Sunday, August 16, 2026
This Year’s Flower Carpet in Brussels
Every two years a massive temporary floral masterpiece is displayed in the historic Grand-Place in Brussels. This year Japanese artist Hiro Sugiyama has recreated Hokusai’s Great Wave with 750,000 dahlias. Today is the last day to see it.
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| Photo credit MVRDV |
Rotterdam Rocks (image above) is the winning proposal for a landmark on the banks of the river Maas. Designed by MVRDV for The Shift Embassy whose aim is to raise public awareness of the climate crisis. It is a 30,000 square metre mega structure made of seven huge, stacked, porous boulders. The space will house immersive art, architecture, community building, storytelling, a hotel and real-world examples of sustainable living and business practices.
How badly do you want that IDANÄS bed frame with storage? IKEA complexity index (Via Webcurios)
Download a high resolution file of details from Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights. Read more at Public Domain Review
The Living Record There is now an archive of eulogies given by Palestinian journalists to their martyred colleagues.
If I hadn’t learned my lesson from The Great Purge when we moved not long ago I’d be all over this auction like a duck on a Junebug: Atomic Kitsch: The Allee Willis Collection
A strange reality is unfolding around one of history’s most infamous “extinctions.” I would be happy to learn we had not killed them all. Read more
The iconic green bathrobe is made from dried lamb's ear Art submission captures iconic photograph taken in St. Paul Minnesota during an incident with ICE.
Bartłomiej Kubkowski is the first person to swim across the Baltic Sea non stop. It took him 55 hours! No wonder he looked kind of cranky when he finally emerged from the water.
Thanks to social media, canned sardines are vanishing from grocery shelves
From 1988: What could top Perrier as the ultimate yuppie frivol?
1911 Sunset Boulevard: Gallery Luisotti’s exhibition of photos about a departed, treasured restaurant.
'The Tumblehair' is a 10ft tall human hairball that is rolling down the streets of NYC to mark the launch of the latest "hair longevity" serum from biotech haircare brand K18.
New Bedford Whaling Museum printed its 1-star review on a hoodie. It sold out.
That time tennis legend Serena Williams humiliated five men at once as they collectively failed to score a single point against her.
I’ve been power walking and I hope this is true.
Something silly: ’Monty Python and the Holy Grail' Re-Edited in Alphabetical Order
Saturday, August 15, 2026
New York's Smallest Restaurant Is in Queen’s
This is an absolutely charming video by Harrison Webb. He eats at Warung Selasa, a single table restaurant tucked inside Indo Java Groceries and is only open on Tuesdays.
Via Laughing Squid
Friday, August 14, 2026
The Copyist
Watch contemporary artist Jas Knight as he copies Diego Velázquez’s Juan de Pareja (1650)
Via Kottke
A Place To Hide Your Beer
This clever cooler by Matt Thompson Woodworks looks like an ongoing project. No one would ever guess you’ve stashed your beer there.
Via The Awesomer
35 Years Of Television History Preserved
Marion Stokes was afraid people would rewrite history, so she recorded over 800,000 hours of TV over 35 years. Original post
— Massimo (mirror) (@rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social) August 11, 2026 at 9:05 PM
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