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Thanks for the link, Bruce.
Thanks for the link, Bruce.
Joseph Guillotin, Henry Shrapnel and Jules Leotard became immortal -- by entering the English language. But NPR's Robert Krulwich and Adam Cole discover that when your entire life is reduced to a single definition, the results are sometimes upsetting.
Via The Curious Brain
A 1930s photo Walter Potter's Rabbit School diorama, when it was still on display at his Bramber, Sussex, museum. Image via Wikipedia, Creative Commons license. |
Sarina Brewer's taxidermy art piece "Capricorn" caused a stir on the Internet. Image courtesy of Custom Creature Taxidermy Arts ©2011 Sarina Brewer. |
Ellen Terry portrait by John Singer Sargent |
'We had collected the beetle wings that had fallen off over the years so that the conservator was able to re-attach many of the originals, plus others that had been donated to us - 1,000 in total. 'The one hundred or so wings that were broken were each carefully repaired by supporting them on small pieces of Japanese tissue adhered with a mixture of wheat starch paste.'
Rituals and festivals take many forms. The Bolas de Fuego Festival of Remembrance in Nejapa, El Salvador commemorates the eruption of a volcano. Young men act out this horrifying calamity through a ritual firefight waged with gasoline soaked rags.
Before MTV, and long before we could stream music videos on our cell phones, mid-1960s American hepcats gathered around 500-pound, 7-foot-high contraptions to watch 16-millimeter Technicolor films of B-list pop stars gyrating to their latest hits. The contraption in question was usually a Scopitone, one of several audio-visual jukeboxes found primarily in bars. Their reign, if you can even call it that, was brief, and by the end of the decade, the novelty of these then-high-tech devices had faded entirely.Web of Love by Joy Lansing is a good example of the genre:
These portraits are created either by using a wax resist (much like batiks) and repeated wine stains with embroidery as a reinforcing drawing over the original design or wine on paper with machine sewing.
Created by the artist behind Morskoiboy.com, this contraption is composed of drugstore finds — keys are replaced with syringes, while clear pipes rule out traditional wiring — the innovative machine converts words into colors and drinks via a main line of alcohol that is infused with rainbow-hued syrups and liqueurs every time a letter is pressed.
There was a spit for roasting pigs on, as well as a table and benches in the middle of the room which could easily seat 20 staff. The kitchen is thought to date back to the 1830s when the house had a full complement of servants.
Now I'm conflicted.