laughingsquid: Pen & Ink, A Blog Featuring Beautifully Illustrated Tattoos & The Stories Behind Them I hope I never feel this way about my Life-size Africa back tat.

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Pen & Ink, A Blog Featuring Beautifully Illustrated Tattoos & The Stories Behind Them

I hope I never feel this way about my Life-size Africa back tat.

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npr: My father, world-renowned virtuoso violinist and teacher Roman Totenberg, whose professional career spanned nine decades and four continents, died early Tuesday morning at the age of 101. His death was as remarkable as his life. He made his debut as a soloist with the Warsaw Philharmonic at age 11, performed his last concert when he was in his mid-90s, and was still teaching, literally, on his deathbed. This week, as word flew around the musical world that he was in renal failure, former students flocked to his home in Newton, Mass., to see the beloved “maestro.” Mainly, he wanted to hear them play, and several of the sessions turned into long lessons, with my father, eyes closed, conducting with one hand to keep the tempo, slowing the phrasing here and there, and at one point, asking Daniel Han, now a member of the Philadelphia Orchestra, to hand over his violin so my dad could show him some fingering. Letitia Hom, who has a class of students of her own now, wanted a lesson on the Brahms violin concerto, so on Saturday, she stood at his bedside playing beautifully for him. At one stopping point, though, he spoke so softly, she had to bend her ear to his lips. His words: “The D was flat.” Solo violinist Mira Wang, who came from China decades ago to study with him, played for hours on Sunday. Every time she would stop, he had just one word: “More.” And still they came, one after another, describing how he had changed their lives. So widespread was the outpouring, that one former student in Poland had to be dissuaded from jumping on a plane to the United States. He was a caring and wise father not just to us, his three daughters, but to literally thousands of students around the world who had studied with him. I dare say there is not a major orchestra in Europe or the U.S. that does not have at least one student who studied with him. When Wang, who is 40-something with a husband and two children of her own, left our house on Sunday, she said to my brother-in-law Ralph, “Now, I finally have to be a grown-up.” (via Roman Totenberg’s Remarkable Life And Death by Nina Totenberg) Photo courtesy of Nina Totenberg Moving

npr:

My father, world-renowned virtuoso violinist and teacher Roman Totenberg, whose professional career spanned nine decades and four continents, died early Tuesday morning at the age of 101.

His death was as remarkable as his life. He made his debut as a soloist with the Warsaw Philharmonic at age 11, performed his last concert when he was in his mid-90s, and was still teaching, literally, on his deathbed. This week, as word flew around the musical world that he was in renal failure, former students flocked to his home in Newton, Mass., to see the beloved “maestro.”

Mainly, he wanted to hear them play, and several of the sessions turned into long lessons, with my father, eyes closed, conducting with one hand to keep the tempo, slowing the phrasing here and there, and at one point, asking Daniel Han, now a member of the Philadelphia Orchestra, to hand over his violin so my dad could show him some fingering.

Letitia Hom, who has a class of students of her own now, wanted a lesson on the Brahms violin concerto, so on Saturday, she stood at his bedside playing beautifully for him. At one stopping point, though, he spoke so softly, she had to bend her ear to his lips. His words: “The D was flat.”

Solo violinist Mira Wang, who came from China decades ago to study with him, played for hours on Sunday. Every time she would stop, he had just one word: “More.” And still they came, one after another, describing how he had changed their lives. So widespread was the outpouring, that one former student in Poland had to be dissuaded from jumping on a plane to the United States.

He was a caring and wise father not just to us, his three daughters, but to literally thousands of students around the world who had studied with him. I dare say there is not a major orchestra in Europe or the U.S. that does not have at least one student who studied with him. When Wang, who is 40-something with a husband and two children of her own, left our house on Sunday, she said to my brother-in-law Ralph, “Now, I finally have to be a grown-up.”

(via Roman Totenberg’s Remarkable Life And Death by Nina Totenberg)

Photo courtesy of Nina Totenberg

Moving

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theclearlydope: We as an Internet must move along now. We have important dogs standing on things to attend to. tastefullyoffensive: [via] Totally

theclearlydope:

We as an Internet must move along now. We have important dogs standing on things to attend to.

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[via]

Totally

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theclearlydope: This is real life. via @erinscafe I’m upset that I didn’t think of it first. I could have been selling hands-free rubber bands out of my trunk.

theclearlydope:

This is real life.

via @erinscafe

I’m upset that I didn’t think of it first. I could have been selling hands-free rubber bands out of my trunk.

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theclearlydope: Check please. Hot as shit!!!!!

theclearlydope:

Check please.

Hot as shit!!!!!

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laughingsquid: Glitter is the Herpes of Art Supplies Amen

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Glitter is the Herpes of Art Supplies

Amen

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laughingsquid: Horror Vacui Photo Project Imagines Movie Villains in Their Old Age Really well done art direction… Check out the twin “girls” from the ‘Shining’.

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Horror Vacui Photo Project Imagines Movie Villains in Their Old Age

Really well done art direction… Check out the twin “girls” from the ‘Shining’.

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Just happened in my Facebook news feed. Delinda is his live-in girlfriend. This has to be one of the most awkwardly hilarious moments, that I’ve ever been privy to. Bro-tip: Don’t break up with a chick you live with over the internet, unless you dump all her shit on the curb first.

Just happened in my Facebook news feed. Delinda is his live-in girlfriend. This has to be one of the most awkwardly hilarious moments, that I’ve ever been privy to.

Bro-tip: Don’t break up with a chick you live with over the internet, unless you dump all her shit on the curb first.

poptech:

Amazing video of a killer T cell of the immune system attacking a cancer cell.

Professor Gillian Griffiths:

“Cells of the immune system protect the body against pathogens. If cells in our bodies are infected by viruses, or become cancerous, then killer cells of the immune system identify and destroy the affected cells. Cytotoxic T cells are very precise and efficient killers. They are able to destroy infected or cancerous cells, without destroying healthy cells surrounding them. The Wellcome Trust funded laboratory of Professor Gillian Griffiths, at the Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, investigates just how this is accomplished. By understanding how this works, we can develop ways to control killer cells. This will allow us to find ways to improve cancer therapies, and ameliorate autoimmune diseases caused when killer cells run amok and attack healthy cells in our bodies.”

Video by Under the Microscope, a collection of videos that show glimpses of the natural and man-made world in stunning close-up.

Badass. Killer T-Cells in action.

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Craziness

The entire month of February was dedicated to work. Well, and closing a refi on my current home & trying to purchase a new one.

I’m looking forward to writing about Feb, lots of absurd stories.

Be patient.