copperbadge:

I kept wondering if I should post this but fuck it, I’ve read enough about him to know Stan would have loved it. 

The story goes that there was a magazine that wanted to do a story about Marvel Comics, and the reporter showed up with a photographer to shoot some images to use in the article. Someone cracked a joke about doing nude photos, and one of the other artists couldn’t even finish jokingly refusing before Stan Lee was taking his pants off. 

He was very saddened that Marvel put the kibosh on the magazine using this photo of him naked with a giant-sized Batman Vs. Hulk comic preserving his dignity. I like to think this is how he’d like to be remembered. Especially the sunglasses. 

Stan Lee was a marketing genius, a showman, a storyteller, he was flashy and he made a lot of really…strange business decisions, he made one VERY strange musical album, and he worked for Marvel Comics in one incarnation or another for over seventy-five years. He held some opinions I wouldn’t agree with, but he did a lot of good, too. 

He never thought of comics as respectable but he did think of them as important and that’s how I think of him: a flashy weirdo, but an important flashy weirdo. 

He chose Stan Lee as an alter ego, like many of his creations. He was saving his name, Stanley Lieber, for the career as a novelist he never quite got around to having, and in the end he said he was proud of Stan Lee. 

May your name be a blessing, Stan. 

whenanangelfalls:

Anne-Sophie Mutter Performs NEW “Across the Stars” Arrangement by John Williams

Recently, John Williams wrote a series of new arrangements for violin and orchestra for some of his most famous film themes, including the love theme from Attack of the Clones.  

(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

glendafm:

chartermarked:

maneth985:

gunshyghosts:

horror-fairy:

laurdlannister-kingslayer:

its-mustard-gucci:

This is fucking terrifying

big nope 

I would’ve been so shook

Awww whale.

Whale I didn’t see that coming

it would’ve scared the fuck out of me holy shit that’s big

So for anybody who doesn’t know, that ring of bubbles you see coming up before the humpback does is a “net” that the whale creates by swimming in a circle and blowing the bubbles from its blowhole. The bubble net disorients the krill/small fish/whatever and corrals them into one spot so that the whale can lunge up and feed as you see it doing. It’s most often done cooperatively in groups, and a whole bunch of whales will lunge up at once.

In other news that is one deep harbor, holy shit.

I wish their was sound

grandegyptianmuseum:

“The most comprehensive publication of the lists of the festivities of the Egyptian Religious Tradition (dated for the year 2019). A practical application of the Egyptian Religious Calendar for the current age. The sources used to reconstruct the Religious Calendar and for the dating of the Sacred Festivities are: – the “Cairo Calendar n. 86637”; -the “Sallier papyrus IV”; -the “Budge papyrus”; – the list of the religious celebrations dated to the Middle Kingdom; and the lists of the Sacred Festivals from the Temples’ Religious Calendars: – the religious calendar of King Thutmosis III from Ipet-Sut (the Precinct of Amon-Ra at Uaset-Thebes, “Karnak”); – the Temple of King Thutmosis III at Elephantine; – the Temple of King Ramses II at Abydos; – the Temple of Millions of Years of King Ramses III, West Uaset (“Medinet Habu”); – the Temple of Horus at Behdet (“Edfu”) – the Temple of Hathor at Nitentòre (Dendera); – the Double Temple of Haroeris and Sobek at Ombos (“Kom Ombo”); – the Temple of Neith and Khnum at Iunyt (“Esna”). Contents: -Preface -the Egyptian Religious Calendar: the Calendars of Ancient Egypt; the Civil Calendar; the Sothis-based Lunar Calendar, the Lunar Months, the Feasts of the Lunar days, their presiding Deities, and the Gods of the Lunar days; Sources; Favorable and adverse days -Egyptian Religious Calendar, List of the Festivities for the year 2019, CDXIX-CDXX Great Year of Ra”

― Egyptian Religious Calendar: Great Year of Ra (2019CE), by Luigi Tripani