One of my geologist shirts~
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Doing my undergrad in Texas this was something to be arranged *before* getting onto someone’s land…
My one field trip west of the Mississippi, we had an… issue. One paleontology professor, his grad student assistant and maybe eight students in three cars looking at an outcrop about 100 meters off a county road in Wyoming. Not a fence, cow, or habitation within sight, and the outcrop had quite a commanding view. We’d been there about 20 minutes when a truck pulled up about a quarter mile away, spotted us, and headed straight for us.
A man dressed like a rancher gets out of the truck with a shotgun, ‘casually’ slung over his shoulder. Tells us we’re trespassing on Mr. So-and-so’s land, and we needed to clear off. And leave any samples we’d taken in the process. The professor was ready for this pulled out a map and politely informed the man that he had a copy of the county’s deed maps, and Mr. So-and-so’s land ended a couple sections over at the creek bed to the east. We were standing on federal land. Also, he had cleared the visit with the owners of all the land in the area, just in case. We’d be done in a few minutes anyway.
The man in the truck was having none of it, because he took the shotgun off his shoulder and pointed it in our direction, waving it vaguely toward our vehicles. “You’re trespassing, and I have every right to shoot you. Now leave!”
The professor looked at him and put his hand down on the gun at his hip, that he’d said he’d brought “in case of rattlesnakes.” His grad student came out of the professor’s truck with a shotgun they said they’d brought for the same reason. He repeated calmly that he didn’t want any trouble, we were not trespassing and this was federal land. The ranch hand was suddenly not so sure of himself. “We’ll see what the sheriff says.” He got in his pickup, and drove off. We stayed about another half hour, and nobody bothered us. This was long before the days of cell phones. One of my fellow students spent the rest of the stop throwing up, and three people didn’t finish the rest of the week.
The professor told us the next day that the ranch owner had called to apologize, and that he was welcome on his ranch any time.
Holy shit
So this story got added to the photo I shared last night.
High School Fashion, 1969
What a trip.
Wow these photos are stunning
Some of these outfits are the raddest things I’ve ever seen.
Can we talk about the tights.
The existence of photos like these (and similar photos from the 70s and 80s and so on) makes me wonder yet again why current-day movies set in this time never seem to be able to get the hair and clothing right.
I had this really weird dream again for like the second time??
It starts off I’m in my dorm with my roommates and we’re watching this PBS creepy paranormal thing where this guy kept observing in photos he was taking with this modified camera, there was this short, humanoid figure standing near him in all the photos. It was a brownish color with gold lines all over its body and it was vaguely ‘baby shaped’ so he was calling them baby demons or whatever. It wasn’t only him that had those creatures around. He took pictures of people that were experiencing paranormal phenomena, and more often than not, those creatures would show up. Almost everyone that had those creatures around them died shortly after. Then, shortly after the guy that was observing this phenomena disappeared.
The next thing I remember was that my roommates and I were taking a road trip somewhere along the eastern seaboard and we were making notes of how crazy exaggerated the tides have been for the past few months. They were, like, record breaking tides.
When we get back to the room after this trip, there’s a photograph shoved under our door of that guy. That guy from the PBS show that disappeared. The photo is 3 separate photos stitched together and in all of them you can see that ‘baby demon’ whatever it is. We got freaked out and we threw the photo out into the hallway, and seconds after I shut the door, I look through the peephole and the photo is taped over the peephole. We tried throwing it away, burning it, everything, but the photo would come back.
A few days later in the mail we got this camera, one that looked like this guys.
We got to thinking about why we kept getting the photo and why we got this camera, and then it kinda dawned on us all at once that maybe now one of us were being followed by those creatures in the photo. So, we take the camera, and we take a bunch of pictures of ourselves, both in groups and not. We all sat down in the main room again and kinda have this moment of “which one of us is being haunted by this?” and we looked at the pictures.
Every. Single. One of us. Had those creatures around us. We all did.
We tried to figure out why they would show up in pictures but not to our eyes, and we kinda hypothesized that it was because these creatures were some sort of high energy beings that existed not in visible light, but in the infrared, and that the camera was just sensitive enough to pick up the creatures.
Then I looked out my window, which was overlooking a courtyard, and took a few photos where groups of people were standing. I look at the pictures.
Everyone had those creatures around them. Hundreds of them were in those photos.
Once my roommates and I calm down, we tried to figure out what that all meant. Other people before us that had these creatures around them were killed somehow. The guy that was observing these photos disappeared.
I was the only one in the room to wake up the next morning. Everyone else was, just, dead. As if their heart stopped beating in the middle of the night. I leave my room to go to the front desk and as I walk out, there’s no one in the halls. No one at the desk. The entire place was empty. I run outside and, thankfully, see a few people. They run up to me and ask what the fuck was going on and had I heard the news.
Apparently, those tides that have been really extreme, washed out pretty much anywhere within a 50km distance of the ocean overnight, and people, billions of people, had died in the night.
I explain to them the pictures I was taking, of the creatures and how I had somehow lived, and they asked to take me to take pictures now, so I ran and got that camera and started taking pictures. There were ships, hundreds of them in the air, and on the ground were hundreds of creatures, taller and much lankier than the ‘demon babies’ but with the same basic anatomy. They were all standing in some sort of military pattern and completely silent. They take no notice of us. To the east is a much larger ship with a ramp to the ground. We run over to the ship that we can’t see with the naked eye, but when we go to step foot on it, the ramp ripples below and becomes briefly visible before disappearing again. The 4 of us wander onto the ship and it’s chaotic at best. The interior is visible, suggesting some sort of cloaking device, and people are running and screaming as most of them are being slaughtered.
Again, no one takes notice of us 4. We wander through the ship and soon find a ‘meeting room’ type area where these aliens, now visible, are sitting at a table. Some humans are there too. The aliens have translators on so the humans can understand what’s happening, and the 4 of us go and sit down in the 4 empty seats at the table, that are side to side of each other.
The aliens talk about what happened, that they wiped out the ‘unnecessary’ humans, and kept the useful ones, gesturing broadly to the 7 of us humans at the table. They talked about how they caused the tides because their mother ship was so massive, that once it got in sync with the moon, it could just completely destroy coastal areas.
The last thing I remember before waking up was the aliens talking about their secondary breed of themselves, those ‘demon’ things that were surrounding everyone, as the ones who got to choose who lived and who died.
Photos That look Like Renaissance Paintings
I wish we had the credit for all these photos
sorry about that, here you go:
four men, one smoking - Dimitri Staszewski
brawling ukrainian politicians - Valentyn Ogirenko
man painting with cat in foreground - Reddit user Ktai_Arterion
ted cruz - Jason Reed
man lying in busy street - Joel Goodman
laughing man framed by grimy window - Leo Berne
woman baking in sunlight - Bas Uterwijk
bickering traders on a red couch - Adam Grey
Photos during the Civil Rights movement were in Black and White because they were cheaper and because News Papers were in black and white (most of the people taking pictures were taking them to publish them).
So here’s some color photos of Martin Luther King to remind everyone that this was recent. This is recent history. This is recent memory for a lot of people. People are alive today that got to witness MLK’s speeches.
-fae
2014 at Rooster Teeth in Photos
I could either tell you about my year at Rooster Teeth…or I could just post a shit load of photos from it.
I choose photos.








































Ending the year with this last photo from the last day of shooting at Lazer Team after Matt had called it a wrap is definitely a highlight from my year. A lot happened in 2014 and I don’t plan on slowing down for 2015. Cheers to the New Year.











