Tetsuwan Girl (2000) - Tsutomu Takahashi
If your domestic politics involve abusing the Geneva Convention and destroying human rights to appease an extreme cult, you have failed.
2023 May 6
Twilight in a Flower Image Credit & Copyright: Dario Giannobile
Explanation: Transformed into the petals of a flower, 16 exposures show the passage of day into night in this creative timelapse skyscape. Start at the top and move counterclockwise to follow consecutive moments as the twilight sky turns an ever darker blue and night blossoms. Each exposure was recorded on the evening of April 22, calculated to maintain a consistent balance of light and color. Close to the western horizon on that date, a crescent Moon and Venus are the two brightest celestial beacons. Petal to petal the pair spiral closer to the flower’s center. In silhouette around the center of the twilight flower are Sicily’s megalithic rocks of Argimusco.
∞ Source: apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230506.html
I really like how many of the world’s most iconic structures and places are just right next to some of the most mundane stuff imaginable, for example
Stonehenge
Is right next to a busy road
The Pyramids of Giza
Are at the outskirts of Cairo
Niagara Falls
Are part of the town of the same name
And Agrippa’s Pantheon
Is crammed inside downtown Rome
It just so interesting to notice.
I lived in Nîmes for three years, and the mundane feeling I got whenever I would walk from my apartment, by the Roman coloseum in the city which was 2000+ years old, and continue with my life because it was just sort of there still surprises me when I think about it.
This post is just that feeling put into words and pictures.
は組の纏 Wilhelm Burger撮影 1869～70頃 http://oldtimejapan.sakura.ne.jp/omokage13.html
19th-century hikeshi instrumentation (used by Japanese fire- fighting brigades)
cruelty is so easy. youre not special for choosing it
"The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain."
-Ursula K. LeGuin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
A small amount of ethanol (or other fuel – see instructions) is swirled in a 15l water container. Excess ethanol is poured off and the vapour/air mixture is lit. It burns rapidly with a satisfying 'whoosh'. Whoosh Bottle.
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Video credits:
First part “JamesMidgleyChem” (Youtube)
Second part @fchsscience
Il whoosh dovrebbe essere l'unità di misura dell'energia chimica altro che joule.
Source: Ajin: Demi-Human | 亜人
by Gamon Sakurai