Stephen J Shanabrook is a New York and Moscow based artist who uses food both as medium and metaphor, including “morgue chocolates” made from molds from the fatal wounds of anonymous people.
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The tumble log of a cancer cell and molecular biology PhD student. Most of my posts have nothing to do with science...
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teresa - Wolfram|Alpha
Interestingly, there was a sharp rise in the number of people named Teresa during the 1950s and 60s.
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Interestingly, there was a sharp rise in the number of people named Teresa during the 1950s and 60s.
July 6, 2009 at 2:15pm Comments
Typed in "14 inches in cm" into Google for auto-conversion. The first two results that came up were penis-related. Thanks, Google. Helpful.
July 5, 2009 at 10:27pm Comments
Is there a term for the emotion evoked when you see someone indulging in something to the point of extreme excess?
Some examples:
- The man who celebrates Christmas every day (although this one was probably a hoax)
- People who own many cats
- Hot dog eating contests
July 5, 2009 at 9:48pm Comments
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That walkthrough just blows my mind.by Simon Blanc.
Click through for fullsize, and check out the amazing walkthru of how he made it.
July 4, 2009 at 11:24am Comments
The sad trombone noise comes to mind when I’m viewing these.Why did I not know about the Danbo flickr set before? I want to print all of these out and make a huge poster for my desk at work. Seriously.
(via artpixie)
July 4, 2009 at 9:40am Comments
There is a distinct lack of writers on Tumblr
doug:
This is what I would have written if I could actually express my thoughts coherently in a non-snarky manner. To be fair, thanks to shutupinternet for responding to me in a comment on my post. Notesreblogged from shutupinternet:
There’s such a distinct lack of text content on Tumblr that breaks even 100 words in a post, it’s pretty sad. I’m sure there are some fantastic writers out there, some fantastic thinkers too but where is their representation?
As I write this there are 1.2 million Tumblelogs, with “writer” being the ninth most popular tag and “writing” being the 18th most popular tag. That means there are a significant amount of writers on here, correct?
Nope.
The most popular Tumblelog classified under “writer” has three pictures of Miley Cyrus on its first page and a total of one hundred and forty three words. To anyone who writes significant amounts on Tumblr, like myself, frankly that is pretty insulting.
In a world where newspapers are folding due to distinct lack of funding, subscribers and new favor of online-only content, Tumblr is the perfect platform for writers: You write, you build a following, an audience, and anytime you publish you automatically have a group that auto-subscribes to your content with the possibility of reaching further once they choose to reblog and comment.
Tumblr, support your writers. Help add a text element to this picture-heavy platform that we have here.
I don’t wish for this to sound angry or rude, I just wish people wouldn’t try to change the nature of what something clearly is.
Tumblr is not a blogging platform. Tumblr is not a newspaper. Any object that can display text is the “perfect platform for writers.” Telephone poles, sidewalks, the backs of hands all can accept text.
Anyone confused might need to know that Tumblr (the service) was highly inspired by the ‘first’ tumble log, Projectionist. A site that has featured small snippets of content. Just because this particular service become popular, and you’ve found it convenient to write in, doesn’t make it blogspot. I’ve found it handy to post as few words as possible in, but that doesn’t make it Flickr, or a replacement for a physical photo album either.
Just as twitter isn’t Facebook and Facebook isn’t MyFriendSpaceSter (or such), not everything has to be an echo of some other medium or fit someone’s idea of what a platform should be when the majority of content creators in that platform are very clearly showing their preference to make it, still, a service for sharing single photos, blurbs, and links. Having subscribers is a function of content syndication as well, you can have that feature on any website by creating an RSS/Atom feed! Or you could have a mailing list that goes out to interested parties. There is no shortage of ways to get your content seen when you feel a 15 year old in skimpy clothing is taking away your attention.
You’re writing, good. You’re taking part in the participatory nature of the web on the site of being a content creator. You’ve already won the battle, but the overall war is all about making sure you’re still valid once the medium disappears and you’ve only got your content to your name to put into the new system.
If you’re only popular for posting celebrity photos on one website, and the website disappears, you likely weren’t providing the value you believed you were. I think this is well over a hundred words now.
July 4, 2009 at 8:39am Comments
There is a distinct lack of writers on Tumblr
I’m sorry, but are you serious? Tumblr is not the perfect platform for writers; blogs are. Tumblr is the perfect platform for 16 year olds posting pictures of their feet and reblogging, yes, Miley Cyrus pictures to their heart’s content. You also forget that tags are self-selected. That’s not to say there aren’t good writers or other producers of great content on Tumblr. Indeed I follow several. You might, too, if you actually seeked them out.There’s such a distinct lack of text content on Tumblr that breaks even 100 words in a post, it’s pretty sad. I’m sure there are some fantastic writers out there, some fantastic thinkers too but where is their representation?
As I write this there are 1.2 million Tumblelogs, with “writer” being the ninth most popular tag and “writing” being the 18th most popular tag. That means there are a significant amount of writers on here, correct?
Nope.
The most popular Tumblelog classified under “writer” has three pictures of Miley Cyrus on its first page and a total of one hundred and forty three words. To anyone who writes significant amounts on Tumblr, like myself, frankly that is pretty insulting.
In a world where newspapers are folding due to distinct lack of funding, subscribers and new favor of online-only content, Tumblr is the perfect platform for writers: You write, you build a following, an audience, and anytime you publish you automatically have a group that auto-subscribes to your content with the possibility of reaching further once they choose to reblog and comment.
Tumblr, support your writers. Help add a text element to this picture-heavy platform that we have here.What, you mean this? Perhaps you could concern yourself with actually generating decent content instead of griping about not being represented. Notes
July 4, 2009 at 2:04am Comments
Currently reading Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, thanks to a Borders 25% off non-fiction voucher. (Yes, bizarrely, through a quirk of convention, this was classified as non-fiction.) It is rather well done.
She watched as Darcy drew his blade and cut down the two zombies with savage yet dignified movements. He then made quick work of beheading the slaughtered staff, upon which Mr. Bingley politely vomited into his hands.Notes
July 3, 2009 at 5:09pm Comments
July 3, 2009 at 2:29pm Comments
The best I could come up with: I lick grits.This is one of my favorite pieces of writing, an almost-unbelievable instance of enabling limits I’ve discussed before: Christian Bök’s Eunoia, which you can see in its entirety here.
“Eunoia” is the shortest word in English containing all five vowels, and means “well mind” or “beautiful thinking”; it is also a medical term for normal mental health, and is accordingly infrequently used.
The work of that title is an exercise in extreme constrained writing (univocalics, specifically): Bök uses only one vowel per chapter, and each chapter must contain a specified set of scenes: an orgy, something at sea, a meal, etc.
It must be read to be believed; I think it’s very beautiful and have posted about it on occasion; Jack July, it should be said, is less of a fan of Bök’s. Above: the paragraphs from “I.” I hope you enjoy it.
July 2, 2009 at 5:20pm Comments
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