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I could post this every week and it wouldn’t be too often. Fite me. 

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My new tattoo done by the awesome Christian (instagram: WeKnowBeautiful)

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Seated villagers wave arms as they enact a play in front of a temple in Bali, Indonesia, 1969. Photograph by Donna and Gilbert M. Grosvenor, National Geographic Creative

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EVERYONE GO TO LOSER.COM

STOP WHATEVER YOU’RE DOING AND GO TO LOSER.COM THERE’S NO TIME TO WASTE!!! IT MIGHT BE GONE SOON!!

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Just a timelapse of a painting. I turn the paper around a lot lol.

I’m using Windsor & Newton gouache here, and finished off with gold ink. 

Instagram | dA

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Jackie Huertas - Davinci Tattoo - Wantagh, NY

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Animeyed - Self Portraits by Flora Borsi

From Hungary, Flora Borsi is a young and very talented visual artist and photographer. Her exquisite photography and manipulation thematically focuses on identity, relationships, emotions and dreams to create breathtaking surreal visuals. Flora’s technique and subtle conceptual ideas create beautiful evocations of universal emotions, from lust and desire to despair and loss.  

Flora at once captures the complex strength and fragility of the human psyche. She expertly visualizes dark fantasies and atmospheric dreams, utilizing the uncanny and clever metaphor, while unlocking what it means to think, feel, dream and express in the urban world. Her work often features the female body and she plays with hiding and revealing the eyes or face to leave only the feminine form, exploring questions of female representation and the relationship between body and self - just as how she is expressing her animal instincts in this self portrait series.

Flora’s ethereal aesthetic has won multiple art prizes and garnered critical acclaim from press including The Guardian’s Observer and BBC Culture. Her artwork was the face of Adobe Photoshop in 2014. To see more of her amazing artwork you can visit her Behance or you can also buy artwork from her Shop.

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leveling up the mcbae pin game one Jim at a time

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You had to kill him. The boy cries you a sweater of tears… and you kill him. How are you going to live with yourself?

Mr. Krabs (via chosen-undead)

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Watch: Obama then explains how he’s fought the bigger issue on this for 8 years.

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How to Singby Lehmann, Lilli Published 1903

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Space Gardening 101

You can’t escape eating (or gardening!) your vegetables, even if you’re in space. On Aug. 10, astronauts on the International Space Station sampled their first space grown salad. This freshly harvest red romaine lettuce was grown in the “Veggie” plant growth chamber that is designed to make gardens flourish in weightlessness.

In a weightless environment, there is no up and down, so roots grow in all directions. Water and soil, the materials used to anchor these plants and allow for root growth tend to float away.

How Do We Grow Plants in Space? 

1. Plant Pillows

The Veggie chamber helps solve the problems of a weightless environment by using ‘plant pillows’, sounds comfy right? These pillows are bags filled with material for growing plants in space. 

2. Wicks

Wicks are implanted into the bags and are used to draw water from inside the pillow to the plant.

These wicks also provide a place to glue the seeds. It’s important to orient the seeds so roots will grow ‘down’, and shoots that emerge will push out of the bag.

3. LED Lights

LED lights are used for photosynthesis and give the shoots a sense of direction so they keep growing upward. The walls of the Veggie chamber can expand to make room for the plant as it grows.

The purple/pinkish hue surrounding the plants in Veggie is the result of a combination of the red and blue lights, which is what the plants need to grow. Green LEDS were added so the plants look like edible food rather than weird purple plants.

Why are we growing plants in space?

When astronauts travel on deep space missions, like Mars, they will need to be self-sufficient for long periods of time. Having the ability to grow their own food is a big step in that direction. There is also a desire to grow flowering vegetables in space, which is why we are currently tending to zinnia flowers on orbit. Growing these flowering plants will help us understand longer duration growing plants that have to flower in space, such as tomatoes.

What’s Next? The next SpaceX delivery will include seeds for a small cabbage and additional red romaine lettuce. Upcoming experiments will use various ratios of red and blue lights and different fertilizers in attempts to improve crop yield, nutrition and flavor. The findings from these experiments can be utilized both on Earth and in space.

In addition to the nutrition benefits of growing vegetables in space, the psychological benefits are also significant. Having living plants can help with stress and increase the crews’ enjoyment. It provides the sights, smells and tastes of Earth.

To learn more about gardening in space, watch ScienceCast HERE.

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