it ain’t me babe.
paranoid android in houston, texas.
here’s my favorite albums of twenty-eleven:
40. Lykke Li – Wounded Rhymes
39. Atlas Sound – Parallax
38. The Weeknd – House Of Balloons
37. Ry Cooder - Pull Up Some Dust And Sit Down
36. James Blake – James Blake
35. Bon Iver – Bon Iver
34. White Denim - D
33. Kate Bush – 50 Words For Snow
32. Gang Gang Dance – Eye Contact
31. Danny Brown – XXX
30. Iceage - New Brigade
29. tUnE-yArDs – w h o k i l l
28. Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks - Mirror Traffic
27. Crystal Stilts - In Love With Oblivion
26. Julianna Barwick – The Magic Place
25. Shabazz Palaces – Black Up
24. Thurston Moore - Demolished Thoughts
23. Kendrick Lamar – Section.80
22. R.E.M. - Collapse Into Now
21. Kurt Vile – Smoke Ring For My Halo
20. Wilco – The Whole Love
19. The Roots – Undun
18. Cass McCombs – Wit’s End
17. M83 – Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming
16. EMA – Past Life Martyred Saints
15.Fucked Up – David Comes To Life
14. Oneohtrix Point Never – Replica
13. Nicolas Jaar - Space Is Only Noise
12. Real Estate – Days
11. Radiohead – The King Of Limbs
10. Tim Hecker – Ravedeath, 1979
09. Girls – Father, Son, Holy Ghost
08. Fleet Foxes – Helplessness Blues
07. Death Grips - Exmilitary
06. Chelsea Wolfe - Ἀποκάλυψις
05. Dumbo Gets Mad - Elephants At The Door
04. St. Vincent – Strange Mercy
03. Colin Stetson – New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges
02. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
01. Destroyer - Kaputt
“Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we’re being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I’m liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That’s what’s insane about it.” ~John Lennon
“The Count of Monte Cristo” and others
by Mead Schaeffer, American Golden Era illustrator.
cwnl:
Science Ink: A Taxonomy of Tattoos Inspired by Science
As a proud owner of a science tattoo, these articles always make me cheese.
A few years ago—by accident, really—Carl Zimmer became the de facto curator of science-based body art. The author of The Loom blog over at DISCOVER as well as numerous books, Zimmer asked his readers about their tattoos, and whether any of them had inked themselves up in science-inspired motifs. The response was greater than he imagined.
Those responses, which often arrived in Zimmer’s inbox in the form of images, have now been compiled into a book published earlier this month, . In it, the science obsessed—or at least those enthusiastic enough to etch their favorite equations, diagrams, schematics, and formulas directly onto their dermises—show off their needlework in a coffee table-worthy collection of pics, arranged by Zimmer into categories centered on major scientific disciplines: math, chemistry, neuroscience, evolutionary biology, astronomy, and a dedicated chapter on DNA.
From those pages we’ve pulled a few of our favorite works—from Darwin’s finches to a Dali-like double helix to a front-to-back neural net—and collected them here. Click through the link above to see some of our favorite science-derived ink from the collection.
Be sure to check out the book, which you can read more on here.
