the julia set

Dart shot game

Big Boi at Dillo Day

"Is that what you call your butthole? Your gross mouth?"

Alex

We made pizza for dinner last night! Trader Joe’s whole wheat pizza dough, Basil pesto, baby spinach, tomatoes, herb goat cheese, caramelized onion, pancetta— yum

jtotheizzoe:

A Self-Portrait of Opportunity

I want you to stop and think about something. This is a picture of another planet. Where this robot is. Right now.

As we sit here on Earth in this or any moment, we each have in our heads a flurry of worries and questions and ideas. And most of them pertain to our own lives. That’s okay, it’s human nature. We are each the center of our own universe.

I often think about this in crowded places, like while in traffic, as the place I’m going is far more important than the place all of these other people are going. I’m convinced that they feel the same way. And so we sit.

But that means that there are seven billion mental universes walking around on this planet. We are staring into them through little digital windows that we carry in our hands, and certain that this decision is the most important decision. Everything that is happening is happening to us.

Yet for the past eight years, there has been a dusty, six-wheeled rover crawling around the surface of Mars, completely alone. Incidentally, that rover has exceeded its expected mission of 90 days by thirty-two times over. That’s admirable, and I can’t help but personify the little guy. Like a sort of scrappy, diligent explorer, quietly working hard for the benefit of someone else. “No complaints, boss!” Like Johnny 5 meets Wall-E.

And so we get images like this, reminding us that every day we can look beyond our personal universe. What a thought! Look at how much is out there. Think of what else we could see! Let’s go.

Nicolas Jaar - Mi Mujer

the-star-stuff:

Solar Eclipse Pictures: 2012 “Ring of Fire”

“Smiling” Solar Eclipse

A solar eclipse turns the disk of the sun into a wide orange grin over Gumaca in the Philippines on Monday morning, local time. Although the sun is only minimally covered in this picture, the so-called annular eclipse went on to create a “ring of fire” for sky-watchers in parts of Asia and the U.S. West.Photograph by Bullit Marquez, AP

Chain of Events

A combination of pictures shows the stages of Monday’s annular solar eclipse, as seen from Tokyo. During the eclipse, the moon’s shadow crossed over Japan around 7:35 a.m. Monday, local time. Photograph by Kazuhiro Nogikazuhiro Nogi, AFP/Getty Images

The dark moon leaves only a thin circle of silver light from the sun during the annular eclipse, as seen from Utsunomiya, Japan, on Monday. Photograph by Franck Robichon, European Pressphoto Agency

Burning Ring of Fire

An eclipsed sun sinks toward the horizon near oil rigs north of Odessa, Texas, on Sunday evening. Photograph by Albert Cesare, Odessa American/AP

Sun in Shadow

Hands holding a pair of binoculars cast an unusual shadow—complete with twin views of the solar eclipse—as seen in Sacramento, California, on Sunday. Photograph by Randy Pench, Sacramento Bee/Zuma Press

(via staceythinx)

staceythinx:

As a former surfer, Paul Bobko had plenty of time to observe waves of all shapes and forms. It was during this time that he found his inspiration for his series Water Landscapes-Suspended Energy. 

About the project:

In his magnum opus, Gravity’s Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon introduces us to the German concept of Brenschluss in the telemetry of the flight of the V2 rocket. The rocket is propelled by its engines and travels along its parabolic arc. At a certain point the engines turn off, this flameout is called brenschluss. At brenschluss the rocket’s ascendancy is checked by gravity, and before it begins to fall to its target on earth, it hesitates for just a moment. After this moment gravity and momentum alone, not a rocket engine, define the inexorable trajectory of descent to its inevitable, calamitous end.

So to do Paul Bobko’s Water Landscapes-Suspended Energy photographs allow us to see that very moment of hesitation when the force of nature that is the ocean wave, ceases to be propelled by the surging forces of the ocean floor. The ocean suddenly lets go and sets it free, it hesitates at this moment of release, then crashes on the shore, liberated, but spent. Bobko shows us this very moment of hesitation, before the explosion. The outline of the explosion is clear and coming, but it hasn’t happened yet, it is, as yet, prelude…the power is still coiled in the curl, frozen for this second. Light comes glowing through that watery tunnel, foam is leaping from its crest, escaping and ecstatic. The menace is limned in the terrifying flexing of its form. It is most exhilarating to see the noun become the verb.

(Source: seebytouch)

much lolling

When I'm loafing around my apartment on the weekend, and my friend asks if I want to go to the gym

whatshouldwecallme:

gotye in traffic

Gave Nora a cap last night

Max: Mario party.
Alex: we already got a party. Why do we need Mario?