Wednesday, August 31, 2016
Slo-Mo Hummingbird
I love watching the hummingbirds in my garden but they always flit away in the blink of an eye. It's interesting watching the motions this one makes.
Thanks Bruce!
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Paper World
Paper World is an image film for WWF Hungary where the values that WWF stands for become visible metaphorically on the level of a micro-world.
WWF Hungary - Paper World from Paper World on Vimeo.
Here's a video on how it was made.
WWF Hungary - Paper World from Paper World on Vimeo.
Here's a video on how it was made.
Bea Szenfeld's ‘Haute Papier’
Stockholm-based fashion designer Bea Szenfeld has collaborated with the Royal Swedish Opera on a series featuring spectacular origami-inspired fashion.
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What happens if you open the plane door during a flight?
Have you ever wondered what would happen if someone decided to open the emergency door while a large aircraft was flying at high altitude? While explosive decompression has caused plane crashes it is not going to happen because a fellow flier fancied a bit of fresh air for one simple reason: it is simply impossible to open a plane door during a flight. Read more here about safeguards that are in place to prevent it from happening.
James Bond’s nemesis Goldfinger met his end that way but remember it was a movie and for the sake of drama he couldn't die choking on a fish bone, could he?
James Bond’s nemesis Goldfinger met his end that way but remember it was a movie and for the sake of drama he couldn't die choking on a fish bone, could he?
Tuesday, August 30, 2016
Nirvana On The Cusp
Nirvana playing Smells Like Teen Spirit in a small club just two days after Nevermind came out in 1991. Big things about to happen for them.
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Fashion In Flight: A History of Airline Uniform Design
I was a young Nag back when flying was a glamorous and exciting experience and every little girl wanted to be a flight attendant.
Fashion In Flight: A History of Airline Uniform Design is an exhibit of mile high fashion at The Aviation Museum and Library at San Francisco International Airport through January 8.
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Fashion In Flight: A History of Airline Uniform Design is an exhibit of mile high fashion at The Aviation Museum and Library at San Francisco International Airport through January 8.
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| Transcontinental & Western Air hostess uniform by Howard Greer, 1944 |
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| Braniff International Airways hostess uniform by Emilio Pucci, 1966 |
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| Virgin Atlantic Airways flight attendant uniform by Vivienne Westwood,2014 |
The Electric Baths of Japan
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| French electric bath, circa late 1870s. Photo credit: engineeringhistory.tumblr.com |
It is used to treat back pain, muscle pain, headaches and migraines, arthritis, disorders of the nervous system, neuromuscular dysfunction and other conditions. Do not try to rig up your own denkiburo by tossing a radio into your tub - that will kill you.
More: Amusing Planet
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More: Amusing Planet
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100-Year-Old Photos Of Naples
These antique snapshots of landscapes and cultural street scenes in Naples were made to resemble colour photographs using the photocrom process. They are lovely.
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Monday, August 29, 2016
The Most Remote Inhabited Island in the World
An interesting short documentary about Tristan da Cunha. Mr. Nag tells me that stamps from this island outpost are very collectible.
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The Oldest Photographs in the World
A collection of the world's oldest and first of their kind photographs, charting the evolution of photography from inception to modern day.
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Fine Art Clothing
The Purple Fish Bowl Fine Art Collection features lots of beautiful handmade clothing inspired by works of art.
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I Am Yup’ik
A 16-year-old Alaskan Yup’ik teenager leaves his tiny village and travels across hundreds of miles of frozen tundra to compete in a basketball tournament and bring pride to his village.
ESPN's 30 for 30 Short | I Am Yup'ik from GoodFight Media on Vimeo.
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ESPN's 30 for 30 Short | I Am Yup'ik from GoodFight Media on Vimeo.
Thanks Bruce!
Dressing in late 14th century armour
A video showing how to dress in and wear armor (harness) from late 14th century.
Not only does this outfit weigh 36 kg but it also requires someone to dress you. And what happens if you have to use the loo?
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Not only does this outfit weigh 36 kg but it also requires someone to dress you. And what happens if you have to use the loo?
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Basquiat
"Jean-Michel Basquiat (bas-kee-aht) shaved the back of his head and left home at 17 years old. In a few years he went from homeless youth to the most famous artist of his generation. With the rise of television, the level of fame was absolute, the kind that often leads very famous people to dying at 27 years old."
Read the visual history at HUNGER TV
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“The ADHD Poem” by IF (Animated Version)
The animated version of IF's spoken word marvel about his personal challenges and triumphs of having ADHD.
Sunday, August 28, 2016
Food at the CNE 2016
Summer is over and the Canadian National Exhibition is in full swing. If eating outrageously unhealthy food and following up with a gut-churning ride is your idea of a good time you should head on over to the Ex. Try these before joining the lineup for the Zipper:
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| Philly Steaklair Philthy Philly's presents this sweet and savoury mashup, featuring chop pastry loaded with Philly cheesesteak and bacon and topped with whipped cream and chocolate icing. |
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| Spam Double Down Like the meatiest BLT you've ever seen, this epic creation from Miami Press sees bacon, tomato, cheese and chipotle sauce sandwiched between two thick slices of Spam. |
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| Bug Dogs Bug Bistro will be serving a variety of food made with insects including these beef franks topped with slaw and crispy mustard crickets. |
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Crossness Pumping Station Gets New Life
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| Interior of Crossness Pumping Station, Belvedere, Kent (photo © Christine Matthews, licensed for reuse under CC BY-SA 2.0 license) |
In 1865 the Victorian-era Crossness Pumping Station was commissioned to remove sewage from London in response to a cholera epidemic. The amazing feat of Victorian engineering was in operation until it was replaced by more modern treatment plants. It closed in the 1950s and sat derelict until just this month, reopening after extensive restoration, for visitors to explore.
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| Painted figs Image: Mike Jones |
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Documentary About The Kids Who Inspired The 1995 Film 'Kids'
The Kids is a documentary directed by Hamilton Harris (the kid who rolled the blunt in the 1995 film Kids by Larry Clark) and is a behind the scenes and where-are-they-now look at the real-life personas featured in the 1995 cult classic.
Kickstarter page
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Kelly Hofer's Photographs Of a Manitoba Hutterite Colony
Kelly Hofer grew up in a Hutterite colony in rural Manitoba, Canada. Kelly knew early on that he was an artist and that he was gay which made life tough. From the age of 11 onward, Hofer found purpose photographing his friends and relatives and posting the images to sites like Flickr, mostly for the enjoyment of other Hutterites. He left the Green Acres colony when he was 19.
Hofer is now raising money on Kickstarter to fund the publication of a book, Hutterite, that collects his best photos taken over the course of his adolescence.
Hofer is now raising money on Kickstarter to fund the publication of a book, Hutterite, that collects his best photos taken over the course of his adolescence.
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Sunday Links 18
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| Detail of Virginia "Jinnee" Lee Demetrios's "The Ocelots," on display at the Cape Ann Museum. (Photo: Lilia Kilburn) |
The Folly Cove Guild were a ragtag group of locals united by their desire to fill their lives, and their minds, with a particular form of well-thought-out beauty. They made prints in Cape Ann, Massachusetts. Thanks Bruce!
The Story behind Robert Rauschenberg’s Iconic Talking Heads Album Cover
If you're in my neck of the woods: 10 things to do inNiagara-on-the-Lake
The Royal Handbag Code
If you want to be amused follow this guy on twitter.
Unexplained is a bi-weekly podcast about strange and mysterious real life events that continue to evade explanation.
Floor maps of iconic NYC fast food joints
A Gallery of European Synagogues Throughout the Centuries
I Work for a Shipping Company—I’ve Been Sick for Over a Year
Last year I culled 300+ books from my cookbook collection but I admit to being tempted by The Biggest New Cookbooks of 2016. Stop me before I buy again!
Artist’s studio in Paris lets you live the bohemian life you always wanted but a starving artist couldn't afford it.
The Most Exclusive Restaurant in America Damon Baehrel’s methods are a marvel, and his tables are all booked until 2025. Or are they?
The Notorious Ward housed Toronto’s poorest people who had travelled from afar looking for a brighter future and then did their best to set up housekeeping in TO’s worst slum.
Ultimate London Travel Guide - Read This Before You Visit.
There is a town in Italy that embodies the golden days of ‘la dolce vita’. This is it. (I enjoyed drinking prosecco with breakfast when I was there)
19th century Scotland's most famous death riddle enthralled newspaper readers around the world. Thanks Bruce!
Hello - Attempts to speak with dolphins.
Bruno, the wandering dog, has been commuting 4 miles every day for the past 12 years to visit all his friends in town.
The Pimps and Prostitutes of 1970s Times Square
Saturday, August 27, 2016
Hungover customer brings business to struggling Alberta fish and chip shop
Business was terrible at John McMillan's fish and chips shop in Lethbridge, Alta until a hungover customer walked through his doors looking for some grease. Colin Ross struck up a conversation with the owner, who fixed him a three-piece halibut on a bed of fries. Ross's glowing review of Whitbie's Fish & Chips on his Facebook page has had more than 8,000 shares and has brought hundreds of new customers through the door.
More: CBC News
Angelo Badalamenti Twin Peaks Love Theme
“We’re in a dark woods,” Badalamenti recalls Lynch first saying. “There’s a soft wind blowing through sycamore trees. There’s a moon out, some animal sounds in the background. You can hear the hoot of an owl. Just get me into that beautiful darkness.”
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Simone Giertz's New Shitty Robot Creation
Simone Giertz, the self-proclaimed Queen of Shitty Robots, has created a robotic peanut butter spreader. Don't hold your breath if you're craving a peanut butter sandwich because this shitty robot ain't gonna make it for you.
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Basket Is A Tribute to Mothers
Cultural Burdens is a lovely tribute to mothers, who carry the burdens of culture as well as literal burdens held in baskets. This unique basket adorned with miniature baskets by Carol Emarthle-Douglas, Northern Arapaho/Seminole, won Best of Show at the 2015 Santa Fe Indian Market.
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All The Art In London In One Day
Alex Gorosh tried to see every piece of art in London in one day.
All the art in london in one day from Alex Gorosh on Vimeo.
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All the art in london in one day from Alex Gorosh on Vimeo.
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Friday, August 26, 2016
Finger-Lickin' Bad
In September 1976, NY Times food critic Mimi Sheraton and Colonel Harland Sanders stopped into a Manhattan Kentucky Fried Chicken. The Colonel, then estranged from the company he founded, didn't hesitate to share his opinion of the food he was served (the words finger-lickin' good were not used).
Once in the kitchen, the colonel walked over to a vat full of frying chicken pieces and announced, 'That's much too black. It should be golden brown. You're frying for 12 minutes -- that's six minutes too long. What's more, your frying fat should have been changed a week ago. That's the worst fried chicken I've ever seen. Let me see your mashed potatoes with gravy, and how do you make them?"More here
When Mr. Singleton explained that he first mixed boiling water into the instant powdered potatoes, the colonel interrupted. "And then you have wallpaper paste," he said. "Next suppose you add some of this brown gravy stuff and then you have sludge." "There's no way anyone can get me to swallow those potatoes," he said after tasting some. "And this cole slaw. This cole slaw! They just won't listen to me. It should he chopped, not shredded, and it should be made with Miracle Whip. Anything else turns gray. And there should be nothing in it but cabbage. No carrots!"
ImPORTRAITS
Vinasithamby, 64 fled from Sri Lanka, 1984
Rohulla, 24 fled from Afghanistan, 2010
Sejla, 33 fled from Bosnia, 1992
I had to abandon our home in Sri Lanka in 1984. I walked most of the way, but in order to get to Switzerland I took a boat, a plane and a train as well.
I wasn't able to take much with me besides the clothes I had on. Since I had to leave my family behind, these photos were the only things that were important to me, and luckily I could carry them on me. On the photos you can see my parents, my brother and my sister – who's now deceased.
Five years ago I fled Afghanistan. When I left, I couldn't take anything with me except the clothes I was wearing.
I was very little when my father was killed, so I hardy have any memories of him. He always wore a golden necklace and after he died, my mother gave it to me.
I came to Switzerland by myself and this necklace is everything I have from my family and my homeland. It means the world to me – it makes me feel like I'm not alone, like my father is always with me.
When I was a child, my father would often travel to Africa for work. One time when I was three, I had asked him to bring me back a real life monkey, but he brought me a stuffed bunny he had bought for me during a transit at Zurich Airport.
I took that bunny everywhere. When the war began, everything went so fast I could neither understand what was going on nor think about what I wanted to take with me when we fled. That's how I forgot my bunny when we left. My dad stayed behind, and I wrote him so many letters saying things like: "Did you find my bunny? I miss you!"
I can't describe how I felt when I saw my father again three years later, in 1995. My whole body was trembling when I saw his face at the Airport in Zurich – and saw that he was holding my bunny.
This Glowing Pony Bike!
Yee haw! Artist and creative tinkerer Scott Blake spent about a month turning a children’s Jamis bike and a couple of DeWalt cordless drills into a vehicle that can go over 20 miles per hour for about 5 miles before needing the batteries replaced.
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Thursday, August 25, 2016
The Old New World
“The Old New World” is a photo-based animation project. It's a travel back in time with a little steampunk time machine.
"The Old New World" (Photo-based animation project) from seccovan on Vimeo.
Thank you Prickly Legs !
"The Old New World" (Photo-based animation project) from seccovan on Vimeo.
Thank you Prickly Legs !
Making Campari From Scratch
Japan's Greatest Bartender' Hiroyasu Kayama shows off his do-it-yourself Campari skills in this video.
Ingredients here. Where would one find Calamus root and Sweetie japonica?
Ingredients here. Where would one find Calamus root and Sweetie japonica?
The True Faces Behind 5 Famous Logos
Most of us know Colonel Sanders was a real person, but did you know about Uncle Sam, Leo the Lion. the Gerber Baby and the Torch Lady? There is a real life story behind every one.
Read their stories: TwistedSifter
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| The Gerber Baby Actual Name: Ann Turner Cook |
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| Leo the Lion (MGM), 1928 – 1956 Actual Name: Jackie |
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| The Columbia Pictures Woman Actual Name: Jenny Joseph |
Read their stories: TwistedSifter
Happy 100th Birthday National Park Service!
"The Hidden Worlds of the National Parks," Google’s interactive video exhibit was launched just in time for the NPS centennial. It allows you to follow rangers to areas of five national parks that most visitors will never see.
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Is this madness? No, it's Swindon
An Animated History of Photography
This film by the Cooperative of Photography shows some of the 100 ideas that changed photography, tracing the co-evolution of technology, art, and culture in just 5 minutes:
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Wednesday, August 24, 2016
Art for All. The Colour Woodcut in Vienna around 1900
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| Franz Zülow, From the Sorcerer’s Garden, 1908 Papercut print, hand-coloured, stuck to board, 18,5 x 32,4 cm Vienna Albertina, Inv. DG 1982/41 © Albertina, Vienna |
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| Karl Anton Reichel, Study of a Female Nude, 1909 © Albertina, Vienna |
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| Carl Moser, Breton Child, 1904, Colour woodcut on washi, Sheet: 29,7 x 21,1 cm Vienna Albertina, Inv. DG1912/86 © Albertina, Vienna |
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| Rudolf Kalvach, Port Life in Trieste VI/4, 1907/08 Woodcut, watercoloured, impression on glassine, Sheet: 45,7 x 34 cm Courtesy Giorgio Uboni |
The exhibition Art for All. The Colour Woodcut in Vienna around 1900 runs until October 3, 2016 at the Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt.
Taschen book available
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Contents of an Ostrich’s Stomach (ca. 1930)
Taken by Frederick William Bond, photographer at the Zoological Society of London, this unusual image shows the contents of an ostrich’s stomach extracted after its death.
More: The Public Domain Review
First Music Video Made Using Prisma App
Dutch band Drive Like Maria, in partnership with production house sixteenbynine, have created Deep Blue, the first full-length music video made using the Prisma app.
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Augusta
Augusta is a non-status Shuswap Indian living in the Williams Lake area of British Columbia. Self-sufficient, dedicated to her people, she spreads warmth wherever she moves, with her songs and her harmonica.
Tuesday, August 23, 2016
Laughing And Not Being Normal
A pirate documentary about Canadian singer, songwriter, record producer and music video director Grimes.
laughing and not being normal from The Local Stigmatic on Vimeo.
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laughing and not being normal from The Local Stigmatic on Vimeo.
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A One Size Fits All DIY Drawer Organizer Tutorial
I have a drawer just like the before picture and it drives me nuts.
Go from this:
To this:
Instructions at Apartment Therapy
Go from this:
To this:
Instructions at Apartment Therapy
Dress Submerged in the Dead Sea Transforms Into a Salt Sculpture
In her series Salt Bride, artist Sigalit Landau submerged a black mourning dress into the hypersaline Dead Sea and left it there for three months, periodically documenting the transformation.
At the end of the three months Landau said, “It looks like snow, like sugar, like death’s embrace.”
Salt Bride is currently on exhibit at Marlborough Contemporary in London.
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At the end of the three months Landau said, “It looks like snow, like sugar, like death’s embrace.”
Salt Bride is currently on exhibit at Marlborough Contemporary in London.
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