he was a big fat caterpillar
“This six month long exposure compresses the time from solstice to solstice (~ December 21, 2008 to June 20, 2009) into a single point of view. Dubbed a solargraph, the unconventional picture was recorded with a pinhole camera made from an aluminum can lined with a piece of photographic paper. Fixed to a single spot for the entire exposure, the simple camera continuously records the Sun’s daily path as a glowing trail burned into the photosensitive paper. Breaks and gaps in the trails are caused by cloud cover. In this case, the spot was chosen to look out from inside a radio telescope at the Ondrejov Observatory in the Czech Republic.” (via APOD)
Beavers did this. Chewed right through it (via Julia Heffernan)
Steve is a cool dude (via Julia Heffernan)
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On Julia’s last night in the city we were walking around Williamsburg and harmonizing. Here’s one minute from that.(356 plays)
Andrea wanted to show me her hair today. it looks totes chill
See Slovenly Peter! Here he stands,
With his dirty hair and hands.
See! his nails are never cut;
They are grim’d as black as soot;
No water for many weeks,
Has been near his cheeks;
And the sloven, I declare,
Not once this year has combed his hair!
Anything to me is sweeter
Than to see shock-headed Peter.
Hoffman children’s stories are upsurd!
tedr-if you read this there is one called The Dreadful Story of Harriet and the Matches.
also: the blog i reblogged is my tumblr for my independent studies at nyu. i woundn’t suggest following it as it is quite boring.
one shrimpy shrimp
“Now known as the SN 1006 supernova remnant, the debris cloud appears to be about 60 light-years across and is understood to represent the remains of a white dwarf star. Part of a binary star system, the compact white dwarf gradually captured material from its companion star. The buildup in mass finally triggered a thermonuclear explosion that destroyed the dwarf star. Because the distance to the supernova remnant is about 7,000 light-years, that explosion actually happened 7,000 years before the light reached Earth in 1006. Shockwaves in the remnant accelerate particles to extreme energies and are thought to be a source of the mysterious cosmic rays.” (via APOD)
