Nerd Choice

jtotheizzoe:

Manhattanhenge

As Neil deGrasse Tyson ponders:

“What will future civilizations think of Manhattan Island when they dig it up and find a carefully laid out network of streets and avenues?”

If they don’t assume aliens, they might just think there was some astronomy behind NYC’s layout. I mean, we have (correctly) assumed the same for Stonehenge … why not Manhattan?

Twice a year on either side of the summer solstice, the Manhattan street grid lines up precisely with the setting sun, framing the glowing orb with towering steel and concrete, and creating even more traffic than normal. Last night’s sighting was a washout due to weather, but there will be another opportunity tonight at 8:16 PM to see the marvel of Manhattanhenge.

The path of the sun creeps north and south along with the changing seasons due to the tilt of the Earth on its axis and its orbit around the sun. The 30 degree shift of the Manhattan street grid (and the fact that the island offers uninterrupted horizon on its west side) allow this unique urban view of the sun, perhaps unequaled around the world.

NYC followers, I know you’re out there. Grab a camera and get out there (and feel free to tweet me any good pics)! If the weather messes you up again, well … I guess you can just stare at the 2011 photo above really hard. 

(More info at the Hayden Planetarium, photo above by ejpphoto on Flickr)

I did not know this!

A little bit of this:

And this:

entertainmentweekly:

Les Mis trailer! Les Mis trailer! Les Mis trailer!

This Tumbl brought to you by unrepentant Broadway geeks.

… Oooh.

petitetiaras:

Thor & The Lion King | inspired by [x]
For the record, I love both of these movies.  

(via nomu-nomu)

Highlights from the Show Once

I’m going to see Once with Helen on Tuesday as a belated birthday present to her.  We watched the movie several years ago, and I’ve been in love with it since.  

I can tell this musical won’t have the superb subtlety of the movie; watching Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova’s naturalistic performances and beholding the free and honest dialogue, I still sometimes forget it’s a work of fiction.  I imagine it’s impossible to recreate that for a medium that, let’s be honest, has to pander to the audience (I’m talking musicals especially, not all theater).  But theater has a quality that other forms of art don’t.  What it lacks in the fly-on-the-wall voyeurism of a really good movie it makes up for in the in-the-moment passion and conviction of actors just twenty feet away.  I’ve seen a few plays on Broadway (Phantom of the Opera, back in fifth grade; In the Heights, and the singing swept me off my feet; The Normal Heart, and my own heart nearly stopped) and watched a few plays at school, and live theater has never failed to amaze me.  

Once is all about love.  And right now I am in a loving mood, so seeing two lovely young musicians fall in love in the lovely Irish countryside will be quite lovely.  Quite lovely indeed.  

ciel-the-earl-phantomhive:

motherfuckingmoriartyandme:

uncreativeart:

OH MY GOD

I DIDN’T NEED THESE FEELS ANYWAY

GREEN IS NOT A CREATIVE COLOR.

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skimblywimbly:

everyone on my dash

Reblog because it’s ridiculously true.

hbcisthehbic:

The Fall.

badnews-for-brainwork:

scoutology:

That first moment…Mark just hesitantly initiates the hug, uncertain of its reception.

Then next Tom realizes the hug is going down and does that…what do you even call that slapping motion? The “hell yeah bro put your hands around my waist locking you in” move?

Then they start swaying. Swaying. What the fuck, guys.

And then they finish off by giggling like schoolgirls as they hug-crab-walk away. I cannot dissect down far enough to explain the cute-ception that I’m being plagued with by these men.

This is the cutest thing I have seen all day. I actually “awwwww”ed out loud

I just stared at this for like five minutes.

(Source: levegianis, via strangersatthemall)