ben delaney

My Man In Perpignan (by sholgk ) This photographer is amazing.

Sun, 29 Aug 2010 00:32:22 -0700

My Man In Perpignan (by sholgk )

This photographer is amazing.

One of my favorite photos ever, as of right now. This is...

Sun, 29 Aug 2010 00:05:34 -0700

One of my favorite photos ever, as of right now. This is magic.

By sholgk

"There’s nothing in the world more tired than a progressive blogger like me flipping out over the..."

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 13:34:00 -0700

“There’s nothing in the world more tired than a progressive blogger like me flipping out over the latest idiocies emanating from the Fox News crowd. But this summer’s media hate-fest is different than anything we’ve seen before. What we’re watching is a calculated campaign to demonize blacks, Mexicans, and gays and convince a plurality of economically-depressed white voters that they are under imminent legal and perhaps even physical attack by a conspiracy of leftist nonwhites. They’re telling these people that their government is illegitimate and criminal and unironically urging secession and revolution.

The Fox/Rush/Savage crowd in the last 18 months has taken the anti-Muslim fervor that launched a phony war in Iraq, carried George Bush to re-election, and pushed through the Patriot Act, and re-directed that anger at a domestic nonwhite enemy. In doing so they’ve achieved a perfect storm of political cross-purposes: they’ve almost completely succeeded in distracting the public from the real causes of their economic misfortune (i.e. Wall Street corruption), they’ve re-energized a Republican party that was devastated by eight years of Bush-era corruption and incompetence, and, as usual, they’ve made Rupert Murdoch a shitload of money.

The fact that Fox and co. are doing what they do for these dreary commercial reasons makes it even worse, of course; at least Hitler really hated Jewish people. But that also means there’s a bright side. One of the few positives in this Tea Party phenomenon is that it’s shown how quickly masses of Americans can be convinced to completely change their minds about shit. The same Americans who six or seven years ago were looking skyward in search of poison-distributing Saddam-drones and buying duct tape and bottled water to protect themselves against imminent Muslim attack are now probably not spending five minutes a week worrying about Muslim terrorists — and instead arming themselves against the coming black-Mexican-leftist-communist state. To me that indicates that if Fox and Glenn Beck can be induced to jerk off to some perhaps similarly profitable but less toxic hate-fantasy (midgets from New Zealand are taking our jobs!), all of this – well, it maybe won’t go away, but it won’t have us steaming toward widespread racial violence like we are now.”

- Matt Taibbi (via kateoplis)

I almost never post political stuff on this blog, so bear with me… I am worried about this issue. I think huge numbers of “white [substitute ‘Republican’, ‘Christian’, ‘_________’ if you want] Americans” are quickly losing, or have already lost, their way in all this madness. Scares me to follow the logic towards where it’s headed.

makenosound: If you ever needed a reason to live in the moment,...

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 08:28:01 -0700

makenosound:

If you ever needed a reason to live in the moment, here it is. This beautiful and somewhat petrifying video shows a timelapse of asteroid discovery from 1980 until the present. Note that:

The final colour of an asteroids indicates how closely it comes to the inner solar system.

Earth Crossers are Red

Earth Approachers (Perihelion less than 1.3AU) are Yellow

All Others are Green

This just blew my mind.

Maserati Boomerang concept. photo: Eric Purkalitis

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:59:44 -0700

Maserati Boomerang concept.

photo: Eric Purkalitis

I'm going to start posting more iPhone photos here.

Mon, 23 Aug 2010 02:00:14 -0700

I’m not too worried that they’ll bore anyone—the reason I haven’t sent more up to this blog before now is precisely because I didn’t want to be one of “those” bloggers. So rest assured, I’ll be careful to make sure it’s a curated selection of iPhone snaps. Nothing with any red cups in it. And no goddamn cats.

Fake-Bird Light Fixture.

Mon, 23 Aug 2010 01:41:00 -0700

Fake-Bird Light Fixture.

Market Fever

Mon, 23 Aug 2010 01:40:08 -0700

Market Fever

The Cute Older Gay Couple That Everybody Loves.

Mon, 23 Aug 2010 01:39:07 -0700

The Cute Older Gay Couple That Everybody Loves.

Mr. Tomato Head — Serial Killer Edition.

Mon, 23 Aug 2010 01:38:06 -0700

Mr. Tomato Head — Serial Killer Edition.

This Reminds Me of a Dress That Someone Should Make Because The...

Mon, 23 Aug 2010 01:37:05 -0700

This Reminds Me of a Dress That Someone Should Make Because The Colors Are So Great.

Thursday Market is So Pretty

Mon, 23 Aug 2010 01:35:31 -0700

Thursday Market is So Pretty

Sweet Corn Is Sweet.

Mon, 23 Aug 2010 01:34:55 -0700

Sweet Corn Is Sweet.

This remix is RIDICULOUS!! Play it as loud as you can handle....

Fri, 20 Aug 2010 13:06:00 -0700

This remix is RIDICULOUS!! Play it as loud as you can handle. This is fire, people. FIRE.

"Hey. I have a baby in my tummy, his name is Rya. He’s a girl."

Mon, 16 Aug 2010 18:51:49 -0700

“

Hey. I have a baby in my tummy, his name is Rya.

He’s a girl.

”

- Myles (3). He recites this like a mantra to anyone who will listen.

Just want to say how much I really enjoy all the people that I follow here on Tumblr. You all are...

Sat, 14 Aug 2010 22:58:05 -0700

Just want to say how much I really enjoy all the people that I follow here on Tumblr. You all are great. :) That’s all. Enjoy your Dashboards.

thebigcaption: Don’t Worry, I’ve Got This original I have no...

Sat, 14 Aug 2010 01:18:07 -0700

thebigcaption:

Don’t Worry, I’ve Got This

original

I have no bloody idea what’s going on here, but I love it so much.

"to love at all is to be vulnerable. love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and..."

Sat, 14 Aug 2010 01:09:06 -0700

“to love at all is to be vulnerable. love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. if you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. but in that casket — safe, dark, motionless, airless — it will change. it will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. the alternative to tragedy, or at least to the risk of tragedy, is damnation. the only place outside of heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is hell.”

- c.s. lewis (via newmanhaley)
truth.
(via popestvictor)
Yes.

very cool. via but does it float

Tue, 10 Aug 2010 23:06:36 -0700

very cool.

via but does it float

Watching the Corners: On Future-Proofing Your Passion

Tue, 10 Aug 2010 10:15:27 -0700

Watching the Corners: On Future-Proofing Your Passion:

Great advice from Merlin Mann.