Friday, September 20, 2024

Gondoliers Give Some Love To Obama (a repost from 2008)

Everyone loves Obama

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Finding A Toddler In A Cornfield

Thermal drone footage shows the rescue of a 3-year-old who became lost after he had wandering into a 100-acre corn field alone and at night in Alto, Wisconsin. (Via everlasting blort)


3yo lost in massive cornfield at night
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Bad Omen

Pari, an in-house tailor, must find the means to purchase her prescription glasses in order to save her job.

Penguins Weighing In

 

Expression Is A Luxury


After having a stroke at 25, London-based creative Eilish Briscoe created a series of type-based projects based on the realization that “expression is a luxury”. Maybe is the typeface, made of letters that Eilish extracted from her handwriting practice, from within a few days of one another, reflecting an early stage in her recovery. 


Read more: It’s Nice That

Small World in Motion 2024

Nikon's Small World in Motion Competition shows cells, crystals, and Vermeer up close.



(Miss Cellania)

Thursday, September 19, 2024

The Jetsons - 1950s Super Panavision 70

Abandoned Films creates fake movies that don’t exist, including this one about our favourite retro-futuristic family.


A New Monument For Trafalgar Square


Mil Veces un Instante (A Thousand Times in an Instant) by Mexican artist Teresa Margolles sits on Trafalgar Square’s fourth plinth as a monument to trans people who face persecution worldwide. 


It is dedicated to Karla, a friend of the artist who was murdered in 2015 and whose murder has never been solved.



Nick Cave and Neko Case - She’s Not There (Repost from 2011)

The original Zombies version of this song was the second 45 I bought when I was a kid in Lachine, Quebec (the first was the Byrds Mr. Tambourine Man). I still love both songs.


(Dangerous Minds)

The Modern Goose

Every morning I share the track at Brock University with a large flock of Canada geese. I love seeing them with their goslings in the springtime. The poop on the track, not so much.


NFB

Wednesday, September 18, 2024

Poor Ralph Nader. His only friend is a bird

“Cardozo, here you are from the free flying Amazon jungle to a cage in Utah--albeit an open door cage with a fine master. Do not feel sad, Cardozo. Millions of voters have also been put into an invisible cage.”

It’s campaign season again so here’s a Ralph Nader post from 2008. I love Cardozo, don’t you?