Randomly Posting Stuff Cause You Feel Like It

[Orema]

[A. Spectre]

This Dazzling Indoor Rainbow is Made From 60 Miles of Embroidery Thread.



A spellbinding winter blues–busting indoor rainbow has appeared on the first floor of the Smithsonian’s Renwick Gallery in Washington. And while to the naked eye it might look like a grace note after a rainstorm or a multicolored beam of sunlight, this dazzling man-made sleight of hand is actually composed of 60 miles of embroidery thread strung up by hand according to a carefully plotted matrix to create the trompe l’oeil effect.*



Part of the “Wonder” exhibition currently running until July 10, Gabriel Dawe’s “Plexus A1” was created especially for the Renwick Gallery, but it’s part of a numbered series called “Plexus,” variations of which are currently on view in Utah, Arkansas, and Denmark.


And I believed to be the cat's pajamas when I turned this into teacher. *shrug

[Genesis]

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[A. Spectre]

Sailboats! One item will be crossed off my bucket list if I could Captain one of these beauties across a large body of water. For now though, I am content with what is under the body of water.





When visiting the Keys a few months ago, I saw a sailboat that was made mostly of mohogany, 120 ft long and a full time crew of 7. The price tag would have purchased a small country.

[Orema]

[kittygrrl]

[Genesis]

[Genesis]

[Genesis]

[Genesis]

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[A. Spectre]

Fairytales much older than previously thought.


Fairy stories such as Beauty and the Beast and Rumpelstiltskin can be traced back thousands of years to prehistoric times, with one tale originating from the bronze age, academics have revealed.

Using techniques normally employed by biologists, they studied common links between 275 Indo-European fairy tales from around the world and found some have roots that are far older than previously known, and “long before the emergence of the literary record”.

While stories such as Beauty and the Beast and Rumplestiltskin were first written down in the 17th and 18th century, the researchers found they originated “significantly earlier”. “Both tales can be securely traced back to the emergence of the major western Indo-European subfamilies as distinct lineages between 2,500 and 6,000 years ago,” they write...

http://www.theguardian.com/books/201...droidApp_Tweet

[Orema]

[A. Spectre]

How it feels to be a poor mother without heat during a blizzard.

At the end of a row of abandoned homes in one of Washington’s poorest neighborhoods, it’s 7:30 a.m., and Chamika McLaughlin climbs out of bed. She dreads this time of day. It’s when she has to make a choice between two terrible options.

Does she stay cold? Or does she put her life at risk?

McLaughlin pulls on a blue hat, wraps a black sweater around her slight frame and pads into the kitchen. Hands tucked in her armpits, she shivers in the early-morning chill. School is canceled today, and her 12-year-old son, sleeping in one of the apartment’s two bedrooms, will soon awake. She has to get the house warmer. So, as she’s done countless times over two heatless winters in this apartment, she reaches for the oven dial.

McLaughlin, 30, knows heating her home this way could start a fire — oven blazes kill people every year. But she feels she didn’t have a choice. She’s marooned with defective radiators in one of the worst blizzards to hit the District in years. McLaughlin turns the oven to 400 degrees, pulls down its door and watches the coils inside glow red.



*A few years ago, while watching the teevee, a commercial from the local cable company advertising for the "Big Game," so effed up we can be sued for saying the Super Bowl, but I digress. SuperBowlSuperBowlSuperBowl! Hah!

Okay, back to the story. The commercial scene was 3 men inside with a charcoal grill, they were all bundled up being pretendbians and bad ass. But really? I called the cable company to have them reconsider this commercial and how I believed them to be irresponsible. Yes, some folks may think it is quite fine to start a charcoal grill indoors. What I heard back......*crickets.

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[Orema]

A Great Day in Harlem (or Harlem 1958) is a 1958 black-and-white group portrait of 57 notable jazz musicians photographed in front of a brownstone in Harlem, New York City. The photo has remained an important object in the study of the history of jazz. For more on this iconic photograph, click here.

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[Kobi]