In any case, within 15 minutes I get to see Rap Camp in action. Kanye throws on the instrumental for “So Appalled,” which plays on hypnotic repeat for more than an hour while Pusha puts pen to paper finishing his verse. Then RZA walks in the room. And of course he’s got on sunglasses inside. And of course he’s wearing an all-black Ed Hardy-esque ensemble with matching dragon tattoo prints that start on his baseball cap, slither down his T-shirt, and end on his cargo pants. And of course he pulls out a Bobby Digital customized Akai drum machine with the Zorro mask and Wu logo on its face. Because that’s what you do when you’re a motherfucking national treasure. BONG!
npr:
In 1936, a 16-year-old girl from the Netherlands went to a fair. She picked up a gun and shot at a target. When she hit the target, a camera was triggered and a portrait of her sure-shot squint was taken.
Ria van Dijk, now 88, continued to shoot at fairs for seven decades, collecting the prized photographs all along. Her personal collection has been curated by the editors of In Almost Every Picture — a small Dutch publication that celebrates amateur but delightful photo series like this one. See our slideshow of her photos, stretching over more than 70 years.
Source: npr
Bluefin Tuna collapsed in 2007
The destruction of stocks of one of the world’s most expensive fish, already recognised as being as endangered as the giant panda, effectively took place in 2007, more than twice the legal catch was taken by Mediterranean fishermen under the eyes of EU and UN-recognised officials, according to the report.
If the analysis of the size and weight of tuna now passing through the Japanese market is representative of what remains in the sea, according to the report, the EU and other Atlantic nations have presided over disaster comparable to that of the collapse of the blue whale or the Northern cod.
But we just keep eating away, devouring this majestic apex predator to extinction. Know your seafood. Make better choices next time you find yourself at a sushi restaurant.
This isnt a small scale fisheries problem anymore. Its much bigger than that. And with the giant multinational Mitsubishi Corp controlling and stockpiling more than 40% share of the world market in bluefin, can you really expect the people in charge to make the right decisions?
Source: endoftheline.com
Bumper V-2 was the first rocket launch at Cape Canaveral on July 24, 1950.
Source: grin.hq.nasa.gov
Source: anchordivision
You can see the camera lens in the center of this person’s eye!
It’s so detailed, you can even tell Piotr used that macro lens reversal trick we wrote about. Learn how to turn your regular lens into a macro lens.
Photo by Piotr Pdmk via e-pic
Source: photojojo
Light at the end of the road (Taken with instagram)
Liptonice! (Taken with instagram)
Telephone without a cause
Clive Thompson on reasons the telephone call deserves to die:
If I suddenly decide I want to dial you up, I have no way of knowing whether you’re busy, and you have no idea why I’m calling. We have to open Schrödinger’s box every time, having a conversation to figure out whether it’s OK to have a conversation.As a non-phone person, I message, text, or email before making most personal calls (although there are exceptions). These predictive meta-conversations no longer seem extra, but a new step in the rules of etiquette.
In other words:
The telephone … doesn’t provide any information about status, so we are constantly interrupting one another. The other tools at our disposal are more polite. Instant messaging lets us detect whether our friends are busy without our bugging them, and texting lets us ping one another asynchronously. (Plus, we can spend more time thinking about what we want to say.) For all the hue and cry about becoming an “always on” society, we’re actually moving away from the demand that everyone be available immediately.Smart suggestions from Clive on what could save the telephone, speaking partly to what was covered in the smart conversation over at Dan Benjamin’s The Conversation last week. More talk, less phone.
Source: bobulate
