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‘Only My Bones’ by thisisthesea
Here’s a song I came up with today. I’m very happy with it. I was trying to get several guitar lines to all fit together in layers. It’s kinda worked. I can’t explain the name, it just popped into my head so I went with it.
I think if I could sing, I like to think I’d be making music somewhere along the lines of what Eddie Vedder does these days (of course, not necessarily as good). Yet as I can’t, it’s instrumentals all the way. perhaps these give more freedom to let the music speak for itself. Yes, that would be it, nothing to do with lack of talent.
Ho ho ho, Christmas and stuff. Am I doing it right?
(by volhardt)
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Road - North West Scotland
"About a third of my cases are suffering from no clinically definable neurosis, but from the senselessness and emptiness of their lives. It seems to me, however, that this can well be described as the general neurosis of our time."
Some Stuff About Space
I’ve always loved space, the universe and astronomy in general. To me, it’s not about a science so much as a philosophy. It’s a bit like existentialism - Where are we, who are we and therefore what’s the point? It’s the biggest mystery we’ll ever face and one that’s directly related to theology and religion as much as it is to science and reason. Relatively speaking (excuse the pun) we still no nothing but somehow we’re all here, and there’s a whole bunch of stuff here with us and it had to have come from somewhere. It’s bloody amazing! I’d be a physicist in the blink of an eye is I was academically astute enough. Anyway, I post space themed things up here once in a while, but I’ve been looking at some things recently and so I’m going to post them altogether below. Ready? Good.
50 Years of Space Exploration - Visual Flight Map
Click skip to original photo on flickr and enlarge - Or click here
Idiots Guide To The Big Bang - Briefly
Nothing great here - Pretty simple stuff you’ve all heard before, apart from the very last bit explaining the multiverse / megaverse which I thought was a nice bit of infographics (even though not a jot of it is based on science).
Voyager Recap
I remember hearing about the Voyager projects when I was young. It’s cum-in-pants exciting. Golden records with greetings from world leaders sent out into space to be picked up by aliens? Fucking aye! Here’s a little bit about them if you haven’t heard of it all before.
Planet Sizes
Click on the image for a comparative size guide for everything in the solar system. Some interesting bits, such as how Mars is smaller than one of Jupiter’s moons.
The Tenth Dimension
Head hurts. But exceedingly interesting with enough annotations to link you to as much information as you could shake a stick at.
Reblog - Click on pic for original post
(via veryjanuary)
Crab and shell on Scottish beach - Oct 2011
All shades of brilliant. If you know what you’re doing. And I don’t. Still brilliant though.
The KLF Justify Burning A Million Quid
This was years ago but I still admire what they did, from the first moment I found out about it in the 90s. These two never sold out and it’s amusing that people get angry with what they did this when there are multi-millionaires who spend their own millions in both dubious and hedonistic fashions (or worse). Not conforming to the rules of success seem to irk the public so. The low point of this interview is Def Leopard lead singer Joe Elliot’s imbecilic attitude, especially claiming that he’d set up a recording studio for “umemployed kids” with a million pounds when in fact, he has that money and hasn’t done it anyhow. But there you go. Nonetheless, absolute upmost respect for the K Foundation these two innovators.
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‘Spanish Zeppelin’ by thisisthesea
Hello followers. Remember me? Thought not. I haven’t done anything for ages. Well I have, but not on here - I’ve joined a new band and taken a lot of photos but none of that stuff has hit tumblr. So as an actual post rather than a reblog: here’s a small riff I’ve been working on in the last few days. Yeah.
DO TRY THIS: I only try to reblog things that are pretty special. Great photos, interactive movies about the universe, that sort of thing. This however is more than just great, it is spectacular. Click on the squares to make some music. Always beautiful, no matter the combination.
Tips:
1) Click and hold mouse button and drag to light up more than one square at a time
2) Open this page in a couple of other tabs in your browser for multiple melodies!
Via mandaflewaway
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