February 19, 2012
“ Stripping naked is the decisive action. Nakedness offers a contrast to self-possession, to discontinuous existence, in other words. It is a state of communication revealing a quest for a possible continuance of being beyond the confines of the self. Bodies open out to a state of continuity through secret channels that give us a feeling of obscenity. Obscenity is our name for the uneasiness which upsets the physical state associated with self-possession, with the possession of a recognised and stable individuality. Through the activity of organs in a flow of coalescence and renewal, like the ebb and flow of waves surging into one another, the self is dispossessed, and so completely that most creatures in a state of nakedness, for nakedness is symbolic of this dispossession and heralds it, will hide; particularly if the erotic act follows, consummating it.
Georges Bataille, Eroticism: Death & Sexuality

(Source: foxesinbreeches, via thesoviette)

February 13, 2012

(Source: rising-voltage, via starlit-mire)

Indeed, the speed of light (about 300,000 km/s - over a billion k.p.h.) is so great that our intuition is of little use. All the observations about speed that you have ever made, all of the experience upon which your common sense is based, are in a tiny area of physical reality that we could label “extremely low speed” compared with light.

— from UNSW’s excellent introduction to Einstein’s theory of special relativity.

Science isn’t a religion, but I can see why it is sometimes perceived as such.

February 12, 2012
#12fgr
die strahlende Lebensfreude meiner Großmutter wird endlich mal erklärt

die strahlende Lebensfreude meiner Großmutter wird endlich mal erklärt

(Source: emergentseas)

lookuplookup:

On the couch wearing the rattiest of my worn-out knee-highs, the last vestiges of a youthful stint as an awful, awful stepdancer.

[photo-reply with gratuitously large, x-year-old trousers, which i still keep, gradually gathering paint spatters, their numerous rips now more drafty than aesthetically pleasing.]

zolotoivek: Artist Unknown - In The Land of the Rising Sun, Illustration from Issue Five of the Periodical ‘Zritel’ (Witness), 1905

zolotoivek:

Artist Unknown - In The Land of the Rising Sun, Illustration from Issue Five of the Periodical ‘Zritel’ (Witness), 1905

February 11, 2012

(Source: kristallo.org)

February 10, 2012
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nsomn:

Guys, I found the Ghana Post Office Stamp Cancelling Song from the end of that 99% Invisible episode! See here for more info.

February 8, 2012

prostheticknowledge:

Time Writer 

Another mechanical hacked-together graffiti machine. A long handheld bar supports many spray nozzles, and works similar to a printer, except the person supplies the movement. A better understanding can be seen in the video demonstration below:

Created by Olivier van Herpt

(via sheeep)