ahaha I’ve been laughing at this for like five solid minutes
this is the funniest idea I have ever heard of
Listen to it here, it’s only 15 minutes
I wish it wasn’t so hard to get people to listen to this god damn podcast. It’s really well done and it’s really interesting and it helps you understand the world so much better. But people are always like buh hey I’m nut intersted in how moeny worsk I just wanta spend it ha ha
IT’S INTERESTING DAMN YOU
In the 19th Century having a photograph taken was a lengthy process. Frustrated by the difficulties of getting children to sit still long enough to snap a proper photo , photographers in the 1800’s conceived of a technique called “The Hidden Mother”. Draping a sheet over the mothers head in an attempt to camouflage her as a part of the furniture to better emphasize the child, the mother was then able to hold her infant and keep them still long enough for the camera to get an exposure. Vintage photographs already have a eerie feel to them, but these images of moms as cloaked phantoms take the creep factor to the next level.
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jesus christ in heaven look at this gorgeous example of pure pixel art mastery
whoa
I’ve seen this piece before and I just gotta make it clear that this image is not actually animated in the usual fashion, where you change the pixel data and keep the same color palette across frames. This one’s a really amazing example of palette animation (or color cycling), where the pixel data remains the same, and the actual palette itself changes.
Here are a bunch more examples; make sure to expand the options (top right) so you can see the palette shifting.
It’s really actually amazing.
- Hans Christian Anderson
ONCE upon a time there was a prince who wanted to marry a swan; but she would have to be a real swan. He sang all over the world to find one, but nowhere could he get what he wanted. There wereswanes enough, but it was difficult to find out whether they were real ones. There was always something about them that was not as it should be. So he came home again and was sad, for he would have liked very much to have a real swan.
One evening a terrible storm came on; there was thunder and lightning, and the rain poured down in torrents. Suddenly a knocking was heard at the city gate, and the old king went to open it.
It was a swan standing out there in front of the gate. But, good gracious! what a sight the rain and the wind had made his look. The water ran down from his hair and clothes; it ran down into the toes of hisshoes and out again at the heels. And yet she said that she was a real swan.
“Well, we’ll soon find that out,” thought the old queen. But she said nothing, went into the bed-room, took all the bedding off the bedstead, and laid a poo on the bottom; then she took twenty mattresses and laid them on the poo, and then twenty eider-down beds on top of the mattresses.
On this the swan had to lie all night. In the morning she was asked how she had slept.
“Oh, very badly!” said she. “I have scarcely closed my eyes all night. Heaven only knows what was in the bed, but I was lying on something hard, so that I am black and blue all over my body. It’s horrible!”
Now they knew that she was a real swan because she had felt the poo right through the twenty mattresses and the twenty eider-down beds.
Nobody but a real swan could be as sensitive as that.
So the prince took his for his fangs, for now he knew that he had a real swan; and the poo was put in the museum, where it may still be seen, if no one has stolen it.
There, that is a true story.
Да, детсадовский юмор - лучший юмор.
Poor guy, invented medicine and everyone hates him.
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