suicideblonde:

Daft Punk – Get Lucky

These guys.

Googly eyes

the-overlook-hotel:

“There is a sequence looking down from the balcony with Jack at the typewriter and the fireplace in the shot. I wanted to get a full fire effect, a nice big glowing fire in the fireplace, but I didn’t want to reduce the general lighting in any way because I needed the depth of field. So I shot the scene all the way through without the fire burning, then rewound the film, killed every light on the set, lit the fire, opened the lens up to T/1.4 and shot the fire by itself – which gave me a nice glowing fire. It was something I thought would be different to do and it was worth a try anyway. But I think that’s really the only kind of ‘special effect’ we did in the camera.”

– Director of Photography »

andyswan:

Destruction is easier than creating.  It’s the simplest path to maximum impact.  It always will be the last refuge of good men and the first instinct of evil. 

Destruction will never go away.

Destruction will never win.

It will never win because the vast majority of us create.  We struggle.  We try.  We build.

Look around you.  All that which has been created by man.

Homes. Instruments. Skyscrapers. Networks. Art. Humor. Bourbon. Companies. Schools….. on and on.

It’s all there despite destruction.  

Because that’s what we do.

Create.

Win.

This is the only approach worth a damn.

jtotheizzoe:

Watch the slow creep of spring as it pushes the cold hand of winter back to the frigid north … only to succumb again next year, of course.

NASA’s MODIS imager senses Earth’s reflection of both visible and longer wavelength near-infrared light. Plants, full of chlorophyll, absorb most visible light (except for green, of course) and reflect near-infrared. By combining this with the reflection of snow, NASA can watch the yearly cycle of vegetation springing back and falling away.

I made a higher-res GIF here, and you can watch the full three-year animation here.

jtotheizzoe:

Zhangye Danxia – Geology From a Storybook

Long ago, colorful sediments were deposited in western China, layer after layer, century after century. If you were there at the time, you would have seen unremarkable ground, a single hue of dirt no different from a thousand other places on Earth. 

But after thousands and thousands of years subject to the forces of pressure and tectonic movement, the total of those layers has been pushed upward, letting us peek at a rainbow-hued slice of Earth’s past perhaps unmatched on this planet. The planet looks more like the cross-section of a jawbreaker candy than layers of rock in these photos, near Zhangye, China.

The Zhangye formation, not to be confused with this danxia, a UNESCO heritage site, reminds us how our crust is heaved and hurled throughout the ages, a slow evolution that will »

christmasgorilla:

From Tyler Surfboards, courtesy of Lane Wood.