I think part of what I love about the Battle Hymn of the Republic so much is that it escalates in an absolutely unhinged direction, reminding me of the key and peele UFC sketch

People who do not make art themselves and who do not study tend to view realism as the ultimate goal of an artist, the peak of their craft. So, it makes total sense that they would think they had cracked what van Gogh just didn't have the skill to achieve. Art education matters.

Commentary: The Events Depicted In ‘Star Wars’ Actually Happened To Me

This is an incredible tweet.

Because starting new projects is way more fun than working on the things that have been sitting on your hard drive for months/years, I've started making a riff on the Lego "warp wing" ship (set 6915, according to my research)

The way profit maxxing corpo culture has invaded every form of art through algorithms pushing people into daily posting is really weighing on me lately. Efficiency and regularity of making "content" being prized above all else feels so grim, man.

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Yaaaaaay chutes SPLASHDOWN CONFIRMED

Houston integrity loud and clear

No you have unresolved anxiety from Columbia

If you're wondering why Earth looks so distorted - its a result from the SuperView capture mode enabled on the GoPro HERO4 to stetch the native 4:3 image to 16:9. Here I'm showing the unstretching process I'm applying in Blender. #Artemis

I can say without hesitation that this is the HARDEST article I have ever written, but I am incredibly proud of it. If you have questions about Orion’s heat shield, given the issues with Artemis I, I hope I can provide some answers: www.nationalgeographic.com/science/arti...

Earthset from Artemis II. I am overcome.

The #Artemis II astronauts said they needed more superlatives to describe their view of the eclipse, when the Sun was behind the Moon and its near surface was faintly illuminated by Earthshine

Awkward scenes aboard Artemis II as Trump stops ranting and none of the astronauts have anything left to say to him, leading to extended dead air

get that creepy man away from the space polycule, what is everyone thinking

Ok I wasn’t ready for the crying hugging astronauts. Now my face is leaking

Took me a while to track it down but for all the camera nerds asking the same question I did - high res version complete with EXIF data is here: images.nasa.gov/details/art0... It was taken with a Nikon D5 with 14-24mm f2.8 lens, 1/4 sec at f4, ISO 51200

More context on this #Artemis II image: * This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right * The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon: ☀️🌍🚀🌕

Stop what you're doing and look 🌍 The full globe? That is the NIGHT SIDE. I'm pretty sure I can see some satellites/debris glinting away on the periphery. Also the Aurora?! What a bonkers beautiful world that supports and holds everyone and everything you've ever known and loved, and so much more.

😮 Awesome views from Day 2 of #Artemis II this morning. @exploration.esa.int @esaearth.esa.int

Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman took this picture of Earth from the Orion spacecraft after completing the translunar injection burn. There are two auroras (top right & bottom left) and zodiacal light (bottom right) is visible as the Earth eclipses the Sun. 🧪🔭 #Artemis www.nasa.gov/image-articl...

#NASA #ArtemisII - Good SRB separation confirmed

Liftoff!

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

Another massive battery storage record in California (CAISO) yesterday, March 29 🔋 At 7pm, batteries reached 12.3 GW of output, meeting 42.8% of demand! And it's not just a short peak anymore. Batteries stayed above 20% of grid supply from 5.50pm to 9.35pm, almost four hours.

It's spring, time to get out the cherry blossom tree model again #blender3d #sakura

the thing about video games is its a terrible business, because they have to be made by a half dozen of the most elite creative professions working in harmony and they're priced worse than disposable single-person works

Heh. Just noticed my name is still in Blender OpenColorIO config header (it's part of the thank-yous in the Filmic credit block since I helped beta test it). Didn't know my little color science claim to fame was still out there!

One of the fascinating aspects of Trump 2.0 has been the way the media elites who engineered his 2024 victory by, basically, **lying** about his plans and fitness for office, seemed to expect that the **reality** of Trump 2.0 would be broadly popular.

i feel cheated learning this i thought we were all 38

Trump is like a human version of the One Ring. You cannot use him for good, or even really your own purpose. He's an inherently corrupting power that only ever serves his one master, himself. When you use him, you become bound to his will.

NVIDIA presents DLSS 5

I layered the screenshots and it's more than obvious that this is no "lighting enhancement". Her entire look changes, even the shape of her lips and her jawline.

thats a different woman

Every spring I break out the sakura tree asset again #blender3d #wip

"353 comments" This is gonna be good

This is where the real humiliation kink comes in. He asked. They lied out of vanity and we get to see how pathetic they all are.

NO NO NO YOU DON’T GUYS LET ME PLEASE SPREAD THE GOSPEL OF FREE TAX USA federal is free, state is $16, handles even my chaotic freelancer taxes just fine, same step-by-step “designed for normies” kind of interface as TurboTax but NOT EVIL tell everyone you know www.freetaxusa.com

Um...is the SC2 league screen always broken these days? (according to some websites, this MMR is supposed to be about gold-1 or plat-3, which feels more like where I should be?)

All the best oracle are saying, Donald, if you invade PERSIA, a great empire will fall! We love our ORACLES, especially as regards to Delphi and Future! thank you for your attention to this matter!

Branch manager branching out

things every single republican president of your lifetime has done - started a war in the middle east - completely destroyed the economy

BROWT GANG

Jumped on Starcraft II ladder for the first time in a year and somehow won. Uh...ok. We'll see how long I keep playing this time (the first page of my match history goes back 5 years...)

a lot of you are probably too young to remember this but there was a time when the married dhs secretary using taxpayer money for a custom built fuck palace in the sky for her to bang coworkers wouldve been a big deal