Hong Kong Ballet takes the life of Bruce Lee global in a hyper-stylized disco-kung fu production.
Tuesday, June 02, 2026
Hornbills Courting
Great Hornbills are monogamous birds that court through elaborate food-sharing rituals, flying displays
— ContempraInn 🌹 (@contemprainn.bsky.social) May 27, 2026 at 8:05 PM
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Doreen Fletcher - Corners
I am so fond of Doreen Fletcher’s paintings of London’s dilapidated East End buildings that she calls 'the almost gone'. She captures them on canvas before they get “swept away”. I received an invitation in my inbox today to her new exhibition and would love to go but transatlantic travel presents challenges these days so I’ll have to pass. I thought I’d share it here in case any of you are able to attend.
The painting below is a favourite of mine. Pelicci’s is a bustling cafe in London’s Bethnal Green area. One time Mr. Nag forgot his backpack there and the manager chased after us for a few blocks to return it to him.
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| Pelicci’s in Lockdown (2021) |
Read more about Fletcher’s work here.
Sheep Had a Premonition
Surveillance footage captured sheep instinctively huddling together just moments before a tornado hit. Original post
— Massimo (mirror) (@rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social) May 31, 2026 at 12:11 AM
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Monday, June 01, 2026
Courchevel Altiport
The History Channel program Most Extreme Airports ranks it as the seventh most extreme airport in the world.
One of the shortest and possibly thoughest runways in the world (537 meters, 18.6% gradient): Courchevel Altiport in French Alps. [📹 it4aero] Original post
— Massimo (mirror) (@rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social) May 31, 2026 at 5:26 AM
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Haute Horlage
Beautiful Drone Footage Of Central Park
Designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux in 1858, Central Park is widely regarded as a masterpiece of landscape architecture. It was created to offer urban dwellers a place to escape from the stresses of urban life and to commune with nature and fellow New Yorkers. This video is gorgeous.
Via Memo Of The Air
Sunday, May 31, 2026
Sunday Links
Taiwan’s Danjiang Bridge is built to survive a magnitude 7 earthquake. It runs across a 920-meter-long span, held by a single concrete mast which rises 200 meters above the estuary.
You don’t breathe, you bubble. Letters written during heatwaves by Jane Austin, Ernest Hemingway, Virginia Woolf and others.
The White House has launched a new interactive map intended to showcase ICE operations across the United States. It looks exactly like a late-night conspiracy documentary.
Can concrete molds revive coral reefs ruined by bombs and climate change? A conservation group is trying to bring life back to Malaysia’s Coral Triangle. (NYT gift link)
Liminal Assembly shuttles people through decaying suburban shopping malls around the Greater Toronto Area, places that seem stuck in purgatory between eras, at once eerie and beseeching.
Smell-O-Vision A perfumed treatment for depression c1930.
Woman who rescued injured crow keeps getting ‘thank-you gifts’ from other birds. (read more)
The Sunny Coffee Map: finding sunny Paris terraces in real time.
Current Rothko shows you a Rothko painting selected based on the current weather outside your location. Via TMN
Dognosis: Specially trained dogs detect multiple types of cancer from a single breath, at early stages, for two dollars a test.
Why Costco is so successful: People want someone with the reputation and buying power to bin the obvious garbage before they walk in. They want the kind of constraint that protects them.
Detailed moth photos by Lithuanian photographer Eugenijus Kavaliauskas
What’s the buzz? A New York cemetery was hiding 5.5 million bees underground.
Sometimes, the best way to explore a landscape is to sit down. Poet, painter and plantsman Bob Dash designed his lovely garden to call visitors to attention and to engage with a view they’d miss if on foot. NYT gift link
People seeking cosmetic surgery based on chatbots’ recommendations find out that you can’t control everything.
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