Fresser.

Craziest coincidence! (Taken with Instagram at Chez Viemeister)

“The photo above was taken in 1941. It pictures air balloons which were used to prevent German aircrafts from making low flights over Leningrad.”

(via 68 Years Since The Siege Of Leningrad | English Russia)

sorry, I know this is a depressing image, but it’s also a remarkable one.

satanvsrussia:

Abandoned Village in Russia

Reblogged from Amaki Bow's ScrapBook

sexpigeon:

Slavin’.

Organic. I had nothing to do with this. Any of it.

Reblogged from Sexpigeon

sexpigeon:

A light bulb unprotected from the rain, throwing off steam, hissing a little. Such is this remarkable hair and face.

I’ve found a new favorite tumblr.

Reblogged from Sexpigeon

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Path is pretty in the same designy way as our modern museums…These museums are very exciting when they open. You show up and marvel along with all of the other fans of architecture. Maybe you return for one of those nights where they stay open late and there is a band and drinking. “A great space,” you think. Maybe one day you’ll be rich and rent out the atrium for a private party. The art doesn’t get talked about so much at these museums. The museum itself is the “social object,” as it were. Eventually the particulars around which the museum was designed fall out of fashion. A fresh crop of architects finds it to be too flashy, or too dull, or to have been guided by faulty principles. There is congestion where there should be flow. Certain rooms are simply exhausting. Maybe it is even an eyesore. This is good for the museum. Now they can really fuck up the place…Path is a monument to Path. It is no place to scribble in. I wish it longevity so that it might find shabbiness.”

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Can find anything to disagree with here.

Sexpigeon (via buzz)

Reblogged from Sci-Fi Hi-Fi

If you’re in NYC, GO SEE Gob Squad’s Kitchen. Tickets. Leaves in a week.

Caveat: this video gives a sense of the experience, but not the things that are amazing about it. Which is right, since it’s, you know, performance, and you should see it performed.

Gob Squad’s Kitchen (by ThePublicTheater)

How we rolled: from page 38 of the rules for “car wars”, one of my favorite wargames from the 80s. The rules are over 100 pages long; a game would take about 30 minutes to prepare and 20 minutes to play. I miss that. (Taken with Instagram at Playmatics World HQ)

This is basically perfect.

DO YOU REMEMBER THE DECEPTICONS? THEY WOULD SHUT DOWN SCHOOL EARLY?

Shit Native New Yorkers Say (by anthonydevito) and thx to Paul Schreiber for sending me this.

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Angry game owners are demanding Google (NSDQ: GOOG) compensate them for wiping out their investments in online pets. The loss of a virtual kitty may seem like a trifle to some but, in the big picture, the new lawsuit could be a bellwether for how the law treats what is an exploding market in online goods and currencies.

For those more familiar with real-life Rovers, the new legal disputes turns on SuperPoke Pets, an online game in which players chose a pet (dog, frog, sheep, etc) and then care for it an online realm with other pet owners. Many owners purchased “gold” using real life money and used the gold to buy items in the game.

That gold is now worthless after Google, which had purchased the game from a company called Slide, decided to axe it last summer. (As of March 6, the website will be gone though players will be able to load their pet onto a display case of sorts).

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— Virtual Pet Owners Sue Google Over Lost ‘Gold’ | paidContent (via new-aesthetic)

I don’t know what it says about me that this seems perfectly reasonable. I don’t know what makes their property any more virtual than an MP3 purchased from Apple… or, for that matter, a hundred shares of Apple stock. Abstractions of abstractions, snout to tail.

Property is a slippery idea, and I’m happy when the artifice of it is exposed.

Reblogged from Chris Hamby

scanzen:

Honfoglalás az óceánok mélyén. Vízalatti olajmező a jövőben, kb. 180 méteres mélységben a szárazföld közelében. In: Népszerű Technika, 1965. május.

Conquering the oceans. Underwater oil field at 180m depth near the shore. In: Népszerű Technika, May 1965.

Reblogged from Amaki Bow's ScrapBook