Criatividade Fractal

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Sat, 25 May 2013 11:46:23 -0300

"A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have...."

Sat, 25 May 2013 11:45:07 -0300

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A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value. You can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapours; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a miniraft down the slow heavy River Moth; wet it for use in hand-to-hand-combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (such a mind-bogglingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can’t see it, it can’t see you); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough.

More importantly, a towel has immense psychological value. For some reason, if a strag (strag: non-hitch hiker) discovers that a hitchhiker has his towel with him, he will automatically assume that he is also in possession of a toothbrush, face flannel, soap, tin of biscuits, flask, compass, map, ball of string, gnat spray, wet weather gear, space suit etc., etc. Furthermore, the strag will then happily lend the hitch hiker any of these or a dozen other items that the hitch hiker might accidentally have “lost.” What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is, is clearly a man to be reckoned with.

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- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (via interchangeable-novelties)

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Fri, 24 May 2013 22:23:00 -0300

t-funster: Cordel literature (“Literatura de Cordel” in...

Fri, 24 May 2013 16:38:36 -0300

A Game of Thrones

A Clash of Kings

A Storm of Swords

A Feast for Crows

A Dance With Dragons

t-funster:

Cordel literature (“Literatura de Cordel” in portuguese, means “string literature”) are popular and inexpensively printed booklets common in the Northeast of Brazil. They usually contain folk novels, poems and songs, and they are sold at fairs and in the street. Cordel uses in its cover a very specific and traditional kind of xylography, and since I’ve done this kind of aesthetics for another “A Song of Ice and Fire” illustration, I decided to use the same style for a reinterpretation of the book covers.