The wood of my guitar; the wood of my mind.
Taste bud, Sheep x04 (H&E stain)
Mahogany and Spruce
Earlier this morning tribal mask-wearing producer SBTRKT (aka Aaron Jerome) made an appearance on BBC 1 Live Lounge to play a few tracks for the show’s greater listening audience. With regular collaborator Sampha on vocals, SBTRKT played through a rendition his own dubstep/soul track “Hold On” from his self-titled debut. The real treat however, came when Jerome premiered a cover of Friendly Fires’ “Blue Cassette.” (via Listen: SBTRKT Covers Friendly Fires | Under The Radar)
“ They feel themselves at the center of a powerful
and baffled will. They feel
they are an almost animal,
washed up on the shore of a world—
or huddled against the gate of a garden—
to which they can’t admit they can never be admitted. ”
Robert Hass - “Misery and Splendor” (via poetryeater)
Orange and Blue Hazes
This view from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft looks toward the south polar region of Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, and shows a depression within the moon’s orange and blue haze layers near the south pole.
The moon’s high altitude haze layer appears blue here; whereas, the main atmospheric haze is orange. The difference in color could be due to particle size of the haze. The blue haze likely consists of smaller particles than the orange haze.
The depressed or attenuated layer appears in the transition area between the orange and blue hazes about a third of the way in from the left edge of the narrow-angle image. The moon’s south pole is in the upper right of this image. This view suggests Titan’s north polar vortex, or hood, is beginning to flip from north to south.
The southern pole of Titan is going into darkness as the sun advances towards the north with each passing day. The upper layer of Titan’s hazes is still illuminated by sunlight.
Images taken using red, green and blue spectral filters were combined to create this natural color view. The images were obtained on Sept. 11, 2011 at a distance of approximately 83,000 miles (134,000 kilometers) from Titan. Image scale is 2,581 feet (787 meters) per pixel.
Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute
LaQuita Staten listened as her husband, Corey Staten, welcomed the audience to the Attucks Theatre’s sixth annual Kwanzaa concert in Norfolk, Va., Monday. (Photo: Amanda Lucier / The Virginian-Pilot viathe AP / Wall Street Journal)
ILUMINADO An astronaut photo released by the NASA Earth Observatory on the International Space Station (ISS) shows the city lights of Spain and Portugal that define the Iberian Peninsula. (Photo: NASA via AFP-Getty / The New York Post)
Tom got back from his holiday break in the Twin Cities, where this happens.
We hope you all had(/have) a wonderful holiday season!
So in Minnesota, the Twinkle Buses strike the Twinkle Bicycles with impunity?
BLOGGING via TYPEWRITER.: 11 Quotes From 2011
1. “There’s been class warfare going on for the last 20 years, and my class has won.” — Warren Buffett
2. “Gay rights are human rights and human rights are gay rights.” — Hillary Clinton
3. “Today, we are all Troy Anthony Davis. Tonight, a little piece of all of us…
