Miss Yumi

One last reminder:

Let’s do one final contest.

Go here and see what has happened.

See, this is the final week of my request for help. And everything waits on the results.

The support I have already received has changed things. Now everything waits for the end of this week, as what is left of this chapter and the path to The Orange Key will depend entirely on what happens there this week.

For those just joining us, go here to read the main scenes of this story so far, and here to learn more about how this story is being told.

If such things capture your attention, please follow there.

To put things simply: we need a large net. And we need that het to have as few holes as possible.

So I am asking for your help this one last time before finishing what we have begun.

If you have any interest in this story, and if your ways allow for such things, I would be very grateful if you would repeat this link wherever you can:

http://kck.st/14BjpJR

I ask you do that for the sake of this story alone.

For those who do so here by reposting this post, I will select four names at random to receive an Alchemy Starter Set at the close of these last six days on Sunday, February 10th at 4:22 pm EST.

For those of you who post the link to twitter with the #findthestarlight tag, two will be selected on the same date to receive an Alchemy Starter Set.

Thank you all so very much for your help, for your patience, for your kind words and encouragement, and for your attention.

The best of luck to us all.

-M

really-shit: Berlin-based street artist Evol transforms power...

Fri, 08 Feb 2013 12:53:00 -0500

really-shit:

Berlin-based street artist Evol transforms power boxes, walls and any other public surface into a cities within the cities, as part of his ongoing Buildings series.

Like an urban planner, using stencils to reproduce the gridded windows and balconies, Evol creates a tiny urban landscape, one box at a time.

"A Fable Once upon a time there dwelt an old King in a palace. In the center of a golden table in the..."

Fri, 08 Feb 2013 12:52:39 -0500

“A Fable
Once upon a time there dwelt an old King in a palace. In the center of a golden table in the main hall, there shone a large and magnificent jewel. Each day of the King’s life the stone sparkled more resplendently.
One day a thief stole the jewel and ran from the palace, hiding in a forest. As he stared with deep joy at the stone, to his amazement the image of the King appeared in it.
“I have come to thank you,” said the King. “You have released me from my attachment to Earth. I thought I was freed when I acquired the jewel, but then I learned that I would be released only when I passed it on, with a pure heart, to another.
“Each day of my life I polished that stone, until finally this day arrived, when the jewel became so beautiful that you stole it, and I have passed it on, and am released.
“The jewel you hold is Understanding. You cannot add to its beauty by hiding it and hinting that you have it, nor yet by wearing it with vanity. Its beauty comes of the consciousness that others have of it. Honor that which gives it beauty.”

- Thaddeus Golas http://enlightenment4u.org/Ebooks/Enlightenment.pdf

#Gecko by the the pool

Sat, 02 Feb 2013 15:36:21 -0500

#Gecko by the the pool

"The sky is blue because the incident light interacts with the gas molecules in the air in such as..."

Sun, 27 Jan 2013 12:50:59 -0500

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The sky is blue because the incident light interacts with the gas molecules in the air in such as fashion that more of the light in the blue part of the spectrum is scattered, reaching our eyes on the surface of the planet. All the frequencies of the incident light can be scattered this way, but the high-frequency (short wavelength) blue is scattered more than the lower frequencies in a process known as Rayleigh scattering, described in the 1870′s. John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, who also won the Nobel Prize in physics in 1904 for the discovery of argon, demonstrated that, when the wavelength of the light is on the same order as the size of the gas molecules, the intensity of scattered light varies inversely with the fourth power of its wavelength. Shorter wavelengths like blue (and violet) are scattered more than longer ones. It’s as if all the molecules in the air preferentially glow blue, which is what we then see everywhere around us.

Yet, the sky should appear violet since violet light is scattered even more than blue light. But the sky does not appear violet to us because of the final, biological part of the puzzle, which is the way our eyes are designed: they are more sensitive to blue than violet light.

The explanation for why the sky is blue involves so much of the natural sciences: the colors within the visual spectrum, the wave nature of light, the angle at which sunlight hits the atmosphere, the mathematics of scattering, the size of nitrogen and oxygen molecules, and even the way human eyes perceive color. It’s most of science in a question that a young child can ask.

”

- Why the sky is blue, one of the most elegant explanations in science. (via explore-blog)

nearcited: Malcolm on Flickr.Muse of the Sea on Etsy...

Sun, 27 Jan 2013 11:23:23 -0500

nearcited:

Malcolm on Flickr.
Muse of the Sea on Etsy
http://bitly.com/V4wxjU

differenceetrepetition: Violin-light from Jascha Heifetz’s bow...

Sun, 27 Jan 2013 11:13:59 -0500

differenceetrepetition:

Violin-light from Jascha Heifetz’s bow (LIFE Magazine, 1952)

arbredujour: ARBRE DU JOUR 26-01-13 “Le plaisir de l’enlacer...

Sun, 27 Jan 2013 11:09:50 -0500

arbredujour:

ARBRE DU JOUR 26-01-13 “Le plaisir de l’enlacer tient du souvenir de son premier baiser.”

aquaticwonder: Four more years

Mon, 21 Jan 2013 22:12:56 -0500

aquaticwonder:

Four more years

welcome to beauty-guru-advice!: BEAUTY GIVEAWAY!!! :)

Mon, 21 Jan 2013 22:10:08 -0500

welcome to beauty-guru-advice!: BEAUTY GIVEAWAY!!! :):

beauty-guru-advice:

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Limited Edition Maybelline Color Tattoo Metal in “Barely Branded”

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Must have…

space-pics: http://space-pics.tumblr.com/

Mon, 21 Jan 2013 22:04:59 -0500

space-pics:

http://space-pics.tumblr.com/

atavus: Paul Mutant - This Painting is Not Available in Your...

Mon, 21 Jan 2013 22:00:54 -0500

atavus:

Paul Mutant - This Painting is Not Available in Your Country, 2010

Website | Tumblr

space-pics: Jupiter’s moon “Europa”, image acquired by NASA’s...

Sun, 20 Jan 2013 17:22:15 -0500

space-pics:

Jupiter’s moon “Europa”, image acquired by NASA’s Galileo spacecraft.
http://space-pics.tumblr.com/

photojojo: You might relate with Adrià Navarro and his...

Sun, 20 Jan 2013 17:22:04 -0500

photojojo:

You might relate with Adrià Navarro and his collaborators when they explain that their daily online activity is just as meaningful as their daily activity in the physical world.

So, they created the Polaroid Cacher, a camera that captures their online lives.

It prints out photographic mementos of what they do online, kinda the same way we take snapshots of what we do in ‘real’ life. See a vid of it in action!

What would yours photograph?

The Polaroid Cacher, a Camera That Photographs Your Online Life

via PetaPixel