you wanna see some badass shit from the early 20th century?? The Lumiรจre brothers created the first full color photographโฆ in fucking 1903! So these dudes dyed potatoes (in red, blue, and green), mashed them down into just pure fuckinโ starch, and used these dyed potato starches as filters to block out/let in certain wavelengths of light. They coated one side of a glass plate with the starches and sensitized the other side with a mixture of gelatin and light sensitive materials (silver nitrate) and loaded these plates in their cameras.. This is a really simple explanation of the process and I may have missed some things
Attempting to display the beauty of a butterfly with one photo can be difficult because in many cases the upper side and the underside are quite different, while both are beautiful. The Bronze Copper (Lycaena hyllus) is a good example.
i just remembered that i dreamt last night that an anon leaked sufjan’s cell phone number to me and i was like Fuck What Do I Do so i eventually decided to text the number something like “hey i’m really sorry, but if this is sufjan stevens, this is just a heads-up that you should change your number asap because someone online is giving it out to randos” and he texted back, verbatim, “Don’t give me unsolicited advice.”
half full water bottle left behind on the floor of a public bus: *rolls around*
OP is an optimist
Not to be pedantic but it took me years to understand the optimist/pessimist divide via the halglass because i literally always considered it a factor of time/prior state rather than ‘outlook on the world’
If I fill a glass and drink half, that glass is half empty
If i only fill a glass halfway that glass is half full
Honestly that probably is important to the metaphor because if you have a full glass and half gets poured out you are going to have a different reaction then being served that way. Like one is “I was only provided with half” and one is “half was taken from me”.
