WISTquote, to Quotes
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A quotation from Adams, Douglas:

«
I’ve come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:

  1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.

  2. Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can prob…
    »

Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/adams-douglas/66399/

#quote #quotes #quotation #technology #progress #perspective #nature

gyokusai, to China
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Terminal — Xi’an, China. May 2014, iPhone 5s.

whitedove, to Israel

100 Days

2024-01-14
An artistic protest action in Jerusalem marking 100 days since the hostages were taken captive. The message was “Stop everything. Bring them all back”.

We walked down the street with “100 days” signs taped to our clothes and at a given moment everyone froze in place. After 15 minutes we started chanting “Now. Now. Now…” (meaning “bring them home now” or “deal now”) for several minutes. We repeated these steps twice.

@israel @palestine

Two people standing in the street. One is holding a sign and the other has a sign taped to their clothes. Both signs read “100 days” in Hebrew.

rnatale, to art
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Up at the Lookout - captured as the sun was setting in Cragsmoor, New York. A favorite spot that my husband and I went to frequently on Route 52 leading into Ellenville. Me playing with perspective.

https://renata-natale.pixels.com/featured/up-at-the-lookout-renata-natale.html

RonaldTooTall, to space
johannes,

@RonaldTooTall Very exciting news about that massive 'ring'! But one thing puzzles me: a ring only looks like a ring from our unique on earth in the 3D vastness of space. From most other points in space the structure would look like a disc - or nothing distinguishable at all. Or is my brain simply too small to get this? :-/

AmiW, to Amsterdam German
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⚪ Mehr... Lieblingsfotos?
🟤 More... Favorite photos?
📷 by Artist: 🇸🇬 in Loc.: Netherlands 🇳🇱 2021 - Title: "The other half" ("Die andere Hälfte") -

maxleibman, to random
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You aren’t starting your resolutions a week late.

You’re starting them 51 weeks EARLY.

tio, to nature en-us

A perspective photo that I really like. The moon and the bus. This is straight out of my phone - no telescope or binoculars, and no editing.

to21as, to nature
mikemathia, to random
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gyokusai, to China
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Xi’an, China. May 2014, iPhone 5s.

steve, to ilaughed
coreyspowell, to science
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Breathtaking new image from JWST
About 340 years ago (Earth time) a star exploded in the constellation Cassiopeia. These are its shattered remains. Just look at the exquisite detail visible in the space telescope's view!

https://webbtelescope.org/contents/news-releases/2023/news-2023-149

coreyspowell,
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It's hard for the human mind to grasp the vastness of space.

The smallest detail visible in this JWST image of supernova remnant Cassiopeia A is larger than our entire solar system.

https://webbtelescope.org/contents/media/images/2023/149/01HGH0SBY44A8SM23AGB1H06F7?news=true

osoporto, to architecture
NGRippel, to instagramreality

Do we exist within the shell of what once was a black hole?

https://www.ngrippel.com/science-rant.html

etcetera, to drawing French

Il m'arrive de réaliser des perspectives à deux points, et donc je valide que l'utilisation de l'élastique comme guide pour créer des lignes parallèles aide vraiment à la réalisation des perspectives à deux points.

La perspective à deux points est une méthode de dessin qui utilise deux points de fuite sur la ligne d'horizon pour créer l'illusion de profondeur dans un espace bidimensionnel. Elle est couramment utilisée dans les dessins d’architecture et de décoration intérieure pour représenter des objets de manière plus réaliste.

Étapes à suivre :

  1. Commencez par tracer une ligne horizontale pour l'horizon et placez deux points de fuite à chaque extrémité.

  2. Utilisez l'élastique pour relier ces points, créant des lignes diagonales convergentes vers les points de fuite.

  3. Dessinez des lignes verticales pour les objets, en veillant à ce qu'elles s'alignent avec l'élastique pour maintenir la perspective.

Technique de perspective à deux points

Roentare, to photography
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GottaLaff, to random
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Time to go back and continue our garage-purge efforts.

1976 was apparently an emotionally tumultuous year for me.

And seeing all my TV/theater career clippings and scripts is an amazing blast from the past.

I've had some life! How'd I end up being a political commentator?! Thanks, Cliff Schecter.😉

GenXLife,
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@GottaLaff

Having had “some life” is why you are perfectly suited and highly effective at commentating on politics.

dmql8, to Halloween
WISTquote, to Quotes
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A quotation from Jung, Carl:

«
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
»

Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/jung-carl/39693/

Iva852, to photography

🖤

It's unreachable,
they say,
the heights
and lows
of that place.

That place
where eagles fly,
and foxes find
a hiding ground.

What lies
above and beyond
the line we were told
never to cross?

Existence between
two realms -
up and down,
high and low.
A breath taken away
by a fairy tale -

A play of light and shade,
fear and despair,
promises and tears
and everything in-between.

If you ask a bee
where her happiness lies?
It will surly be a flowers grasp.

There is no place
where a hungry heart
couldn't reach for love.

What lies beyond,
where we were never to go,
is a land of chance
where dreams can take root
once again.

The stars will always be
out of reach,
and water will hide
its secrets deep.

It's not the place
that we need to find
but a loving heart
that beats
with our name on its lips.

~ Iva
.

asbestos, to random
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A few years ago I was on a medical app where people post cases. One person said "when you hear hoofbeats think horses not zebras"
A doc f replied and said I work in a rural clinic in Kenya. If you hear hoofbeats it's going to be zebras.

osoporto, to southbayla
archaeohistories, to random
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Wieliczka Royal Salt Mine, near Kraków, Poland.

The deposit of rock salt in Wieliczka and Bochnia has been mined since 13th Century CE. This major industrial undertaking has royal status and is the oldest of its type in Europe.

UNESCO World Heritage Site

kristfist,
Doublythumbs, to nature

I went out for a stroll with @Think_Link at to help clear my head. These pine trees were so pretty!

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