#american dreams records

[caviarsonoro]

discrete (the market)

La luz de la aurora lleva Semilleros de nostalgias Y la tristeza sin ojos De la médula del alma. La gran tumba de la noche Su negro velo levanta Para ocultar con el día La inmensa cumbre estrellada. FEDERICO GARCÍA LORCA

[lindenattic]

NIC NEWSHAM PONY KARAOKE

[academic-vampire]

𝑶𝒍𝒅 𝑨𝒎𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒄𝒂 🇺🇸

[tinytimism]

next person who even jokingly says that rosemary’s lobotomy is what triggered the kennedy curse is getting their entire bloodline cursed

[lokiinmediasideblog]

Tournament of Lokis 2024

Friendly reminder that I'm currently taking submissions for the Tournament of Lokis until Jun 30, 2024. It's until July 15 now due to the few submissions.

To submit a Loki into the Tournament:

-Any Loki is allowed. e.g. Goro Akechi from Persona 5 is allowed and the recently discovered dinosaur Lokiceratops is ALSO allowed.

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Or any of these other causes:

-Every $5 is a Loki submission. If you wish to submit 2 Lokis you'll have to donate $10.

Tournament of Lokis 2024: Nominations so Far (will update w/each submission):

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[zef-zef]

Lawrence English & Lea Bertucci - Chthonic (American Dreams, 2023)

[alyssalovestaylor1989]

NFR is that album.

[timetravelingcourtney]

Besties hanging out and playing records 🎶

Spent this winter break sewing up a new collection. It’s a mash up of many of my favorite things, AG, the 70’s and the music of the Grateful Dead. Ivy and Julie have been very sweet models and very flexible as I’ve strayed wildly from cannon.

Now it’s time to head out for a little California sun after many rainy days.

[brenna]

this is what happens when you let me on ebay

sierra ferrell - trail of flowers candyland vinyl

[notcisav]

gotta strategically cry your eyes out BEFORE putting on the makeup :)

[odk-2]

Love and Rockets - An American Dream (1986) Daniel Ash / David J. / Kevin Haskins from: "Express" (LP|CD)

Neo-Psychedelia | Alternative | Gothic | Ballad

JukeHostUK (left click = play) (320kbps)

Personnel: Daniel Ash: Lead Vocals / Guitar David J.: Bass / Vocals Kevin Haskins: Drums / Synthesizers

Allan Baker: Choir Master Alan Brookes: Choir Vocalist James Lowry: Choir Vocalist Robert Willey: Choir Vocalist

John A. Rivers: Additional Keyboards

Produced by John A. Rivers / Love and Rockets

Recorded: @ Woodbine Street Studios in Leamington Spa, England UK 1986

Album Released: on September 15, 1986

Beggars Banquet Records (UK) Big Time Records (US)

Lyrics by Daniel Ash

[sirfrogsworth]

How do you take a photo of time?

I've been watching the track events at the Olympics since I was a wee lad. It was a tradition in our family. We'd gather around our ancient low-definition 19 inch CRT television and watch tiny blobs compete against other tiny blobs and root for our country.

It was a bit like watching YouTube on your phone in 144p.

Several heroes emerged.

Jackie Joyner-Kersee was amazing.

You can't forget about Flo-Jo.

And then the Olympics decided NBA players were allowed in the competition.

Which formed... The Dream Team.

Was this fair?

Well... they won each game by an average of 44 points.

So... no. It was not fair.

Though it became more fair as time went on.

But, umm... yeah. The other teams looked like the Washington Generals and the US looked like the Harlem Globetrotters if they stopped screwing around half of the game.

But my absolute favorite Olympian was a runner named Michael Johnson.

He was cool as heck.

For one thing... gold shoes.

But he also had this crazy, upright, Tom Cruise-ish sprinting style that just made him look like a running robot on the track.

And in the 1996 Atlanta games he just trounced EVERYONE. I mean, it wasn't even close.

Yikes. Those losing blobs are probably really embarrassed.

Last night I decided to invigorate my nostalgia and watch the track events again. And I got to see one of the wildest races in history.

It didn't even last 10 seconds but it was one of the most exciting sporting events I've ever witnessed. Almost every runner won the race.

After I saw that initially, I was like... who the heck won???

Even in slow motion I wasn't sure.

This was one of the closest finishes in history. There has never been a race where all 8 runners were within this margin.

The arena was silent as the winner was being confirmed. The runners just kind of paced around waiting for official word. My best guess was the Jamaican runner, Kishane Thompson. But then the loudspeaker announced Noah Lyles.

The last tiny morsel of American pride burst out of me with a big "Wooooo!"

I forgot what it was like to be proud of my country. I wish it happened more often. But this young man, despite being last place in the first 3rd of the race, turned on the afterburners and won in a photo finish.

And that's when my inner nerd took over.

Because when they showed the photo finish image, it looked super weird.

Why is the track white?

Why do all of the runners look all warpy like that QWOP game?

So I went down a research rabbit hole to figure this out.

Photo finishes are actually fascinating. The first photo finish captured the end of a horse race in 1890. But that was mostly luck and timing. The actual photo finish mechanisms weren't used until 1937.

Originally they would film the finish line through a physical slit.

And the first horsie head that appeared in that slit would be the winner. This technology ended a huge aspect of corruption in horse race fixing almost overnight.

But we have come a long way since then. And I'd like to introduce you to the Omega Scan 'O' Vision Ultimate.

This slow motion camera sits fixed on the finish line of every race. The concept of the photo finish has remained remarkably similar to the 1930s approach. The camera sensor is specially designed to only record a vertical slit.

Only the finish line itself is actually captured.

And because it limits what it records to only that slit, it can capture 40,000 frames per second to get amazing temporal resolution.

So why don't the photo finishes just look like, well... this?

That is because the camera takes a picture of time more-so than dimensional space. I guess it would be more accurate to say it *assembles* a picture of time.

As the runners cross the finish line, the camera combines all of the little strips of pictures into a single image.

It's almost like if you tried to reassemble a piece of paper after it had been shredded.

Imagine each strip of paper is a picture of ONLY the finish line, just at a slightly different point in time.

What if someone stopped on the finish line and didn't move... what would that look like?

Once they got there, the same part of their body would just be repeated.

So the right side of the photo finish picture represents earlier in time and it just assembles the image strip by strip as time passes and you literally get a picture of time itself.

NEAT!

Okay, but how do they determine the winner from the photo finish?

I mean, that shoe looks like it is ahead of Noah Lyles!

Clavicles!

The IAFF rules state the foremost part of the torso must cross the finish line first. And the endpoint of the torso is the outer end of the clavicle.

So if you get this bone across the finish line first, you win the race.

Two more fun facts!

The start of the race is actually just as carefully timed as the end of the race. There are sensors in the starting blocks of each runner.

The starting gun also has an electronic sensor.

They have determined the fastest a human can react to the sound of a gun is roughly 100 milliseconds. So if you start running before 100 milliseconds they know you didn't actually hear the gun, you just got antsy and started running too early.

And the final fun fact...

Did you notice the Omega logo at the top of the photo finish?

That isn't superimposed or added after the fact. That is captured by the camera.

But if this image is composed only of tiny little slivers, how did they get the Omega logo to show up?

That is a little display. And it is synchronized with the Scan 'O' Vision Ultimate to show a little sliver of the Omega logo for each frame captured.

So when the final image is stitched together, it looks like a cohesive logo at the top of the photo.

Pretty clever, Omega!

[basilstars0-o]

don't think a lot of people realize natives aren't gonna fit in the neat little boxes you've given us

a lot of elders still like the term American ndn, I'm atheist and really don't practice spiritual shit, some of us will prefer different terms (maybe not considering themselves queer but being two spirit or maybe not wanting to use two spirit even though it COULD describe them), some of us aren't gonna look how you think we should, we don't all practice the same traditions and we aren't a monolith

tldr; you can't put people into boxes and get mad they really never fit

[2t2r]

La restauration de la plus longue voiture du monde [vidéo]

Nouvel article publié sur https://www.2tout2rien.fr/restauration-de-la-plus-longue-voiture-du-monde/

La restauration de la plus longue voiture du monde [vidéo]