almosthere

notthatindie:

Composite image of the sun’s corona, taken during the total solar eclipse last July.

Via Scientific American

and only time’s standing between what was and what will be.

» SYPA

should i?

so here’s my 400th post.

it isn’t all that significant, but it’s something worth mentioning i suppose.

just like how i’m thrilled with the return of lost and survivor. and how mcdonalds should have twister fries all year round. and how i’m feeling just a little tired…but i’ll get by.

:D

i always do.

“ The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because its only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on. If you can change the way people think. The way they see themselves. The way they see the world. You can change the way people live their lives. That’s the only lasting thing you can create.

— Chuck Palahnuik (Choke) (via artpixie)

» RainyMood.com

alittleoff:

not that we need it on a day like today but whatever

thingslikethat:

Plitvicka Jezera National Park is one of Earth’s jewels. This mountain valley holds many large emerald lakes, each of which drains into the next in spectacular series of waterfalls.

Foolishly Seeking True Love

Handsome and Belle just might fall in love, if fate doesn’t get in the way first.

Presented by Vanity Fair & Banana Republic as part of Film Independent’s Project: Involve program; directed by Jarrett Lee Conaway.

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LOVE this.

Jim Denevan creates temporary drawings on sand, earth and ice that are eventually erased by waves and weather. His latest ‘drawing’ in the Nevada desert took four men 15 days to complete. Visible from 40,000 feet in the air and measuring in at just over three miles in diameter it is the largest single artwork in history. Read more about this colossal work of art or visit Denevan’s site here.

(via notcot)

Solid Advice

acehotel:

From Lucien, 6, in the mezzanine drawers at Ace Hotel Portland.

fuckyeahlost:

twofish:somedaythewaves:mutations:captainkirk:woahitsjuanito:
subwaytovenus:waaaaaaaalt:(via dirtylittlecity)

These just keep getting better and better.

i basically slept & stoned my afternoon away

didn’t feel well when i woke up. took my temperature and it was okay. skipped classes and stoned around home because i was lethargic, because i’d a terrible headache, because i was nauseous. took my temperature once more and it was, again, okay. but i really felt like i was dying so i went to the doctor’s and it turns out that my thermometer was faulty and that i was having a high fever.

stomach flu, according to the doctor.

now i barely have any appetite.

medicine makes me drowsy.

and being sick wastes my time.

burp.

“ Your memory is a monster; you forget - it doesn’t. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you - and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!

— John Irving (via fatalistichues) (via quote-book)

i want to catch kings of convenience OR dinosaur jr. OR st vincent.

so many acts, so little time (and money).

and i’m kind of regretting missing cat power’s show too.

but this is a good start. hopefully more acts will be coming down. i really want to see feist live!

bauldoff:

MakingOf has posted a video clip of the Up In The Air film title sequence, created by Shadowplay Studio. Shadowplay was also behind the titles to Jason Reitman’s Juno and Thank You For Smoking films.

In this interview, Reitman said this about collecting the aerial footage seen in the titles:

(Shadowplay) came up with this idea of vintage moving postcards, the most complicated element of which was getting this aerial footage that seems like film. I figured you put a camera in a plane, you put it up in the air, you point down, you get aerial footage, right? I really thought it would be that simple. It was so complicated. Every time you see aerial footage in a movie it’s from a helicopter at 12,000 ft. To get it from 25,000 ft, first we went up with a jet and we had a camera that was going through this bubble system, except the optics weren’t good enough and atmosphere was giving us trouble. Then we went up with a propeller plane and the pilot had to wear an oxygen mask to get up that high; we took a camera out on a wing, we went digital instead of film, and then the camera would not go straight down, so they’d have to put the plane into a dive to get the camera to go down. I mean it was just like unreal how hard it was to get this footage. But I’m really happy with the results and of course it made for fun opening titles.

Additionally, Apple has a short featurette about Shadowplay and the Up In The Air titles.