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Moment of Totality

The total solar eclipse of 2017. A solar eclipse occurs when the moon travels between Earth and the sun, temporarily darkening our world. You can see the corona as the sun’s light peaks out from behind the moon. The middle image best shows off the ‘diamond ring’ effect.

Stills from live stream by Space & Universe on YouTube.

How to Safely Watch the Aug. 21 Solar Eclipse

On Aug. 21, 2017, a solar eclipse will be visible in North America. Throughout the continent, the Moon will cover part – or all – of the Sun’s super-bright face for part of the day.

Since it’s never safe to look at the partially eclipsed or uneclipsed Sun, everyone who plans to watch the eclipse needs a plan to watch it safely. One of the easiest ways to watch an eclipse is solar viewing glasses – but there are a few things to check to make sure your glasses are safe:

 Glasses should have an ISO 12312-2 certification

They should also have the manufacturer’s name and address, and you can check if the manufacturer has been verified by the American Astronomical Society

Make sure they have no scratches or damage

To use solar viewing glasses, make sure you put them on before looking up at the Sun, and look away before you remove them. Proper solar viewing glasses are extremely dark, and the landscape around you will be totally black when you put them on – all you should see is the Sun (and maybe some types of extremely bright lights if you have them nearby).

Never use solar viewing glasses while looking through a telescope, binoculars, camera viewfinder, or any other optical device. The concentrated solar rays will damage the filter and enter your eyes, causing serious injury. But you can use solar viewing glasses on top of your regular eyeglasses, if you use them!

If you don’t have solar viewing glasses, there are still ways to watch, like making your own pinhole projector. You can make a handheld box projector with just a few simple supplies – or simply hold any object with a small hole (like a piece of cardstock with a pinhole, or even a colander) above a piece of paper on the ground to project tiny images of the Sun.

Of course, you can also watch the entire eclipse online with us. Tune into nasa.gov/eclipselive starting at noon ET on Aug. 21! 

For people in the path of totality, there will be a few brief moments when it is safe to look directly at the eclipse. Only once the Moon has completely covered the Sun and there is no light shining through is it safe to look at the eclipse. Make sure you put your eclipse glasses back on or return to indirect viewing before the first flash of sunlight appears around the Moon’s edge.

You can look up the length of the total eclipse in your area to help you set a time for the appropriate length of time. Remember – this only applies to people within the path of totality.

Everyone else will need to use eclipse glasses or indirect viewing throughout the entire eclipse!

Photographing the Eclipse

Whether you’re an amateur photographer or a selfie master, try out these tips for photographing the eclipse.  

#1 — Safety first: Make sure you have the required solar filter to protect your camera.

#2 — Any camera is a good camera, whether it’s a high-end DSLR or a camera phone – a good eye and vision for the image you want to create is most important.

#3 — Look up, down, and all around. As the Moon slips in front of the Sun, the landscape will be bathed in long shadows, creating eerie lighting across the landscape. Light filtering through the overlapping leaves of trees, which creates natural pinholes, will also project mini eclipse replicas on the ground. Everywhere you can point your camera can yield exceptional imagery, so be sure to compose some wide-angle photos that can capture your eclipse experience.

#4 — Practice: Be sure you know the capabilities of your camera before Eclipse Day. Most cameras, and even many camera phones, have adjustable exposures, which can help you darken or lighten your image during the tricky eclipse lighting. Make sure you know how to manually focus the camera for crisp shots.

#5 —Upload your eclipse images to NASA’s Eclipse Flickr Gallery and relive the eclipse through other peoples’ images.

Learn all about the Aug. 21 eclipse at eclipse2017.nasa.gov, and follow @NASASun on Twitter and NASA Sun Science on Facebook for more. Watch the eclipse through the eyes of NASA at nasa.gov/eclipselive starting at 12 PM ET on Aug. 21.

Make sure to follow us on Tumblr for your regular dose of space: http://nasa.tumblr.com

This only ends one way. A bullet.

Atomic Blonde (2017) dir. David Leitch

talking about Atomic Blonde with straights: ah yes the John Wick director, it is going to be a #visual and #cinematic #masterpiece

talking about Atomic Blonde with queer people: Charlize Theron beats people up in every way conceivable??? and pins Sofia Boutella to a wall? what did we do to deserve this???

all the reviews for atomic blonde are like “its an empty aesthetic film where charlize theron just dresses up in nice clothes, kicks the shit out of dudes, and has random sex scenes with women” as if that wasn’t my dream action movie 

Fell in love with this film.

I want to create dangerous spaces where misogyny can’t exist, where xenophobia can’t exist. I want to create spaces where those sentiments don’t have any air, and they suffocate: where those ideas die. WOLVES isn’t about creating a safe space, it’s about creating a space that’s dangerous for injustice.

Tim McIlrath (via kyprioth-rising-against)

FREEMA LIKED THIS!!!!

The Sense8 fandom coming together to save this wonderful show

Save the Cluster!

and maybe in this sleepy town he’ll sit one day the lights are down he’ll see my face and think of how he used to know me

A bit of madness is key To give us new colours to see Who knows where it will lead us? And that’s why they need us

The new guitars for the CHON boys.

Taken from CHON’s Twitter. Floral Yoshi Guitar: https://twitter.com/chonofficial/status/760663013833650176 Erick’s Guitar: https://twitter.com/chonofficial/status/760663792258658304

I’ll be at your side, always.

Noctis & Lunafreya, Final Fantasy XV

Only you can reclaim the throne.

Casablanca, dir. Michael Curtiz (1942)

The Answer Children’s Book is coming out this Tues, Sept. 6th!

Written by me and illustrated by the incredible Tiffany Ford and Elle Michalka! 

You can find it at a bookstore near you, or order it here !

So, so excited for this book to be out, so glad to have had a chance to expand on this story with Tiffany and Elle, please check it out!!!

“All of the performances, with the exception of the Auld Triangle, were performed live. It was crucial, particularly for Llewyn’s character who is so focused on authenticity, that when he plays it’s for real. Had you been able to tell I wasn’t really playing the guitar, or lip-synching, the whole thing would come crashing down. We didn’t use any click tracks either or ear wigs so it was really like walking a tight rope with no net. I was able to lock into the rhythm with little variation which allowed for Joel and Ethan to cut freely from take to take in the editing room.” x

Mostly horrible film composer clichés

Hans Zimmer: Loud, hella brassy. Fight epic battles to this, and you will be victorious. Once heard, music sticks in your ears and never leave. VI-III-V-II(maj) game is strong (Inception!) 

Alexandre Desplat: PERIOD. DRAMA. Piano theme. Piano theme. Harp. Sweet, innocent melodies. Piano theme again. Drink a cup of earl grey tea and pet your cat as you click on repeat.

Thomas Newman: Silence. Minimalism. Incomplete chords, neither major or minor - celebrating chords as just but a little more than intervals. Music, in the distance - like a whisper….. and not a single Oscar in sight…

Danny Elfman: The strange, the fantastical and the mystical. Take my hand and let us go down the rabbit hole, bathe in chocolate fountains or make acquaintances with Edward Scissorhands while increasingly creepy circusy music escalates in the background

James Horner: Bagpipes and celtic tunes. Flutes. Grandness. Warmness. Adventure across the sea, the Scottish hills or the mystical world of Pandora. (*cough* and a lot of recycled harmonic ideas *cough*)

Ennio Morricone: El maestro italiano = Music of western films for all eternity. And so much more.

John Williams: The Force itself.

Ruby and Sapphire flirting while playing baseball

by ayki0.

my contribution to this scene

Here’s my new SQ painting in acrylics ;)

It turned out a little bit… too “pop art” for my taste, but… well… it’s finished… so I am not going to change it…

…at least right now :P

Emma: Babe?

Regina: Yes, dear?

Emma: Where’s my red jacket?

Regina: I put it away.

Emma: Where?

Regina: Why do you need to know?

Emma: I need it.

Regina: Nuh-uh, don’t you even THINK about leaving to go to the Underworld! We’ve been planning this dinner for months!

Emma: My boyfriend’s in danger!

Regina: My evening’s in danger!

Emma: You tell me where my jacket is, woman! We are talking about the greater good!

Regina: I am your wife! I’m the greatest good you’re ever gonna get!

Have any one of the 643 fanfics I’ve subscribed to been updated yet?

Life of a Swen. (via skewer-swen)

So I guess the entirety of season 5 (hopefully only so far.) can be summed up in a quote from zelena “OH, LOOK. Another woman basing the entirety of her happines around a man. Pathetic, really.‘

“Interstellar” (2014), was released exactly one year ago today in cinemas worldwide.