Curious Lights

Chat 10537Notes

These were posted on an Australian Tourism Website and the answers are the actual responses by the website officials.
  • Q: Does it ever get windy in Australia ? I have never seen it rain on TV, how do the plants grow? ( UK ).
  • A: We import all plants fully grown and then just sit around watching them die.
  • Q: Will I be able to see kangaroos in the street? ( USA )
  • A: Depends how much you've been drinking.
  • Q: I want to walk from Perth to Sydney - can I follow the railroad tracks? ( Sweden)
  • A: Sure, it's only three thousand miles, take lots of water.
  • Q: Are there any ATMs (cash machines) in Australia? Can you send me a list of them in Brisbane, Cairns, Townsville and Hervey Bay ? ( UK )
  • A: What did your last slave die of?
  • Q: Can you give me some information about hippo racing in Australia ? ( USA )
  • A: A-Fri-ca is the big triangle shaped continent south of Europe.
  • Aus-tra-lia is that big island in the middle of the Pacific which does not
  • ... Oh forget it. Sure, the hippo racing is every Tuesday night in Kings Cross. Come naked.
  • Q: Which direction is North in Australia ? (USA )
  • A: Face south and then turn 180 degrees. Contact us when you get here and we'll send the rest of the directions.
  • Q: Can I bring cutlery into Australia ? ( UK )
  • A: Why? Just use your fingers like we do...
  • Q: Can I wear high heels in Australia ? ( UK )
  • A: You are a British politician, right?
  • Q: Are there supermarkets in Sydney and is milk available all year round? ( Germany )
  • A: No, we are a peaceful civilization of vegan hunter/gatherers.
  • Milk is illegal.
  • Q: I have a question about a famous animal in Australia, but I forget its name. It's a kind of bear and lives in trees. ( USA )
  • A: It's called a Drop Bear. They are so called because they drop out of Gum trees and eat the brains of anyone walking underneath them.
  • You can scare them off by spraying yourself with human urine before you go out walking.
  • Q: Do you celebrate Christmas in Australia ? ( France )
  • A: Only at Christmas.
Via Are You Copper-Tellurium? You're CuTe
Video 28745Notes


Via Are You Copper-Tellurium? You're CuTe

Text 498675Notes

Reblog if you’re willing to answer publicly anything that comes to your ask box right now.
Via I would say it matters
Quote 3809Notes

October 1, 2011 - TAMPA, FL - The Occupy Wall Street movement may have just received an unexpected surprise – United States Army and Marine troops are reportedly on their way to various protest locations to support the movement and to protect the protesters. Army serviceman Ward Reilly posted the following on Facebook: “I’m heading up there tonight in my dress blues. So far, 15 of my fellow marine buddies are meeting me there, also in Uniform. I want to send the following message to Wall St and Congress: I didn’t fight for Wall St. I fought for America.

–

#OccupyWallStreet - ‘The Marines are Coming to PROTECT the Protestors’ | in5d Alternative News | in5d.com | (via progressivefriends)

 I didn’t fight for Wall St. I fought for America.

(via itstimefortruth)

oh. snap.

(via deluxvivens)

Snap. That’s awesome.

(via mama-austria)

 Via Are You Copper-Tellurium? You're CuTe
Photo 319Notes
maid-en-china: Take it all by *TamberElla: “ Animal abuse is a wretched, disgusting thing.  Abusers of any living creature are wretched, disgusting people.Just because it isn’t human doesn’t mean it doesn’t hurt.Just because it isn’t human doesn’t justify using it as a toy, or object of abuse.Open your eyes.” ~~~ She’s such a great artist and a wonderful person. I highly recommend checking out the rest of her gallery. Via Fisheye Placebo Zoom

maid-en-china:

Take it all by *TamberElla:

“ Animal abuse is a wretched, disgusting thing. 

Abusers of any living creature are wretched, disgusting people.

Just because it isn’t human doesn’t mean it doesn’t hurt.
Just because it isn’t human doesn’t justify using it as a toy, or object of abuse.

Open your eyes.”

~~~

She’s such a great artist and a wonderful person. I highly recommend checking out the rest of her gallery.


Link
Stop the Torture

Photo 3442Notes
heh Via I would say it matters

heh


Link
Scientists claim to break speed of light - Europe - Al Jazeera English

This is interesting!!


Photo 10638Notes
maid-en-china: Actually, that can be explained with ~SCIENCE~ The sketchiness of line art mimics the natural lack of clarity in our peripheral vision. When we look at the real world, our high definition fovea can only focus on a small area at a time. By having a very clean line art, it creates the unnatural feel of high clarity over a large area that’s not possible when we look at real life, therefore line art tends to appear stiff and not as appealing as the sketch. This sketichiness technique was first utilized by impressionists to create an optical illusion of motion (along with other techniques like equiluminance).   Source: Vision and Art: The Biology of Seeing by Margaret Livingston And sketching is more creative than coloring :D Via Fisheye Placebo

maid-en-china:

Actually, that can be explained with ~SCIENCE~

The sketchiness of line art mimics the natural lack of clarity in our peripheral vision. When we look at the real world, our high definition fovea can only focus on a small area at a time. By having a very clean line art, it creates the unnatural feel of high clarity over a large area that’s not possible when we look at real life, therefore line art tends to appear stiff and not as appealing as the sketch. This sketichiness technique was first utilized by impressionists to create an optical illusion of motion (along with other techniques like equiluminance).  

Source: Vision and Art: The Biology of Seeing by Margaret Livingston

And sketching is more creative than coloring :D


Text

An Ode to the Forgetful

I have better things to do, you know,
Than wait for you to remember.
But at the same time, 
There’s nothing I find better.
I wait here patiently for that spark,
That memory
To remind you of where I sit
Still waiting for that story.
But it seems to me like
You’ll never come.


12
To Tumblr, Love PixelUnion