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bonjourfrenchwords:T'es dans la merde (vulgar) • You’re in deep...

Fri, 11 May 2018 15:18:33 -0500

T'es dans la merde (vulgar) • You’re in deep sh*t • /t‿e dɑ̃ la mɛʁd/

publicdomainreview:🎶Long before the microphone.🎶 ⠀ Filippo...

Fri, 11 May 2018 15:17:54 -0500

🎶Long before the microphone.🎶
⠀
Filippo Bonanni, whose 1723 book this design appears in, claimed that the spiralled horn would amplify sound as spiralled ears do. Read more about the wonderful world of “fictophones”, or imaginary musical instruments, here: https://buff.ly/2K2M7MS⠀
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#publicdomainreview #music #horn #fictophones #imaginaryinstruments #instrument

"If you will, for just one second, look at your life and see how perfect it is. Stop looking for the..."

Fri, 11 May 2018 15:12:56 -0500

“If you will, for just one second, look at your life and see how perfect it is. Stop looking for the next secret door that is going to lead you to your real life. Stop waiting. This is it: there’s nothing else. It’s here, and you’d better decide to enjoy it or you’re going to be miserable wherever you go, for the rest of your life, forever.”

- The Magicians
Lev Grossman

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Sun, 15 Apr 2018 14:33:43 -0500

St. John Coltrane is a thing.Via https://twitter.com/charliejane

Sun, 15 Apr 2018 12:48:38 -0500

St. John Coltrane is a thing.

Via https://twitter.com/charliejane

cryptid-creations: Daily Paint 1962# Mythical Birdhouse -...

Fri, 13 Apr 2018 17:41:19 -0500

cryptid-creations:

Daily Paint 1962# Mythical Birdhouse - Pheonix

Daily Book and Prints available at: http://ForgePublishing.com/shop

For full res WIPs, art, videos and more: https://www.patreon.com/piperdraws

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cryptid-creations: Daily Paint 1963# Spyro Redesigns - Spyro and...

Fri, 13 Apr 2018 17:40:54 -0500

cryptid-creations:

Daily Paint 1963# Spyro Redesigns - Spyro and Sparx

Daily Book and Prints available at: http://ForgePublishing.com/shop

For full res WIPs, art, videos and more: https://www.patreon.com/piperdraws

Twitter • Facebook • Instagram • DeviantART

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Fri, 13 Apr 2018 17:33:03 -0500

bonjourfrenchwords:*Literal meaning: Stop your circus! • /a.ʁɛt...

Sat, 07 Apr 2018 23:37:11 -0500

bonjourfrenchwords:

*Literal meaning: Stop your circus! • /a.ʁɛt tɔ̃ siʁk/ #frenchwords

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Sat, 07 Apr 2018 23:36:04 -0500

"For me, the challenge is to play music that makes the audience imagine they are playing it too...."

Sat, 07 Apr 2018 23:29:01 -0500

“For me, the challenge is to play music that makes the audience imagine they are playing it too. Maybe they think or have been told that they are not artists and can’t perform. Then, when they hear music, they get the feeling that they can do what they had thought they couldn’t.”

- Wayne Shorter (via austinkleon)

inkcyclopedia: David Peyote (Montreal, Quebec, Canada)

Fri, 09 Mar 2018 22:33:03 -0600

inkcyclopedia:

David Peyote (Montreal, Quebec, Canada)

bonjourfrenchwords:*Literal meaning: It’s not made for dogs •...

Fri, 09 Mar 2018 22:03:58 -0600

bonjourfrenchwords:

*Literal meaning: It’s not made for dogs • /s‿ɛ pa fɛ puʁ le ʃjɛ̃/ #frenchwords

jameswinter: steampunktendencies: A 282 year old...

Thu, 22 Feb 2018 21:02:38 -0600

#steampunktendencies #steampunk

#steampunktendencies #steampunk

#steampunktendencies #steampunk

jameswinter:

steampunktendencies:

A 282 year old Swedish East India Trading Company Ship returns to London for the first time since 1787.

The East Indiaman Gotheborg III Götheborg is a sailing replica of an 18th-century Swedish East Indiaman. It is the world’s largest operational wooden sailing vessel.

(source)

That is a cool ass looking pirate ship

"The art of living is to enjoy what we can see and not complain about what remains in the dark. When..."

Fri, 16 Feb 2018 19:30:59 -0600

“The art of living is to enjoy what we can see and not complain about what remains in the dark. When we are able to take the next step that follows, with the trust that we will have enough light for the step that follows, we can walk through life with joy and be surprised at how far we go. Let’s rejoice in the little light we carry and not ask for the great beam that would take all shadows away.”

- Henri Nouwen
(via my-journal-planner)

kpellinore:Dulcians and racketts, working together. Rackett...

Sat, 03 Feb 2018 21:27:40 -0600

kpellinore:

Dulcians and racketts, working together. Rackett players look to me like they’re drinking something, not playing an instrument. :)

archiemcphee: The Department of Awesomely Good Deeds invites...

Thu, 01 Feb 2018 20:51:52 -0600

archiemcphee:

The Department of Awesomely Good Deeds invites you donate any plush toys you no longer need to an outrageously cute and meaningful campaign by a Japanese organization called Second Life Toys. Their goal is to draw attention to the vital importance of organ donation, which doesn’t get a lot of press in Japan, despite some 14,000 people on organ transplant waiting lists.

To do this Second Life Toys takes unwanted toys and uses them to repair each other. Toy donors receive a letter from the recipient toy explaining how the donation improved their lives.

Click here to learn more and to donate to the campaign.

[via Bored Panda]

Real life Island of Misfit Toys.

Yes, I’ve watched Rudolph a few times too many.

archiemcphee: Here’s further proof that science and scientists...

Thu, 01 Feb 2018 20:45:05 -0600

archiemcphee:

Here’s further proof that science and scientists are awesome:

A 7-year-old girl named Sophie wrote a lovely letter to the scientists at CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency, politely asking if they could work on creating a dragon for her. She even included a drawing to help them out. (click here to read Sophie’s entire letter)

The scientists at CSIRO wrote back to Sophie:

We’ve been doing science since 1926 and we’re quite proud of what we have achieved. We’ve put polymer banknotes in your wallet, insect repellent on your limbs and Wi-Fi in your devices. But we’ve missed something. There are no dragons.

Over the past 87 odd years we have not been able to create a dragon or dragon eggs. We have sighted an eastern bearded dragon at one of our telescopes, observed dragonflies and even measured body temperatures of the mallee dragon. But our work has never ventured into dragons of the mythical, fire breathing variety. And for this Australia, we are sorry.

(click here to read the agency’s complete response)

But then something truly awesome happened. The scientists had a bit of a think, as scientists are wont to do, and decided to rapidly accelerate their Dragon R&D Program. That’s right, they made a dragon for Sophie - Toothless, a 3D printed titanium dragon, blue, female, species: Seadragonus giganticus maximus.

“Being that electron beams were used to 3D print her, we are certainly glad she didn’t come out breathing them … instead of fire,” said Chad Henry, our Additive Manufacturing Operations Manager. “Titanium is super strong and lightweight, so Toothless will be a very capable flyer.”

Toothless is currently en route from Lab 22 in Melbourne to Sophie’s home in Brisbane.

Now Sophie wants to work at CSIRO when she grows up.

[via Geeks are Sexy and Neatorama]

theartofmichaelwhelan:DRAGONQUEST (1978) by Michael Whelan,...

Wed, 24 Jan 2018 18:39:12 -0600

theartofmichaelwhelan:

DRAGONQUEST (1978) by Michael Whelan, cover for the book by Anne McCaffrey

bonjourfrenchwords:Je me souviens • I remember • /ʒə mɑ̃...

Thu, 18 Jan 2018 21:04:34 -0600

bonjourfrenchwords:

Je me souviens • I remember • /ʒə mɑ̃ su.vjɛ̃/