May 11 Reblogged
If you dont do anything else tonight. Press Play. I was laughing, singing and cheering.
PRESS PLAY.YOU WILL NOT REGRET THIS
OMG!!!!! Thank you for posting this, it is glorious!!!
this is the best thing i’ve ever seen
This post alone made my insomnia worth it:) LOVE it!
I’m late for the gym because of this! Worth it.
Hilarious! Makes me proud to live in L.A. where “everyone sings karaoke”
May 11 Reblogged
Too cool…….Photographs taken inside musical instruments making them look like large and spacious rooms.
mierswa kluska.
Cool
I sucked at playing the violin, hated everything about it. Maybe I was looking it all wrong, ‘cause I could live within its architecture. Who knew, it would scale up so nicely? Beautiful.
May 10
Time passes slowly when you’re inside a hippo
From “The Dangerous Hippo,” Science Digest, LXXVI (November, 1974), 80-86, by George W. Frame and Lory Herbison Frame:
Nearly all of the famous African explorers and hunters—Livingstone, Stanley, Burton, Selous, Speke, DuChaillu—had boating mishaps with hippos. All considered the hippo to be a wantonly malicious beast. Not long ago Spencer Tyron, a white hunter, was killed while hunting near the shores of Lake Rukwa, Tanzania. A bull hippo turned over the dugout canoe from which Tyron was shooting, and bit off his head and shoulders.
May 10 Reblogged
Twice Told Tales: He Came in Through the Bathroom Window →
Gretchen was asleep when he climbed through the window.
She woke up when he landed with a thud in the bathtub. At first she couldn’t hear anything over her heartbeat, then she strained for any sound. Finally, she heard him start to move around in the dark.
She’d spent the evening, sorting…
May 10 Reblogged
Les jardins suspendus de Marqueyssac.
I ran across this place while driving aimlessly through southwestern France. It’s not far from Bergerac - and who doesn’t want to see where Cyrano de Bergerac* was from? Marqueyssac’s gardens are amazing, there’s another property nearby Manoir d’Eyrignac that has been handed down via daughters for 22 generations. Equally cool. My favorite stumble-upon find.
*Hercule-Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac was a French dramatist and duelist. In fictional works about his life he is featured with an overly large nose, which people would travel from miles around to see.
May 10 Reblogged
Vitiligo affecting the eyelashes is called poliosis. A condition in which there is a lack of pigment in the hair, eyebrows and eyelashes, which appear whitish, grey. The condition normally occurs in patches. It is often associated with vitiligo, alopecia and forms part of the Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada syndrome.
I love the way this looks - I thought it was more similar to Heterochromia, but maybe not…Hmm, still my friend Hugo has this condition all over his body, I think it’s awesome, he thinks I’m weird.
May 10 Reblogged
PSA:My Mother never told me this! Reblog to save a baby Bird:)
This is totally true. Birds of any species have a limited sense of smell and could never detect human scent, or any particular scent, really.
Of course there’s a caveat: This from @Clusterpod The myth may be about smell (birds abandoning young) but they certainly can abandon after disturbance. Younger chicks may be abandoned instead of relocated if it seems that a nest has been discovered by a predator. Australian ground birds do this. ex: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=fact-or-fiction-birds-abandon-young-at-human-touch
May 09 Reblogged
Namibians wearing Vellies (Shoes)
“Velskoen, pronounced “fell-skoon” and known colloquially as “vellies,” are the ancestor of the modern-day desert boot. Vellies were first made in the 1600s, inspired by the footwear of the Khoikhoi tribe and crafted using raw materials. Later, our vellies were adapted by British travellers, packaged and renamed to be what we now know as desert boots.
(Brother Vellies) are made in the coastal town of Swakopmund, Namibia. There, a small group of eight Damara gentlemen assemble every shoe by hand, turning out just 20 pairs an afternoon.
…Vellies are made of vegetable-dyed Kudu leather. The Namibian government mandates the culling of these large native antelope to control their population. Kudu skin yields amazingly durable leather and suede that ages exceptionally well. Because these hides are taken from wild animals they often show scars or other “imperfections” that domesticated hides do not.” Brothervellies
I’m going to Namibia just cuz
Kudu shoes…plus fashion.
May 08 Reblogged
It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate than to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Beautiful
May 07 Reblogged
You picked on the wrong zebra
I forget sometimes how much power a zebra has! Wow, look at that thing tearing up the landscape.
