hopeless-but-heartless:

Growing up in an angry household is honestly so terrifying. Where if you make one tiny mistake you get tormented and treated like you are the worst child in the world. Children make mistakes, children break things accidently. Nice things, expensive things, they are children. To this day if I accidently drop the small gate to keep my dog out of the living room I fucking cringe because I know I am going to be SCREAMED at and I’m 23 years old. It instilled fear and anxiety in me, that never should have existed as a child. Your children should not be terrified of you. Your children are allowed to have accidents

Anyone who thinks of themselves as capable of being anything other than a loving parent to their children should not have them.

This should be taught in schools as a precondition for living in a free society.

..the camera will prove to be the ancestor of all those apparatuses that are in the process of robotizing all aspects of our lives, from one’s most public acts to one’s innermost thoughts, feelings and desires.

Towards a Philosophy of Photography

Vilém Flusser

(via notesonphotography)

In Neal Stephenson’s The Rise and Fall of the D.O.D.O., advent of photography is the reason that the magic ended.

fuckyeahfluiddynamics:

Often our atmosphere’s transparency masks the beautiful flows around us. This spectacular image shows a flight landing in Munich just after sunrise. Low-hanging clouds get sliced by the airplane’s passage and curl into its wake. The swirls are a result of the plane’s wingtip vortices, which wrap from the high-pressure underside of the wing toward the low-pressure upperside. The vortices stretch behind in the plane’s wake, creating turbulence that can be dangerous to following planes. In fact, these vortices are a major determining factor in the frequency of take-off and landing on a given runway. The larger a plane, the larger its wingtip vortices and the more time it takes for the turbulence of its passage to dissipate to a safe level for the next aircraft. (Image credit: T. Harsch; submitted by Larry S.)