This is pretty amazing looking - a bass photographed at a high shutter speed:
stunning bass-string shot from urbanscreen on Vimeo.
Here's the caption at Vimeo:Frequency of the bass strings and high shutter speed of the camera led to this surprising string-wobble footage. There is no slowmo applied to the take. Sound is original. Video was filmed with a Canon 5D MarkII, Nikon 50mm lens on 1,8f.
I've been collecting quotes for decades, and you can find hundreds of my favorites here. Here are a few that I discovered recently: "My country is the world, and my religion is to do good." —Thomas Paine "Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world." —Nelson Mandela "Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. " —Bertrand Russell “Every time we witness an injustice and do not act, we train our character to be passive in its presence and thereby eventually lose all ability to defend ourselves and those we love. In a modern economy it is impossible to seal oneself off from injustice. -Julian Assange If we have brains or courage, then we are blessed and called on not to frit these qualities away, standing agape at the ideas of others, winning pissing contests, improving the efficiencies of the neocorporate state, or immersing ourselves in obscuranta, but rather to prove the vigor of our talents against the strongest opponents of love we can find. -Julian Assange If we can only live once, then let it be a daring adventure that draws on all our powers. Let it be with similar types whose hearts and heads we may be proud of. Let our grandchildren delight to find the start of our stories in their ears but the endings all around in their wandering eyes. -Julian Assange The whole universe or the structure that perceives it is a worthy opponent, but try as I may I can not escape the sound of suffering. -Julian Assange Perhaps as an old man I will take great comfort in pottering around in a lab and gently talking to students in the summer evening and will accept suffering with insouciance. But not now; men in their prime, if they have convictions are tasked to act on them.” -Julian Assange Every Organization rests upon a mountain of secrets. -Julian Assange If wars can be started by lies, peace can be started by truth." Julian Assange “The gods offer no rewards for intellect. There was never one yet that showed any interest in it.” -Mark Twain No man is rich enough to buy back his past. -Oscar Wilde "Science dies without the free flow of information. The same can be said of democracy." -Charles Pierce, of Esquire. “Noah’s Ark: Because the largest and most thorough act of genocide in history makes a great children’s story.” - On Facebook
I agree with this observation by Glenn Greenwald:
The highest compliment one can give a writer is not to say that one wholeheartedly agrees with his observations, but that he provoked — really, forced — difficult thinking about consequential matters and internal questioning of one’s own assumptions, often without quick or clear resolution.
Mrs. Betty Bowers doesn't mince words, and she is not dissuaded by inconvenient truth. In the following video, she explains traditional marriage, making many references to the Bible itself to back up her statements. Rarely, does it seem, that a Bible marriage is between one man and one woman: Betty also comments on many other aspects of the Christian religions. Her credentials? She proclaims that she is "America's Best Christian." If you want more quirky information about religion, also consider visiting the site of Landover Baptist Church. There is a special section on Mitt Romney, including a video featuring, in an earnest way, many of the beliefs of Mormonism.
Corporate culture, which now dominates higher education, shares the predatory culture of the military. These cultures are about subsuming the self into the herd. They are about the acquiring of technical, vocational skills to serve the system. And with the increasing budget cuts, and more craven obsequiousness to corporate donors, it will only get worse. These forces of conformity are hostile to the humanities that teach students to question assumptions and structures, that prod them to seek a life of meaning and an ethical code that challenges the blind, utilitarian obedience to power and profit that corporations and the military instill. We will, I fear, continue to turn out the intellectually stunted and maimed, those who know school football records but no philosophy, drama, art, music, theology, literature or history. The goal of an education is not, in the end, to tell students what to think but to teach them how to think.