Team Arctic off to Iceland! (Taken with Instagram at Gatwick - South Terminal)

kateoplis:

Colors of the Sky by Eric Cahan

AMAZING! Hello by Matthijs Vlot

Fingers crossed for next weekend!

discoverynews:

Spectacular Aurorae Erupt Over Norway

Over the weekend, the Earth’s magnetic field was struck by a coronal mass ejection (CME). The CME — a vast bubble of solar plasma that had erupted from the sun on Jan. 19 — took longer than expected to travel through interplanetary space, but on Sunday it made contact.

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thedailywhat:

Photo Series of the Day: Tim Mantoani goes meta for his new book Behind Photographs by photographing famous photographers behind their far-more-famous photographs.

See the rest here.

[wired / kottke.]

thedailywhat:

Sampsons Did It of the Day: Continuity announcers at Channel 4 have apparently been having some fun “mispronouncing” The Simpsons for some time now. Someone caught on and made this self-explanatory supercut.

FACT: Every channel should be doing this for every show all the time.

[reddit.]

thedailywhat:

Internet Blackout of the Day: The Great Wikipedia Blackout of 2012 has begun.

Reddit, TwitPic, Mozilla, Mojang, and thousands of others will soon follow suit. The Internet is officially on strike! Why? Because the House and Senate are conspiring with the entertainment industry to break the Internet.

Make no mistake: SOPA has not been shelved. And a vote on PIPA is just around the corner. Luckily, hundreds of companies, charities, and notable individuals with strong moral character have joined forces to stop these dangerous Big Brother bills from moving forward.

The fight is far from over, but hopefully today’s blackout will help bring this important matter to the attention of folks who rely on the Internet for entertainment and education, but have so far remained oblivious to SOPA and PIPA and their harmful consequences.

Do your part. Take action. Stop SOPA and PIPA and put an end to threat of Internet censorship.

If you absolutely must scab, here are a few useful links: 

• Five ways to survive the Wikipedia Blackout.

• Wikipedia Blackout: Survive with these 12 alternatives.

• #altwiki: A collaborative crowd-sourcing alternative to Wikipedia.

• How to access Wikipedia during the blackout.

[wikipedia.]

kateoplis:

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popculturebrain:

Poster: Mad Men Season 5 (Better Quality)

(Source: editorlisa)

thedailywhat:

Art-House Nature Film of the Day: In his latest short film, the Terrence Malick-inspired We Were Wanderers On A Prehistoric Earth, James W. Griffiths (of Splitscreen Love Story fame) pens a visually stunning video love letter “to the incredible flora and fauna of Malaysia.” 

[thanks james!]

thedailywhat:

Reimagination of the Day: In his ongoing poster series “Movies from an Alternate Universe,” illustrator Peter Stults imagines what it might look like if modern-day movies were made during previous Hollywood eras. “Who would be in it? Who would direct it? So here we are.”

Check out the rest here.

[mefi.]

Amazing

totalfilm:

Quentin Tarantino has revealed his favourite (and least favourite) films of 2011.



The Quentin Tarantino Archives have got their hands on the director’s rundown of the year, which yields some surprising results…

Moonrise Kingdom - (Wes Anderson 2012)

(Source: youtube.com)

Dazed and Confused (Richard Linklater 1993)

Fast Times at Ridgemont Hight (Amy Heckerling 1982)