Grand Lisboa Casino looming in the background of a street in Macau
Photograph by Paul Tsui, National Geographic travel photographer of the year.
Systems / Layers
Architecture, places, and scenes captured in the cities of Zürich, Luzern, Milan, Frankfurt, Berlin, Hamburg, Prague, Amsterdam.
All images © Matthias Heiderich, 2014
“Rhythm and geometry are good keywords here. These are definitely things I’m looking for when searching for subjects to photograph.” (source)
New York in the 80s
paging @stevewyshywaniuk
These are beautiful, thanks for the heads up!
New Order: Fac 321
Good friends recommend good music videos. I wish Jonathan Demme made more videos in the 80s.
Vertical Scrolling in StoryMaker 2
Vertical Scrolling in StoryMaker 2
Words + gifs + photos that give some background on how we’re working on StoryMaker 2.
How your smartphone’s battery life can be used to invade your privacy
How your smartphone’s battery life can be used to invade your privacy
if a user visits a website in Chrome’s private browsing mode using a VPN, the website should not be able to link them to a subsequent visit with private browsing and the VPN off. But the researchers warn that that may no longer work: “Users who try to revisit a website with a new identity may use browsers’ private mode or clear cookies and other client side identifiers. When consecutive visits are made within a short interval, the website can link users’ new and old identities by exploiting battery level and charge/discharge times. The website can then reinstantiate users’ cookies and other client side identifiers, a method known as respawning.”
Worse still, on some platforms, the researchers found that it is possible to determine the maximum battery capacity »
I’m not Tumblr famous.
- Getting asks isn’t a regular thing, I still smile when I see Messages (1).
- People don’t reblog me ASAP. Sure, I get reblogged 20 or 30 notes, if I’m lucky.
- I don’t get asked for pictures of me.
- People don’t ask me for requests.
- I don’t have a lot to offer.
- most of my blog is 99.9% reblogs
- i LOVE every little follower of mine
Same
This is sad. This is me.
I’d be more concerned if everyone was on here and not enjoying themselves. Isn’t that why we find time for it? I love my tumblr full of reblogs and small number of
Thrift Store Find: Vintage Medium Format Portraits
Okay so here’s the lowdown. I found 4 sets of medium format negatives while I was thrift shop hunting a few weeks ago. They were sitting in a box of old vintage photographs in these plastic sleeves, and from what I could tell, they had been taken sometime in the 50’s. So obviously I brought them home, and today finally had them scanned in, and holy wow they are beautiful!!
NOW this is where I need the Internet’s help. I would absolutely love to find the women in these photographs/the photographer who took them. The only info I have is that the negatives were found in a thrift store on Hull St in Richmond, VA. They are medium format, and judging by the style of dress, made in 1940-1950. The owner of the thrift store had no idea »
The key to McMahon’s successful defense in the ensuing lawsuit, was that he never verbally stated that the actual height of the building would be 480 feet (150 m). The proposed skyscraper depicted in the blueprints that he distributed (and which were approved by the investors) was clearly labelled as consisting of four floors and 480 inches (40 feet) tall.
He wrote (”) instead of (’) on the blueprint.
The Newby-McMahon Building, commonly referred to as the world’s smallest skyscraper, is located at 701 La Salle in downtown Wichita Falls, Texas. Reportedly the result of a fraudulent investment scheme by a confidence man, the Newby-McMahon Building was a source of great embarrassment to the city and its residents after its completion in 1919.
The Newby-McMahon Building is now part of the Depot Square Historic District of Wichita Falls, a Texas Historic »
Sexual Framework
Stanley Kubrick wrote this response letter to a DR. STRANGELOVE fan admiring his awareness of the films “sexual framework.”
h/t WILL McCRABB
Honestly, Rick Rolling is the best practical joke ever. Like, there’s nothing offensive or mean spirited about it. It’s just like “Oops you thought there would be something else here but it’s ‘Never Gonna Give You Up’.” which isn’t even a bad song. It’s fairly enjoyable to listen to. There’s no jumpscares, no screaming, no ill will. Just Rick Astley telling you he’s never going to give you up. I think that’s great. “You fell into my trap! Here, listen to this completely benign song that will have no negative effect on you.”
I wish this were true. There’s a really good article about the problems inherent with rickrolling here.
The truth can be painful.
Malcolm X was born on May 19, 1925. Malcolm would have turned 90 today.
Here are some of my favorite Malcolm X quotes to celebrate his birthday:
“I just don’t believe that when people are being unjustly oppressed that they should let someone else set rules for them by which they can come out from under that oppression.”
“My Alma mater was books, a good library… I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.”
“Stumbling is not falling.”
“Nonviolence is fine as long as it works.”
“You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.”
Happy 90th Malcolm.
The most violent death in the movie was the death of the Bechdel Test, which they dragged behind the car the entire time.
Jenna, on how MAD MAX: FURY ROAD had so many women that the Bechdel Test became irrelevant. (via mattymurdocktrash)