What time is the Cocktail Hour? Any time for the Westport crowd!
The drinking on Bewitched was as ubiquitous as the magic, so we've collected an intoxicating array of photos for your consumption. As always, everything in moderation.
Harpies Bizarre
Saturday, July 31, 2010
Cocktail Hour on Bewitched
Harpies Bizarre
Thursday, July 29, 2010
Spam Comments
I had a whack of annoying spam comments on old posts . I selected all of them and hit publish instead of delete. Damn! No way of getting rid of them other than going through thousands of comments. The spammers have won.
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Shopping in Harajuku
Harajuku is a popular teen shopping area in Tokyo. I don't think any of the merchandise would interest me, especially if I can't smork or tout.
Lots of pics at Boing Boing
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Tips for Single Ladies (1938)
All these years I've been doing it wrong. That I was ever able to land a fella is a miracle indeed.
SadAndUseless.com
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Art Inspired by Google Street View
Check out the work of Lehel Kovacs on Lost At E Minor. His alphabet-wide illustrations of cities cover the globe from Arezzo to Zurich. These were sketched after he looked up the destinations through Google Street View.
Inside Out
Monday, July 26, 2010
My Garden Today
Casablanca lilies and pink phlox. August is nigh: dead lettuce, moldy phlox, black spot and beetles on the roses.
Angry Paul Rand
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You kids keep worrying about what tools you should use for making design. You know what I used? A pencil, a dry martini and some balls.
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Sunday, July 25, 2010
Senior friendly apps
My contemporary, Don Mills, suggests some old folk friendly software:
The 4% Gratuity Calculator App
I’m tired of taking an abacus with me every time I go out for a meal. I’d like an app that allows me to plug in the cost of my supper and then automatically calculates a reasonable 4% tip. The app should always “round down” and have the ability to be reset to 3% or lower if my soup was watery or my waiter had a nose ring and gave me some sass.
The Bea Arthur Pin-up App (Mature Content)
Racy, granted, and not entirely to my taste but the boys at the senior’s center are clamoring for it and would gladly part with 99 cents in order to see some tasteful swimwear snaps of the lovely Bea Arthur.
The Young Person to Senior Translation App
I can’t understand anything these damned young people say and desperately need an app that will translate moronic greetings like “Yo cappy wuzzup nig” into the proper English phrase “Hello, sir, how are you today?” It may not close the generation gap but at least I’ll be able to tell if someone is asking me for directions or trying to mug me.More cool apps at The Problem with Young People Today Is…
Paris from above
Paris seen from a different perspective. It's even more beautiful viewed from above. Turn the sound down if you dislike the soundtrack - some of it is awful.
Paris vu du Ciel de Yann Arthus-Bertrand
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Paris vu du Ciel de Yann Arthus-Bertrand
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Dangerous Minds
Angelitos Negros, a ballad protesting racial discrimination, was written in 1948 by legendary Mexican actor and singer Pedro Infante. It is the title song of one of the classics of the golden age of Mexican cinema.
In addition to Eartha Kitt, Angelitos Negros (also known by its English title, “Paint Me Black Angels”) has been covered by Roberta Flack and Cat Powers.
Eartha is mesmerizing, relying upon nothing more than her extraordinary presence. As she weeps, she sings:
Though the Virgin may be white,
paint me some black angels,
for they go to heaven, too
as all good black people do.
Paint me some black angels now
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Saturday, July 24, 2010
Cupcake Cocktails
We like to shake our cupcakes in a cocktail glass using colorful melted frosting for the mixer. You can garnish your cupcake cocktail with candy and sugar to look like your favorite Mojito, Daquiri, Cosmo, or even a Shirley Temple.
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My Nuke
A coin operated machine from 'The Under the Pier Show, Southwold, made by Tim Hunkin. You load the reactor with fuel using a remote manipulator arm, and then take away your 'edible nuclear waste'.
Just what the world needs - more personal nuclear reactors!
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Springstreets
A map of New Jersey based solely on Bruce Springsteen lyrics. 200+ references on a 23x32 newsprint poster.
YoungJerks (Dan Cassaro)
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Procrastination
Why do something today when you can put it off until tomorrow? How many of these delaying tactics have you used?
Procrastination from Johnny Kelly on Vimeo.
Friday, July 23, 2010
Thursday, July 22, 2010
15 Most Expensive Desserts On Earth
Check out these expensive desserts . I can't imagine they would taste better than a home made butter tart.
For those with genuine champagne tastes, The Lebua Hotel at State Tower offers a dessert with you in mind. The base (strawberry chocolate mousse adorning chocolate cake) is common to a commoner’s dessert. It’s the adornments (champagne sherbet, crème brûlée with Perigord truffles, gold-flecked leaves for garnish) that put it in the lap… or on the plate… of luxury. Don’t expect to experience this caliber of decadence on a “beer budget”; a single slice has a price tag of $640.
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Beer sold in dead Animals
The impact of The End Of History is a perfect conceptual marriage between taxidermy, art and craft brewing. The bottles are at once beautiful and disturbing – they disrupt conventions and break taboos, just like the beer they hold within them.
Nerdcore
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Secret society of urban explorers in Paris
Back in 2004, an art collective called La Mexicaine de la Perforation (LMDP) was in the news for creating a true "underground" cinema 60 feet beneath the streets of Paris. The spokesperson for La Mexicaine de la Perforation was Lazar Kunstmann, who has since revealed that LMDP is just one part of a large urban exploration group called UX. Kunstmann recently documented the secret society's efforts in a book titled La culture en clandestins: L’UX. The literary journal brick profiles Kunstmann and his co-conspirators' clandestine adventures, including their efforts to repair The Paris Panthéon’s 19th century clock, broken since the 1960s. From Brick (photo from National Geographic)
More at Boing Boing
A newly-discovered Caravaggio?
I saw some beautiful Caravaggios in Italy a few years ago. The two at the Doria Pamphilij Gallery in Rome were particularly appealing to me. I'd love to see more.
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Rome is abuzz with news about Caravaggio in the past weeks! The Baroque bad boy — who died 400 years ago this month — has been in the spotlight for months as the Eterna marks the anniversary of his demise and capitalizes on an ever-growing fascination with the artist. From February to June, fans flocked to the Scuderie al Quirinale to admire an exhibition of Caravaggio paintings brought from museums around the world; in June a team of scientists announced the discovery of a body that may be that of the artist; and just last weekend, the Borghese Gallery and three Roman churches stayed open all night to let Caravaggio fans admire his works on the 400th anniversary of the Italian Baroque artist’s death.
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Unloved Thrown Out and Abandoned Creations
ALTERED ANTIQUE PLATES and Accessories
Using orphaned and unloved antique plates and transforming them into new Modern Portrait Plates.
Buy them here
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Sunday, July 18, 2010
China: Remember Old Kashgar?
Plans for the redevelopment of the Old City of Kashgar, Xinjiang, China. The plans will radically change the neighborhood, replacing the old-style alleyways and houses with contemporary Chinese apartment block style residences.At the heart of Kashgar is the so-called Old City. Of tremendous historical value, the twisting alleyways and haphazardly built houses clump together and spring out of the city’s terrain in an organic and natural way. After sporadic uprisings and fighting between Uighurs and Hans, the Beijing-controlled municipal government has unveiled plans to completely renovate the Old City. Uighur families who’ve lived in the same location for, in some cases, hundreds of years will be uprooted and resettled in cookie cutter apartment blocks built according to contemporary Chinese building standards. More at GAIA PHOTOS
Saturday, July 17, 2010
The Nag Could Use a Pair of These
Friday, July 16, 2010
Samsung 3D Projection Mapping In Amsterdam
Samsung have just run three nights of an amazing 3D projection mapping installation in Amsterdam to promote their new range of 3D LED TVs. It's an ad but it's worth watching. (It starts off a little slow but picks up around 60 seconds in)
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Maple Mountain Sunburst
Last August I drove to Isabella Rossellini's apartment in Manhattan from the little town of Elora Ontario where I live, armed with a laptop and a mic. There we recorded her narration for two tracks for my album The Maple Mountain Sunburst Triolian Orchestra. She was as gracious and wonderful as one would imagine.
The words are from Laura Archera Huxley, widow of Aldous Huxley. She died in 2007 at the age of 96 at her Hollywood Hills home.
Godspeed, unicorns.
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The Garden Today
It's hotter than Hades again today but the pink lilies and coneflowers make it feel just a bit cooler.
Thursday, July 15, 2010
Photos of a teenage Beatles fan
12 Ways To Commit Suicide
Twelve Ways to Commit Suicide,” from the American Medical Journal, reprinted in the Manhattan and de la Salle Monthly, 1875:According to this article I should be dead (see numbers 2, 4 and 5).
- Wearing of thin shoes and cotton stockings on damp nights and in cold, rainy weather. Wearing insufficient clothing, and especially upon the limbs and extremities.
- Leading a life of enfeebling, stupid laziness, and keeping the mind in an unnatural state of excitement by reading trashy novels. Going to theatres, parties and balls in all sorts of weather, in the thinnest possible dress. Dancing till in a complete perspiration, and then going home without sufficient over-garments through the cold, damp air.
- Sleeping on feather-beds, in seven-by-nine bedrooms, without ventilation at the top of the windows, and especially with two or more persons in the same small, unventilated bedroom.
- Surfeiting on hot and very stimulating dinners. Eating in a hurry, without masticating your food, and eating heartily before going to bed every night, when the mind and body are exhausted by the toils of the day and the excitement of the evening.
- Beginning in childhood on tea and coffee, and going from one step to another, through chewing and smoking tobacco and drinking intoxicating liquors, and physical and mental excesses of every description.
See more at Futility Closet
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Comics put patients in the picture
Graphic novels and medical comics are proving powerful communication tools for patients and medical professionals.
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What Happened to Matthew Garber ?
Matthew Adam Garber (25 March 1956 – 13 June 1977) was the child actor who played Michael Banks in Walt Disney's Mary Poppins.
What did he do after Mary Poppins you ask? Well, he only acted in one more movie after that. Matthew Garber again paired up with Karen Dotrice (his sister from Mary Poppins, Jane Banks) in the 1967 Disney movie,
Now That's Nifty
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
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