This is what “to the pain” means.
(Source: 1st-n-front, via mapsandshhtuff)
New infographic about the songs on the Pixies’ demo tape.
See it full-size here: http://flipflopflyin.com/thepurpletape/index.html
"The Red Wedding is based on a couple real events from Scottish history. One was a case called The Black Dinner. The king of Scotland was fighting the Black Douglas clan. He reached out to make peace. He offered the young Earl of Douglas safe passage. He came to Edinburgh Castle and had a great feast. Then at the end of the feast, [the king’s men] started pounding on a single drum. They brought out a covered plate and put it in front of the Earl and revealed it was the head of a black boar — the symbol of death. And as soon as he saw it, he knew what it meant. They dragged them out and put them to death in the courtyard. The larger instance was the Glencoe Massacre. Clan MacDonald stayed with the Campbell clan overnight and the laws of hospitality supposedly applied. But the Campbells arose and started butchering every MacDonald they could get their hands on. No matter how much I make up, there’s stuff in history that’s just as bad, or worse."
— George R.R. Martin on the Red Wedding (via existentialcrisisfactory)
History will always be more messed up than any fiction.
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There is no possible caption that would do this post justice
(Source: sportsnetny, via flipflopflyball)
It’s long been known that Jimi Hendrix and Miles Davis were making plans to record together the year before Hendrix’s death in 1970, but it turns out they were hoping that Paul McCartney would join them on bass. Hendrix, Davis and jazz drummer Tony Williams sent a telegram on Oct. 21, 1969, to the Beatles’ Apple Records, hoping to get McCartney in for a session.
Whoa.
Flavorwire made a few GIFs to celebrate the 40th anniversary of David Bowie’s Aladdin Sane.
AKA “Watch That Man Watch You.”
Just completed a new map. Drew in an autobahn, parks with trees, a port. Had fun with it.
I love this. Well done!
(via mapsandshhtuff)
Buckminster Fuller’s “Dymaxion Map” turns many of our assumptions about world maps on end, for considerable benefit; landmasses experience the least distortion of any projection, and are almost entirely contiguous. Furthermore, it folds into a perfect icosahedron, for viewing in the round.
The boldness and sensibility that were stifled by convention in cartography are released here, with a long, thoughtful creative process, fueled by a life of practicality.
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As requested. There’s an insane part of me that wants to do this to the whole scene for youtube.
Edit: I did it. I made a whole video of this.
Oh my.
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