Shared by photographer and lecturer Stephen Vaughan @stephenvaughan68 on Instagram ・・・ ‘Sorting through some of my old film-stills work…found this portrait of the wonderful Tom Hardy #tomhardy #thereckoning #filmstills taken on the set of ‘The Reckoning’ in Rodalquilar, southern Spain 17 years ago(?)‘
“Oh they are.” Aria laughed, though a sadness betrayed her at the corners of her eyes. She realized her mother was too young, that she shouldn’t tell her, but the pang in her hearts was there all the same. “I love them dearly, crazy as they are.”
“How about you? Any kids?”
There was something different about her now for some reason. Like she had something on her mind, something bothering her, but River couldn’t quite put her finger on it.
“Hard to have kids when you and your husband rarely get to have a dinner date interrupted by some world-dominating scheme.” She didn’t mind the adventure, not at all, but some time alone with her husband would be nice. “So, what’s Plan B?” she asked, changing the subject.
“Hey.” Aria reached for her mother’s hand and caught it gently, giving her a soft smile. “I know husbands can be royal pains sometimes, but maybe if you talk to him about it, it could happen. If it’s something you want, of course. You know how men can be. Now matter how intelligent they are, they’re still idiots at heart.”
“Anyway, sorry! Plan B…I was kinda hoping you would’ve come up with one.”
the concept of vinyl records will never cease to amaze me like they put SOUND in there!!!!!!! what the hell and fuck
The craziest thing about records is that the sound actually comes directly from the interaction of two physical objects–the record and the needle. Like, if you play a record on a turntable that isn’t hooked up to speakers, you can put your ear right next to it and (very faintly) hear it. (That’s how those old-fashioned record players with the big trumpet thing worked. You can even manage a vague approximation with a sewing needle and a paper cone–the sound quality is crap, but if you get the speed right, you can at least make out what song it’s supposed to be.)
All of the other media for sound-recording encode that sound in a way that requires an electronic device to decode it back into something your ears can process. Records actually sound like that.
