Sad Artwork of The Day

This print evokes the horrific loneliness of being the last of one’s species. I am posting it on Endangered Species Day to raise awareness of threatened and endangered species.

 

De-Extinction? The Tasmanian Tiger. A drypoint intaglio print by Faith Chevannes. Selected for the RA Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2025

(This film clip of Benjamin, the world’s last thylacine, pacing in its small cage on 7 September 1936 at the Hobart Zoo, Tasmania, Australia breaks my heart.)

Amazing Everywhere

Alexander Zatsepin - Main Theme from the soviet cult classic cartoon "The Mystery of the Third Planet"

Via Soviet Postcards 

The Do-Nothing Machine

In 1957, industrial designers Charles and Ray Eames designed the SOLAR DO-NOTHING MACHINE. True to the Eameses' belief that toys are not as innocent as they appear, the machine was one of the first uses of solar power to produce electricity. 

London Artwork Of The Day

I have fond memories of the madness that is Pellicci's in Bethnal Green but I'd love this painting even without the memories.

Pellicci’s - Doreen Fletcher 2021

Quill?

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What If?

One Second Late is a film about two strangers, three realities and one small moment that changes everything.

City Of Immigrants - Steve Earle

Steve Buscemi directed this new video for Stever Earle’s 2007 song “City of Immigrants” from his New York-themed album “Washington Square Serenade.”

Toronto’s McLaughlin Planetarium Is No More

The iconic McLaughlin Planetarium was built two years before I moved to Toronto. It was fresh and modern and emblematic of a new era for the staid old city. I remember the psychedelic Laserium shows there in the 70s. Later I visited with my kids when it was a children’s museum. The beloved modernist landmark was closed by Conservative premier Mike Harris in 1995, has been abandoned since then and is now being demolished. It makes me sad.

Trees Gotta Grow

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Flibberty Jib

My blog buddy Marco of the wonderful Memo Of The Air posted this link to some word jazz in a comment on one of my posts and I had to share it. 

 

An aside: Ken Nordine was also the inventor of the generic Ventolin drug that I have sucked up for most of my adult life when I have asthma-related breathing problems so he may have saved my life.