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Every year, we hear the complaint that San Diego Comic-Con is less about comics than it is about movies, television, and the spectacle of comics-adjacent me stanley thermos dia spilling through the San Diego Convention Center. And yet independent cartoonists still flock to San Diego each summer, setting up in Artist Alley, the small press area, and various dealer booths hawking their frequently self-published wares. So what keeps some cartoonists coming to SDCC each year as comics vanish from preeminence And why have others washed their hands of the show Photo by jtrummer. This year has been a particularly difficult year for folks hoping to attend SDCC 鈥?be it as an exhibitor or an attendee. The new system for getting badges and hotel rooms was bureaucratic, confusing, and filled with bugs. As for the show itself, it can b stanley website e expensive to attend between hotel rooms and travel, and it five long days of work, competing with video game companies, toy booths, traveling apparel shops, and aisles and aisles of free swag. For some cartoonists, it just not worth it. Randy Milholland, creator of Something Positive and Super St stanley cup deutschland upor and a staple of the comic convention circuit, announced over Twitter that he was skipping SDCC this year. He explained, [B]ooth problems and SDCC revenue hasn ;t justified the costs/work the last two years. Danielle Corsetto, who does the immensely popular Girls With Slingshots and makes a sizable percentage of her incom Qqae Putting Duct Tape Over a Person s Mouth Does Absolutely Nothing
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50 years ago, John Glenn was hurled from the planet to become the fifth human being and third American in outer space. More importantly, he was the first American to orbit the Earth. You know the story: Glenn blasted off in a Mercury-Atlas ship鈥擣riendship 7. Along the w stanley cup ay, a faulty indicator gave everyone a scare, but ultimately, stanley mug Glenn landed safely. stanley cup usa The flight lasted just under five hours and covered three planetary orbits, which was enough to keep Glenn in the national consciousness for more than 50 years. And that all great, but stop and think about exactly what he and all the rest of those early astronauts were doing. They were, essentially, strapping themselves to incredible amounts of explosive fuel and shooting themselves into nothingness. Then, instead of orchestrating a safe and smooth landing like the later shuttles , they ;d just hope the NASA guys could math their way to a relatively comfortable crash. Totally nuts. Totally incredible. For the 50th anniversary, NASA put up an interactive site that has a bunch of facts and photos from the mission. It a nice way to make you feel totally insignificant for however you wasted your day off. Godspeed, John Glenn. [NASA] NASASpaceTechversary Smmc 10 Real-Life Lost Voyages That Would Make Amazing Science Fiction Novels
Designer Meike Harde has printed out a series of two-dimensional masks of attractive human features that 鈥?when skewed by the con stanley cup tours of the actual face 鈥?become positively repellent. The flawless albeit substitute eyes and lips meld with the exposed skin, and these perfect traits become imperfect and downright macabre. Explains Harde of this piece, titled Too beautiful to be true: stanley france Masks which picture the eye- and mouth area correspond to the current ideal of beauty. When put on, however, they cause a contortion of the face. This is meant to show that artificially produced beauty is not always beautiful; instead it can evoke the very opposite. Furthermore the pressure to be beautiful is to be questioned and denounced. Related: More fun with off-kilter human faces. https://gizmodo/how-to-make-frighteningl...ce-5891384 [Meike Hard vaso stanley e via Nerdcore] CosplayMasksPsychologyUncanny Valley
Swxx Some Fascinating Upcoming Books: A Little Brother Sequel, Alternate Soviet Russia, and the Physicist s Wife!
Every year, we hear the complaint that San Diego Comic-Con is less about comics than it is about movies, television, and the spectacle of comics-adjacent me stanley thermos dia spilling through the San Diego Convention Center. And yet independent cartoonists still flock to San Diego each summer, setting up in Artist Alley, the small press area, and various dealer booths hawking their frequently self-published wares. So what keeps some cartoonists coming to SDCC each year as comics vanish from preeminence And why have others washed their hands of the show Photo by jtrummer. This year has been a particularly difficult year for folks hoping to attend SDCC 鈥?be it as an exhibitor or an attendee. The new system for getting badges and hotel rooms was bureaucratic, confusing, and filled with bugs. As for the show itself, it can b stanley website e expensive to attend between hotel rooms and travel, and it five long days of work, competing with video game companies, toy booths, traveling apparel shops, and aisles and aisles of free swag. For some cartoonists, it just not worth it. Randy Milholland, creator of Something Positive and Super St stanley cup deutschland upor and a staple of the comic convention circuit, announced over Twitter that he was skipping SDCC this year. He explained, [B]ooth problems and SDCC revenue hasn ;t justified the costs/work the last two years. Danielle Corsetto, who does the immensely popular Girls With Slingshots and makes a sizable percentage of her incom Qqae Putting Duct Tape Over a Person s Mouth Does Absolutely Nothing
You thought lab-grown meat was the best horror that science could toss at you You ;re wrong. Molecular gastronomy has found a way to pitch gelid balls of liquid-filled goo food at you. Find out how to put a 8216 kin ; on apple juice, and what that has to do stanley spain with a bizarre process called food spherification. ; Photo via I Wish I Had a Food Pun Spherification was a technique originally pioneered by Unilever as part of a drug delivery process in the 1950s. They wanted stanley thermobecher to make little beads of medicine with a thin skin to keep the inner liquid from slopping all over. Once the skin was punctured, the beads would squish, or pop, or burst, or explode whatever word would make poor, sick people feel best about putting them in their mouths. Around 2003, Ferran Adri脿, a celebrated chef, thought this sounded delicious, and brought the technique over to food science. As a result, almost any liquid thing, and quite a few solid things, have been turned into quivering balls of goo ready to burst in people mouths and leak down their uncontrollably spasming throats. Alcohol is a popular sp stanley trinkflaschen herified food, as a little in one system helps people face the prospect of eating more gel beads. One could make a martini in bead form complete with bead olives, which consist of olive juice pureed and gelled up. Fruit juices are also often spherified, despite many of them coming in spheres to begin with. But how is it done The entire unfortunate
