jing xiao

heart skipped a beat - the xx

The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore

animation can be so magical.

stuffbyberry:

NOW I KNOW MY ABCs. If you love fonts like I do, you’ll love this. Enjoy.

i sent my dad the practice exam and solutions for 251 and he sent me this email  

Hi Jing,

I took a quick look at the exam questions and solutions. I do not understand any single tiny part of any question or solution—-they seem to be from out space.

Good luck with your exams and take care,

Dad.

bahahahahaha

capucha:

feedwell:

curiositycounts:

Stanford neuroscientists host the world’s first love competition, asking people to spend 5 minutes in an fMRI machine thinking deeply about the person they love. Complementary reading: 5 essential books on the psychology of love.

pour anne, capu, alio, va et mimi

Grab a tissue before you watch this.

september - the shins

if you love me (really love me) - esther phillips

“Jeffrey Zaslow, a longtime Wall Street Journal writer and best-selling author with a rare gift for writing about love, loss, and other life passages with humor and empathy, died at age 53 on Friday of injuries suffered in a car crash in northern Michigan.

…More recently, he became one of America’s best-selling nonfiction writers, known internationally for such books as “The Girls from Ames,” the story of a 40-year friendship among 10 women, and “The Last Lecture,” about Randy Pausch, a Carnegie Mellon University computer-science professor who in 2007 was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and given only a few months to live.”

wow, this is unbelievably sad. i actually let out an audible gasp when i saw the news. i went to hear him speak about the last lecture during orientation week just a few months back, and now he’s gone from this world… it feels completely surreal. i remember getting to the talk a tiny bit late, so i didn’t have time to ask him to sign my book in the beginning. and then after he finished his talk, he offered to start signing things again, but i was going to be late for some unimportant workshop about resume building or something, so i missed the opportunity to meet him. he was such a regular speaker at cmu that i figured i’d get to talk to him at some point in my 4 years here.

jeffrey zaslow spent his whole life telling other people’s stories, preserving their legacies, immortalizing them. sadly, he never did get around to telling the story of his own life. yet in a way, without ever even having to do such a thing, he has been immortalized already. he will live on in his writing, in the words that so selflessly detail the amazing feats of people other than himself. i don’t think anything could sum up what he was all about better than that. 

251 homework trolling

nameless-liberty:

Smoking Children by Frieke Janssens.

“A YouTube video of a chainsmoking Indonesian toddler inspired me to create this series, “Smoking Kids”. The video highlighted the cultural differences between the east and west, and questioned notions of smoking being a mainly adult activity. Adult smokers are the societal norm, so I wanted to isolate the viewer’s focus upon the issue of smoking itself. I felt that children smoking would have a surreal impact upon the viewer and compel them to truly see the acts of smoking rather than making assumptions about the person doing the act. ”

There were no real cigarettes on set. Instead, chalk and sticks of cheese were uses as props, while candles and incense provided the smoke.

You can see the making of video here and see more pictures of this project at the artist’s website here.

OMG this homework, what even.. so confused

good:

“Code Year” Promises to Teach You Computer Programming in 2012

Is it possible to learn the basics of computer programming in one year? That’s the hope of the more than 281,000 (and counting) people who have signed up to participate in Code Year, a New Year’s resolution challenge that promises to teach users enough code to build their own apps and websites by the end of 2012. Zach Sims and Ryan Bubinski bring an interactive, gaming-style approach to the subject. 

Read more on GOOD→

this is the COOLEST. everyone should do this. 

texturism:

because the questions you’ll find are more important than the answers. the future belongs to the curious by skillshare [learn or teach] | via mokoyfman: zachklein

tmills:

4. Today’s word for the drawing challenge is euphoria.

my uncle is a surgeon in china, and apparently his patients really like to show their gratitude by giving him random edible gifts. so while i was staying with my grandma over the summer, every so often, my uncle would come over and dump these “gifts” on us. one time, my mom and i had to help him lug a huge box of fresh eggs, a live chicken, and several watermelons (that he’d received simultaneously on that day) back from the hospital. another time, someone had gifted him an enormous crate of this mysterious purple fruit imported from thailand. for months, i puzzled over the name of this fruit…until FINALLY, as i was watching chopped today, out popped from the entrée basket this same fruit! its name is apparently mangosteen. i also found a few interesting snippets from the wikipedia page:

There is a legend about Queen Victoria offering a reward of 100 pounds sterling to anyone who could deliver to her the fresh fruit. Although this legend can be traced to a 1930 publication by the fruit explorer, David Fairchild, it is not substantiated by any known historical document, yet is probably responsible for the uncommon designation of mangosteen as the “Queen of Fruit”.

Mangosteens are available canned and frozen in Western countries. Without fumigation or irradiation as fresh fruit, mangosteens have historically been illegal for importation in commercial volumes into the United States due to fears that they harbour the Asian fruit fly, which would endanger U.S. crops. This situation, however, officially changed on 23 July 2007, when irradiated imports from Thailand were allowed upon USDA approval of irradiation, packing and shipping techniques. Freeze-dried and dehydrated mangosteen arils can also be found.

Since 2006, private small volume orders for fruits grown in Puerto Rico were sold to American gourmet restaurants who serve the aril pieces as a delicacy dessert. Due to the shape and feel of the fruits, they were promoted in parts of the US as ‘fruit grenades’. Beginning in 2007 for the first time, fresh mangosteens were sold from speciality produce stores in New York City for as high as $45 per pound, but, during 2009 and 2010, wider availability and lower prices have become common in the United States and Canada.

i should’ve smuggled that crate back home. 

interiors-porn:

For all the creative people who read this blog, for all the students who want to know how to get better: we can all learn something with these words. I guess patience and hard work are indeed underestimated but a “must-have” that we forget while living in a world where everything seems to happen quite fast.

balloon girl