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glamaphantom: amiraelizabeth: thedrunkenmoogle: Wednesday...

Wed, 10 Oct 2012 22:23:20 -0400

amiraelizabeth:

thedrunkenmoogle:

Wednesday Giveaway: 1 Set of Avatar Pint Glasses and 1 Set of Shot Glasses by Partyware Inc.

Today we’re giving away two awesome sets of glassware etched with the symbol of each bending tribe in Avatar. The gracious artists at Partyware Inc. gave us 8 glasses, which happen to be our most popular glassware item posted, to give away!

To Enter: This contest is for Tumblr users and residents of the US only (Sorry, world. I promise we’ll have an extra prize soon where shipping won’t be an issue). To enter into the drawing, reblog this post and put what type of bender you would be, if you had the choice. Winners will be determined tonight (Oct. 10) at 11:59 p.m. EST and announced Thursday morning on the site.

Airbender definitely!

Earthbender!!!!

Air!

scienceisbeauty: Angel Falls Ver mapa más grande Source: Angel...

Fri, 28 Sep 2012 16:44:40 -0400

scienceisbeauty:

Angel Falls

Ver mapa más grande

Source: Angel Waterfall of Venezuela (The World’s Highest Waterfall) • 360° Aerial Panorama

m-azing: fuck this world and everything it stands for, GLaDOS »»» Wheatley fucking COME AT...

Fri, 21 Sep 2012 11:28:49 -0400

m-azing:

fuck this world and everything it stands for, GLaDOS »»» Wheatley fucking COME AT ME!!!!!!!@!@!@!@!1121212!@!@!1!!!!

Wheatly isn’t even funny or that interesting. I don’t think I laughed at any of his jokes.

I mean, don’t get me wrong, I love Portal 2 and wouldn’t take Wheatly out. But uh…

I can’t even comprehend the idea of someone loving Wheatly more than GLaDOS.

nemicon: shadowhive: sc1zor: this me etc etc That is so me....

Thu, 13 Sep 2012 20:08:07 -0400

nemicon:

shadowhive:

sc1zor:

this me etc etc

That is so me. I think my time on Skyrim is a perfect example of that

Doubly relevant since I just beat DQIV less than an hour ago

moringmark: Brother for Life.

Sun, 09 Sep 2012 22:45:49 -0400

moringmark:

Brother for Life.

Video

Sun, 09 Sep 2012 10:26:33 -0400

"I have a friend who’s an artist and has sometimes taken a view which I don’t agree with very well...."

Thu, 19 Jul 2012 23:15:25 -0400

“I have a friend who’s an artist and has sometimes taken a view which I don’t agree with very well. He’ll hold up a flower and say “look how beautiful it is,” and I’ll agree. Then he says “I as an artist can see how beautiful this is but you as a scientist take this all apart and it becomes a dull thing,” and I think that he’s kind of nutty. First of all, the beauty that he sees is available to other people and to me too, I believe. Although I may not be quite as refined aesthetically as he is … I can appreciate the beauty of a flower. At the same time, I see much more about the flower than he sees. I could imagine the cells in there, the complicated actions inside, which also have a beauty. I mean it’s not just beauty at this dimension, at one centimeter; there’s also beauty at smaller dimensions, the inner structure, also the processes. The fact that the colors in the flower evolved in order to attract insects to pollinate it is interesting; it means that insects can see the color. It adds a question: does this aesthetic sense also exist in the lower forms? Why is it aesthetic? All kinds of interesting questions which the science knowledge only adds to the excitement, the mystery and the awe of a flower. It only adds. I don’t understand how it subtracts.”

- Richard P. Feynman (via clavicola)

you guys! i just realized that for Legend of Korra, the OTP of my heart is Sokka/Toph

Thu, 19 Jul 2012 11:52:13 -0400

you guys!

i just realized that for Legend of Korra,

the OTP of my heart

Sokka/Toph

doveilmiosoldi: here’s a roundup of the maps of “North American...

Mon, 16 Jul 2012 21:58:32 -0400

doveilmiosoldi:

here’s a roundup of the maps of “North American indigenous territories” I’ve seen on tumblr in the last two weeks. please note the following:

save for the second one, none of them are dated. “pre-contact” is not a date. “colonial” is not a date. the first could mean 1500 or 1850 or anywhere in between. the latter could be any one of those dates, all the way up to the present. an ahistoric map is an uncontextualized map which means it is an essentially useless and ignorant map.

they all contradict each other. which one is right? they were all drawn by white academics, so it’s hard to really know, huh?

they all have major flaws and inaccuracies. there are at least 500 different tribes in N. America—none of these maps save the second to last one have that many listed, and that one is of Northern California alone!

Academics and cartographers will lie to you and say that it’s hard to know which lands belonged to whom in the “pre-contact days.” This is a reflection of their unwillingness to dialogue with indigenous peoples and knowledges than it is actual existing information, because you can bet Native peoples know which land is theirs.

They’ll legitimate “estimations” and “generalizations” for the sake of “general knowledge” that “indigenous peoples were there.” That’s part of a larger colonial narrative that tells us it’s okay to belittle indigenous histories and knowledges for the sake of ignorance produced by that same colonial narrative.

Finally, they’ll hide behind industry-granted authority grounded in objectivism—as if colonizers could ever be objective about the lands they’re colonizing. In the words of Fanon, “for the colonized person, objectivity is always turned against them.” This authority is granted by colonial institutions of power that actively works to the detriment of indigenous peoples and legitimates epistemic and material violence from academics and professionals. There is no such thing as objectivity, much less an objective map.

Aside from formal reservation boundaries, there are no maps in existence which adequately represent indigenous territories of North America (and even reservation boundaries are complicated and changing, and don’t include unrecognized tribes). What does indigenous territory mean? Is it legal landholdings? Cultural areas? Linguistic areas? Historic areas, and if so, from which time period? The only way to account for the multiple and varied iterations and meanings of “indigenous territories” is to create maps of extremely small areas, working from indigenous knowledges and histories. They would have to be something like 20x60mi on each page, and even then would require multiple iterations, taking historic change, varying definitions, and varying narratives into account (many boundaries are contested or overlap!). The final project would be a whole series of massive atlases.

Maps are an assertion of power. Think carefully what kind of power you’re perpetuating when using maps like these. For more information and to see other posts I’ve written on the subject (including the use of GIS), see these posts: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.

We are nothing if not your granddaughtersWe have been nothing...

Mon, 16 Jul 2012 21:55:11 -0400

We are nothing if not your granddaughters
We have been nothing but dignified

We, we brave bee stings and all
And we don’t dive, we cannonball

#airsisters

[船]EACH SEASON OF AVATAR BEGINS ON A BOAT #and they all end...

Sun, 15 Jul 2012 17:37:09 -0400

[船]EACH SEASON OF AVATAR BEGINS ON A BOAT

#and they all end with hugs

cabout: personNAL FAVOURITE SIGH I LOVE THEM

Sat, 14 Jul 2012 18:46:31 -0400

cabout:

personNAL FAVOURITE SIGH I LOVE THEM

I’m only sorry I couldn’t do better.

Sat, 16 Jun 2012 17:31:12 -0400

I’m only sorry I couldn’t do better.

cardgamesonmotorbikes: the emperor’s new groove should be considered one of the greatest comedies...

Sun, 10 Jun 2012 14:47:45 -0400

cardgamesonmotorbikes:

the emperor’s new groove should be considered one of the greatest comedies of our time

New Girl season 1: A Shipping Feelings Trajectory

Sun, 10 Jun 2012 14:43:00 -0400

Early in the season: Jess/Winston (anti-Schmidt/Cece; anti-Nick/Jess)

Mid-season: Jess/Julia (neutral to everything else)

Late-season: SCHMIDT/CECE OTP 5EVER PLEASE GET MARRIED AND HAVE LOTS OF BABIES WITH FANTASTIC NAMES AND UGH NEVER BREAK UP NO DON’T NO SCHMIDT NO! with a side-order of Jess/Nick, please and thank you.

Well done show, well done. Now get Cece & Schmidt back together and don’t ever put me through that ever again.

ruineshumaines: UK photographer Mark Mawson continues his...

Sat, 09 Jun 2012 14:16:22 -0400

ruineshumaines:

UK photographer Mark Mawson continues his exploration of color, ink, and water with this killer new collection of photographs titled Aqueous Electro.

Photo

Wed, 06 Jun 2012 20:15:46 -0400

Photo

Mon, 04 Jun 2012 23:06:49 -0400

queenofsunspear: WAT

Mon, 04 Jun 2012 23:00:35 -0400

queenofsunspear:

WAT

daffyloins: Azula - The Guru | The Crossroads of Destiny |...

Sun, 03 Jun 2012 17:37:20 -0400

daffyloins:

Azula - The Guru | The Crossroads of Destiny | 2x19/2x20

“She’s terrifying and inspirational at the same time. It’s hard to explain.”

#one of the most incredibly complex maniacal villains in the history of villains