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I really like hybridcalisthenics videos! They have such a friendly tone and the range of difficulties and progressions based on what you can do are beyond helpful. And! There’s an app! It’s just as friendly and wholesome as this clip, and is great for building habits. 100/10 recommend

Can you stand up off the ground without using your hands?

While this ability seems very simple for some - there are many who can't do it!

Or at least, can't do it without some cracking and pain.

If this is you - here are some simple ways you can build up whenever you're standing up any way!

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@shinox

Wave of birds for you!

Fast on their little legs

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“We dropped different numbers of balls at different rates, different heights. We had a ramp. The ramps were at different angles, trying to get the most out of the balls as they hit the actors. After doing the tests, we figured out 35 feet above the deck of the ship was the height we needed our nets. We had these three big nets that held almost 80,000 per net. The balls dropped 35 feet into ramps that projected them towards the stunt guys. It just knocked them over. It was pretty spectacular.”

-Mark Hawker, SFX Coordinator for Pirates of the Caribbean

“It’s amazing to see a bunch of 40 and 50-year-olds turn into three-year-olds all of a sudden. Everybody had to pick up blue balls, hit the other guy in the head. It was like, ’Is it time for the parents to come pick up the kids?’”

-George Marshall Ruge, Stunt Coordinator for Pirates of the Caribbean

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It is the middle of a Thursday afternoon. You're getting ready for your 111st birthday, and have posted a sign declaring there will be no admittance except on party business. You don't want any more visitors, well-wishers, or distant relations.

Unexpectedly, there is a knock at the door.

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[person 500 years ago knitting a sock] O Sister Margaret, regale me again with the tale of Vicar Wesley's scandalous elopement with the baker's daughter!

[me today knitting a sock] O Youtuber Hbomberguy, regale me again with the tale of SHERLOCK IS GARBAGE, AND HERE'S WHY

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I just learned that this art was stolen and being sold on redbubble (thanks @seleighe-court for the heads up!) I have reported it, and hopefully it is taken down.

This has been an interesting lesson for me…guess all future art is getting watermarked.

Become part of my forest, feed the lantern

So I marathoned Over the Garden Wall again on my last night of finals…and this has been sort of brewing in the back of my mind since.   Watercolor toning, digital coloring

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“Colors on” by WittRoger: http://bit.ly/2wroGZ4

A prismatic halo is formed around the subject, bestowing upon them a divine spectrum of color.

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Watch the night sky closely enough and you might see the moon blink back at you 🌙

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OH BOY DO I HAVE THE BOOKS FOR YOU!  “Blackout” “All Clear” and “Doomsday Book” all by Connie Willis. They are absolutely amazing, and you get EXACTLY what is described above in spades. I can’t recommend these books enough, especially Blackout and All Clear.

tv shows with time travel organizations/bureaus/police/agencies/whatever should have a department with instead of a tech genius eating candy, it’s a harried seamstress or fashion designer who is like

“1450 italy? does it look like I have the time to dye you wool? nO. YOU’RE GOING TO THE 1980s”

and throws shoulder pads at the hapless time agent

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Once upon a time I worked in this little burger/coffee/ice cream shop and a lady came in one winter and asked if we had a caramel apple drink and we were like ‘well we have cider’ and she was like ‘no I don’t remember what it’s called but this place made a drink that was chai tea, apple cider, and caramel’ and Breezy offered to try and make something for her but she changed her mind and left so Breezy and I were like ‘alright let’s try this’ because we had chai tea, instant cider mix, a shit ton of caramel, instant hot water from the espresso and too much free time. 

And let me tell you it was delightful. It tastes like watching the leaves changing color and dancing in the wind. It tastes like picking out pumpkins and gourds and fresh apples at the farm up north. It tastes like witches and freedom.

I make it every year now and this year I walked in the house on the morning of October first with all the ingredients and shouted ‘FALL DRINK’ and my roommates were like ‘????’ so I made them Fall Drink and now every time they get home from work they’re like ‘Fall Drink pls?????’

Anyway I remember literally nothing else about that woman but I’m very grateful to her. 

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higher, further, faster, baby | [ a carol danvers fanmix ]

01. high hopes panic! at the disco ✩ 02. sledgehammer rihanna ✩ 03. the moment (novell) nicky romero ✩ 04. elevate (ft. denzel curry, ybn cordae, swavay, and trevor rich) dj khalil ✩ 05. champion (remix) fall out boy and rm ✩ 06. belong (axwell & years remode edit) axwell, shapov, years ✩ 07. this time axwell /\ ingrosso ✩ 08. unstoppable the score ✩ 09. hard times paramore ✩ 10. heading up high armin van buuren and kensington ✩ 11. dream bigger axwell /\ ingrosso ✩ 12. we got the world (original mix) icona pop ✩ 13. bang my head (ft. sia and fetty wap) david guetta ✩ 14. angels vicetone and kat nestel ✩ 15. 1982 superhuman ✩ 16. break through the silence martin garrix and matisse & sadko ✩ 17. bird with a broken wing owl city ✩ 18. on my way axwell /\ ingrosso ✩ 19. sea of voices porter robinson ✩ 20. feel it still portugal. the man ✩ 21. my blood ellie goulding ✩ 22. one girl revolution superchick ✩ 23. dreams and disasters owl city ✩ 24. how big, how blue, how beautiful florence + the machine ✩ 25. just like fire p!nk ✩ 26. dementia owl city and mark hoppus ✩ 27. 10 (ft. starxs) built by titan ✩ 28. shooting star owl city ✩ 29. stars (hold on) youngblood hawke ✩ 30. harder better faster stronger daft punk

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Does anyone know where I can find some nice POC photography?

Im trying to make a character inspiration board but most of the photography is of pale skinned and skinny people.

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Gallus rostromegalus

When I was in high school, I was the part-time henchperson of a Mad Scientist.

I’m not exaggerating about “Mad Scientist”.  “Riley” (Name changed for his family’s privacy) was a former Medical Doctor, as well as an artist, microbiologist, pilot (as in, designed and flew his own experimental aircraft), magician, computer programmer and musical composer, and had an outbuilding attached to his house where he kept things like his hand-made 3D printer, electron microscope and drone-dirigible assembly devices.

Riley had ALS and was eventually wheelchair-bound, so by 2006 I was being called in on the odd school night or weekend to go out around FoCo and the surrounding mountains. “I need a younger set of legs and someone with no fear of heights” He’d say.  Being that I was a very boring child that had no interest in sex or drugs and always called when I was going to be late, and that Riley was a trusted family friend, My parents trusted me to go out at like 9PM  and come home at 2AM on a Tuesday.  

…To do things like scale locked fire escapes and climb around on rooftops that we DEFINITELY did not have permission to be on to do things like install speakers and bluetooth broadcasting devices at strategic points around Old Town so that if you download the right app onto your phone (I’ve got it backed up somewhere, I’ll post it when I find it) , you can walk around town and be exposed to the ghostly, extremely shady side of FoCo history for his 2007 Halloween project.

We did get caught by the cops but I was 17, short and white as goddamn mayonnaise so when the cops asked me what I was doing “It’s for a community art project!” actually worked.

My favorite Mad Science Project was in 2009, Gallus rostromegalus.

I was home from college for summer, and Riley had been messing around with Rotational Physics and had managed to make Giant (24’ x 18’) extremely realistic Chicken eggs, weighted and everything so that if you picked one up, it would feel like there was a heavy yolk wobbling around inside.  They’re amusing all on their own, but after leaving them in the slash pile from spring cleaning, Riley realized they had POTENTIAL.

So we went around getting permission from a few businesses and the art museum, and I spent a few nights making plausible enormous chicken feathers in Riley’s lab out of grass, acrylic glaze and some other odds and ends laying around, and filling up the back of my mom’s van with as much of the backyard slash pile as fit in there, then drove out in the middle of the night to set up giant nests for the eggs, strewn with feathers and surrounded by Traffic cones and orange construction mesh and signs from the entirely fictitious “Department Of Fish And Wildfowl, Specious Relocation Division”

(an incomplete nest on the steps of Fort Collins Museum of Art)

(signage, responsibly warning people to stay away in case of giant chickens)

Riley even made QR codes that linked back to an obviously false Wiki- if you scrolled to the bottom, the page was covered in feathers and after five minutes it would start to make chicken noises.

People. Went. INSANE.

Crowds turned up to take selfies with the nests and Riley tracked down literally dozens of tagged photos captioned “IS THIS REAL????”.  

Someone wrote a very worried and not terribly facetious-sounding letter to the editor concerned that Giant Chickens were roaming around FoCo, something that big could hurt someone!  There was an entirely-serious-sounding counter-letter that we Humans have clearly invaded this majestic creature’s natural habitat, where are they SUPPOSED to make their nests, huh?   

Multiple people called the police to report having seen the elusive Gallus rostromegalus up in the hills or skulking around downtown. Reports claimed it was anywhere form five to twelve feet tall, with dramatic plumage and an eerie, yodeling sort of call.

A few nights after installing each nest, we went back, collected the eggs, and left broken ‘eggshells’ and extra down feather around each of the nests. One of the nests was put up at the local Garden Center and I remember one of the assistant managers coming outside just after we finished the ‘hatching’ and shrieking “OH GOD I THOUGHT THOSE WERE FAKE THEY’LL GET TO THE TOMATOES SOMEONE CALL THE POLICE!”  That woman would later become my manager when I worked there for a summer, though she never made the connection between me and The Chickens.

Riley passed away in 2015 after a good and well-lived life, and was kind enough to leave me The Eggs in his will.

It was a truly splendid bit of ruckus, and I miss him terribly, and I very much treasure the memories.  And the Eggs, which I am absolutely going to inflict on some unsuspecting neighbors at some point, in his honor.

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What’s up, danger?