Avant Garland

helloyoucreatives:

Nerd Joy. The old and new Spock battle it out. 

Is the war on drugs nearing an end? (HuffPo Article)

For more on this debate - watch the Google Versus Intelligence Squared debate on ending the Drug War

(there’s an annotated version on the Google Versus Youtube Channel that is an annotation of the 2 hour long full debate)

And I am a gentleman rhymer! 

jtotheizzoe:

Stardust … to which we shall return

This is an animated story about Voyager 1, the farthest man-made object from Earth, and currently making its way out of our solar system. We (and it) were born of cosmic dust and gas that condensed to form our planet and its neighbors about 4.6 billion years ago. When our Sun swells to a red giant, we shall return to dust again. Perhaps we will be reborn as a comet, or rogue asteroid, or nothing at all.

This is what will become of Earth. But do not despair, because our atoms will live on, as will the body of our creation, Voyager 1, and likely many others. Were it not long dead by that time, its power source spent, it could look back upon the remnants of the Pale Blue Dot it most famously captured and witness our return to dust. No matter our fate, it carries upon it our image and our message forever, on a plate of gold, a letter to the stars that will never be dust.

I just can’t attach enough adjectives to this video from PostPanic Studios. That solar animation! Wow! It’s beautiful, stunning, amazing and wonderful. Watch it in full screen and do enjoy :)

“Recognize that the very molecules that make up your body, the atoms that construct the molecules, are traceable to the crucibles that were once the centers of high mass stars that exploded their chemically rich guts into the galaxy, enriching pristine gas clouds with the chemistry of life. So that we are all connected to each other biologically, to the earth chemically and to the rest of the universe atomically. That’s kinda cool! That makes me smile and I actually feel quite large at the end of that. It’s not that we are better than the universe, we are part of the universe. We are in the universe and the universe is in us.” 
― Neil deGrasse Tyson

Art Attack - Styrofoam Cup and Sharpie edition. 

Good morning from snowy South Carolina! First (and probably last) snow of the winter. I’m enjoying a coffee and watching the snow melt. 

I’m not lion, this video is picture perfect! 

I love it when everything comes together! This is friend and TEDxCharlotte organizer Desiree showing off her lasercut X pendant I made for some of the members of the TEDx team. So cool! 

SoulPancake Art Attack: Jeni Yang, Protection

Music Monday: Blockhead - Insomniac Olympics

CATNIP: Egress to oblivion?

Premiering at Sundance 2013

“It can be a real kick or a kick in the head.”

Happy Birthday, Aaliyah. 

53 Terrible Jokes in less than 4 minutes.

Bubbly and Blue, Happy New Year’s to You. 

(Source: kickstarter.com)