone you feel nice things towards something unique. The rules have slightly changed though so read on: What You Get: A Web-resolution (1100 pixel) custom portrait, tailored to your most bizarre of requests. You can get a very traditional portrait done or as outlandish as you can dream—so long as it remains in the portrait format. Zombies, Hipsters, Pirates, Ninjas, Superheroes, Robots, etc. are all fair-game themes in which you can have yourself transmogrified in painted form. Want to let me have free reign? That works too, but I want to make something unique for you. How to Enter: 1. FACEBOOK: Simply comment on the facebook post at: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2156171140079&set=a.1389923864376.2051961.1120470458&type=1&theater 2. TWITTER: Follow http://twitter.com/#!/SamSpratt and tweet the following phrase verbatim on twitter:  “Entering to win a custom portrait #painting from @samspratt’s holiday contest! https://www.facebook.com/sam.spratt #samspratt”   This also counts as an entry. 3. TUMBLR: Just reblog/like this post! How to Increase Your Odds: Click the share button on the facebook image post (you will see “like” “comment” and “share” directly beneath the image) (If you enter all 4 ways, you will have 4x the odds of winning) How long this will last: This is called the holiday EXPRESS contest for a reason. I’m keeping this open for 4 days only and then getting the portrait ready and done so that in case you celebrate the holidays, you have it in time. You all are the best! Good luck and thanks again to all who follow my little slice of artwork on the web. NOTE: You must be a follower or subscriber at the time of the win. 

Sam Spratt’s portraits are amazing.  So cool he’s doing this.  Hope he doesn’t base the contest winner on the number of followers. 

samspratt:

Sam Spratt’s HOLIDAY EXPRESS Portrait Contest/Custom Portrait Giveaway!

It’s back. As thanks to you for following me here, As usual—I am giving one of you the chance to win a custom portrait from me. Free, no strings attached—it’s the holiday season so you may want to sacrifice your win to give someone you feel nice things towards something unique. The rules have slightly changed though so read on:

What You Get:

A Web-resolution (1100 pixel) custom portrait, tailored to your most bizarre of requests. You can get a very traditional portrait done or as outlandish as you can dream—so long as it remains in the portrait format. Zombies, Hipsters, Pirates, Ninjas, Superheroes, Robots, etc. are all fair-game themes in which you can have yourself transmogrified in painted form. Want to let me have free reign? That works too, but I want to make something unique for you.

How to Enter:

1. FACEBOOK: Simply comment on the facebook post at: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2156171140079&set=a.1389923864376.2051961.1120470458&type=1&theater

2. TWITTER: Follow http://twitter.com/#!/SamSpratt and tweet the following phrase verbatim on twitter: 

“Entering to win a custom portrait #painting from @samspratt’s holiday contest! https://www.facebook.com/sam.spratt #samspratt”  

This also counts as an entry.

3. TUMBLR: Just reblog/like this post!

How to Increase Your Odds:

Click the share button on the facebook image post (you will see “like” “comment” and “share” directly beneath the image)

(If you enter all 4 ways, you will have 4x the odds of winning)

How long this will last:

This is called the holiday EXPRESS contest for a reason. I’m keeping this open for 4 days only and then getting the portrait ready and done so that in case you celebrate the holidays, you have it in time.

You all are the best! Good luck and thanks again to all who follow my little slice of artwork on the web.

NOTE: You must be a follower or subscriber at the time of the win. 

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I feared this was the the case…Occupy Wall Street needs a leader.   Hope someone steps up.   samspratt: Occupy Wall Street Impressions I came into visiting the protests in New York with the mindset: “Good cause, bad leadership”. However, I also expected to see things that would move me and other people into supporting the cause either further—or even at all. This snapshot of one of the thousands of nonsensical picket signs I felt best represented the vibe of the protests… they were aimless, loud, and mostly left you feeling quizzical rather than pensive.  I spent an hour or so initially, weaving in and out of the crowd, overhearing political banter (corporate fat cats, corporate greed, corporate man, etc.), and watching the louder members/interesting standouts—however, ultimately what I was walking through was basically a very large outdoor homeless shelter. There were tarp beds, makeshift crates, the food was bread, peanut butter, and hot sauce—the people were your stereotypical hippies and college-dropout activists, not even attempting to seem like people who live within society. Occasionally I would see a person in some crazy garb like a gas mask and robe with some big political message, but largely—it was a homeless shelter party. Emphasis on the party because the “activism” occurring, consisted of sweaty dance circles, bongo drums, and other forms of loud but not terribly good music. When I returned a few hours later after dark, the dance circles had evolved into glowing hula hoop circles, the music had grown louder, and now that it was raining—a sea of tarps were not assembled, but rather just laying over a field of people underneath them. For all I knew there could’ve been one massive orgy underneath there in the middle of Wall Street. I say again—the protest against corporate greed and corruption was a glowing. hula hoop. dance circle. There were no big police standoffs, no police brutality, no moving speeches, not even a  clever sign. I walked away from this feeling this: the only people who ever seem to “protest” these things are fun-loving, burning-man-going, “free spirits”. These people, who—by all appearances: seem to love protesting and seem to love demanding money… but they treat their campaigning as a party and even when I had a long conversation with activists—they really didn’t even seem to know what they were fighting against. It was endless circles of big sweeping generalizations—with no specifics as to what they were so against. Where are the educated protestors? Where are the people who demand change, but aren’t burnouts at the bottom of the barrel? All of these people claimed 99% of the world is against the 1% of “corporate fatcats” but the people I was seeing seemed just as small of a minority. Understand that I agree with a good chunk of, at least the “manifesto” of occupy wall street—but the people “taking action” are not just failing to communicate the cause—but I think are down right hurting and embarrassing it to the point that no one will take it seriously. These are impressions of what I SAW and commentary on the approach of the conflict rather than the conflict itself. If they were fighting the other side, I would say the exact same thing. Imagine if incredible causes like the advancement of stem-cell research were being approached this way… it’s absurd to even think something so important would be treated so ridiculously.

I feared this was the the case…Occupy Wall Street needs a leader.   Hope someone steps up.  

samspratt:

Occupy Wall Street Impressions

I came into visiting the protests in New York with the mindset: “Good cause, bad leadership”. However, I also expected to see things that would move me and other people into supporting the cause either further—or even at all. This snapshot of one of the thousands of nonsensical picket signs I felt best represented the vibe of the protests… they were aimless, loud, and mostly left you feeling quizzical rather than pensive. 

I spent an hour or so initially, weaving in and out of the crowd, overhearing political banter (corporate fat cats, corporate greed, corporate man, etc.), and watching the louder members/interesting standouts—however, ultimately what I was walking through was basically a very large outdoor homeless shelter. There were tarp beds, makeshift crates, the food was bread, peanut butter, and hot sauce—the people were your stereotypical hippies and college-dropout activists, not even attempting to seem like people who live within society. Occasionally I would see a person in some crazy garb like a gas mask and robe with some big political message, but largely—it was a homeless shelter party. Emphasis on the party because the “activism” occurring, consisted of sweaty dance circles, bongo drums, and other forms of loud but not terribly good music. When I returned a few hours later after dark, the dance circles had evolved into glowing hula hoop circles, the music had grown louder, and now that it was raining—a sea of tarps were not assembled, but rather just laying over a field of people underneath them. For all I knew there could’ve been one massive orgy underneath there in the middle of Wall Street. I say again—the protest against corporate greed and corruption was a glowing. hula hoop. dance circle.

There were no big police standoffs, no police brutality, no moving speeches, not even a  clever sign. I walked away from this feeling this: the only people who ever seem to “protest” these things are fun-loving, burning-man-going, “free spirits”. These people, who—by all appearances: seem to love protesting and seem to love demanding money… but they treat their campaigning as a party and even when I had a long conversation with activists—they really didn’t even seem to know what they were fighting against. It was endless circles of big sweeping generalizations—with no specifics as to what they were so against. Where are the educated protestors? Where are the people who demand change, but aren’t burnouts at the bottom of the barrel? All of these people claimed 99% of the world is against the 1% of “corporate fatcats” but the people I was seeing seemed just as small of a minority.

Understand that I agree with a good chunk of, at least the “manifesto” of occupy wall street—but the people “taking action” are not just failing to communicate the cause—but I think are down right hurting and embarrassing it to the point that no one will take it seriously. These are impressions of what I SAW and commentary on the approach of the conflict rather than the conflict itself. If they were fighting the other side, I would say the exact same thing. Imagine if incredible causes like the advancement of stem-cell research were being approached this way… it’s absurd to even think something so important would be treated so ridiculously.

never thought of it this way.  

never thought of it this way.  

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“People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone. “

bebelestrange:

— Audrey Hepburn

[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]

From the new Muppets: The Green Album.  This song puts me in my happy place.  

The Decemberists - “The Mariner’s Revenge Song”

Been researching bands for the Outside Lands Festival & just discovered this camaraderie-filled gem. Ahoy!

“Subject: Céline Dion vs. Yourself”

ridiculouspicturesofcelinedion:

hey y’all

céline dion found our blog, and she didn’t like it. we just got a letter from céline’s lawyers that the blog has to be shut down.

though this blog is well within the realm of ‘fair use’, i don’t have the money or time to get a lawyer to respond. the dream is over.

thanks for following and being a céline superfan
i’ll always remember u
i’ll never let go

RIP.  

nationalgeographicdaily: Baboons, Prospect Park Zoo Photograph by Richard Conde This photo was taken at the Prospect Park Zoo in New York City.  The female baboon seated in the corner had a ten-year relationship with the male baboon, named Simon seated, with the child.  Simon let the female seated in this photo for two new female baboons and recently had two children by them.  One of the children is sated with Simon.  The look in the eyes of the rejected female baboon tells the whole story.  Wow.  I wonder what their monkey brains are thinking, and their baboon hearts are feeling. 

nationalgeographicdaily:

Baboons, Prospect Park Zoo

Photograph by Richard Conde

This photo was taken at the Prospect Park Zoo in New York City.  The female baboon seated in the corner had a ten-year relationship with the male baboon, named Simon seated, with the child.  Simon let the female seated in this photo for two new female baboons and recently had two children by them.  One of the children is sated with Simon.  The look in the eyes of the rejected female baboon tells the whole story. 

Wow.  I wonder what their monkey brains are thinking, and their baboon hearts are feeling. 

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