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I sat through an entire screening of Star Trek, and loved it. I tolerated half of “After...

Sat, 25 May 2013 05:21:26 +0800

I sat through an entire screening of Star Trek, and loved it. I tolerated half of “After Earth“‘s trailer before running out of the theatre. I stuck my head out of moving vehicles and squinted at the blurring of lights and lacework of stars. I bobbed in blue and felt the crush of immeasurable weight breaking into froth at my skin. I stared at the full moon tonight, until there were yellow orbs painted on the spine of eyelids when I blinked. Fearless, I thought.

But the panic comes in the middle of nights. It walks in, tucks itself under the covers, and quivers as people shiver. Let me sleep. Just let me sleep, please.

steamboatbilljr: Scenes of London life, as filmed by J. Roy...

Sat, 25 May 2013 05:05:57 +0800

steamboatbilljr:

Scenes of London life, as filmed by J. Roy Hunt in 1922 for the motion picture production Sherlock Holmes.

zerkalomiroir: Wong/Leung/Cheung

Thu, 23 May 2013 06:11:00 +0800

zerkalomiroir:

Wong/Leung/Cheung

"Maps are never skin. I know that you’re only a guide but I prefer to pretend otherwise. Lean over,..."

Thu, 23 May 2013 05:10:00 +0800

“

Maps are never skin. I know
that you’re only a guide but

I prefer to pretend otherwise.
Lean over, let me slide my hand

under the couplings of letters
and numbers that cinch your stockings

together. Let me spread you open, let me
undo the tangle of rivers, interstates, and

country roads until they spill out
soft as hair across my lap.

The rustle of sheets hangs in the air
as I trace out each route, the friction

of my fingertips against each delicate
path. The key makes you real, it stretches

inches into miles. It can turn
the idea of something into the thing itself.

”

- Jamison T. Crabtree, A Love Poem to a Map

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Thu, 23 May 2013 00:58:45 +0800

Happy Birthday Fred Astaire (May 10, 1899 – June 22, 1987) “Do...

Wed, 22 May 2013 04:36:43 +0800

Happy Birthday Fred Astaire (May 10, 1899 – June 22, 1987)

“Do it big, do it right and do it with style”

ridingwithstrangers: Architectural Density in Hong Kong With...

Wed, 22 May 2013 04:25:00 +0800

ridingwithstrangers:

Architectural Density in Hong Kong

With seven million people, Hong Kong is the 4th most densely populated places in the world. However, plain numbers never tell the full story. In his ‘Architecture of Density’ photo series, German photographer Michael Wolf explores the jaw-dropping urban landscapes of Hong Kong. He rids his photographs of any context, removing any sky or horizon line from the frame and flattening the space until it becomes a relentless abstraction of urban expansion, with no escape for the viewer’s eye. Infinite and haunting.

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Wed, 22 May 2013 02:40:31 +0800

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Wed, 22 May 2013 01:42:53 +0800

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Mon, 20 May 2013 00:58:00 +0800

quite a few epiphanies and story ideas, but it feels so good to...

Fri, 17 May 2013 02:56:19 +0800

quite a few epiphanies and story ideas, but it feels so good to be home, where i can be myself and be appallingly ridiculous, and still feel at peace. big bear hugs and milo dinosaurs, yes.

silverrabbit: David Mitchell on QI’s tricky questioning.

Fri, 17 May 2013 02:45:03 +0800

silverrabbit:

David Mitchell on QI’s tricky questioning.

It is heartbreaking to be near a person you know you’ll never have, and more so, when you realize...

Wed, 15 May 2013 07:33:00 +0800

It is heartbreaking to be near a person you know you’ll never have, and more so, when you realize that you don’t even know how to act with them. That you’re nothing to them, and rightfully so, because you don’t even know what to say. How much longer before I disappear completely from x’s life? Not long, not long at all. I’m not the someone that she wants or needs; I don’t dare to show her that she’s my someone. Love is a losing game, isn’t it. Then, when you find out you’re the only one playing all along, doesn’t that make you a double loser? In every sense of the word. Oh well. Day 3 of facing fears, gogogo.

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Wed, 15 May 2013 06:53:08 +0800

cosmic-wanderings: The most beautiful space photo I’ve ever...

Wed, 15 May 2013 06:49:59 +0800

cosmic-wanderings:

The most beautiful space photo I’ve ever seen

The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) is one of the Milky Way’s closest galactic neighbors. Even though it is a small, or so-called dwarf galaxy, the SMC is so bright that it is visible to the unaided eye from the Southern Hemisphere and near the equator. Many navigators, including Ferdinand Magellan who lends his name to the SMC, used it to help find their way across the oceans.

Modern astronomers are also interested in studying the SMC (and its cousin, the Large Magellanic Cloud), but for very different reasons. Because the SMC is so close and bright, it offers an opportunity to study phenomena that are difficult to examine in more distant galaxies.

New Chandra data of the SMC have provided one such discovery: the first detection of X-ray emission from young stars with masses similar to our Sun outside our Milky Way galaxy. The new Chandra observations of these low-mass stars were made of the region known as the “Wing” of the SMC. In this composite image of the Wing the Chandra data is shown in purple, optical data from the Hubble Space Telescope is shown in red, green and blue and infrared data from the Spitzer Space Telescope is shown in red.

via NASA

I nearly lost my temper for the first time in ages on Saturday. It was nice to feel something so...

Mon, 13 May 2013 02:42:00 +0800

I nearly lost my temper for the first time in ages on Saturday. It was nice to feel something so decisively. It beats this faint sense of dread and discomfort. I should be excited. I should be thrilled. Instead, it is an amorphous whirl of ambivalence. But I’m not anybody’s top choice either, hahaha. I think that is the source of unease,- being a tag-along. But it’s okay. I’m used to it: of not being a priority, of not being wanted the same way I want people. I don’t need it, I don’t mind it. I can take it until I make it. I’m just going to let loose, have fun, and nothing is going to change. How boringgggggzz. Mr Palahnuik, I want to believe you, but never mind, for now I’ll just feel with words and films, and remember rainy days with Amelie soundtracks.

"Please know there are much better things in life than being lonely or liked or bitter or mean or..."

Sun, 12 May 2013 04:58:03 +0800

“Please know there are much better things in life than being lonely or liked or bitter or mean or self-conscious. We are all full of shit. Go love someone just because; I know your heart may be badly bruised, or even the victim of numerous knifings, but it will always heal, even if you don’t want it to; it keeps going. There are the most fantastic, beautiful things and people out there, I promise. It is up to you to find them.”

- Chuck Palahniuk

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Sun, 12 May 2013 02:20:00 +0800

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Sun, 12 May 2013 01:59:00 +0800

"You will never have to lose yourself to win me over."

Tue, 07 May 2013 02:20:07 +0800

“You will never have to lose yourself to win me over.”

- Andrea Gibson