This Old Dark Machine

stormofthunder:

Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann MASTERPOST
Click to watch. To download (which has a subtle quality improvement),click the download arrow in the upper-left corner, then click “Download anyway”.
EPISODES
Episode 1 - Bust Through the Heavens with Your Drill!
Episode 2 - I Said I’m Gonna Pilot That Thing!!
Episode 3 - Who Do You Think You Are, Having Two Faces!?
Episode 4 - Having Lots of Faces Doesn’t Make You Great!
Episode 5 - I Don’t Get It, Not One Bit!”
Episode 6 - Sit in the Hot Tub ‘Till You’re Sick!!
Episode 6 (Director’s Cut/Uncut) - There are Some Things I Just Have to See!! (Slightly lower quality than the other version, 6 extra minutes of more fanservice-y content instead of flashbacks.)
Episode 7 - You’re Gonna Do It!!
Episode 8 - Later, Buddy
Episode 9 - What, Exactly, Is a Human?
Episode 10 - Who Is This Bro?
Episode 11 - Simon, Hands Off
Episode 12 - Yoko, Will You Do Me a Favor?
Episode 13 - Eat Up, Everyone!
Episode 14 - Well Met, Everyone
Episode 15 - I Will Head Towards Tomorrow
Episode 16 - Compilation Episode
Episode 17 - You Don’t Know Anything!
Episode 18 - Tell Me the Secrets of This World.
Episode 19 - We Will Survive by Any Means Necessary
Episode 20 - How Far Will God Test Us?
Episode 21 - You Are Someone Who Ought to Survive
Episode 22 - This is My Final Duty
Episode 23 - Let’s Go, This is the Final Battle
Episode 24 - I’ll Never Forget This Minute, This Second
Episode 25 - I Accept Your Last Wish!
Episode 26 - Let’s Go, Buddy
Episode 27 - The Lights in the Sky Are Stars
PARALLEL WORKS

In conjunction with the release of the movie, Gainax has released series of music videos entitled Gurren Lagann Parallel Works which contains alternative stories of Gurren Lagann set to songs from the original soundtrack.

Parallel Works 1 - Rap is a Man’s Soul! We Surpass the Impossible, and Kick Reason to the Curb! Open Your Ears Wide and Listen to Team Dai-Gurren’s Theme!
Parallel Works 2 - BafBaf! Being Fired Up Like This… Don’t You Like It?
Parallel Works 3 - Boin vs Boin
Parallel Works 4 - Burst Through The Heavens With Your XXX!
Parallel Works 5 - Rap is a Man’s Soul! Open Your Ears Wide and Listen to the Great Kamina’s Theme, the Man Who Believes in Himself and Surges at Heaven!
Parallel Works 6 - To Hell WIth Combining!
Parallel Works 7 - ‘Libera Me’ from Hell
Parallel Works 8 - All You Bastards, Get Fired Up!
Parallel Works 9 - Kittan Zero
Parallel Works 10 - The Sense of Wonder
Parallel Works 11 - My XXX is the Best in the Universe
Parallel Works 12 - Goodbye Dai-Gurren
Parallel Works 13 - Big Building
Parallel Works 14 - Kiyal’s Magical Time, Three Minutes Before
Parallel Works 15 - Gunmen Symphonia
Parallel Works 15 - Gunmen Symphonia (Clean)
MOVIES
There are two Compilation Movies (with new scenes to help tie things together and provide movie-original climaxes). Sadly, the files are too big to make a preview, you’ll have to download them!
Gurren-hen: Childhood’s End
Lagann-hen: The Lights in the Sky are Stars
EXTRAS
Fan Webcomic. DOUBLE K (A Buddy Cop Show AU, and it is glorious.)
Soundtrack
Yoko - ★ S.t.a.r.S ★
AMVs:
(these are really of personal taste, while I know not everyone likes AMVs, I just hope someone can enjoy these as well)
Welcome To The Black Parade - Remastered
Written in the Spirals
Spin On
300 / The Dark Knight / Iron Man / Clash of the Titans
Enjoy!

Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann MASTERPOST

Click to watch. To download (which has a subtle quality improvement),click the download arrow in the upper-left corner, then click “Download anyway”.

EPISODES

Episode 1 - Bust Through the Heavens with Your Drill!

Episode 2 - I Said I’m Gonna Pilot That Thing!!

Episode 3 - Who Do You Think You Are, Having Two Faces!?

Episode 4 - Having Lots of Faces Doesn’t Make You Great!

Episode 5 - I Don’t Get It, Not One Bit!”

Episode 6 - Sit in the Hot Tub ‘Till You’re Sick!!

Episode 6 (Director’s Cut/Uncut) - There are Some Things I Just Have to See!! (Slightly lower quality than the other version, 6 extra minutes of more fanservice-y content instead of flashbacks.)

Episode 7 - You’re Gonna Do It!!

Episode 8 - Later, Buddy

Episode 9 - What, Exactly, Is a Human?

Episode 10 - Who Is This Bro?

Episode 11 - Simon, Hands Off

Episode 12 - Yoko, Will You Do Me a Favor?

Episode 13 - Eat Up, Everyone!

Episode 14 - Well Met, Everyone

Episode 15 - I Will Head Towards Tomorrow

Episode 16 - Compilation Episode

Episode 17 - You Don’t Know Anything!

Episode 18 - Tell Me the Secrets of This World.

Episode 19 - We Will Survive by Any Means Necessary

Episode 20 - How Far Will God Test Us?

Episode 21 - You Are Someone Who Ought to Survive

Episode 22 - This is My Final Duty

Episode 23 - Let’s Go, This is the Final Battle

Episode 24 - I’ll Never Forget This Minute, This Second

Episode 25 - I Accept Your Last Wish!

Episode 26 - Let’s Go, Buddy

Episode 27 - The Lights in the Sky Are Stars

PARALLEL WORKS

In conjunction with the release of the movie, Gainax has released series of music videos entitled Gurren Lagann Parallel Works which contains alternative stories of Gurren Lagann set to songs from the original soundtrack.

Parallel Works 1 - Rap is a Man’s Soul! We Surpass the Impossible, and Kick Reason to the Curb! Open Your Ears Wide and Listen to Team Dai-Gurren’s Theme!

Parallel Works 2 - BafBaf! Being Fired Up Like This… Don’t You Like It?

Parallel Works 3 - Boin vs Boin

Parallel Works 4 - Burst Through The Heavens With Your XXX!

Parallel Works 5 - Rap is a Man’s Soul! Open Your Ears Wide and Listen to the Great Kamina’s Theme, the Man Who Believes in Himself and Surges at Heaven!

Parallel Works 6 - To Hell WIth Combining!

Parallel Works 7 - ‘Libera Me’ from Hell

Parallel Works 8 - All You Bastards, Get Fired Up!

Parallel Works 9 - Kittan Zero

Parallel Works 10 - The Sense of Wonder

Parallel Works 11 - My XXX is the Best in the Universe

Parallel Works 12 - Goodbye Dai-Gurren

Parallel Works 13 - Big Building

Parallel Works 14 - Kiyal’s Magical Time, Three Minutes Before

Parallel Works 15 - Gunmen Symphonia

Parallel Works 15 - Gunmen Symphonia (Clean)

MOVIES

There are two Compilation Movies (with new scenes to help tie things together and provide movie-original climaxes). Sadly, the files are too big to make a preview, you’ll have to download them!

Gurren-hen: Childhood’s End

Lagann-hen: The Lights in the Sky are Stars

EXTRAS

Fan Webcomic. DOUBLE K (A Buddy Cop Show AU, and it is glorious.)

Soundtrack

Yoko - ★ S.t.a.r.S ★

AMVs:

(these are really of personal taste, while I know not everyone likes AMVs, I just hope someone can enjoy these as well)

Welcome To The Black Parade - Remastered

Written in the Spirals

Spin On

300 / The Dark Knight / Iron Man / Clash of the Titans

Enjoy!

One would think of Wisconsin as the ideal state to live in, a paragon of civic success, but for the fact that the young people dream only of getting away. And there are already a fair number of Middle-Westerners about the world; a sort of vagrant chosen race like the Jews. It is our better luck to leave behind in our Palestine a teeming, prospering family, to fall back on in case of disaster and to save us, meanwhile, from the nervousness of vagabonds who really have no native land left. But we are more than likely to call New York, that palace-hotel, home; the midland gets little glory and even less entertainment from our activities. A great maternal source of, among other things, ability and brutal ardor and ingenuity and imagination—scarcely revisited, abandoned, almost unable to profit by its fruitfulness in men.

Upon these renegade children, voluntary exiles, adventurers and emigrants, brothers, cousins, or acquaintances—the others, those who have not yet taken flight, even those who never will, speculate a great deal in their own interest. They envy our apparent moral emancipation, our pocket money literal and otherwise, the gaiety which, if nothing more, we bring home to show them. They dread risks we seem to have run, suspect abnormalities which may have abetted us. What they admire most is our good luck; we are the favorites of chance, goddess whose mythology the films have spun. They ask question after question and prefer not to take advice. Most of them will remain what they are, where they are—reality only a little poisoned by notions of themselves freed and perfected, of pleasanter societies and facile foreign cities.

For those who dare not go east to meet the future, there is the hope that it may little by little be coming to them. Dreading isolation, most of them keep in line in spite of any eagerness; they do regret that the Middle West is so slow to change, but there is no comfort in anything unless all act together. That Basque beret at which the two workmen in the train stared—my brother asks me not to wear it in the street; but having seen in a New York magazine widely circulated out here a recommendation of such headgear, I can assure him that he will have to buy one for himself presently. The same law applies to manners and morals. The peculiar juvenile debauchery which in the East resulted from Prohibition, that very Western law, has already crept westward; aided by drink, certain young married sets have begun to make the simplest experiments in immorality; every irregular problem ever thought of may well be on its way.

“

—	Glenway Wescott, Goodbye, Wisconsin (1928; 2008), 13-14 (via fuckyeahhistoriography)

Facial structure.

becomedog:

NO CAT NO LIFE by ばく

souls-of-my-shoes:

Ethiopian Tribes, Suri by Dietmar Temps on Flickr.

suddenly-a-wild-cox:

so we got more snow yesterday, i almost didn’t take any pictures today because i’m so sick of the snow. but i could resist and my friend talked me into it. phooooey.

stuffaboutminneapolis:

Minneapolis’ East Bank stairways lead to quiet riverside solitude

The river in this part of the city can seem almost subterranean, separated and buffered from the flat, gridded, concrete expanses of southeast Minneapolis above it by sheer wooded bluffs. Descending the stairways, one gets the sense of traveling underground. The path down by the river is, on a Sunday morning, almost wholly deserted, and the roar of vehicular traffic over Franklin and 94 sound like it’s coming from some distant point overheard.

via Andy Sturdevant on MinnPost

harpy:

Along the Banks of the Volga River - Mikhail Bukar

Masterpieces of the Russian photography from the second half of the 19th century in the collection of the National Library of Russia in Saint Petersburg. People of different nationalities who lived on the Volga banks are seen in the pictures made by Mikhail Bukar. He followed the old tradition of trying to transform his studio documentary photos into bright water-colour illustrations. He abundantly coloured the costumes of his studiously posing models, and painted imaginary backgrounds with a brush. This method automatically upset the specific character of photography, but considerably increased the cost.

Top to Bottom: A Tatar Man. 1872, The Kyrgyz People. 1872, The Mordvins. 1872, The Kalmyks. 1872, The Bashkirs. 1872

scootermoto:

there, i did it, i genderbent the yoroyuza!

gin is basically the same, but a girl. she’s got the same personality, picks her nose, and is a gross bachelor with an uncanny abilty to understand other people’s personalities. her hair is basically the same. she’s got a sleeveless shirt, though, and her boots come up to her knees. i love butch girls, and i kind of feel like gin will pretty much be gin no matter what.

pachie! she HAS to have braids. her kimono has tiny white flowers floating in grass (by the side of the road) because i’m stupid. i really am so stupid. she’s holding a book of expenses. i feel like she might be a little shyer in general, but still nags the shit out of gin. otae is her over-protective numbah one host!!!!1 older brother, and he’s terrifying. she is definitely an idol otaku. definitely considered rather plain.

i gave kagura tezuka ankles for some reason. i don’t have much to say about him, except for that he probably only cares about people who feed him, and that he looks up to otae. he’s rude to girls because he doesn’t care about them yet.