archiemcphee: These colorful objects are contemporary examples...

archiemcphee:

These colorful objects are contemporary examples of a millennia-old glass art form called Murrine. Murrina (the singular form) is an Italian term for colored patterns or images made in a glass cane (long rods of glass) that are revealed when cut in cross-sections. The process first appeared in the Mideast more than 4,000 years ago and was revived by Venetian glassmakers on Murano in the early 16th century.

Artists working in glass design murrine in a variety of ways from simple circular or square patterns to complex detailed designs to even portraits of people. Murrine are designed by layering different colors of molten glass around a core, then heating and stretching it into a rod. When cool, the rod is sliced into cross-sections of desired thickness with each slice possessing the same pattern in cross-section.

These beautiful murrine pieces are the work of Elk Grove, CA-based glass artist Loren Stump, owner of Stumpchuck, Loren’s lampworking studio, shop and educational facility.

Visit the Stumpchuck website, Facebook page and Instagram account to check our more of Loren Stump’s incredible glasswork.

[via Twisted Sifter and Wikipedia]

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About Civil war related confessions

About Civil war related confessions:

skyrimconfessionss:

We have received a number of complaints related to these confessions lately, from “both sides”, meaning pro-Imperial people and pro-Stormcloak as well as others who are neutral. People have been complaining that 1. they are tired of seeing people argue over the civil war confessions when the…

bah, answer was too long to fit in the field. I can see both leading to more angry people, to be honest. If you nix a confession for either reason, then the person who submitted it will still just accuse you of bias towards the other side. You either then have to just ignore these accusations or go to the work of digging up the past confessions, (though, to be fair, for the really common ones you could end up having a few stock replies) or you have to go digging through the wiki or something to point out that what they are saying goes against lore, or is a misrepresentation of events. You have said numerous times that you post all confessions, unedited, (except for length, at times, for the text on the image) and the angry people haven’t believed you about that, why would they take your word about this? So… as annoying as it can be to see the same thing repeated over and over, or see opinions based on factual errors or really bizarre interpretations of events/characters, I think it will end up just trading in one set of problems for another set, at least on your end. On the readers end, it will be nice for longtime followers of the blog, and should mean you can get through backlogs faster, but the one about nixing oft repeated confessions could be bad for new followers.

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siege-loki-problems: Cover of Loki: Agent of Asgard #6 by Lee...

siege-loki-problems:

Cover of Loki: Agent of Asgard #6 by Lee Garbett (x)

I never thought I would be glad to see Loki being held prisoner by Doom. this means he’s not going to be evil again in Axis! yaaaay!

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tomorrowwoman: Is it odd that one thing I suddenly started to wonder is…. Where was Vostok-X when...

tomorrowwoman:

Is it odd that one thing I suddenly started to wonder is….

Where was Vostok-X when Stormwatch’s first arc occurred taking place in a huge battle on the moon?

Especially when it was established Vostok essentially spends all his time on the moon? Unless I guess the Stormwatch bit occurred right after he left to meet with Arthur and the rest of the Others?

The New 52’s timeline can be a bother at times.

Plus I’m assuming this means Moon Maiden and her Lunar Base can’t exist in the New 52 but I doubt DC will remember her any decade soon.

Well, I dunno if that’s an issue any longer, I don’t think anything before Stormwatch #30 really counts anymore. They got a clean slate, everything was retconned away. They bear a superficial resemblance to what was shown pre-Starlin, but certain events clearly never happened, since, you know, they’re alive and all… So that whole moon thing may never have happened, or happened differently.

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cracked: wnycradiolab: washingtonpost: Even astronauts have...

cracked:

wnycradiolab:

washingtonpost:

Even astronauts have World Cup fever.

I bet NASA could double their funding if they developed zero-gravity professional sports. I’d watch.

Let’s just cancel that insane Brazil Cup and keep playing it on the ISS.

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10.12.17

10.12.17

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imaginedragons: what real mens activists look like (see more...

imaginedragons:

what real mens activists look like (see more here)

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Novo Trailer Da Série #CONSTANTINE (by SÉRIES BRASIL)

Novo Trailer Da Série #CONSTANTINE (by SÉRIES BRASIL)

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cracked: Whatever you do, don’t be that boy around Felix...

cracked:

Whatever you do, don’t be that boy around Felix Clay.

5 Things That Shouldn’t Make You Mad (But Will)

#4. Chewing

I understand that my hatred of the sound of chewing is irrational, as my emotional response is on par with watching the slaughter of innocents, as though I’m being forced to endure cosmic injustice. It’s just chewing. But fuck me … I feel like we should all know how to chew at this point. I think everything on Earth masters chewing the day it is born except humans. There are single-celled organisms out there that just sort of sit on protein blobs or whatever the fuck they do and absorb those nutrients, and there’s no slurpy sound, no chomping or weird fucking humming or yummy sounds that make me want to drown them in a toilet and leave them there with their pants around their ankles so that, when they’re discovered, people assume something even worse than what really happened went down, as a kind of final insult.

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oh yes, THIS. I chewing sounds infuriate me to an absurd degree. I generally try to avoid eating with other people if i can avoid it, or at least make sure there’s enough background noise to drown it out. Sometimes advertisers make food commercials with loud chewing noises, or even just scenes in TV or movies, and i have to turn the volume down for them, or skip them, the noise just grates so bad.

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emilianadarling: bailarina-raven: “I don’t want people to like...

emilianadarling:

bailarina-raven:

“I don’t want people to like her anymore, almost, that sounds really, really bad. I want people to realize that actually she’s not the same anymore. You can’t root for her forever, because she’s not there to be your favorite character. That’s not what she’s there for. She’s real. People go down bad paths and they make bad decisions, but it’s always justified in their head. I want the audience to differentiate that and not just be like, ‘Oh, it’s Arya, we love her.’ Because actually look at what Arya’s doing. She’s being eaten away from the inside out, and she’s not stopping it.” - about Arya

#A GAME OF CHILD ACTORS WHO REALLY KNOW THEIR FUCKING CHARACTERS

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ryannorth: medievalfantasist: gicknilbert: HOW DID I SCROLL...

ryannorth:

medievalfantasist:

gicknilbert:

HOW DID I SCROLL PAST THIS WITHOUT GIVING IT A CHANCE

With this gif, we shall achieve world peace.

this speaks to me on a level i didn’t know i had

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Hot Pepper Gaming

Hot Pepper Gaming:

Your only source for in-depth game reviews and also hot pepper reviews at the same time! Look man, straight up this is a really dumb idea but regardless we h…

These reviews amuse me entirely too much. Basically, they have people eat a Habanero pepper covered in hot sauce, then have them review a game, the results are amusing.

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"Frankly put. I am a FAKE GEEK GUY. I admit it. I like geek stuff, but I don’t love geek stuff. Not..."

“Frankly put. I am a FAKE GEEK GUY. I admit it. I like geek stuff, but I don’t love geek stuff. Not the way most geeks do. I’m an interloper on the geek scene. I’ve seen the movies, but I don’t know the canon. I am not a true fan.



All those things about not really loving the source material and “just watching the movies” or only reading the one book that everyone has read. That—all of that—applies to me.



But here are some things that have never happened to me. I have never been quizzed about who Data’s evil brother is to prove I like Star Trek. I have never had to justify my place in a midnight line to see Spider-man II by knowing who took up the mantle of Spider-man after Peter Parker’s death. (Peter Parker dies? Really? That’s so sad!) I have never had to explain who Nightwing is in order to participate in a conversation about Batman. (Nightwing is like….Robin on steroids, right?) I have never been asked how battle meditation works in order to voice my opinion that Enterprise shields would probably make a fight with Star Wars technology one sided. (Battle meditation is something that was in that Jedi role playing game, wasn’t it?) I have never had to beat everybody in the room (twice) at Mario Kart to prove I liked video games. I have never had my gender “honorarily” changed by having enough geek interests to be accepted (“you’re one of the guys now”). No one has ever insisted I tell them the difference between a tank and DPS in an MMORPG before allowing me to discuss raiding Molten Core. I have never been dismissed as a faker at a prequel screening because I didn’t know which admiral came out of light speed too close to the planet’s surface in The Empire Strikes Back. I have never been quizzed about Armor Class in order to get past someone who was blocking my path to the back of a game store where my friends were waiting at the tables. I have never been told I’m not a real fan. I have never been shamed for coming to a convention despite my lack of esoteric knowledge. And I have never, ever, EVER been invited to leave a fandom because I didn’t like [whatever it was] enough.



Every one of the things I have listed, I have personally witnessed happen. To women.



That’s not elitism. That’s sexism.”



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The “Fake Geek” is Not The Problem When It Comes to “Fake Geek Girls” (via brutereason)

I just heard from Ace of Geeks, where this was originally published. Looks like it’s getting reblogged all over the place, but the person who originally wrote it, and the site that originally published it, aren’t getting any credit.



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dorkly: Neil deGrasse Tyson, Please Stop Blowing Our Minds All...

dorkly:

Neil deGrasse Tyson, Please Stop Blowing Our Minds All the Time

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wildcat2030: Here’s How People 100 Years Ago Thought We’d Be...

wildcat2030:

Here’s How People 100 Years Ago Thought We’d Be Living Today



In 100 years, there will be flying taxis and people will travel to the moon routinely. Knowledge will be instilled into students through wires attached to their heads. These may sound like the predictions of modern-day futurists, but they’re how people a century ago saw the future–otherwise known to you and me as the present. These vintage European postcards illustrate a view of the 21st century that is remarkably prescient in some ways and hilariously wrong in others, says Ed Fries, who selected them from his private collection. In the 10 years since he left Microsoft, where he was co-founder of the Xbox project, Fries has worked on what he calls “a random collection of futuristic projects.” He’s advised or served on the board of companies working on 3-D printing, depth-sensing cameras (like those used in Kinect), and headsets for reading brain waves. Earlier this month, he presented some of his favorite postcards at a neurogaming conference in San Francisco, using them to illustrate pitfalls in predicting the future that remain relevant today. One thing you see in the cards is a tendency to assume some things won’t change, even though they undoubtedly will. In one image, a couple flags down an aerotaxi. That’s futuristic enough, but the man is wearing spats and carrying a cane, while she has a parasol and an enormous hat with a feather. Did they really think transportation would undergo a revolution while fashion stayed frozen in time? “In every one of these you see a mix of a futuristic concept with stuff that looks to us to be very old fashioned,” Fries said. At the same time, there’s virtually no hint in the postcards of the truly transformative technologies of the last century–namely personal computers and the internet. Sure, there are video phones, but the image is projected on a screen or a wall. Moving pictures were just coming into existence, Fries says, so that wasn’t a huge leap. But the idea of a screen illuminated from within seems to have been beyond their imagination. (via Here’s How People 100 Years Ago Thought We’d Be Living Today | Science | WIRED)

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