Sunday, October 08, 2017

Sunday Links

Photo: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

Academy Museum of Motion Pictures releases new renderings of its museum on the Miracle Mile (above).

Keith Haring's Journals Via

Every Noise at Once I love this! I never knew there were so many musical genres. Via

Sirens of Chrome 

A Fateful Hunt for a Buried Stash of the Greatest LSD Ever Made 

A Brief History of Palm Trees in Southern California. Apparently many of the iconic palms are dying and are being replaced by trees that provide more shade.

Philosopher Jeremy Bentham’s mummified head goes on public display 

Dictionary Stories: short stories composed entirely of example sentences from a variety of dictionaries.

 Impressions of India from the dawn of photography to the 21st century

What Fictional Character's Home Would You Like to Live In? 

The curious case of the alien in the photo – and a mystery that took years to solve

Inside Yayoi Kusama's New Tokyo Museum 

Incredible Doom A print and web comic series about '90s kids making life-threatening decisions over the early internet.

Wm. Farmer and Sons: A Modern Vintage Hotel and Barroom in Hudson,NY. I'm bookmarking this for the post-Trump era when I feel more comfortable visiting the US again.

A timeline of the decline of middlebrow restaurant chains.

The Radical Reference Librarians Who Use Info to Challenge Authority 

I first saw Woodstock running across a turnpike we were turning onto late one dark night in Peachtree Georgia Atlanta. A heartwarming dog story.

A History of American Protest Music: Leadbelly, Lee Hays, and the hammer songs that powered the folk movement.

Dog of the deep Creepy!

Off-grid tiny cabin is instantly ready on land or water

Ridiculous “fried chicken”pants

Why have Brits stopped beating each other up?  Short of a battlefield, the most violent place in medieval England was Oxford.  Via

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