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My girlfriend got me Professor Layton and the Curious Village for Valentines Day. She quickly bogarted it and decimated the puzzles.
"What greater gift could you offer your children than an inherent ability to earn a living just by being themselves?" an quote from the book by Katherine Dunn!
One of my favorite books of all time!
i'm so TIRED. like unbelievably tired.
my science exams went shit, you know
when you just know your not doing well?
I wish i'd revised properly, argh. I
hate science. It's bullshit. Oh well anyway,
this picture pretty much happened after Calum
gave me his glasses to wear and Charlotte, him,
and my brother, Chris, were laughing because i
looked like a geek. Then my brother went on to
bring up how he'd said a couple of days ago how
i'd be one of those geeks that never got a boyfriend/
wasnt intrested in guys, lovely.
anyway, geek love - nerina pallot
blah, tired. p.s why did no one tell me my fringe was in my eye!
Cupid Cici brings the silliness of love, the rough and odd edges of Valentine's Day your way. Cici is 7 inches tall and 3 inches wide with a shiny rustic finish. Robot sculptures combining polymer clay, wire woven into coil springs, varnish and a little heart handmade by HerArtSheLoves. theawesomerobots.com
Chris Jordan
Pigmented inkjet print
Depicts 2.3 million folded prison uniforms, equal to the number of people incarcerated in US prisons in 2005. The U.S. has the largest prison population of any country in the world.
"Running the Numbers looks at contemporary American culture through the austere lens of statistics. Each image portrays a specific quantity of something: fifteen million sheets of office paper (five minutes of paper use); 106,000 aluminum cans (thirty seconds of can consumption) and so on. My hope is that images representing these quantities might have a different effect than the raw numbers alone, such as we find daily in articles and books. Statistics can feel abstract and anesthetizing, making it difficult to connect with and make meaning of 3.6 million SUV sales in one year, for example, or 2.3 million Americans in prison, or 32,000 breast augmentation surgeries in the U.S. every month.
This project visually examines these vast and bizarre measures of our society, in large intricately detailed prints assembled from thousands of smaller photographs. Employing themes such as the near versus the far, and the one versus the many, I hope to raise some questions about the roles and responsibilities we each play as individuals in a society that is increasingly enormous, incomprehensible, and overwhelming."
~chris jordan, Seattle, 2008
More of Chris Jordan's "Running the Numbers" work here.
and Best American Comics 2007 (Chris Ware, ed.), Campbell McGrath, Dean Young, John McPhee, Philip Levine, Richard Howard...
Cupid Cici brings the silliness of love, the rough and odd edges of Valentine's Day your way. Cici is 7 inches tall and 3 inches wide with a shiny rustic finish. Robot sculptures combining polymer clay, wire woven into coil springs, varnish and a little heart handmade by HerArtSheLoves. theawesomerobots.com
Courtesy of Jet Propulsion Laboratory/Caltech
Story first posted June 22, 2001
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. A robotic NASA explorer is poised to set sail Monday, July 30 on a mission to catch the solar wind and then return to Earth with a representative sampling of the primordial stuff that seeded the solar system.
Some 4.6 billion years after an interstellar cloud of gas, dust and ice collapsed and spawned the Sun and its attendant planets, the spacecraft will blast off in late July for a distant space harbor where conditions remain much the same as those at hand when the solar system formed.
Pristine material tossed off the turbulent sun then will be snatched up before the spacecraft swings back by Earth, flinging a sample return capsule toward a daring helicopter recovery over the Utah desert in September 2004.
The scientific prize: A cache of interplanetary matter that could enable 21st century researchers to decipher the elemental and isotopic make-up of the original solar nebula.
"Were looking at the beginnings," said Richard Bennett, a mission systems engineer with NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. "The focus here is to try to gather information about how the solar system formed."
Now set for launch July 30 aboard a Boeing Delta 2 rocket at Cape Canaveral, the aptly named Genesis spacecraft will embark on a three-month journey to L-1, an interplanetary libration point where the gravitational pulls of the Sun and the Earth are balanced.
Flying some 1 million miles (1.5 million kilometers) away from Earth, the spacecraft then will spend the following two years cruising outside the influence of the planets magnetic field, sweeping through pure solar wind with a set of sophisticated collectors.
The anticipated product: Samples of the same type of matter that combined eons ago to form the Sun, nine planets and their concomitant moons as well as comets and asteroids.
"Were getting out the influence of the magnetosphere and into an area where the solar wind will not be perturbed as its coming off the sun," Bennett said.
"Well just get the pristine wind as its coming in toward Earth, and thats what were after. We dont want to see something that in essence was manipulated or tainted by the Earth and its environment."
The Sun is thought to contain more than 99 percent of the various matter found throughout the solar system, and material blasted off its surface is constantly carried through interplanetary space by the solar wind.
Built by Lockheed Martin, the $90 million Genesis spacecraft is equipped with collector arrays that are designed to gather matter being blown toward Earth.
Housed in a conical sample return capsule that will swing open like a clamshell, the arrays contain wafers of ultra-pure silicon, sapphire and other materials that first will capture and then preserve solar wind particles.
"The particles are trapped really simply," said JPL project manager Chet Sasaki. "We expose the collectors. The solar wind comes zipping along, and the particles slam into the collector and embed within it."
After flying five halo orbits around L-1, the collectors will be stowed back within the sample capsule before its lid is tightly closed for a five-month trip back to Earth.
As simple as all that sounds, project managers faced a huge engineering challenge in designing and building the spacecraft: Preventing sample contamination.
"We had to make sure that the (collector) materials we put on the spacecraft were properly sealed and maintained as pristine as possible so that when they are exposed, what were really measuring is the matter within the solar winds," Bennett said.
"And after that, the solar wind particles have to be sealed back up in the return capsule and brought back to Earth safely without breaching those seals."
repainted howleen . In the line Geek Shreik rocking her pet on her shirt and a skirt love the glasses on this one and the ones on a few others in the set ghoulia who is out or comming up ect ect. Finding the dolls are harder actually only found these on amazon and mattel online instores was heb and then 2 weeks later at kroger
Cupid Cici brings the silliness of love, the rough and odd edges of Valentine's Day your way. Cici is 7 inches tall and 3 inches wide with a shiny rustic finish. Robot sculptures combining polymer clay, wire woven into coil springs, varnish and a little heart handmade by HerArtSheLoves. theawesomerobots.com
"....I thought about my innards. Just a few months before I'd had no idea whether my reproductive equipment worked. There was no evidence. But that week I had become a full-fledged bleeder and was still absorbed by this first change in myself that I had ever noticed. The click and buzz of my synapses kept making the same connection. If you can change, you can also end. Death had always been a theory to me. Now I knew. The terror hurt good and I nursed it and played it like a loose tooth." - Geek Love pg 236 | phr 3
One mistake I made planning for this trip is not taking enough books, or the right books, with me. I read Fluke which was appropriate in a way as we were around whales (Thanks for the book lend, Marie Lynn), but The Pope's Rhinoceros proved to be much too dense and slow for a vacation read. Margo has been trying to get me to read Geek Love for years so I started it again; but I just couldn't fall in love with this one gag novel.
BOOKS:
Robot sculptures combining polymer clay, wire woven into coil springs, varnish and (sometimes) a little heart handmade by HerArtSheLoves. www.theawesomerobots.com
I was walking in Union Square Park when I came across her reading a book. That really is a great way to relax.
She's reading Geek Love : A Novel by Katherine Dunn
Images from a midday walk
On my Photo Blog.
NYC from A to Zed: U for Union Square Park, a great place to read.
The park in the Worcestershire town of Evesham next to a meander in the River Avon. The town is often subject to flooding, the most severe in recent history occurred in 2007. Evesham was the home town of the indie band Bang Bang Machine who achieved the coveted no 1 spot in John Peel's Festive Fifty in 1992 with the song Geek Love.