April 28, 2013

ryanpanos:

Silhouettes in a Giant Moonrise, Captured Using a 1200mm Lens via Peta Pixel

Earlier this week, photographer Philipp Schmidli of Lucerne, Switzerland captured this incredible photograph of a biker’s silhouette in front of a giant moon rising in the horizon.

Schmidli says he has been trying to capture this photograph for four months now, but complications got in the way of previous attempts. Clouds got in the way of the full moon in January, and bad weather interfered with his attempts in February and March as well.

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Filed under: art 
April 1, 2013
April Book List

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne

Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson

Wave by Sonali Deraniyagala 

David Foster Wallace: Various Essays

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Filed under: book club readathon2013 literature 
April 1, 2013
February/March Modified Book List

Didn’t quite reach my goal of 6 books for these two months, but I plan on making it up in April! April list coming soon.

Bossypants by Tina Fey

Tina Fey is a theater nerd turned successful, clever comedy star who still feels icky about being a celebrity who writes books about how she became a successful, clever comedy star. She will try and convince you that her book is better used as a coaster.

Paying For It by Chester Brown

I think this book changed how I feel about romantic relationships. (And I have yet to delete my online dating profile, dammit!) Giving up on romance all together is an unthinkable, alien concept for 99% of humans, but Brown does it without flinching. 

February by Lisa Moore

Alternate titles that could save you from actually reading it (maybe for Can-Lit scenesters only): 15 and Pregnant, Baby Mama, Pregnant & Alone, Total Eclipse of the Heart, The Perfect Storm (of babies), Birth Control: it works…no really it does…I’m looking at you too Helen. 

Scott Pilgrim: Vol. 1 by Bryan Lee O’Malley

“A Toronto triumph!” “A teenage tour de force!” “O’Malley nails it.” “A rock-n-roll roller coaster.” “The real deal!”

 ”Cliche critic phrases make my own shitty blog reviews more fun!”

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Filed under: readathon2013 readme literature 
March 26, 2013

More Scandi pop. Sandra Kolstad (Norway)

The Well (We Will Change It All)

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Filed under: music Scandanavia 
March 24, 2013
"Film can say abstractions that can be intuited. You can use your intuition, and then an understanding comes inside you…Now it might be hard to take what’s inside of you and tell your friend in words what that is. Like when you tell your friend a dream, and you can see on their face they don’t understand. The words fail you, but still you know inside."

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David Lynch when asked to explain WTF Mulholland Drive was about and why his film was so hard to understand. 

We just have to look inside our hearts, guys. 

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Filed under: film Lynch art 
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