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Turn Your Smartphone Into A Microscope

This morning I played around with a pretty cool trick. You can turn your smartphone camera into a “microscope” of sorts using a tiny water droplet! I used my fingertip to place a droplet of water over the outer glass of my iPhone lens, juuuuust small enough to cover the glass and be held on by surface tension. Then just hold something up really close to the lens! It works in video or still mode, and I found that having the light on can help.

I chose to investigate a very small and very well preserved Tyrannosaur that I dug up.

I don’t think I need to tell you to BE CAREFUL and don’t hold me responsible if you get water in your phone. Just a dab’ll do ya. Also, best not to mention this to anyone at Ye Olde Smartphone Shoppe, or wherever you buy your gear.

Show me what you zoom in on!!

1914-1945:

Nov. 12, 1939: This photo, published shortly after the start of the Second World War, ran with this caption: “The Winged Victory of Samothrace, another great achievement of the ancient Greek sculptors, packed for removal in accordance with plans for its protection formulated far in advance of the war.” A 2009 exhibition at the Louvre showed photos documenting how art was relocated for safety during wartime. Photo: The New York Times

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O objeto da educação é ensinar-nos a amar o que é belo.

The object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful.

— Plato, The Republic (via kaiserohnepurpur)
Iwao Yamawaki
Bauhaus building
1930-32
Vintage print
Galerie Berinson, Berlin
© Makoto Yamawaki

Iwao Yamawaki
Bauhaus building
1930-32
Vintage print
Galerie Berinson, Berlin
© Makoto Yamawaki

Josef Albers
Club Chair from Oeser’s home
1928
Mahogany veneer, beech wood, maple, with flat cushions
Bauhaus-Archiv, Berlin
Photograph: Fotostudio Barsch

Josef Albers
Club Chair from Oeser’s home
1928
Mahogany veneer, beech wood, maple, with flat cushions
Bauhaus-Archiv, Berlin
Photograph: Fotostudio Barsch

T. Lux Feininger
Sport at the Bauhaus / Jump over the Bauhaus
ca. 1927
Gelatin silver print
Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin
© Estate T. Lux Feininger

T. Lux Feininger
Sport at the Bauhaus / Jump over the Bauhaus
ca. 1927
Gelatin silver print
Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin
© Estate T. Lux Feininger

Students on tumblr: Name a great thing that happened to you at school this past week.

girlwithalessonplan:

That way, we teachers have an idea of how to make those great moments keep happening for you!

Soooo?

Cartoon: Bruno Janeca
Argumento: Dinis Gardete

Cartoon: Bruno Janeca

Argumento: Dinis Gardete


Adão Iturrusgarai, Invasão da tiponite aguda

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Adão Iturrusgarai, Invasão da tiponite aguda

 1959: Al Pergande The Mighty Atom

 1959: Al Pergande The Mighty Atom

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VIAGEM NO PASSADO POR CAUSA DO PRESENTE

«O último tempo onde mais negra foi a miséria portuguesa que ainda pode ser lembrado pelos vivos foi por volta de 1943, o ano em que houve um excedente da balança comercial que a imbecil ignorância actual se permite louvar, sem saber do que está a falar. Ter havido excedentes na balança foi bom, a razão por que isso aconteceu foi péssima. É essa fractura entre a abstracção e a realidade que torna obrigatório viajar pelo passado por causa do presente. Tudo é muito diferente, mas também muita coisa é demasiadamente igual. Esperemos que em 2013 não se torne ainda mais parecida.»

J. Pacheco Pereira, Abrupto.

O Professor

O professor disserta sobre ponto difícil do programa.
Um aluno dorme,
Cansado das canseiras desta vida.
O professor vai sacudi-lo?
Vai repreendê-lo? 
Não.
O professor baixa a voz,
Com medo de acordá-lo.

Carlos Drummond de Andrade

adventures-of-the-blackgang:

sailorgil:
        Little Sailor   …  Song Sheet [1936]

adventures-of-the-blackgang:

sailorgil:

        Little Sailor   …  Song Sheet [1936]

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