Sunday, May 22, 2011

The Known Universe by the American Museum of Natural History


This is an astounding rendering of the entirety of the known universe. It really gives you a sense of perspective. Our planet is just one infinitesimally tiny spec of dust in relation to the rest of the cosmos. The span of one human life, even the amount of time that life has existed on this planet, is nothing in relation to the billions of years that have come before us. The expanse of space that we haven't yet even begun to observe and explore is staggering in its own right.

I've been waiting for visualizations based on scientific data like this since I was a just a kid. I've got to start hanging out with more scientists...

Tuesday, May 3, 2011

I Found a Photo That I Took in an Article on Cracked.com

I was reading an article today at Cracked.com about 6 Mental Illness Myths Hollywood Wants You to Believe wherein a mention of child molesters was illustrated with a photo of a creepy van.



Not just any photo of a creepy van, but the very photo of a creepy van that I shot with my phone while sitting at my desk at work exactly two years ago today. The very same creepy van photo that I posted to this very blog, as seen here:

Douglas Dillingham - Filmmaker: I Love Creepy Vans

I also posted that van on the site CreepyVans.info, which is probably where they got the image.

This just goes to confirm my theory that all of reality, and by extension the internet, is just one big screwy Möbius strip... full of creepy vans. Maybe I could somehow leverage this into a job at Cracked?