These Are So Fun To Make

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Brevity is the soul of wit & this was so damn creative

the trio

you wanna see some badass shit from the early 20th century?? The Lumière brothers created the first full color photograph… in fucking 1903! So these dudes dyed potatoes (in red, blue, and green), mashed them down into just pure fuckin’ starch, and used these dyed potato starches as filters to block out/let in certain wavelengths of light. They coated one side of a glass plate with the starches and sensitized the other side with a mixture of gelatin and light sensitive materials (silver nitrate) and loaded these plates in their cameras.. This is a really simple explanation of the process and I may have missed some things A few of my favorite autochrome photos:

I saw a post saying that Boromir looked too scruffy in FotR for a Captain of Gondor, and I tried to move on, but I’m hyperfixating. Has anyone ever solo backpacked? I have. By the end, not only did I look like shit, but by day two I was talking to myself. On another occasion I did fourteen days’ backcountry as the lone woman in a group of twelve men, no showers, no deodorant, and brother, by the end of that we were all EXTREMELY feral. You think we looked like heirs to the throne of anywhere? We were thirteen wolverines in ripstop.

My boy Boromir? Spent FOUR MONTHS in the wilderness! Alone! No roads! High floods! His horse died! I’m amazed he showed up to Imladris wearing clothes, let alone with a decent haircut. I’m fully convinced that he left Gondor looking like Richard Sharpe being presented to the Prince Regent in 1813

*electric guitar riff*

And then rocked up to Imladris a hundred ten days later like

“You have to be there not for the fame and glory and recognition and being a page in a history book, but you have to be there because you believe your talent and ability can be applied effectively to operation of the spacecraft” - Alan Shepard

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Te Wiki o te Reo Māori/Māori Language Week Day 2 – Rātū te tekau mā whā o Mahuru/Tuesday 14th of September

Pronunciation

Unlike English, te Reo Māori has very logical and consistent pronunciation rules, once you learn them, pronouncing new words is relatively simple!

Tohutō – one of the most important parts of the language is the length of the vowels. A tohutō is the macron/line above a vowel which indicates that you hold that vowel for slightly longer. If you can’t type the tohutō, just write the vowel twice to indicate the same thing. (eg. Maaori instead of Māori) the length of the vowel often changes the meaning of a word so its very important to include it.

Vowels – one of the key things is getting the pronunciation of vowels right, especially in combination with other letters and vowels. It might be aimed at children, but I recommend using this song. It’s the one we always used in primary school, and we used it in the first te reo class at uni too.

Difficult letters – the two bits that might take a bit more practice (depending on what other languages you know) is rolling your R, and the Ng sound. Ng usually comes at the beginning of the word and is often mispronounced by just removing the g. Try words like ring, just take the last part and add it to the front of the word (eg. Ngāi, Ngāti). Its all about the tongue placement, the middle of your tongue should roll against the roof of your mouth. In comparison, when you use the letter R in te reo, the tip of your tongue should roll against the roof of your mouth, it sounds almost closer to an English L. The Wh sound can also be difficult, simply put its just pronounced as an F sound (eg. Whakatāne, whakapapa).

Another important point is that te reo Māori does not use the S at the end of a word to make it a plural. When using a plural form of a te reo word, just leave it as it is! Just like how sheep and fish are already plurals in English, and it would sound wrong to say sheeps and fish, Māori is already a plural, and its completely wrong to say Māoris. Same goes for te reo animal names, its kiwi not kiwis, kākāpō not kākāpōs