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FROM THE VAULTS:

Fairy Tales (Part One: European Tradition)

Fairy Tales, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm

The king’s son ascended, but instead of finding his dearest Rapunzel, he found the enchantress, who gazed at him with wicked and venomous looks. ‘Aha!’ she cried mockingly, ‘you would fetch your dearest, but the beautiful bird sits no longer singing in the nest; the cat has got it, and will scratch out your eyes as well. Rapunzel is lost to you; you will never see her again.’

Andersen’s Fairy Tales, Hans Christian Andersen

The snow-flakes grew larger and larger, till at last they looked just like great white fowls. Suddenly they flew on one side; the large sledge stopped, and the person who drove rose up. It was a lady; her cloak and cap were of snow. She was tall and of slender figure, and of a dazzling whiteness. It was the Snow Queen.

The Happy Prince and Other Tales, Oscar Wilde

Then the Spring came, and all over the country there were little blossoms and little birds. Only in the garden of the Selfish Giant it was still winter. The birds did not care to sing in it as there were no children, and the trees forgot to blossom.

Celtic Fairy Tales, Joseph Jacobs

The girl raised her white smooth hand, and laid her finger on her tongue, to show him that she had lost her voice and power of speech, and the tears ran out of her two eyes like streams, and Guleesh’s own eyes were not dry, for as rough as he was on the outside he had a soft heart, and could not stand the sight of the young girl, and she in that unhappy plight.

Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry, edited by W.B. Yeats

Robin was well acquainted with the Giant’s Stairs—as, indeed, who is not that knows the harbour? They consist of great masses of rock, which, piled one above another, rise like a flight of steps from very deep water, against the bold cliff of Carrigmahon. 

The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Charles Perrault

When she had done her work, she used to go into the chimney-corner, and sit down among cinders and ashes, which made her commonly be called Cinder-breech; but the youngest, who was not so rude and uncivil as the eldest, called her Cinderilla.

The Fairy Books, Andrew Lang

“Is your name Conrad?” “No.” “Is your name Harry?” “No.” “Is your name perhaps, Rumpelstiltzkin?” “Some demon has told you that! Some demon has told you that!” screamed the little man, and in his rage drove his right foot so far into the ground that it sank in up to his waist; then in a passion he seized the left foot with both hands and tore himself in two.

Illustration by corygodbey.

The Other Chuck Culkin: “If I were to acquire that scroll, how should I alter the past?”

Hitler: “I’d like to make it so I am accepted to the art academy”

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heyitsapril:

There’s always money in the banana stand. #nevernude #adworldtour (at The Grove)

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thedavidoreilly:

Not sure if this is interesting for you guys. 

Around 6 years ago (gasp) I did a bunch of lectures on animation theory. One subject was how textures of movement have evolved over the years, alongside the more obvious progression of design.

I made these videos to illustrate more clearly how contrast in timing was something that has a clear progression from the 30s to the 90s. The timechart below each clip represents relative change in space between drawings - from the ultra linear early animation - to the soft bouncing of Classic era Disney - to the exaggerated Warner Bros style - brought to it’s peak by John K (in my opinion). 

Sorry about the quality on these gifs. I’ll post more stuff like this if theres any interest.

love all these cartoons so much also

Neat neat neat neat.

laboratoryequipment:

NASA Says Kepler’s Days are Numbered

NASA’s planet-hunting Kepler telescope is broken, potentially jeopardizing the search for other worlds where life could exist outside our solar system.

If engineers can’t find a fix, the failure could mean an end to the $600 million mission’s search, although the space agency wasn’t ready to call it quits. The telescope has discovered scores of planets but only two so far are the best candidates for habitable planets.

Read more: http://www.laboratoryequipment.com/news/2013/05/nasa-says-keplers-days-are-numbered