Coffee & Rain

karenhealey: thescarletwoman: airbrushed photos of jennifer...

Sat, 21 Apr 2012 13:38:51 +0200

thescarletwoman:

airbrushed photos of jennifer lawrence surface. She has a beautiful body and they made massive changes to it - i mean they completely changed the shape of her face!! Ugh.

She worked for those arm muscles, you jackasses!

The thing that gets me about this is that I’ve had serious problems keeping weight ON and I’m still working to get back to a place were my body feels healthy. This woman, unretouched, has the body I’m hoping to get to and they took that healthy beautiful shape down to how I looked when I was at my worst. I’m sure there are people who feel great being that skinny, but I do not, so this caused some severe nausea for me. DO NOT WANT!

embarrassingandalittleawkward: fuck yeah x men! My childhood!

Wed, 11 Apr 2012 22:04:35 +0200

embarrassingandalittleawkward:

fuck yeah x men!

My childhood!

Two-toned purple nails for Easter

Sat, 07 Apr 2012 15:28:06 +0200

Two-toned purple nails for Easter

"The problem that needs to be fixed is not kick all the girls out of YA, it’s teach boys that stories..."

Thu, 05 Apr 2012 21:04:13 +0200

“The problem that needs to be fixed is not kick all the girls out of YA, it’s teach boys that...

Sign up for the Salem Beta!

Fri, 23 Mar 2012 20:33:24 +0100

coelasquid: Because folks were passing around photos of Ben...

Wed, 07 Mar 2012 16:37:55 +0100

coelasquid:

Because folks were passing around photos of Ben Chapman earlier, here’s an unmasked Ricou Browning, the creature’s underwater actor.

I could go on and on about the underwaterscenes in this movie, but I’ll settle for saying that they are AMAZING and I love them. Go watch if you haven’t.

deathlyillandalwaysbusy: misspixnmix: I often found her...

Thu, 23 Feb 2012 11:21:17 +0100

deathlyillandalwaysbusy:

misspixnmix:

I often found her character annoying, but I love where they’re taking this. Mental illness needs more attention if we’re ever to remove the stigma.

I think I actually saw this episode… I really don’t enjoy Glee (this is an understatement), but my dad was watching it (this was a bizarre occurrence).

I think, in reference to mental illness (and probably other things too but let’s stay on topic), a truer statement has never been made. I like the way she delivers the line too. The show barely even skirts realism, but this surprisingly realistic.

Wondering if I could build something like this…

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 12:20:05 +0100

Wondering if I could build something like this…

Game on!

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:12:17 +0100

Game on!

Resolution

Sun, 08 Jan 2012 22:20:15 +0100

This year I’m going to finish a story. It will be the first time in four years I’ve...

neil-gaiman: Recorded the same day that Amanda and I publically...

Wed, 04 Jan 2012 13:51:11 +0100

neil-gaiman:

Recorded the same day that Amanda and I publically said that, yes, we were dating (in response to a question at the benefit gig we were doing). So, a long time ago. Over two and half years ago, anyway.

You do not want to know where the jacket came from, nor what it smelled like in the bath.

I remember sharing this with this guy I was starting to get to know and trying to gauge his reaction both to the video itself and to my geekery over it and the people in it. He smiled and said it was awesome. That guy is still here, we’ve given each other rings, promises and family, and he still smiles when I show him something I’m geeking out over, as much at me as whatever it is I’ve found to show him.

rosalarian: I dedicate this reblog to my girlfriend. If my...

Sat, 17 Dec 2011 19:16:12 +0100

rosalarian:

I dedicate this reblog to my girlfriend.

If my love had a tumblr he’d dedicate this to me…

rustybreak: Medicine by Gustav Klimt. Unfortunately, this was...

Tue, 29 Nov 2011 13:55:42 +0100

rustybreak:

Medicine by Gustav Klimt.
Unfortunately, this was destroyed in 1945.

I don’t usually like Klimt, but this is wonderful.

Photo

Mon, 21 Nov 2011 12:23:04 +0100

urlesque: 42 Pictures of Dogs Playing in Leaves | Buzzfeed

Sat, 19 Nov 2011 14:58:21 +0100

urlesque:

42 Pictures of Dogs Playing in Leaves | Buzzfeed

"The art isn’t the artist, the poem isn’t the poet; trust the tale, not the teller."

Tue, 15 Nov 2011 10:20:03 +0100

“The art isn’t the artist, the poem isn’t the poet; trust the tale, not the teller.” -...

Photo

Sat, 12 Nov 2011 13:11:40 +0100

Ready for a slightly belated Halloween party :-D

Sat, 05 Nov 2011 21:00:50 +0100

Ready for a slightly belated Halloween party :-D

Made. My. Day. (and the little picture of Andre the...

Wed, 26 Oct 2011 15:57:51 +0200

Made. My. Day. (and the little picture of Andre the Giant…)

charlottetheharlot: weakmeatstrongeat: bingegardening: maxiste...

Wed, 26 Oct 2011 13:59:14 +0200

charlottetheharlot:

weakmeatstrongeat:

bingegardening:

maxistentialist:

Tweenbots by Kacie Kinzer:

Given their extreme vulnerability, the vastness of city space, the dangers posed by traffic, suspicion of terrorism, and the possibility that no one would be interested in helping a lost little robot, I initially conceived the Tweenbots as disposable creatures which were more likely to struggle and die in the city than to reach their destination. Because I built them with minimal technology, I had no way of tracking the Tweenbot’s progress, and so I set out on the first test with a video camera hidden in my purse. I placed the Tweenbot down on the sidewalk, and walked far enough away that I would not be observed as the Tweenbot––a smiling 10-inch tall cardboard missionary––bumped along towards his inevitable fate.

The results were unexpected. Over the course of the following months, throughout numerous missions, the Tweenbots were successful in rolling from their start point to their far-away destination assisted only by strangers. Every time the robot got caught under a park bench, ground futilely against a curb, or became trapped in a pothole, some passerby would always rescue it and send it toward its goal. Never once was a Tweenbot lost or damaged. Often, people would ignore the instructions to aim the Tweenbot in the “right” direction, if that direction meant sending the robot into a perilous situation. One man turned the robot back in the direction from which it had just come, saying out loud to the Tweenbot, “You can’t go that way, it’s toward the road.”

The Tweenbot’s unexpected presence in the city created an unfolding narrative that spoke not simply to the vastness of city space and to the journey of a human-assisted robot, but also to the power of a simple technological object to create a complex network powered by human intelligence and asynchronous interactions. But of more interest to me, was the fact that this ad-hoc crowdsourcing was driven primarily by human empathy for an anthropomorphized object. The journey the Tweenbots take each time they are released in the city becomes a story of people’s willingness to engage with a creature that mirrors human characteristics of vulnerability, of being lost, and of having intention without the means of achieving its goal alone. As each encounter with a helpful pedestrian takes the robot one step closer to attaining it’s destination, the significance of our random discoveries and individual actions accumulates into a story about a vast space made small by an even smaller robot.

“You can’t go that way, it’s toward the road.”

This is beyond adorable.

I needed this this morning. Beautiful.

Humanity, sometimes I need a push to believe in you. Thank you…