is this a twilight induced trend (although i do believe 2004 was way before twilight came out)?? i find this hilarious. people in new york are crazy.
(Final Exits, the illustrated encyclopedia of how we die by Michael Largo)
Lovers come and lovers go,
Once they lived but now they’re ghosts,
Walking the streets they used to know like shadows.
People disappear every hour and every year,
Sometimes I believe they’re here like shadows,
Like shadows.
Who can you trust, in this place?
And whom can I put my faith?
If you’re real, then show me now,
Who you are.
How can I love, without grace?
Shine a light on your face,
If you’re real, then show me now,
Who you are.
Blowing like a secret wind,
Pouring on my naked skin,
Like a river flowing in the ocean.
And when I turn to see your face,
I saw a joy I could not place,
Vanishing without a trace,
Like a shadow in the sun.
Who can you trust, in this place?
Where can I put my face?
If god is love, then why the world the way it is?
How can I love, without grace?
Shine a light on your face,
If you’re real then show me now,
Who you are.
My ghost.
in honor of ‘no shave november’???
Vanja Mrgan: “Bearded: The Series”
Vanja was sitting on the toilet (thanks for that, Vanja!) reading a Conan story, when it abruptly occurred to him: “Conan should have a beard!” He immediately (well, almost immediately) went to work, reimagining a number of his favorite pop-culture icons as grade-B beard-sporting badasses.
Check his site, aptly titled Beards and Bellies, for ongoing project updates.
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So. Original plan: collect some data, make a totally sweet-ass visualization of it, print it, frame it, give it to Heather on our wedding day. Nice, right?
As ever, it didn’t quite work out.
For one: Illustrator is really hard. This looks nothing like it does in my head. Had to make a lot of compromises. Two: I didn’t finish it in time. Partially related to the previous point, partially related to me not having this idea far enough in advance (about 3 days). Three: No privacy while Heather is at home! And she took a day off work during those 3 days! Making my deadline effectively 2 days! Having never even used Illustrator! Without even owning a copy of Illustrator!
So. Yeah.
Regardless, I kind of like how it turned out. I had a much better idea in mind (two, actually) for the timeline portion, but I wasn’t able to get a good enough grasp on Illustrator to make it happen (see point one).
Now I have a year before our first anniversary to get better at Illustrator and make a way better version depicting our first year together.
Click to see it big, by the way.
AT-AT, AT NIGHT
On Nov. 17, 2009, Earth will pass through the 1466 stream again, but this time closer to the center. Based on the number of meteors observed in 2008, Vaubaillon can estimate the strength of the coming display: five hundred or more Leonids per hour. The times provided are optimal view hours for PST, but the Leonid Meteor shower may last up to two days so there may be other times for optimal viewing.
(via randompictures)
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