couple of old shots.
the first one is a story my daughter wrote about Vincent Van Gogh that I frequently torture her with now that shes 12. It still makes me laugh,
“Always very poor. Tragic sad person. And his paintings are worth millions now. And born in Holland in 1850. And used strong lines and shapes. Some of his paintings are dark and sad. Suddenly used bright colours. And ow that had to hert cut off part of his ear when he was angry. Whae field was his last painting. And shot his self.”
I think she was seven. lol
Picture two is an exceptionally rude carrot self same daughter pulled from her grandmothers garden that i had to clean up and photograph while giggling.
The Crown of the Sun
Tags:APOD, Science!, Space, Wallpaper
Explanation: During a total solar eclipse, the Sun’s extensive outer atmosphere, or corona, is an inspirational sight. The subtle shades and shimmering features of the corona that engage the eye span a brightness range of over 10,000 to 1, making them notoriously difficult to capture in a single picture. But this composite of 28 digital images ranging in exposure time from 1/1000 to 2 seconds comes close to revealing the crown of the Sun in all its glory. The telescopic views were recorded near Kochenevo, Russia during the August 1 total solar eclipse and also show solar prominences extending just beyond the edge of the eclipsed sun. Remarkably, features on the dark near side of the New Moon can also be made out, illuminated by sunlight reflected from a Full Earth.
antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080808.html
In UR snow
Tags:Cute As Hell Animals, LOLcats, WTF
shopped version of a previous post by tikigod. I couldn’t resist. Text says “OH. Hi. I be in ur snow makin it FLATT.”
Orc Technology
Tags:Fantasy - Science Fiction, Humor
Where DOES emo come from?
Depicts an anatomical sketch and a stein of ‘punk’. The end result, is emo.
Random Michelle Rodriquez Images
Tags:Michelle Rodriguez, Sexy
Supposedly bi. 😀
From Wikipedia: When asked by Latina Magazine in April 2008 about the constant questions and speculation surrounding her sexuality, Rodriguez responded, “I don’t answer those questions. I just keep it to myself and it’s nobody’s business. If I wanna fuck a girl, a boy, a dogâ€â€that’s my business.”
…. So if you’re a mix of all three categories, you might have better odds of getting into her pants or dress of kennel.
China Gold Miners
Tags:Gaming, Humor, Olympics 2008
Batman On Rooftop
Tags:Batman, Comic Books, Wallpaper
Io’s surface: under constuction
Tags:APOD, Science!, Space, Wallpaper
Explanation: Like the downtown area of your favorite city, the roads you drive to work on, and any self-respecting web site … Io’s surface is constantly under construction. This moon of Jupiter holds the distinction of being the Solar System’s most volcanically active body — its bizarre looking surface continuously formed and reformed by lava flows. Generated using 1996 data from NASA’s Galileo spacecraft, this high resolution composite image is centered on the side of Io that always faces away from Jupiter. It has been enhanced to emphasize Io’s surface brightness and color variations, revealing features as small as 1.5 miles across. The notable absence of impact craters suggests that the entire surface is covered with new volcanic deposits much more rapidly than craters are created. What drives this volcanic powerhouse? A likely energy source is the changing gravitational tides caused by Jupiter and the other Galilean moons as Io orbits the massive gas giant planet. Heating Io’s interior, the pumping tides would generate the sulfurous volcanic activity.
antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
Hourglass Castle
Tags:Art, Fantasy - Science Fiction, Gaming, WTF
From Braid’s lead artist, David Hellman:
www.davidhellman.net/braid.htm
Norway Telemegaphone
Call this number: +4790369389
Your voice will be blasted on a wind powered megaphone over looking a village in Norway. They say that they get a lot of phone calls.
oddstrument.com/2008/08/06/call-this-number/
Mirror’s Edge (Toilet Seat)
Couple of pics of my uncles groovy-looking toilet seat.
Great for checking out one’s own hairy ass.
Enjoy
xoxo
The Obama High Sign
A quick and dirty impression of The Liberty, Inc’s Obama salute.
Sign of Progress == Sign of Goatse
NO powered artificial eyes
Taken at a medical training facility. I’ve seen many warnings
around an MRI but the “powered artifical eyes” is new to me.
Anybody seen these eyes in use?
Niagara Falls
Shot on my way back from Toronto a few years ago. Even if you live half an hour from the falls, it never gets any less magnificent. Unless your a small child who was woken up and dragged out of the car. The odd motes around my son’s face are reflections from the constant mist messing with the camera.
October Storm
October 2006, Buffalo New York. The snow you see in these images fell in one night. The trees were not ready for winter, and many branches simply snapped under the extreme weight of the thick, wet blankets of snow. It was very creepy standing on my back porch that night, the heavy silence punctuated by the gunshot-like snapping of tree limbs.
The tables you see in the first shot are cable spools on top of tree stumps, to give an idea of scale. Most people in the area were without power for up to a week because of power lines snapping everywhere. The weight of the snow actually pulled some telephone poles out of their moorings due to the wires being pulled down.
Also, enjoy the action shot of my neighbor snowblowing.
The good: Watching neighbors come together to pull branches off of everyone’s yard, and offer food & supplies to each other.
The bad: People who had to wait even longer for power because assholes stole the fallen lines and sold the copper for scrap.
Tree Frog – High Res
I took this picture outside of my in-law’s house. He was sitting on their outside wall making a sound that made him seem 10x bigger than he was. He was a little under the size of a half-dollar in the position he was in. He didn’t mind the camera at all though! High red original is 3072 x 2xxx res, scaled this one to 1280 x 9xx in order to upload. Taken with an Olympus SP-510UZ 8.1mp. This is my first submission to MCS. I have a thing for super close up shots. Enjoy!