publicshaming:

10 year old Mariachi singer Sebastion de la Cruz was thrust into the national spotlight last year on America’s Got Talent. Tonight, he was once again seen by the nation as he sang the national anthem at Game 3 of the NBA finals in San Antonio where the Spurs took on the Miami Heat.

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Here are some interesting facts about him, though:

• He basically saved public television. In 1969 the government wanted to cut public television funds. Mister Rogers then went to Washington where he gave an amazing merely six minute speech. By the end of the speech not only did he charm the hostile Senators, he got them to double the budget they would have initially cut down. The whole thing can be found on youtube, a video called “Mister Rogers defending PBS to the US Senate.”

• “Certain fundamentalist preachers hated him because, apparently not getting the “kindest man who ever lived” memo, they would ask him to denounce homosexuals. Mr. Rogers’s response? He’d pat the target on the shoulder and say, “God loves you just as you are.” Rogers even belonged to a “More Light” congregation in Pittsburgh, a part of the Presbyterian Church dedicated to welcoming LGBT persons to full participation in the church.”

• According to a TV Guide piece on him, Fred Rogers drove a plain old Impala for years. One day, however, the car was stolen from the street near the TV station. When Rogers filed a police report, the story was picked up by every newspaper, radio and media outlet around town. Amazingly, within 48 hours the car was left in the exact spot where it was taken from, with an apology on the dashboard. It read, “If we’d known it was yours, we never would have taken it.”

• Once, on a fancy trip up to a PBS exec’s house, he heard the limo driver was going to wait outside for 2 hours, so he insisted the driver come in and join them (which flustered the host). On the way back, Rogers sat up front, and when he learned that they were passing the driver’s home on the way, he asked if they could stop in to meet his family. According to the driver, it was one of the best nights of his life—the house supposedly lit up when Rogers arrived, and he played jazz piano and bantered with them late into the night. Further, like with the reporters, Rogers sent him notes and kept in touch with the driver for the rest of his life.

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timemagazine:

This week’s Person of the Year special issue features stunning portraits photographed by Nadav Kander and exclusive behind-the-scenes images by photographer Callie Shell. In addition, we wanted to create a unique interactive experience for our iPad edition, which for the first time was released before the print version was even sent to the presses.

We turned to Georgia-based artist and sculptor Michael Murphy, whose work we have long admired. Michael spent several weeks and dozens of sleepless nights creating three amazing portraits of the President. Each piece offers a completely different perspective, depending on the vantage point of the viewer— an apt metaphor for the current political climate.

The first piece Michael created for us was a 3-D portrait made out of red, blue and gray wire. From the front it looks like a jumbled wire portrait of Obama, but from the side the wires jut out at varying lengths and he becomes virtually unrecognizable.

He also created a portrait out of cut suspended glass plates.

Michael, a tireless inventor and thinker, wanted to create one more piece for us, but we were running up against a close deadline. Undeterred, Michael spent four straight days meticulously crafting one final sculpture. The result (on deadline!), which we featured as our opening interactive illustration on the Person of the Year iPad app, consists of 66 hand-cut and -painted cardboard plates suspended from white braided fibers.

In Michael’s words:
“It was created considering the perception of the viewer. When viewed from different vantage points, the piece offers varied experiences. Straight on, the shapes are perfectly organized, creating a graphic portrait of Obama as a strong leader. As the viewer moves around the sculpture, seeing it and the point of view changes, the image of the President becomes distorted and the layers become their own separate pieces. In the distortion, viewers are encouraged to see the red and blue edges of the plates as indications of the electoral divides. From the side, the forward momentum of the piece, as it protrudes into space suggests growth, progress, movement and the partisan divide.”

To see the interactive 360-degree version of the piece, download TIME’s Person of the Year issue, available on iTunes now. To see more of Michael’s incredible work, visit www.mmike.com

—D.W. Pine and Skye Gurney

If I’m to get over this sickness I have to put on Warpaint. #Warpaint (Taken with Instagram at The Cuddle Cabana)

Frozen watermelon on a hot southern day after bikram yoga. #SoFuckingGoodYouCantEvenImagine (Taken with Instagram at Bikram Yoga San Antonio)

Designing t-shirts tonight and listening to a mixed playlist of #StVincent & #TylertheCreator (Taken with Instagram at The Cuddle Cabana)

How I wear my suits. Casual days call for my invisible noose. #hangman (Taken with Instagram)

Enjoying my food-gasm w/ my peach bunny for that post bikram yoga snack. (Taken with Instagram)

wellthisisratherawesome:

A Glitch is a Glitch (End Credits) - Flying Lotus

um so i thought the end credits for the newest adventure time were really rad so i made them into a little 40 second song :)

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Dapper. #Barbarella #Austin @freedomrivera

Spinach salad w/ honey mustard, 2 fish tacos, & a loney ‘lil shrimp taco. Man date w/ @freedomrivera #SwimSnack (Taken with Instagram at The Cove)

W/ @atzitli Agua fresca, elote, tortas, tacos, and lovely company. (Taken with Instagram at Erick’s Tacos)

Got off of work and this is my Friday night. #ForeverAFrog (Taken with Instagram at The Cuddle Cabana)

I’ve been having Cthulhu in my dreams all week. Nothing grim; one time he was a chill bro and recommended me a nice cheese. #HPLovecraft (Taken with Instagram at The Cuddle Cabana)