The Baby Batman Characters - My Modern Metropolis
Monday, August 31, 2009
'Silver Palate' Author Sheila Lukins Dies at 66
Sheila Lukins, the author of the iconic 1980s cookbook 'Silver Palate Cookbook' has died after a short battle with brain cancer. Slashfood
She loved cooking and her recipes reflected that - food for the way we live. I'm sad that there will be no more cookbooks from her to add to my library.
The Pekar Project
This I like.
The Pekar Project:
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The Pekar Project:
"Harvey Pekar's been mining the mundane for magic for more than 30 years in his autobiographical American Splendor comics. Now he has teamed with SMITH and four remarkable artists — Tara Seibel, Joseph Remnant, Rick Parker, and Sean Pryor — to create his first ongoing webcomic series."
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People of Walmart
If I ever wonder what I'm missing by not shopping at Walmart I can check out this blog. Political opinions aside, these photos ensure that I will never take my trade there.
A collection of all the creatures that grace us with their presence at Walmart.
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A collection of all the creatures that grace us with their presence at Walmart.
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Sunday, August 30, 2009
The Haunting Houses of New Orleans
Allison Chipak and her husband, Kevin Fay, recently spent nine days in New Orleans—four of them traveling on their own, and five as volunteers with the St. Bernard Project. Their goal: to help rebuild homes that were destroyed by Hurricane Katrina four years ago. Fay wrote about his experience in St. Bernard Parish; Chipak documented some of the destruction and decay that remains in a haunting slideshow.
Saturday, August 29, 2009
The Nag loves a theremin
Coolest CD case ever has theremin built in:
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If you're interested click on the theremin label below to check out all my other theremin posts.
Moldover's new CD, over 3 years in the making, not only delivers gorgeously diverse music with meaning and musical mastery, it completely redefines what it means to 'play an album'... Moldover's CD packaging itself IS a new musical instrument! The CD is mounted on a custom designed circuit board, intricately patterned and powering a 'light-Theremin'.
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If you're interested click on the theremin label below to check out all my other theremin posts.
1930s-40s in Color
Even the Great Depression looks better in colour. A great collection from the Library of Congress:
These vivid color photos from the Great Depression and World War II capture an era generally seen only in black-and-white. Photographers working for the United States Farm Security Administration (FSA) and later the Office of War Information (OWI) created the images between 1939 and 1944.
Friday, August 28, 2009
The versatile poodle
I hope this isn't unpleasant for the dogs. I suppose it's no worse than painted women in spike heels and Spanx.
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They may resemble pandas, buffaloes and camels - but these animals are actually poodles, all competing for the title of top dog at 'creative grooming' shows across the U.S.
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Thursday, August 27, 2009
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
RIP Ellie Greenwich
Tell Laura not to cry, my love for her will never die.
She co-wrote "Tell Laura I Love Her" when she was just 19 years old and went on to write some of the greatest rock hooks ever. Her music will live forever, at least in my head.
The Ellie Greenwich Web Site
Karen LaMonte's Glass Dresses
I am in love with these life sized cast glass dresses by artist Karen LaMonte. There's so much movement in them and the sense that they are still inhabited.
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Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Dog urine causes cancer not pesticides?
This pisses me off.
One Bark at a Time has posted a photo of this sign that is unfortunately less than 50 meters from my house. It makes me uncomfortable having people like this in my neighbourhood.
Some time ago Niagara on the Lake was also centered out for having dogs barred from the post office. The local postal workers used to give cookies to the dogs until the grinches stepped in.
What's up with these people?
One Bark at a Time has posted a photo of this sign that is unfortunately less than 50 meters from my house. It makes me uncomfortable having people like this in my neighbourhood.
Some time ago Niagara on the Lake was also centered out for having dogs barred from the post office. The local postal workers used to give cookies to the dogs until the grinches stepped in.
What's up with these people?
A Flapper's Dictionary (1922)
Butt me, flatwheeler, and then we'll head out to an egg harbor. Then let's blouse to a petting party, snugglepup. There won't be any barney-mugging but we can get half-cut my little goof.
Wanna know what I'm talkin' about? Check out A Flapper's Dictionary.
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Wanna know what I'm talkin' about? Check out A Flapper's Dictionary.
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Monday, August 24, 2009
Tic Tac Music
And when you're finished playing you can eat your instrument. Try doing that with a piano.
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Demetri Martin Motivational Posters
These made me LQTM.
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Demetri Martin is one our favorite comedians. Known for his palindromes, weird charts, odd songs and helmet hair, Martin never ceases to amuse. Lots more posters here
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How many minutes to earn the price of a Big Mac?
I pity the Kenyans. They toil 2 1/2 hours in the blazing sun and all they get at the end of it is a pathetic excuse for a burger.
THE size of your pay packet may be important, but so is its purchasing power. Helpfully, a UBS report published this week offers a handy guide to how long it takes a worker on the average net wage to earn the price of a Big Mac in 73 cities.
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Trailer Park Folk
The Wagenburg Story, a photo story about alternative lifestyle in a German trailerpark.
Eight people, six dogs, seven cats, three pigs, the sheeps Pauline and Mrs. Krause, two goats, two guinea pigs, the rabbit Erika and five chickens with one cock live together in the trailer park. More Here
Sunday, August 23, 2009
A Brief History of Photo Fakery
What a marvel the first photographic images must have been to their early-19th-century viewers — the crisp, unassailable reality of scenes and events, unfiltered by an artist’s paintbrush or point of view.
And what an opportunity for manipulation. It didn’t take long for schemers to discover that with a little skill and imagination, photographic realism could be used to create manufactured realities.
China's Central Committee at the 1976 funeral of Chairman Mao. Missing are the Gang of Four, who were arrested soon after this photo was taken and erased, leaving gaps in the lineup.
Photo: David King Collection, London
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Glow in the dark skin care?
How I long for the days when it was simple to measure the efficacy of one's skin care regime!
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Festival of Quilts
I would very much like to see this exhibition of quilts ranging from traditional to modern.
Festival of Quilts Slideshow
While it may not enjoy the most glamorous of reputations, quilting is making a comeback: in 2010 the V&A will launch one of the finest quilting exhibitions in the world and introduce a brand new audience to the craft.
Festival of Quilts Slideshow
Saturday, August 22, 2009
Land’s End
I've seen this all over the place lately, most recently here. Take the time to read the article.
The resource towns along the west coast of Canada—those that have survived, and those that haven’t—tell a story of land’s end, as a place and as a possibility. In 1999, Christopher Grabowski, a documentary writer and photographer, read an article in the Globe and Mail, reporting that “the Department of Fisheries and Oceans withheld a major study of economically devastated West Coast fishing communities and then released a sanitized version, omitting the criticism contained in the original report.” He packed his notebook and camera and set out for the west coast of Canada, north of Vancouver, a vast, rugged mosaic of islands, peninsulas and waterways at the edge of the continent. There he travelled from place to place—usually by water, because no roads can be built there—and talked to people in towns and villages whose world had changed profoundly, almost overnight. That trip turned out to be the first of many over the next ten years. More here.
Fist Full Of Fur
A film made up of more than 5200 still images. Histrionic apes always stir up my sympathy.
Fist Full Of Fur from Ummm Productions
Mad Cocktails
The Drinks of Mad Men
For many years bartenders got away with mixing rum and Coke, vodka and tonic, Apple-tinis, and the vile Red Bull mixed with anything, calling them cocktails, and the public accepted this. The past few years, however have given way to the term Mixologist; glorified bartenders who specialize in the resurgence of the classic, proper cocktail as well as many new classically inspired concoctions. The popularity of Mad Men has undoubtedly been a major catalyst in the cocktail revolution, and personally I couldn’t be more grateful.
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Friday, August 21, 2009
Is God going to look like Mr. Natural?
CRUMB: I went through that whole thing too; maybe I'll draw God as a black woman. But if you actually read the Old Testament he's just an old, cranky Jewish patriarch. It's a lot of fun doing Genesis, actually. It's very visual. It's lurid. Full of all kinds of crazy, weird things that will really surprise people.
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