Arriving at each new city, the traveler finds again a past of his that he did not know he had.

Italo Calvino, from Invisible Cities (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1974)

“Lips Study”

Oil on Canvas

by Nina Klein

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Mangalyaan ("Mars-craft") | Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM)

Destination: Mars

India is now well on its way to having an interplanetary presence. The country has successfully launched the Mars Orbiter Mission, a reconnaissance satellite that will orbit the Martian atmosphere for elusive chemicals.

The integration of the five scientific instruments was completed at ISRO Satellite Centre, Bangalore, and the finished spacecraft was successfully launched from Sriharikotta on 5 November 2013.

India's space agency would be just the fourth to reach the planet -- a symbolic win over countries like China, whose interplanetary missions have fallen short.

Oh Rayleigh?!

So the sky is blue because short wavelengths of light coming from the Sun (blue, etc.) are scattered more than long ones (yellow, red, etc.), reflecting the short wavelength light into our eyes instead of it passing through the atmosphere as part of white light. Sunsets are red for the opposite reason … but yeah, why isn’t it violet?

Violet has an even shorter wavelength than blue light. So does indigo, whatever that is. There’s a good logical case for a purple sky, right?

Want to know the answer? Why the sky isn’t violet?

Do ya? 

The truth is that the sky is both violet and blue. But the color receptors in our eyes don’t see violet very well, so we get the (incorrect) impression that the sky is just blue. Some birds actually see well into the violet and ultraviolet, so the sky must look trippy as hell to them.

(via xkcd)

finals are approching

HELL WEEK, means new blog post!

Updating this blog (basically writing) is ironically relaxing.

comfort

there’s nothing wrong with choosing a comfortable life over a difficult one, as long as at each reevaluation and reflection you can truthfully say, “there’s nowhere better I could be than where I stand today”

.her

As time passed, I visited her less often. Eventually, I went an hour without thinking of her, then a few hours, then a day, then a week, then a month.

When I visit her profile now (yes, i don’t see her in person anymore), the sting isn’t as sharp. I am proud of her when she finds success in her ballet career, and I am sad for her when someone she knows isn't doing well.

Maybe she’s different now; I certainly am. Maybe she doesn’t get quiet when she gets upset, or she even bakes much better cookies (god I miss them). Maybe I don’t know her at all. That brief moment after waking was always the worst. That moment when I felt like the dream was reality — like maybe we never broke up at all.

But still, thinking of her reminds me that I am capable of love. It reminds me that when you truly care for another person, it never really goes away. You left me, but your scent still lingers.

50 Best Films Of 2013

Sitting in my room (back home in NYC) listening to Interstellar soundtrack is just an awe-inspiring experience! It was an epic scifi film, one with emotion, action, love, and sweeping landscapes of a ‘strange new world’. Surely everyone who has seen this movie probably felt some element of that.

But what really kept the philosophical meaning of the movie was the OST. I mean the score by Hans Zimmer is just absolutely dramatic and otherworldly! It just makes you fell as if you were witnessing the grandeur of our universe, the impossible and the pioneering voyages, right from the characters mind.

Oh (still listening to the music) and the empowering sound whilst giving us the violins, organs and horns of the epicness made his soundtracks magnificent. And, its just beautiful how Hans sneaks in his moving piano themes that brings out the characters emotions and yearning so very well. It just stamps these vibes and what you make out of the movie scene right into your head. 

Ok getting to the point here: Of course one of Interstellar’s novum is love. I still ponder on Brand’s quote “Love is the one thing we’re capable of perceiving that transcends dimensions of time and space.“ I mean Interstellar does not try to say that love is another dimension. It's actually just a beautiful metaphor?

Look, all of the emotional factors in Interstellar simply should not undermine the idea concept that love is just as solid and strong as the other forces making up our planet universe. So talking chemistry, love is no more unstable than certain radioactive elements, it pushes and pulls us better than gravity ever could, and it endures through time (metaphor, duh).

People who have seen interstellar interpret it in many different ways! Some are just blindly wowed by the science and how epic it was, and some.. 

(my eyes are drooping right now...i should perhaps get some sleep lol) But really, Interstellar is utterly filled with deep elements of existential-philosophical subtext! I’m afraid to use the word ‘love’ outside the quotation marks but yea! I’m just rambling at this moment.

no words

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