Happy long weekend! I hope everyone will be nice to the beaches.
Little Tokyo, I’ve missed you.
In progress
“ What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you’re inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.
CARL SAGAN (via Advice to Writers)
(Source: kadrey, via wilwheaton)
Moonbow: a rainbow made by the light of the moon.
Our pal Mcheung tells us all about how he shot this one this past weekend!
This weekend was the best moonbow-photographing weekend of the year!
A moonbow is essentially the same thing as a rainbow, except that it happens at night. It’s a pretty rare phenomenon that only occurs in a few places on earth.
I went to a Cambodian wedding:
- Bright colors and beautiful textiles
- The clothing! The jewelry!
- Delicious Cambodian food
- Great to see friends get hitched in a very meaningful ceremony
- Congratulations, Sam and Will!
Nine dangerous things you were taught in school
1. The people in charge have all the answers.
That’s why they are so wealthy and happy and healthy and powerful—ask any teacher.2. Learning ends when you leave the classroom.
Your fort building, trail forging, frog catching, friend making, game playing, and drawing won’t earn you any extra credit. Just watch TV.3. The best and brightest follow the rules.
You will be rewarded for your subordination, just not as much as your superiors, who, of course, have their own rules.4. What the books say is always true.
Now go read your creationism chapter. There will be a test.5. There is a very clear, single path to success.
It’s called college. Everyone can join the top 1% if they do well enough in school and ignore the basic math problem inherent in that idea.6. Behaving yourself is as important as getting good marks.
Whistle-blowing, questioning the status quo, and thinking your own thoughts are no-nos. Be quiet and get back on the assembly line.7. Standardized tests measure your value.
By value, I’m talking about future earning potential, not anything else that might have other kinds of value.8. Days off are always more fun than sitting in the classroom.
You are trained from a young age to base your life around dribbles of allocated vacation. Be grateful for them.9. The purpose of your education is your future career.
And so you will be taught to be a good worker. You have to teach yourself how to be something more.
(Source: braddogott, via eilselxela)
Washington DC Cherry Blossom Festival stamps — very faded pink vs same pink in real flowers (in California).
