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oecologia: Moonset (Death Valley National Park, California)...

Sun, 19 May 2013 22:41:04 +1000

oecologia:

Moonset (Death Valley National Park, California) by ShutterOak.

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Sun, 19 May 2013 21:43:17 +1000

timeturner: but if clara was broken up into tiny pieces and scattered all over the doctor’s...

Sun, 19 May 2013 21:05:41 +1000

timeturner:

but if clara was broken up into tiny pieces and scattered all over the doctor’s timeline would he not remember her from their previous encounters with his past regenerations? like does he just not remember that clara looks exactly the the girl who told him which tardis to pick?

This.

"Your 20’s are your ‘selfish’ years. It’s a decade to immerse yourself in every single thing..."

Sun, 19 May 2013 20:34:47 +1000

“Your 20’s are your ‘selfish’ years. It’s a decade to immerse yourself in every single thing possible. Be selfish with your time, and all the aspects of you. Tinker with shit, travel, explore, love a lot, love a little, and never touch the ground.”

- Kyoko Escamilla (via everyb0dysontherun)

About to watch Doctor Who. I just needed to mark this moment of pre-finale sanity. That is all.

Sun, 19 May 2013 20:05:31 +1000

About to watch Doctor Who. I just needed to mark this moment of pre-finale sanity.

That is all.

pizza: there’s 100 millon ppl on tumblr so if we all put in $20 we could buy tumblr for $2 billion...

Sun, 19 May 2013 19:58:41 +1000

pizza:

there’s 100 millon ppl on tumblr so if we all put in $20 we could buy tumblr for $2 billion and then yahoo couldn’t have it

The real question is why hasn’t Obama bought tumblr and saved us?

frellingaround: Perdido Street Station by Gordillo

Sun, 19 May 2013 19:26:14 +1000

frellingaround:

Perdido Street Station by Gordillo

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"I am a believer in coincidence: the coin, flipping."

Sun, 19 May 2013 16:00:25 +1000

“I am a believer
in coincidence: the coin, flipping.”

- Stephanie Lane Sutton, from “A Transitive Verb” (via the-final-sentence)

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Sun, 19 May 2013 14:51:41 +1000

nevver: The best sketchbook ever

Sun, 19 May 2013 13:43:13 +1000

nevver:

The best sketchbook ever

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tear-of-a-phoenix: Jennifer Lawrence + Starstruck Have you...

Sun, 19 May 2013 10:17:32 +1000

tear-of-a-phoenix:

Jennifer Lawrence + Starstruck

Have you ever met Daniel Radcliffe? Yeah, I screamed in his face. We were both doing Letterman. I grabbed him by the shoulder. Of course, I’m in heels. That makes me -4. I’m towering over him, saying, “I love Harry Potter!” His security people were nodding to each other—should we go?

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Sun, 19 May 2013 09:08:57 +1000

arpeggia: e.e. cummings - excerpt from somewhere i have never...

Sun, 19 May 2013 08:01:30 +1000

arpeggia:

e.e. cummings - excerpt from somewhere i have never travelled

foundinthevault: librarylinknj: sparkamovement: COVERFLIP:...

Sun, 19 May 2013 06:51:57 +1000

foundinthevault:

librarylinknj:

sparkamovement:

COVERFLIP: what happens when you gender-swap book covers?

Maureen Johnson, in the Huffington Post: “We’re told not to judge books by them, but… EVERYBODY DOES. That is what they are for. They are the packages that get your attention, that give you messages about what to expect.

Which is why yesterday, I proposed a little experiment on Twitter. I asked people to take a well-known book, then to imagine the author of that book was of the opposite gender, or was genderqueer, and imagine what that cover might look like. Because we have these expectations in our heads already.

There were hundreds of replies within 24 hours. Click here to see just a few of them.”

This conversation is great, for so many reasons, including:

It gets people thinking critically about gender, publishing, reader’s advisory & library displays in a creative, fun way that is also serious & likely to engender real, thoughtful conversations

It can also be adapted to create a library program where teens create alternate covers for some of their own favorite books. It would be an excellent assignment in English classrooms, too, for that matter.

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Sun, 19 May 2013 05:43:51 +1000

favorite artists: Joseph Mallord William Turner, “The painter...

Sun, 19 May 2013 04:34:54 +1000

favorite artists: Joseph Mallord William Turner, “The painter of light” (1775-1851)

“You should tell them that indistinctiveness is my forte” — Turner’s reply when hearing that collector James Lenox who purchased one of his paintings complained about it and called it indistinct