MIT Sensable City Lab’s Dietmar Offenhuber maps what New Yorkers complain about, based on two years’ worth of 311 calls.
The Wilson sister and Jason Bonham perform “Stairway to Heaven” to honor Led Zeppelin at the Kennedy Center. It is a real challenge when you’re asked to cover one of the greatest songs of all time, and if the result can move Robert Plant the way it did, well, it means you did a great job.
Great performance. Great artists and great version.
And I’m a little bit moved, too.
People don’t multitask because they’re good at it. They do it because they are more distracted.
—Scientists debunk the myth of multitasking, something Sherlock Holmes was very wary of. (via explore-blog)
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Jimmy Page is a model now.
Is there anything he can’t do?
AJHSDFJJG SO PERFECT!!!
I just did some hard-core fangirling over this haha
British artist James Mylne makes photo-realistic images using essentially a ballpoint pen, and sometimes he mixes other materials such as ink, marker, and spray paint. His drawings demand a great deal of concentration because one wrong stroke, can spoil the whole portrait.
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An architectural blueprint of Brooklyn Bridge elevations from Old Blueprints. Complement with the story of how the Brooklyn Bridge became the greatest engineering feat of its time.
Led Zeppelin - Babe I'm Gonna Leave You (Live 1968)
What I really love about this video is that it represents an excellent example of what made the music of this era so great.
Simplicity.
This song is emotional and extraordinary at the core. It didn’t need digital effects, lights, people dancing all around.
The sound was rudimentary and absolutely NOT perfect. But the result is.
The song is strong and emotionally intense thanks to the skills, the attitude of the performers who play beautifully together.
A song doesn’t need to be complex or synthesized or sonically perfect to be great.
Pin-ups and Their Reference Photos
Every artist has to start somewhere. It’s fun to compare the photo to the painting and see what the artist chose to exaggerate or change completely. Though there’s a spark of life and personality in the faces of some of these models that the artist either couldn’t or chose not to capture. Glad the original photos survived.
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September 3rd, 1967, Stockholm, Sweden. The day Sweden changed from driving on the left to driving on the right.
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1. Complex heroes must suffer.
2. Complex heroes are rewarded for their suffering.
3. Complex heroes fail.
4. Complex heroes have fatal flaws.
5. Complex heroes are ordinary people.
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Roger Colby synthesizes J. R. R. Tolkien’s 5 tips for creating complex heroes, based on the writer’s letters.
Pair with Tolkien’s little-known original drawings for the first edition of The Hobbit.
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