Things I'm Obsessing Over

Favorite 2012 Winterguard Shows:  Fantasia Winterguard

amazing.

there’s so much going on but bam the visual impact

chills

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rhamphotheca:

Amazonian Ants Build One of the Freakiest Death Traps in the Animal Kingdom

The Amazonian tree known Hirtella physophora looks rather unassuming, but it is the site of several grisly spectacles. Amid its leaves and branches, an animal, a plant and a fungus conspire to create a nightmarish trap where trespassers become meals, robbers get the death penalty, and assassins are assassinated.

The tree is home to ants called Allomerus decemarticulatus, which defend it from hungry insects. In return, the tree provides the ants with leaf pouches and swollen thorns as shelter, and feeds them with nectar and sugary nodules. These food sources are rich in carbohydrates but low in proteins. To supplement their diets, the ants need flesh, and they get it by shaping the tree into traps.

The ants cut hairs from the plant and weave them together into a hollow gallery, which extends down the side of the tree’s branches. Within the gallery, the ants hide inside small holes, jaws agape. From the outside, nothing can see them. If an insect lands on the trap, hundreds of lurking jaws seize its legs and pull it spread-eagled, as if on a medieval ‘torture rack’. The victim is overpowered and dismembered…

(read more: io9)     (photo: Dejean et al 2005, and 2012)

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reference:  Dejean, Carpenter, Corbara, Wright, Roux & LaPierre. 2012. The hunter becomes the hunted: when cleptobiotic insects are captured by their target ants. Naturwissenschaften http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00114-012-0895-3

amazing

-ly terrifying

haha

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samaralex:

Stockholm’s subway is better than your subway.

Unless your subway is Stockholm’s subway.

that is pretty baller

fyeaheasterneurope:

I recently saw this post, which claims that the Stockholm subway is the coolest subway. Now, those pictures are pretty damned cool, it’s true, but does the Stockholm subway have chandeliers and Soviet realist art? I think not.

Pictures of the Moscow Metro from here.

why do we have to argue coolest

they are just both so cool in their own way

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immerse-myself:

Hyper-Realistic Paintings by Hubert De Lartigue

some people left no talent for me

they have it all

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This is the best commercial I’ve seen this year. That’s not hyperbole. There are 15 quotable lines. I think I’m going to sign up.

DollarShaveClub.com - Our Blades Are F***ing Great (by DollarShaveClub)

Via Devour

THIS SPOT IS SO GOOD IT BROKE THEIR WEBSITE.

Two things: First, this is absolutely amazing and hilarious.

Second, the description for one of their razors on the website starts off like this: “This is your new razor. And it’s also your girlfriend’s new razor. Or your boyfriend’s.”

I had to re-read the “Or your boyfriend’s” part because I thought my brain automatically filled it in. Kudos guys. Kudos.

YOUR HANDSOME-ASS GRANDFATHER ONLY HAD ONE BLADE

AND POLIO

not only is this an AMAZING COMMERCIAL this seems like an AMAZING IDEA

totally want to get some

probably will too…

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mrsrobinsonsghost:

Two blind persons wanted to drink water in Bangalore. When they were unable to operate the tap, this mother monkey opened the tap for them, allowed them to drink water, drank some water herself and then closed the tap before leaving the scene.

wow

not surprised that the monkey can work the tap

just surprised that it would help the people

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thatcutesortofsouthern:

A guy photoshops celebrities into all of his holiday party photos

Bahahahaha

some of these just look soooo good

plus rather impeccable taste in celebrity friends

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tyleroakley:

Holy shit.

wow

wow

wow

b1ackblizzard:

“Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish” - Carmel World Guard 2011

Just because It’s in the moment and because this is my all time favorite show of ALLLL time <3 I’ve literally memorized all the words to this and jam out to this track all the time. :/

wow. What an amazing show

like I had tears in my eyes towards the end

it’s so sad that guard shows are a one year affair and when you miss it you miss it forever

(Source: thehumanabstract, via everygardnerneedsagoodhoe)