jaymug:

Wile E. Coyote Business Card

jtotheizzoe:

Glow in the Dark Soldiers and a Civil War Mystery

At the Battle of Shiloh, some wounded soldiers waited days in the chilly rain for medical help. When soldiers usually waited that long, they were prone to deadly infections that doctors at the time couldn’t do anything about, much less understand the cause.

Some of them noticed that their wounds were glowing at night. Were they hallucinating?And those with glowing wounds had better survival rates. 140 years later someone figured out why.

Soil-dwelling worms like the one above are filled with bacteria that they use to eat and protect food they find in the soil. The luminescent bacteria inside the nematodes fight off other bacteria, and the worm and bacteria both get a tasty meal all to themselves.

The soil of the Shiloh battlefield was full of these worms and bacteria, and when they got into the soldier’s wounds they created a glowing, antiseptic worm bandage. 

(via Mental Floss image via Nikon’s Small World)

sirinthada:

Tea time! What? No silly punch line today? Yes, it’s a slight departure from my usual — was in the mood for a little experimenting, as I’m always keen on honing new techniques. This is a print of one of my own photos, which I then altered by hand with gouache and colored pencils.

obitoftheday:

Obit of the Day: One of Florida’s Civil Rights Heroes

When we imagine Florida we think of Disney World, retirees, and Miami Beach. What we forget is that Florida had a long history segregation and racial hatred, like every other Southern state. Patricia Stephen Due knew, though, and as a college student at Florida A&M University (FAMU) she did something about it.

Outspoken even in childhood - she and her sister circulated a petition in elementary school to have their principal removed - she became excited about the possibilities of ending segregation at a Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) meeting she attended when she was 20. CORE’s belief in nonviolent protest with an integrated group of individuals was just what Due was looking for. 

Due founded up the Tallahassee chapter of CORE and staged their first sit-in at a Woolworth lunch counter on February 20, 1960. She, her sister, and several others were arrested. But rather than pay the $300 fine, the sisters spent 49 days in jail. It was called the first “jail-in” as they two women refused to “pay for segregation.” They received public support for Harry Belafonte, Eleanor Roosevelt, and even a telegram from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Before her trial Due led a march from FAMU to downtown Tallahassee. The police responded by hurling tear gas. One canister caught her in the face and damaged her eyes. From then on you could identify Mrs. Due by her dark sunglasses which prevented further damage to her eyesight.  

Due married John Due in January 1963. He had traveled to FAMU to get his law degree specifically to find Patricia after reading about her jail-in in Jet magazine.

Patricia Stephen Due never stopped fighting for racial and class equality. She died at the age of 71 from thyroid cancer. 

Experience has taught me a great secret that I have spent most of my life trying to share with my children and anyone who will listen: History happens one person at a time. - Patricia Stephens Due

(Image is courtesy of the Museum of Florida History)

Check out OOTD’s post on another forgotten civil rights pioneer: Clara Luper

directingfilm:

Sonic Lyricism in Nature and Film:

The world that the character lives in, and the soundscape that accompanies it, is informed by what’s on screen.  As the soundscape pushes beyond the frame and exposes the inner-workings of our character, I can begin to see where music is useful to embellish a mood.   It’s important to me that texture of the sound design is reflected in the score and that the sonic lyricism isn’t simply a function of harmony.  In other words, the soundscape should already be musical before we start working with a composer.

The score and sound design work as ying and yang.  They have opposing characteristics.  No matter how far I push, how detailed I get, I have never gone too far in my sound design.  If decisions are informed by the breadth of the screen, the potential depth of the soundscape is endless.

The opposite is true for music.  Music is an added layer.  The more inorganic and out of context to the image, the more complex and independently it is conceived, the more it is an admission that the scene doesn’t carry the necessary emotion itself and needs a band-aid.

~ü

[Image: Johann Dogiel,Leipzig Institute for Physiology, 1880 - Blood-pressure rhythms in dogs, cats and humans in response to the sounds of musical instruments]

laughingsquid:

Burning Man LEGO Set, An Instant Theme Camp in a Box

elle:

Some Like It Haute

Bye-bye, bandage dress. This fall, designers are offering up a new, confident vision of dressing inspired by the grandeur of midcentury couture.

Photo: courtesy of Balenciaga archives

archiemcphee:

Just in case you’ve ever lost sleep at night wondering what the Pokémon characters might look like if they existed in real life… Stephen Lefcourt is here for you.

[via Geekologie]