Julian from Baumgartner Restoration brings an old painting back to life using expert archival techniques and materials.
(Kottke)
Monday, May 25, 2026
Peacock Spiders
Peacock Spider (genus Maratus), a group of tiny Australian jumping spiders famous for their vibrant colours and elaborate courtship dances to attract its mate. They are very tiny in size only between 2-5 millimetres ( the size of a pea)
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The Memories of Others - Trailer
Japanese war photographer Akihiko Okamura moved from Southeast Asia to Dublin in 1969. This film documents his extraordinary work in Ireland during the Troubles, and the artistic and emotional impact of its recent rediscovery.
Sunday, May 24, 2026
Sunday Links
Hanoi's humble beer glass and the memory of a nation Conceived in the midst of socialist austerity, the Bia hơi cốc has persisted in the face of imported glassware. (image above)
The Moon and The Zoo British Poet Laureate Simon Armitage has written a new nature poem, released as an animated film, to mark the 200th anniversary of international conservation charity ZSL. Link
Blackout Poetry Maker Create a poem by colouring over parts of an existing text, so that only selected words remain visible. Via Metafilter
A 1962 Nightmare “Uta, Yma; Uta, Ava; Uta, Oona; Uta, Ona; Uta, Ida; Uta, Ugo; Uta, Abba; Uta, Ilya; Uta, Ira; Uta, Aga; Uta, Eva.”
How the Bird Eye Was Pushed to an Evolutionary Extreme
“I did a little bit of farm work in college and a little bit of farm work after college. And when I'm 24, I get this summer job at a Quaker farm camp in Vermont.” Marne Litfin tells us about the chicken harvest. It’s funny.
Strangers Rent My Home, Sleep in My Bed, Play My Guitar We were exposing our home, and ourselves, to strangers for reasons that had nothing to do with love or human solidarity. We were doing it to lighten the financial load of our next trip.
What Color Is This? Built for colorblindness, useful for everyone.
Tiny Footprints, a Blue Blanket - A heartbreaking story of babies whose deaths could have been prevented with a long-standard vitamin shot.
Joan Didion on the Grateful Dead: “ I told the Dead I was trying to figure out what was going on and one of them said “When you find out, tell us.” Read more
16 Declassified CIA Cartography Maps From The 1960s
Tune in your favourite music old school style with Your Internet Radio Dial. Via MetaFilter
Saturday, May 23, 2026
The Keeper
“She tends to creatures in Manhattan that don't need elevators to reach the sky. They could kill her.”
Friday, May 22, 2026
The Last Will & Testament Of Young Billy Wilson (Aged 8 ½)
AI animator Adventures In Sacred Cows just posted “a wholesome family psycho drama about inheritance”.
It’s A Wrap
It is the 40th anniversary of the wrapping of Paris’ Pont Neuf bridge by artist Christo and his wife Jeanne-Claude in 1985. French street artist, JR is paying tribute to their iconic artwork. From June 6 to 28, La Caverne du Pont Neuf will be open to the public free of charge 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The artwork is funded without public funds.
Previous posts about JR here, here and I especially love the sweet film he made with Agnes Varda.
The Unlikely Mariner
Filmed and recorded a live a four movement symphony with a full orchestra seated in a 2000-gallon water tank in front of a 130-foot LED wall, The Unlikely Mariner tells the story of a man who decides to sail across the ocean only to find out that the trauma he thought he left ashore has stowed away for the journey.
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