Here's Looking At You Kid...

Ascension Le Film

Ascension from Ascension Le Film on Vimeo.
"Well, the movie is first of all a black humor movie : we wanted to make laugh with the bad situation of a crippled man doing a traditionnal ascent. And to make everything even worse, we wanted the movie to loop. A sisyphean, perpetual struggle. Therefore, this is also about all the struggles and the perpetual fights in life and about beliefs.
It was not meant to be, as I have seen in a comment somewhere, "a judgment from an atheist over the stupidity of the religion". It would be actually the exact opposite, but in a more personnal way.
But, again, our main purpose was to make laugh.
Hope it helped :)" ~ Ascension Le Film

A Flower For You ~ As if Mother Nature Ever Needed Any Help

Shrodinger's Cat

Symmetry, Reality's Riddle...

Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance

"There will come a time when everybody
Who is lonely will be free...
To sing & dance & love

There will come a time when every evil
That we know will be an evil...
That we can rise above

Who cares if hair is long or short
Or sprayed or partly grayed...
We know that hair ain't where it's at
(there will come a time when you won't
Even be ashamed if you are fat!)
Wah wah-wah wah
There will come a time when everybody
Who is lonely will be free...
To sing & dance & love (dance and love)
There will come a time when every evil
That we know will be an evil...
That we can rise above (rise above)
Who cares if you're so poor you can't afford
To buy a pair of mod a go-go stretch-elastic pants...
There will come a time when you can even
Take your clothes off when you dance"
Frank Zappa

This Train Don't Stop There Anymore

"I used to be the main express
All steam and whistles heading west
Picking up my pain from door to door
Riding on the storyline
Furnace burning overtime
But this train don't stop,
This train don't stop,
This train don't stop there anymore"
Bernie Taupin

photo credit: train_tracks_2_by_batsforlashes1

The Horsehead Nebula from Blue to Infrared
Image Credit & Copyright: Optical: Aldo Mottino & Carlos Colazo, OAC, Córdoba; Infrared: Hubble Legacy Archive

as posted verbatim from Astronomy Picture of the Day website:

Explanation: One of the most identifiable nebulae in the sky, the Horsehead Nebula in Orion, is part of a large, dark, molecular cloud. Also known as Barnard 33, the unusual shape was first discovered on a photographic plate in the late 1800s. The red glow originates from hydrogen gas predominantly behind the nebula, ionized by the nearby bright star Sigma Orionis. The darkness of the Horsehead is caused mostly by thick dust, although the lower part of the Horsehead's neck casts a shadow to the left. Streams of gas leaving the nebula are funneled by a strong magnetic field. Bright spots in the Horsehead Nebula's base are young stars just in the process of forming. Light takes about 1,500 years to reach us from the Horsehead Nebula. The above image is a digital combination of images taken in blue, green, red, and hydrogen-alpha light from the Argentina, and an image taken in infrared light by the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope.  

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