27-year-old engineer on his own in a new town getting used to a new life.
Nerdy as fuck. Always willing to make new friends, even if I'm not the best at keeping in touch. Feel free to shoot me a message or an ask, Ill get to it soon as I can! (By the way, I have a NSFW sideblog, send me a message if you're interested)
The single greatest and most fascinating “futurist” architecture movement in the world right now is happening in Bolivia, where national prosperity and a dedication to works for the poor and public housing led to an explosion of colorful styles inspired by Aymara Indian art. There should be more articles about this, the interiors are just as amazing. Incidentally, most of these buildings are not for the rich or in trendy neighborhoods, but are public housing. I’ve heard this style referred to as “Neo-Andean” but like most currently thriving styles it doesn’t have a universally agreed on name yet.
OKAY OKAY OKAY I KNOW THERE ARE SO MANY FANDOMS STARTING NOW, LIKE THE SINK FANDOM AND THE TREEHOUSE FANDOM AND THE BLANKET FORT FANDOM, BUT YOU ARE ALL MISSING ONE.
SECRET
FREAKIN’
ROOMS
LIKE
PEOPLE
BUILD ROOMS
WITHIN ROOMS
BUT THEY AREN’T LIMITED TO INSIDE THE HOME
THAT’S RIGHT
THERE ARE SECRET ROOMS FOR CARS
HONESTLY THOUGH
YOU EITHER LIKE SECRET ROOMS
OR YOU’RE WRONG
I have always wanted a house with secret rooms.
My goal in life is to become an eccentric recluse with an entire manor filled with secret rooms young intrepid junior-detectives will want to explore to look for clues.
I will then proceed to spook them periodically while wearing a bedsheet with holes cut out, and stare at them creepily from behind paintings.
god… the romance of sitting in a room with the person you love, each of you doing your own thing like reading a book or playing a game…. silent but full of love and warmth
Something I find incredibly cool is that they’ve found neandertal bone tools made from polished rib bones, and they couldn’t figure out what they were for for the life of them.
“Wait you’re still using the exact same fucking thing 50,000 years later???”
“Well, yeah. We’ve tried other things. Metal scratches up and damages the hide. Wood splinters and wears out. Bone lasts forever and gives the best polish. There are new, cheaper plastic ones, but they crack and break after a couple years. A bone polisher is nearly indestructible, and only gets better with age. The more you use a bone polisher the better it works.”
It’s just.
50,000 years. 50,000. And over that huge arc of time, we’ve been quietly using the exact same thing, unchanged, because we simply haven’t found anything better to do the job.
i also like that this is a “ask craftspeople” thing, it reminds me of when art historians were all “the fuck” about someone’s ear “deformity” in a portrait and couldn’t work out what the symbolism was until someone who’d also worked as a piercer was like “uhm, he’s fucked up a piercing there”. interdisciplinary shit also needs to include non-academic approaches because crafts & trades people know shit ok
One of my professors often tells us about a time he, as and Egyptian Archaeologist, came down upon a ring of bricks one brick high. In the middle of a house. He and his fellow researchers could not fpr the life of them figure out what tf it could possibly have been for. Until he decided to as a laborer, who doesnt even speak English, what it was. The guy gestures for my prof to follow him, and shows him the same ring of bricks in a nearby modern house. Said ring is filled with baby chicks, while momma hen is out in the yard having a snack. The chicks can’t get over the single brick, but mom can step right over. Over 2000 years and their still corraling chicks with brick circles. If it aint broke, dont fix it and always ask the locals.
I read something a while back about how pre-columbian Americans had obsidian blades they stored in the rafters of their houses. The archaeologists who discovered them came to the conclusion that the primitive civilizations believed keeping them closer to the sun would keep the blades sharper.
Then a mother looked at their findings and said “yeah, they stored their knives in the rafters to keep them out of reach of the children.”
I had assumed I’d end up in a slight video game drought before KHIII came out, since I’d be afraid to start anything new that I wouldn’t be able to beat before the release. However, two things have filled that space to an acceptable level: one, AC: Odyssey keeps upgrading the game and releasing minor DLC missions and tweaks (also apparently I’m missing some locations that I can’t seem to find), and two, I decided to watch a few of the previous Kingdom Hearts games as cutscene movies on YouTube. I’ve made it through KH and KH: Re:CoM in the past few days, KHII is next and should take longer than both of those combined. I’m probably still going to have some downtime before the release, but I’m also gonna be away all next weekend, so it should balance out nicely.
this whole thing is way too good to be giffed you need to expirience it
There are so many things that are TOP quality about this. The business with the mic rope. The bounding across the stage like an excited puppy or a newsie. The Voice™️ that is so synonymous with John, you know, the voice of a guy who sells ice cream at the soda fountain in the 50’s. The analogy itself.
It’s all so beautiful, such peak humor and content.
Emmy Award Winning™️
I FOUND IT AGAIN.
Here’s the “horse loose in a hospital” bit. Good news, it has closed captioning.
“I DONT REMEMBER THAT IN HAMILTON.” OMG
God I’ve heard so much about this guy and this is my first time actually watching one of his bits. He’s as funny as y’all make him out to be tbh
So
I watched Infinity War, and I feel like it’s an incomplete story
without someone pointing out that not only is Thanos’s plan cruel but
also it’s a fucking stupid plan that wouldn’t work anyway.
‘Cause
you know, you just know that there are a bunch of little primitivist
gremlins running around right now talkin about “Thanos was right!”
who’ve never even heard of a demographic collapse.
okay the snap even destroyed half of the ANIMALS and PLANTS AKA the resources people need to survive, it backfired so badly
It’s frustrating that this fact which should be known to everybody who’s ever taken a class on forestry or wildlife management or w/e was never brought up.
I enjoyed Thanos as a villain *immensely*, and making it explicit that he’s dumber than a box of rocks would’ve only made it better.
I loved how, though they changed Thanos from the original “Fuckboi Does Not Take a No” to “Only the Best Intentions Murderbag”, they did not entirely erase the fact that Thanos is and has always been so stupid you wonder how he remembers to breathe.
There was a lot of behind-the-scenes griping at Pixar about how difficult it was to animate the first Incredibles - it was their first movie with all-human characters after all - and in the end, I don’t think they were totally satisfied with the result.
With that being said, I am 100% certain that this is just an excuse to flex on the haters and show how far animation has come in 14 years. And I am totally fine with that.
first movie: “HAIR? YOU WANT US TO ANIMATE LONG FLOWING HAIR?? ARE YOU INSANE???”
Second movie: “and then he turns into smoke that realistically reacts to a ball flying through it… he also turns into realistically flowing water at one point”
I love the clothes from Volante Design (“Superhuman Streetwear”); their latest is the “Starfleet 2364” line of men’s and women’s jackets inspired by Star Trek: The Next Generation uniforms.
The jackets are made of heavy denim and are basically extremely well-styled/tailored biker jackets (like Volante’s excellent Hacker
jackets), partially or fully unzipping them and folding down their
lapels takes them from “cosplay” to “cosplay adjacent” in an instant.
They’ve got loads of interior and exterior pockets, and are
double-stitched and come in “Command Red, Operations Gold, or Sciences
Blue,” sized 37 - 51, 55 (men), and 33 - 45 (women). They’re made in
Chicago, retail for $315, and will ship by December 14th.
I absolutely love Volante Design’s stuff! This is one of their more recent designs, which is amazing. I currently have a vest from them which I adore, and I would have at least two of their jackets as well if it wasn’t for the price. I understand that they’re so expensive because they’re such high quality. just… ugh. So goooooood!
