“The bad news is you’re falling through the air, nothing to hang on to, no parachute. The good news is, there’s no ground.”
— Chogyam Trungpa
Peruvian whistling vessels simulating animal calls (some of the oldest found date to c. 500–300 BCE)
I’m pretty sure this is the shop on the sign.
Cà d'Zan, Florida. Built in the “Venetian gothic” style by John Ringling, the best known of the Ringling Brothers.
Gibbous Moon
image credit: Paul Stewart
Bojack Horseman - S02E10
the old saints
This is truly incredible.
Remember Rosetta? That comet-chasing European Space Agency (ESA) probe that deployed (and accidentally bounced) its lander Philae on the surface of Comet 67P? This GIF is made up of images Rosetta beamed back to Earth, which have been freely available online for a while. But it took Twitter user landru79 processing and assembling them into this short, looped clip to reveal the drama they contained.
while the stuff in the foreground is dust/ice on the surface of the comet itself, the background is actually stars. i saw a stabilized video where you can really make it out, and it blew my mind.
here’s the stabilized clip, if anyone’s interested