i almost screamed then i realized it was fake :’(
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The sun, partially obscured by the earth.
Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that’s not why we do it.
Richard Feynman (via oplik)
Chasma Boreale, Mars
Chasma Boreale, a long, flat-floored valley, cuts deep into Mars’ north polar icecap. Its walls rise about 4,600 feet, or 1,400 meters, above the floor. Where the edge of the ice cap has retreated, sheets of sand are emerging that accumulated during earlier ice-free climatic cycles. Winds blowing off the ice have pushed loose sand into dunes and driven them down-canyon in a westward direction.
This scene combines images taken during the period from December 2002 to February 2005 by the Thermal Emission Imaging System instrument on NASA’s Mars Odyssey was part of a special series of images marking the orbiter as the longest-working Mars spacecraft in history.
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Chiseling away at my Twin Peaks Puzzle!
“I’ve lost interest in making films. Everything that was possible I felt I had already done. ”
Director Elem Klimov
Come and See (Elem Klimov, 1985)
I have to write something about this movie. I saw it in my teenage years and it literally scarred me like no other film ever has. The director, Elem Klimov, created a vision so horrifying, realistic, and disturbing that he simply quit directing films as he believed he had breached the limitations of the medium. No film has ever depicted the stark brutality of war with such unflinching realism.
The film follows a Belorussian boy named Florya who witnesses the horrors of operation Barbarossa and the Eastern Front. The actor who plays Florya, Alexsey Kravchenko, actually ages before your eyes due to his experiences as the film goes along. Over 30 million people died on the Eastern Front and it often goes forgotten that the Nazi’s racial hierarchy extended to Slavic people as well. That racist barbarism and the violence that stemmed from it are depicted about as nonchalantly as it probably occurred. The decision to portray it so plainly makes it that much worse. This film is essentially the evil that men do, to cop a phrase.
Regardless of how difficult this film is to watch, it is required viewing. I remember feeling sick and in desperate need of a shower after my first viewing, but this may well be one of the most important and best films ever made. It transcends the medium.
