Tuesday, February 28, 2017
R.I.P.Gerard
Gerard Vlemmings, known to many as The Presurfer, started blogging in September 24, 2000. I started following his blog in 2002 and it led me to wonderful things on the web that I never would have found on my own. It also inspired me to start my own blog in 2005. One of the first people to link to my little blog was Gerard and I felt so important! He was my first and most loyal follower. Since then he has referred many people to my blog and for that I am grateful. I am sorry to tell you that Gerard passed away after a short illness on Saturday at the age of 67. Although we never met I feel that I have lost a friend and I will miss him very much.
Keeping Up With The Catdashians
Keeping Up With The Catdashians (in Iceland they are called the Kattarshians) is one of the most adorable live TV feeds you can find on the Internet: Four kittens living in an oversized doll house.
It is a cooperative project with The Icelandic Cat Protection Society and with full knowledge and approval of the Icelandic Food And Veterinary Authority, the Animal Welfare Officer and the Expert Veterinarian and Animal Welfare Officer.
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Golden Ratio Coloring Book & Animations of Geometric Illustrations
Venezuelan architect and illustrator Rafael Araujo is fascinated with patterns of nature and their applications to built environments but is particularly interested in the Golden Ratio as found in natural settings.
Some of these sophisticated works take days or even weeks to complete — fans can also get in on the action with his recently created coloring book.
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Shakespearian Insults Chart
Charley Chartwell's has a reference chart of Shakespearian insults for when your middle finger just won’t do the trick.
Via The Awesomer
Via The Awesomer
Japan’s Town Of Avant-Garde Architecture
Karuizawa, a small town in Japan, is known for its collection of spectacular avant-garde houses, most of them designed by prominent Japanese architects. It is full of reminders of what architecture can do: Instead of removing us from the land, it gives us a window to see the earth below — and returns us to it.
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Body Ink Throughout History
From All That Is Interesting: A collection of photos of vintage tattoos that help represent the world's most personal art form.
Albert Einstein’s toy building blocks
Albert Einstein’s childhood building blocks are for sale for US$ 160,000.00.
"Housed in two wooden boxes, the set features approximately 160 pieces with some chipped from use. Did these humble toy building blocks nurture the imagination of the boy who would become the world’s greatest physicist?"
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Darling '50s trailer home
This 480 sq ft converted 1950s vintage trailer home in Palm Springs can be yours for $55K.
Photos via Zillow
Moby releases Music for Meditation and Yoga
American electronica musician Moby just released 4 hours worth of music for meditation and Yoga, for free.
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Via swissmiss
No Seconds
In his series ‘No Seconds’ New Zealand photographer Henry Hargreaves captured the last meals of death row inmates.
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Monday, February 27, 2017
Interactive Map Of Every Dinosaur Fossil Found On Earth
Some engineers have created an interactive map to navigate data created by the Paleobiology Database, a massive collection of information about fossils and related research. The map plots the location of every fossil ever found by scientists, from early mammals to dinosaurs.
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Supercell Thunderstorm Cloud Over Montana
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Spectacular Deep-Sea Jellyfish
Marine biologists working on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Okeanos Explorer spotted this beautiful jelly at Utu Seamount in the National Marine Sanctuary of American Samoa. NOAA, as part of its 2017 American Samoa Expedition, is using an ROV in conjunction with its flagship scientific research vessel to investigate these protected waters.
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Empty Metro – A Project by David Burdeny
Canadian photographer David Burdeny spent a year trying to get access to Moscow’s Metro stations between midnight and 6 a.m., when the trains were not running and the stations were empty. Finally he managed to photograph them over the course of two weeks, and the result is nothing short of astonishing:
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More: Dioniso Punk
Fired Up, Ready to Go
Barack Obama’s “Fired up, ready to go” cheer became a staple of his appearances when he was campaigning for the 2008 election. In the short animation Fired Up, he explains its origins in the small town of Greenwood, South Carolina.
Fired Up from Dan Fipphen on Vimeo.
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Fired Up from Dan Fipphen on Vimeo.
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Einstein and the Honey Bee
Einstein is said to have predicted that if the honey bee were to disappear then humanity would die out in four years. Bee populations are currently threatened by Colony Collapse Disorder. Lucy Cash explores Einstein's statement and our relationship with the honey bee.
EINSTEIN & THE HONEYBEE from Xenoki on Vimeo.
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EINSTEIN & THE HONEYBEE from Xenoki on Vimeo.
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Passports From Countries That No Longer Exist
Tom Topol has been collecting passports for 14 years, and runs the website passport-collector.com, a repository of travel documents through the ages. Atlas Obscura has posted six passports from Topol's collection that are from countries that no longer exist because they switched names, changed hands, or disappeared altogether.
The passport above is from the German Empire which was comprised of various duchies, principalities, and free cities—including Duchy Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, which issued this green passport to one of its citizens in 1916, four years before it was absorbed by Bavaria. I like it because the dog is included on the document.
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Sunday, February 26, 2017
Emily Wilding Davison And The Suffragette Banner
Beverly Cook, Curator of Social & Working History, looks at the lives of some of the women who embroidered their names on the hunger-strikers banner, currently on display at the Museum of London.
Via Londonist
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Sunday Links 44
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| Centro Habana heading towards the Barrio Chino, home of the old Shanghai Theatre. LUKE J. SPENCER |
Your Literary Guide to the 2017 Academy Awards Because Hollywood would basically be irrelevant without books.
Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, and “the Hollywood elite” took on Washington 70 years ago While some may dismiss this face-off between Washington and Hollywood as frivolity, the “Hollywood elite” have a historical precedent for being cast as a threatening “other”—and for standing up to fear-mongering and xenophobia in the White House.
11 NYT Crosswords for New Solvers These will keep you busy for a while.
Step One in Paul Ryan’s Meatloaf Recipe: Kill a Deer The political meatloaves in this book turned out to be very metaphoric.
The 17 most beautiful museums around the world I have only visited one of these: the Pompidou Centre in Paris which I think is a bit of an eyesore.
No professional actors were harmed in the making of these commercials This series of 80s-drenched low-budget ads from Okanagan television station CHBC-TV is hilarious.
One Year Later, Canada’s Syrian Refugee Welcoming Committee is Cooking Up a Storm When the Canadian government accepted 25,000 refugees into the country, community groups paired arriving families with domestic hosts to show them the ropes. Here’s how one pair of families came together over pita and shawarma
Queens of the Stoned Age The Green Angels are a collective of about 30 models turned high-end-weed dealers. Thanks Bruce!
The Trump Story Project Slate invited 10 writers to imagine the dystopian future of Trump’s America.
Time capsule: the best media of millennium
Copenhagen restaurant juggernaut Noma is no more (at least in its present form). Here is everything that happened on its last day
Pony Nationalism and the Furred Reich: Inside the Alt-Furry's Online Zoo
How a Lost Caravaggio Masterpiece Turned Up in Dublin in the early 1990s after having been missing for two hundred years.
33 Songs That Document the History of Feminist Punk (1975-2015)
William F. Buckley's Firing Line Now Online: Features Talks with Chomsky, Borges, Kerouac, Ginsberg and More
World City Populations Interactive Map 1950-2030
The first volume of the famous Belgian comic "The Adventures of Tintin" was an anti-Soviet propaganda, indoctrinating young readers with anti-communist ideas
Listen to Santiago, a song from So It Is: a Cuban-inspired album from the Preservation Hall Jazz Band
Words Mean Anything Don’t Anymore: The decline of the English language in the current U.S. political milieu.
Saturday, February 25, 2017
The Silk Road - From Beijing To Samarkand
Chris Northey, a freelance digital designer, shot these timelapses while traveling along the ancient Silk Road from China to Uzbekistan in mid-2012.
Timelapses from the Silk Road from Chris Northey on Vimeo.
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Timelapses from the Silk Road from Chris Northey on Vimeo.
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Wisconsin teens build backyard roller coaster
La La Land and Stranger Things Get Architectural Treatment
Walk Inside a Gothic Prayer Bead
You'll have to hurry if you want to see the VR portion of the exhibition because it ends on Monday, Feb 27.
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Jefferson Airplane Plays on a New York Rooftop (1968)
In 1968, a year before the Beatles' famous rooftop concert, French new wave director Jean-Luc Godard filmed a Jefferson Airplane concert from the window of Leacock-Pennebaker‘s office on West Forty-fifth street, shooting the band on the roof of the Schuyler Hotel across the street. The performance took place without a permit, at ear-splitting volume and law enforcement put a quick end to it. Singer Grace Slick later wrote, “We did it, deciding that the cost of getting out of jail would be less than hiring a publicist…”
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More: Open Culture
Google Wanted To Put Water Bears Inside Your Phone
In 2015 Google commissioned a team of Brooklyn engineers, designers, and artists to dream up the craziest idea imaginable (aka Project Ara) and squish it down to fit inside a phone. There were many weird modules proposed but Google’s favorite was a tiny an aquarium for your phone, filled with little micro-organisms called tardigrades (aka water bears), like a high-tech, living Tamagotchi.
Unfortunately the project hamstrung by time, money, and worst of all, reality leading Google to cancel the project in August 2016.
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| Above: Tardigrade footage courtesy of Midnight Commercial |
Unfortunately the project hamstrung by time, money, and worst of all, reality leading Google to cancel the project in August 2016.
Friday, February 24, 2017
Two of a Kind
SPACE10 Open Sources The Growroom
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IKEA's Growroom is a spherical structure that allows people to grow their own food locally and sustainably. Now the plans are available to anyone (who is handy) who wants to build their own urban farm pavilion.
You can build your own Growroom in 17 easy steps. Find the instructions here and download the cutting files for free here.
Leaving A Party
Liana Finck’s work appears in The New Yorker and Catapult, and in her Instagram feed. Her first book, A Bintel Brief, was published by Ecco Press in 2014.
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Photographer Captures Stunning Beauty Of The Polar Regions
Canadian-born photojournalist Paul Nicklen was raised in Nunavit and the Arctic is in his blood. He is also a marine biologist and conservationist. In his book Polar Obsession and the corresponding exhibition organized by National Geographic at the David Bower Centre, the artist hopes to dispel myths and encourage others to enjoy, treasure and help protect these lands and creatures.
Blind Vaysha
Vaysha is a young girl born with one green eye and one brown eye. But colour isn’t the only thing that’s different about Vaysha’s gaze. While her left eye sees only the past; her right sees only the future. Like a terrible curse, Vaysha’s split vision prevents her from inhabiting the present.
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More: NFB
Artful Tea
London's Mirror Room serves an afternoon tea inspired by five of the most iconic modern artists currently represented in London, including Yayoi Kusama, Damien Hirst, Alexander Calder, Banksy and Mark Rothko.
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Thursday, February 23, 2017
Tigers With A Drone- So Good.
To these tigers in northeast China, a drone is just a giant cat toy pic.twitter.com/jZz04RCneA— CNN (@CNN) February 23, 2017
Sidewalk Kintsukuroi
Kintsugi is an ancient Japanese art that uses lacquer mixed with powdered gold to repair broken ceramics. The gold-patched cracks pay homage to the history of the piece. Brooklyn artist Rachel Sussman brings the Japanese art of repair with gold to the streets with her Sidewalk Kintsukuroi project.
Torn at the Secret Policeman's Ball
David Armand (as interpretive dancer Johann Lippowitz) and Natalie Imbruglia perform "Torn" at the Secret Policeman's Ball 2006. I love it!
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Cat Armour
Calgary based artist Jeff de Boer crafts protective ensembles for cats and mice. He draws inspiration from different time periods and countries, including Edo period Japan and Medieval England. Each piece of armour can take up to 200 hours to create.
"Boer has never put a mouse in the armor, but he has put one of his cats inside and has the scars to prove it." Pieces sell for as much as $25,000. I guess I won't be buying one for Joyce.
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Lie Lie Land
London street artist Bambi has daubed an Islington wall with an image of Theresa May waltzing with Donald Trump - labelling it “Lie Lie Land”.
Bambi’s pieces, which have depicted figures including David Beckham, Ai Weiwei, the Queen and an Afghan war hero, are often inspired by everyday materials she sees reflective of contemporary society.
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The Easiest Way To Clean a Microwave
This steam clean method takes just a few seconds to prep and a minute to wipe down. Here's how it's done.
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Things to Do While Waiting for Someone to Be Impeached
Do you feel like time is dragging since Trump was elected? Here are a few activities to keep you occupied while you wait for him to be deposed. Brilliant.
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Doomsday-Proof Arctic Seed Vault Protects World From The Apocalypse
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A global seed vault on Norway's Svalbard archipelago is filled with seeds that could help bring Earth back from any variety of doomsday scenarios: nuclear war, climate change, natural disasters or even an asteroid strike.
This week's seed deposit includes samples from seed collections in Benin, India, Pakistan, Morocco, the Netherlands, Belarus, the U.K., Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as the United States and Mexico.
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Moo-d Music
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Can music help dairy cows get down to business? Read about it at NPR
Wednesday, February 22, 2017
Sculptures by Li Xiaofeng
Chinese artist Li Xiaofeng creates gorgeous porcelain couture from ceramic shards from the Song, Ming, Yuan and Qing Dynasties found at archaeological sites.
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