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![Gratuitous Picture of Yourself Miðvikudagur: Work Work Work edition.
In this photo you will notice:+ My Drawing For Design portfolio made out of masking tape and a box+ A Margot and the Nuclear So & Sos poster that my old roommate made in printmaking and left behind+ My computer with an Icelandic iceberg screensaver+ A makeshift endtable [A plastic tub, a scarf, and an old suitcase]+ A Paul Almasy poster of an artist painting in snowy Montmartre in 1968+ My typical hairstyle: careless ponytail with multiple pencils/pens/paintbrushes stuck through it](http://15.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ksm91bLRjJ1qz7dlvo1_500.jpg)
Gratuitous Picture of Yourself Miðvikudagur: Work Work Work edition.
In this photo you will notice:
+ My Drawing For Design portfolio made out of masking tape and a box
+ A Margot and the Nuclear So & Sos poster that my old roommate made in printmaking and left behind
+ My computer with an Icelandic iceberg screensaver
+ A makeshift endtable [A plastic tub, a scarf, and an old suitcase]
+ A Paul Almasy poster of an artist painting in snowy Montmartre in 1968
+ My typical hairstyle: careless ponytail with multiple pencils/pens/paintbrushes stuck through it
I keep having to transfer money from my Iceland savings into my regular account because of stupid things like the $150 I had to pay to get 12 unnecessary books made for this ridiculous Exhibition class. 12 books that I spent time designing, and money getting printed, that weren’t even used.
That is the short version of why I ended up at the ocean the other day.
Dear Fryderyk Chopin,
Please help me get this project finished tonight. Please help me to stop wanting to curl into a little ball under my blankets and cry and cry and cry.
Yours,
devincastro: GPOYW. The ‘you know it’s the holiday season when..’ edition. (via umdevincastro)
OH MY GOSH does this mean the Eggnog Latte is back?? I live for the yearly Eggnog Latte!!
oh my gosh
eastling:
+ My night was fantastic
+ My roommate is fantastic
+ My life is fantastic
+ I AM SO READY TO GO INTO THE WORLD AND LIVE IN IT
+ WHO WANTS TO COME WITH ME????theavant-gardeplaylist: ICELAANNND!!!!
eastling:YES. YES YES YES.
You will see me there.theavant-gardeplaylist: First I’m going to Japan (you should come along) then I’m moving to iceland
When are you going?
Lately
I feel very in tune with the idea that I need to live, to do things, to see things, to experience the world. If I didn’t think that at some point a BFA would be useful to me, I would probably drop out of school and just go and go and go and go. Anywhere. Everywhere. I want to climb mountains and sit under waterfalls and have rain fall on my face and not know where to find shelter and struggle to communicate with people and survive off of the land and feed my horse and paddle upstream and find my way with the stars and tell time with the sun and not understand the grocer and live with leaves in my hair and a perpetual sunburn and develop 500 photos of trees all at once and sail across the Prime Meridian and go and go and go and go and never stop until my body says “YOU CAN’T GO ANYMORE” and then I want to tell my body “STFU AND KEEP GOING”.
Oh my goodness, I don’t know what is with me tonight but I am so full of life and readiness I could explode. Someone. Do something. I need to experience.
oh my gosh
+ My night was fantastic
+ My roommate is fantastic
+ My life is fantastic
+ I AM SO READY TO GO INTO THE WORLD AND LIVE IN IT
+ WHO WANTS TO COME WITH ME????
COME ONNNNN
Russians launch dog into space [November 3, 1957]
The Soviet Union has launched the first ever living creature into the cosmos.
The dog, described as a female Russian breed, was projected into space this morning from Baikonur Cosmodrome aboard the artificial space satellite Sputnik II. Sputnik I, launched on 4 October, is still circling the globe.
The dog has been fitted with monitors to check its heartbeat and other vital signs and was reported to be calm during the first hours of the flight.
Russian scientists are particularly interested in the effects of solar radiation and weightlessness on living organisms.
Fury of animal lovers
Moscow Radio reported the second satellite was launched to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the October Revolution and gave details about the spacecraft’s contents and orbit.
Sputnik II weighs half a ton (508kg) and carries instruments for studying solar and cosmic rays, temperature and pressure, two radio transmitters and a hermetically-sealed container with “an experimental animal” inside, as well as oxygen and food supplies.
It is travelling more than 900 miles, (nearly 1,500 km) above the Earth - higher than Sputnik I - and is orbiting at about five miles (8km) a second.
It will take one hour and 42 minutes to circle the Earth.
The satellite is transmitting telegraphic signals that are being picked up from receiving stations around the globe.
Animal welfare organisations expressed outrage at news that the Russians have sent a dog into outer space.
The National Canine Defence League is calling on all dog lovers to observe a minute’s silence every day the dog is in space.
The RSPCA said it received calls of protest even before the Moscow Radio announcement of the launch had ended.
It has advised those who wish to protest to do so at the Russian Embassy in London.
‘Dog was trained for mission’
It is believed the Russians are planning to catapult the dog back to Earth although there has been no official announcement confirming this.
One British scientist told newspaper reporters the dog had probably been trained for the journey but was unlikely to survive.
“A terrified dog would be useless scientifically,” said Dr William Lane-Petter, Director of the Laboratory Animals Bureau of the Medical Research Council.
“It would not give them the information they want. This dog will have been trained long for the task and subjected to similar simulated conditions, and this flight is just another experience of the same sort.”
Happy Laika Day, everybody.
I think the best part about today was not the adventure itself (even though it was pretty great), and not getting back into photography after a year-long hiatus. It was that I finally came to a point where I did something, something excellent, as a response to a bad situation rather than just angrily sit at home. I always wanted to be the person who would say “I need to go somewhere” and then actually go somewhere. Before today, however, I was only half of that person. My roommate was telling me the other day that sometimes, on her way to the studio, she wonders what it would be like to not take that turn and instead just keep going. “What’s the worst that could happen?” she’d asked. And I don’t know. You miss a day of classes? You miss a day of homework? You “waste time”? I really don’t think it would be a waste of time. Just a different decision.
I’m not going to be someone who only says things. I’m going to do things. This realization is so freeing.
This song haunts me. It hasn’t been released; the only place I’ve been able to find it is right here. Possibly my favorite Sufjan song.
[edit: if you caught this a few minutes ago, this is a better quality version.]
