n. the default expression that your face automatically reverts to when idle—amused, melancholic, pissed off—which occurs when a strong emotion gets buried and forgotten in the psychological laundry of everyday life, leaving you wearing an unintentional vibe of pink or blue or gray, or in rare cases, a tie-dye of sheer madness.
I’m looking at you Guts! He definitely has a slipcast, it’s a sad one. I know lots of people might think he has a angry one, but Miura has a great way of showing that sadness he has when he’s not actively thinking, concentrating, feeling another emotion really strongly, ect. It’s part of why I really love Guts and Miura’s story telling in general.
Flowers of the Sky - a collection of images, spanning nearly a millennia, of comets, meteors, meteorites and shooting stars. See the whole selection here: http://bit.ly/1ruGqe7
France in the year 2000… as imagined in the 19th century. A series of futuristic postcards by Jean-Marc Côté and other artists. See more here: http://bit.ly/LnSwOO
I love seeing past people’s views of the possible future, so interesting. These gadgets are rad, it’s funny how the artist didn’t change the fashions though ;).
Break out the cigars! Long live the only lonely representative of its kind, the Judean palm is now reproducing and giving researchers a unique glimpse back in time.
Talk about perseverance, not to mention the mastery of nature’s design when it comes to plants. Decades ago a 2,000-year-old…
After Sundiata, the most famous ruler of the Mali empire is Mansa Kankan Musa I, who came to power several decades after the death of his legendary predecessor. Musa was not the first emperor of Mali to embrace Islam; unlike the Soninke and the Soso, Mande royalty adopted the religion relatively early.
However, Musa’s hajj (pilgrimage to Mecca) of 1324–25 drew the attention of both the Islamic world and Europeans, who were unprepared for the lavish wealth and generosity that the Malian king displayed during his stopover in Egypt.
Accompanied by an enormous entourage, Musa apparently dispensed so much gold in Cairo that the precious metal’s value plummeted and did not recover for several years thereafter. The Mali empire, previously little known beyond the western Sudan, now became legendary in the Islamic world and Europe. The image of Mansa Musa bearing nuggets of gold was subsequently commemorated in maps of the African continent.
"My place really was here. I was too foolish and stubborn to notice. But, what I truly hoped for then was here. Why do I always realize it… when I’ve already lost it."
Guts (Berserk)