Neil Gamain's address to the graduating class of the University of the Arts

http://www.upworthy.com/6-ways-to-make-sure-you-dont-hate-your-life-and-actually-enjoy-it-and-stuff-5?c=slt1
It's a video of his commencement speech and is around 20 minutes long. The person who links to this said her favorite part starts at 9:40.




I've put this here because I know I will want to find it later, but his main point, "Make good art," makes me sad, because I don't make art.

Ah, but there was that thing that we said in grad school: "Those who can't make art, teach art history."

Time-lapse video of earth seen from ISS

The video is embedded in the Bad Astronomy blog.

Jaw-dropping.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/05/06/time_lapse_video_our_earth_as_seen_by_the_international_space_station.html

Greek statues in color

I've seen & heard about this before, but it's still like when all the dinosaurs suddenly had feathers:
True Colors: Call them gaudy, call them kitsch, but archaeologist Vinzenz Brinkmann insists his eye-popping reproductions of ancient Greek sculptures are right on target

http://gizmodo.com/5616498/ultraviolet-light-reveals-how-ancient-greek-statues-really-looked

What the hell would the Renaissance artists have done if they saw these? And what colors did they really use on all of the nude men - the frontally nude men?