Month: July 2013

  • July 29th, 2013 7:08pm

    And then, in 2010, Marvel Comics presented a Spider-Man (the ‘Ultimate’ version) who was 13 years old and brown. To see Spider-Man pulling his mask over a tiny brown chin – to see a boy with short curly hair sticking to the ceiling of his bedroom— well, something happened. Dagim has been Spider-Man for two Halloweens in a row. He takes a bath with his Spider-Man and a toy killer whale. He has Spider-Man toothpaste and a Spider-Man toothbrush. If Spider-Man offered medical coverage, I think he would want that, too.

    I thought for a while that my son would never be interested in my comics. I was afraid they would just represent another club he couldn’t join: all those big-jawed white guys with their hair parted to the side. But thanks to Spider-Man, my son imagines himself jumping on giant robots and saving the city. I hear him doing that behind the door of his room.

    — NY Times: A Superhero Who Looks Like My Son (via fyeahmilesmorales)

  • July 25th, 2013 6:50pm

    I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life.

    — Voltaire (via expiry)

  • July 25th, 2013 6:49pm


    wbsloan:

    For The First Time 

    “The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world.” 
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

  • July 25th, 2013 6:46pm

    devoutfashion:

    Kenton Magazine – JEWELS OF THE DARK

    Photographer – Wade Hudson
    Model – Latonya@ Elite Models Toronto

  • July 23rd, 2013 1:45am


    mirnah:

    Audrey Hepburn on the terrace of the Hotel Hassler, in Rome, with the telegram announcing her best-actress award, for The Nun’s Story, from the New York Film Critics Circle, 1960.

  • July 23rd, 2013 1:44am

    thisistheverge:

    Robotic ape uses complex feet to move on all fours

    To keep the arms and legs in sync and properly touching the ground, the DFKI outfitted each foot and hand with a variety of sensors. Force sensors allow the robot to detect how it’s aligned and moving, and proximity sensors allow it to properly step and make sure that it doesn’t run into anything. Temperature and acceleration sensors are built into the robot elsewhere.

  • July 23rd, 2013 1:35am

    Shitting my pants over these posters. So dope!

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