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jtotheizzoe: The Beautifully Frightening Atom For the night...

Mon, 02 Jul 2012 15:32:03 -0400

jtotheizzoe:

The Beautifully Frightening Atom
For the night crowd.
Something about the atom rustles up both fear and amazement in me. On one hand, it’s the smallest physical manifestation of matter (almost). On the other hand, it holds within its unimaginably small substructures such immense energy - energy that can be harnessed for both good and evil.

Thoughts of atomic energy can inspire very spooky imagery. In 2003, artist Isao Hashimoto put together the above multimedia piece demonstrating the history of atomic bomb detonations from 1945-1998. The sounds and visuals combine to form a hypnotic video game that almost makes you forget how real and destructive the blasts are.

And then I came across this image of the only known nuclear detonation in space, from a 1962 test to determine if nukes could disrupt the Van Allen belts surrounding Earth:

Again, there’s a conflict in how beautiful the image looks and how utterly destructive an H-bomb is, even 250 miles above the Earth.

What about nuclear energy? Fukushima reminded us of the balance between atomic power and human utility that we too often take for granted. I came upon this artwork from Robert Cherwink, which captures both the destructive power and the risk of boiling water with atoms:

So there you have it. While we can’t see atoms, their energy can certainly inspire haunting experiences.

Three things about Marco Arment

Mon, 02 Jul 2012 15:31:27 -0400

merlin:

(and a couple things about you, me, and a metaphorical horse)

Yes. Long. Again. Deal. Thanks.

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marstheme: Saturdays Surf NYC Lookbook—A moment with Louise Du...

Mon, 02 Jul 2012 15:30:51 -0400

marstheme:

Saturdays Surf NYC

Lookbook—A moment with Louise Du Toit

Owners Morgan Collett, Josh Rosen and Colin Tunstall launched the innovative store to suit a lifestyle occupied with surfing, living and working in New York City. In addition to boards, wetsuits and beachwear Saturdays sources and sells books, fine art and other quality lifestyle accessories. Its front-of-shop espresso bar serves La Colombe brewed by the best baristas in the city. Out back, the fully planted yard is a wood-decked sanctuary from the streets, a place to enjoy your coffee, hang out with friends or have a quiet meeting.

marstheme: Double Exposure Beautiful composition of two...

Mon, 02 Jul 2012 15:30:18 -0400

marstheme:

Double Exposure

Beautiful composition of two photographs and vector illustrations by Dan Mountford. Check out the other eight images in his Double Exposure set on Flickr.

Interview: Chris Colfer Talks ‘Struck By Lightning’ and Ninja Turtles

Mon, 02 Jul 2012 15:29:19 -0400

Interview: Chris Colfer Talks ‘Struck By Lightning’ and Ninja Turtles:

thispopculture:

So much above, click click, but also here’s the outtakes I just couldn’t work into the piece:

On Adaptations He’d Want To Do For Film:

You know what I wanted to adapt so bad and I was so sad when It got snachted up? Candyland. I wanted to adapt Candyland so bad! For an adaptation it has to be really fun. Little Leftover Witch, which I adapted for Disney, was so fun. I don’t think I could ever adapt something like Art of War.

On Who He Wants To Work With:

Tim Burton, for sure. I feel like I’m a living, breathing Tim Burton character. So I’m just waiting for that phone call.

On What Song Was Banned At The SBL Afterparty:

Last night at the afterparty I specifically banned Single Ladies because I didn’t want to do it. Because when they play it, I have do it!

On The Town Of Clover:

I grew up in Clovis, and I will say I rat on it all the time, but it really is a nice town. There’s certain things that could be changed, there’s a lot of conservative mindsets can be altered, but overall it’s a nice place to live. But I feel like as a teenager there’s never a nice place to live, you’re like ‘I don’t want to be here, I want to be there.’ For Clover I wanted to show a town that was understandably why you wanted to get out of it. That way the character who have no aspiration to get out of it, it’s like, ‘what’s wrong with you?’ Even if you’re happy living your simple life, why do it here?

On If Carson Has An Internet Life:

I think he definitely checks stocks for no reason, and he checks the New Yorker blogs and all that. He had a computer and a watch, that’s kind of all the technology he has. The story follows him and his mom, and I think it relates to both kids and adults on similar paths, and I think a lot of older audiences would probably not identify with the whole blog situation, and I didn’t want anyone to have any confusion. Like, “I blogged it, I tweeted it —” well what are you doing? What’s the difference between any of those?

marstheme: Deserted City Moody and epic series of architecture...

Mon, 02 Jul 2012 15:28:42 -0400

marstheme:

Deserted City

Moody and epic series of architecture photos, Deserted City, was captured by Denmark freelance landscape and architecture photographer Kim Høltermand. During the day Kim works as a fingerprints expert in The Crime Scene Unit of The Danish National Police.

Still Not Going To Do This Every Day: Exit

Mon, 02 Jul 2012 15:28:11 -0400

Still Not Going To Do This Every Day: Exit:

Always lead with the news: I’ve decided to leave my position at Newsweek and accept a job at Tumblr. Though this is cliche, it is indeed true that this has been a difficult decision for me. I have been and continue to be a loud and persistent defender of Newsweek, and this is not (mostly, anyway!)…

West Coast Crime Wave: Our Interview with Author David Corbett

Mon, 02 Jul 2012 15:27:29 -0400

West Coast Crime Wave: Our Interview with Author David Corbett:

mysteryanthology:

Michael Wolf asked each of the authors to share a little bit about themselves, talk a little about the story they contributed to West Coast Crime Wave, and tell us their thoughts about e-books.

Today we present the first of these conversations as we hear from David Corbett, former…

savorytheme: The Mast Brothers Chocolate Scout magazine...

Mon, 02 Jul 2012 15:26:44 -0400

savorytheme:

The Mast Brothers Chocolate

Scout magazine documents the love, dedication and adventure that the Mast Brothers put into their artisan chocolate.

The Mast Brothers Chocolate factory occupies only three rooms in a nondescript building in Williamsburg. The first doubles as a storefront that opens on the weekend to customers with much of the equipment fully exposed to the public. It’s a different story during the weekdays, it is there that the process of making their bean to bar chocolate begins and end. From sorting out the cacao beans to wrapping each bar by hand, the operation starts from one room to another and back again until the final product.

Read more from The Scout—a new lifestyle and design site highlighting experiences in New York City.

kopoint: In this episode of the KoPoint Comic Book Show Jeff...

Mon, 02 Jul 2012 15:25:39 -0400

kopoint:

In this episode of the KoPoint Comic Book Show Jeff Newelt, Jon Lazar, and Dan Patterson tackle the phenomenon of mainstream ‘event books.’ From Avengers vs. X-Men to the New 52 to the Dark Phoenix Saga the KoPoint round table

For more information visit http://comics.kopoint.com and follow @KoPoint on Twitter.

savorytheme: Etsy Headquarters Staying true to the brand they...

Mon, 02 Jul 2012 15:24:51 -0400

savorytheme:

Etsy Headquarters

Staying true to the brand they bought all of their furniture and decorations off of Etsy to furnish the 9,000 square foot space for the 75 employees.

Realtime RSS: Why it's smart to publish Realtime RSS now

Mon, 02 Jul 2012 15:24:07 -0400

Realtime RSS: Why it's smart to publish Realtime RSS now:

This is a very simple idea but it may not have occurred to people.

It’s a secret I’m sharing with 27K-plus people who follow me on Twitter and Facebook.

If you look at my tweetstream, you’ll see I push a lot of links. I don’t have millions of people following me, but the people who do…

Realtime RSS: Google Reader is wrong

Mon, 02 Jul 2012 15:23:41 -0400

Realtime RSS: Google Reader is wrong:

I was happy to read Richard MacManus’s article about stagnation in the RSS reader market. He said the market is in “disarray” but I believe that’s the wrong word. Disarray would imho be a good thing, because it would mean users have lots of choice, there would be competition, we’d be learning…

tmz: Photo replies on… Dat badonk-a-donk?

Mon, 02 Jul 2012 15:23:16 -0400

tmz:

Photo replies on… Dat badonk-a-donk?

Vanilla Rice Pudding & Chocolate Panna Cotta

Mon, 02 Jul 2012 15:20:45 -0400

savorytheme:

Earlier this evening I stumbled upon this recipe on Tartelette’s blog. This glutin-free adaptation of rice pudding and panna cotta looks fantastic. I’ll have to give it a try this weekend.

What you need

For the rice pudding:

1 cup rice (really the kind you like best)

1 1/2 cups (315ml) whole milk (I used raw)

1/2 vanilla bean, split open

1/2 cup (60ml) heavy cream

1/4 cup (50gr) sugar

Pinch of salt

Continue with the recipe after the break.

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beingblog: A World through the Hands by Trent Gilliss, senior...

Mon, 02 Jul 2012 15:19:58 -0400

beingblog:

A World through the Hands

by Trent Gilliss, senior editor

“Our destiny is written in the hand.”
—Renate Hiller, co-director of the Fiber Craft Studio at the Threefold Educational Center in Chestnut Ridge, New York

Practicing mindfulness. Paying attention. Listening generously.

For Renate Hiller, the fiber artist whom you see in the film above, these majestic phrases apply in all their richness. Her German lilt of the tongue reaffirms this exquisite eloquence as she connects the importance of using our hands with the way in which we understand and find value in ourselves and in others. There’s something so honest and pure about her thought — that we gain a deeper, more meaningful relationship with our own humanity and our greater world by using our hands.

Using our hands grounds us — in work and in relationship. As we create something, hopefully beautiful, with our hands, we are transforming our moral and social senses. We evolve; we change. We notice things that we passed over the day before: the curve in a sidewalk to make way for a tree in the boulevard, the purl of a scarf, the transition of a capital that greets the ceiling. We observe the mundane and see it anew. The process of creating through the hands becomes a spiritual practice.

Ms. Heller strings together so many “threads” that help me think about raising children; about living a fuller, more physically experiential work life (yes, even about writing marginalia in a script rather than using the track changes option in Word); about hearing differently the many stories from folks who write in to the program, especially the passionate accounts of people and their gardens.

She also reminds me of something Joanna Macy told Krista in a recent interview (show to be released on September 16th):

“I’m looking at my hand right now as we talk. It’s got a lot of wrinkles ‘cause I’m 81 years old. But it’s linked to hands like this back through the ages. This hand was shaped by when it was a fin in the mother seas, where life was born. This hand is directly linked to hands that learned to reach and grasp and climb and push up on dry land and weave reeds into baskets. It has a fantastic history. Every particle and every atom in this hand goes back to the first — what Thomas Berry calls ‘the primal flaring forth,’ the beginning of space-time. We’re part of that story.”

And, for those who are unable to watch the video, here’s a transcript:

Renate Hiller
“On Handwork”

I’m spinning wool with a stone spindle. This tool has been used probably for more than 30,000 years. And when we twist fibers into yarn we are actually creating a spiral. And the spiral is a cosmic gesture of creation.

When we look at our galaxy from outer space it is a spiral. And we find spirals in many, many places — in the plant world — on the back of our head we have a spiral. So, this is an activity that brings us closer to the cosmos, you could say. But at the same time we create something that is useful and beautiful because with the yarn that we have spun we can create sweaters, hats and mittens and scarves and so on.

To have the skill of knitting, to have the skill of crocheting, of felting, makes it possible for us not only to make something but it makes us skilled in general. The use of the hands is vital for the human being, for having flexibility, dexterity. In a way the entire human being is in the in the hands. Our destiny is written in the hand. And what do we do in our modern world with our hands? You know we move the mouse, we drive and so on. We feel plastic most of the time. The hands are relegated to very little that’s actually bringing dexterity to our times. So we have come ever more estranged from nature and from also what other human beings are doing. The whole social element comes into play as well because if I make something then I think ‘Hmmm, how was that yarn made?’

In the past there were all the professions of the shoemaker and the tailor and so on, and that’s also being lost. If you do practical work somewhere on the school grounds, there is practical work going on. The children will all go to that. They’re really drawn to that. They want to experience it and however the reality is that there’s less and less of that. In the home, you know you can use already bought vegetables, all chopped up and ready to eat. There is very little activity like kneading the bread, and you know children grasp first an item and then they grasp with their mind. So if they have very little to grasp other than plastic readymade toys then what their mind grasps is very little. The toy automatically moves and you know children can only be kind of astonished by that.

So though there is this loss of understanding the value of things, of the meaning of things, and in handwork, in transforming nature we also make something truly unique that we have made with our hands, stitch by stitch, that maybe we have chosen the yarn, we have even spun the yarn — even better, and that we have designed. And when I do that, I feel whole. I feel I am experiencing my inner core because it’s a meditative process. You have to find your way; you have to listen with your whole being. And that is the schooling that we all need today. Because we’re so egocentric and this makes us think of what is needed by something else. So we are in a way practicing empathy — empathy with the material, empathy with the design. I think this practicing of empathy that we do in the fiber crafts is paramount for being healing to our world. And it’s a service for the divine that we are surrounded by.

(A special thanks to Dorit of the Gerðandisgleðir blog for making connections.)

On Being Blog: Albert Einstein's Faith: Was the Great Physicist Spiritual?

Mon, 02 Jul 2012 15:19:12 -0400

On Being Blog: Albert Einstein's Faith: Was the Great Physicist Spiritual?:

by Krista Tippett, host

Albert Einstein’s famous equation, E=mc², remains difficult for me to grasp fully. But I feel I have come to understand something of the man — his expansive spirit, his relentless curiosity, and his reverence for the beauty and order of nature and thought….

Recycled Electrons: Keep Two Chevrons Apart

Mon, 02 Jul 2012 15:18:31 -0400

Recycled Electrons: Keep Two Chevrons Apart:

recycledelectrons:

We talk (possibly too much) about 12-year-old Rob’s bedroom. We wonder if Helium is the only thing discovered elsewhere before on Earth. There’s ice on Mercury, chevrons on Jupiter and oxbow lakes near Yorkshire.

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Episode #26. If you have anything you’d like us to look at, or…