jtotheizzoe:

Via the-science-llama:

Piano notes made visible for the first time

Music is beautiful isn’t it? The team at CymaScope visualized the dynamic sounds of the piano’s first strike and the eventual plateau and decay phase of different notes. You can listen to the sounds here and watch as the geometric shapes come to life.

Cymascope - Sound Made Visible

Did you see my post about piano notes as visualized via the Cymascope last week? Now with hypnotic animations!

I love when our senses combine to illuminate something that would otherwise be invisible, or worse, ignored. A reminder of the limitations of our senses, and an artistic nod to synesthesia.

Follow that with another example of sound made visible: Beautiful Chladni lines.

hobbitdragon:

sosuperawesome:

Marina Muun, on Tumblr

these are so beautiful

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doxolove:

queensimia:

tigrismedve:

Rare metals - Bismuth (2x), Fluorite, Malachite, Azurite/Malachite, Pietrisite, Hafnium

aaaagahsdfjadfja;k I love minerals like these.

I just bought some bismuth the other day! It doesn’t occur naturally in nature, but once the right ‘materials’ are combined, it creates the cool structures and spectrums by itself :>

Gorgeous metal <3

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thepeacockangel:

feministrocker:

thepeacockangel:

feministrocker:

goldenheartedrose:

feministrocker:

goldenheartedrose:

kirathrace:

donanoble:

bptag:

i hate idiot teenage girls who call themselves “readers” and only read shit like divergent and twilight and hunger games.

i have so much rage inside.

i hate idiot book snobs who think they’re better than other people because they read different books.

i have so much rage inside. 

It reeks of misogyny and internalized misogyny. I mean, you know, attack the source material for its glorification of abuse, for example. Don’t attack the readers for being teenage girls? And “idiot” is a gross ableist term.

I hate elitism of all stripes. Who do some people care so much about what others like or don’t like? Live and let live.

That too. I just find it interesting that it seems like the worst thing to be is a teenage girl who likes things. And by interesting, I mean gross.

I know, right? That an intersection of sexism/misogyny and adultism/ageism.

I myself don’t like pop music - and I do have issues with how pop music is marketed aggressively towards women/girls. Similar to the issue that some other feminists have with the marketing of pink. The trick, though, is to critique the marketing industry - and not the people who like pop themselves.

I also take issues with how anything that is marketed towards girls/women is treated as trivial, in poor taste, and unintellectual.  Pop music isn’t inherently trivial.

Right, I understand that. I’ve ranted quite a bit about music elitism - and I understand that, even though pop music isn’t my personal preference, there are other people who genuinely like it.

I just think that marketing should stop being so gender segregated. Rock radio stations should stop acting like only men listen to those stations - and boys and men should not be shamed for enjoying things that we, typically, associate with girls.

There’s a fine line between not forcing girls to like things that are marketed towards them, and telling them that they shouldn’t like such things. I think the problem with certain factions of the feminist movement is that we focus so much on how advertising and gender roles negatively affect girls, without realizing that boys are also negatively affected by that. I don’t believe in “sexism against men”, but my heart goes out to the little boys who feel stifled by their gender-enforcing parents.

This, of course, is also a trans* issue and an intersex issue.

Oh indeed, considering all the badass femme dudes I’ve had in my life, I fucking hate the way “effeminate” men are treated in society. 

dressthesavage:

narwhalsareunderwaterunicorns:

anglofile:

spicyshimmy:

how is it possible to love fictional characters this much and also have people always been this way?

like, did queen elizabeth lie in bed late sometimes thinking ‘VERILY I CANNOT EVEN FOR MERCUTIO…

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hobbitdragon:

skinks:

why can’t feminism be spread like vampirism and zombies and shit like you bite someone and they stop being a misogynistic fucktrumpet

OH MY GOD THIS <3

dynamicafrica:

STYLE ICON: Dobet Gnahoré

Grammy Award-winning and World Music-nominated Ivorian musician and singer Dobet Gnahoré’s style is beyond your wildest Afro-punk dreams.

With a band consisting of her percussionist father Boni Ngahoré, as well as several French and Tunisian acts, both the 29-year-old singer’s musical sounds and aesthetic mirror various elements of Pan-Africanism that can often be seen in the jewelry she wears and the infusion of Bété, Baoulé, reggae, rumba and Manding influences in her music.

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laurencephilomene:

feminine identities (partial series) - part 2

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