Also known as the Elephant House, illustrator Edward Gorey lived there from 1986 until his death in 2000. Gorey's characteristic pen-and-ink drawings often depict vaguely unsettling narrative scenes in Victorian and Edwardian settings.
The Edward Gorey House is open to the public from April to December.
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Wednesday, October 31, 2018
Edward Mordrake, the man with the demon face
Edward Mordake is the apocryphal subject of an urban legend. Born in the 19th century, he was heir to an English peerage, and had an extra face on the back of his head.
Weird World
Weird World
Bone Mother
In this video by Dale Hayward & Sylvie Trouvé an arrogant youth dares to enter Baba Yaga’s living house of bones.
Happy Hallowe'en - bain sult as Oíche Shamhna!
Just a few sleeps until Hallowe'en! We made this little animation to show the world why Ireland is the #HomeofHalloween and which Samhain traditions travelled abroad with the @GlobalIrish!— Irish Foreign Ministry (@dfatirl) October 28, 2018
From turnips to spirits, we wish you all a Happy Hallowe'en - bain sult as Oíche Shamhna! pic.twitter.com/IBdtOmFB6Y
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Tuesday, October 30, 2018
The March Of Folly
The kinetic characters in John Buck's sculpture, The March of Folly (2018) are presented like a parade, each train car pushed forward by the one behind, a metaphoric tail wagging the dog. It was created specifically for this year’s American midterm election.
John Buck: New and Recent Work continues at Robischon Gallery (1740 Wazee Street, Denver) through November 3.
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Windows of Wonder
This fall ABC Carpet and Home in Manhattan has unveiled a number of adorable handmade miniature window display scenes that will inspire you (they hope) to buy the full -size version of the products.
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A Grim Education: 72 Years of School Shootings
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| From left, Samantha Fuentes, Ashley Baez, Isabel Chequer, William Olson, Anthony Borges, and Alexander Dworet. Photo: Michael Avedon |
School shooting survivors share their memories of life-changing trauma, as well as insights from living with the scars — physical and mental — of gun violence:
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If it’s good, tis better in a Coffyn.
Pastry coffins were a kind of medieval Tupperware, meant to preserve the foods they contained. They were inedible boxes made from flour, water and sometimes fat that were discarded when done. Sometimes they contained live surprises such as birds or even humans. A surprise pastry coffin was “served” to King Charles I by the Duchess of Buckingham. It contained the tiny Sir Jeffrey Hudson who broke through the coffin’s crust dressed in a tiny suit of armor.
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Monday, October 29, 2018
This is also cool because it looks just like my cat, Carmen.This picture of a crow is interesting because...it's actually a cat pic.twitter.com/dWqdnSL4KD— Robert Maguire (@RobertMaguire_) October 28, 2018
Ultra creepy high-heeled "skin shoes"
Surrealist art/fashion duo Hannah Rose Dalton and Steven Raj Bhaskaran (aka Fecal Matter) designed these bizarre "skin shoes" for a Vogue profile on their work last year.
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DIY Flying Witch
Expert model aircraft builder Otto Dieffenbach has created this excellent full-size Broom Flyer Witch. It is guaranteed to strike fear into your neighbours this Halloween.
Dieffenbach provides instructions but cautions that this is not a project for a novice builder. He sells a ready-to-fly version for $1850 on his site for those who are not handy.
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Dieffenbach provides instructions but cautions that this is not a project for a novice builder. He sells a ready-to-fly version for $1850 on his site for those who are not handy.
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How Your Mouth Pronounces Words
The infographic above shows the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). It illustrates consonants found in English, with keywords and relevant parts of the mouth highlighted and colour-coded. Pronounce the words from left to right. Can you feel where the sounds are being produced?
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Skull Made of Refugee Life Vests
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Sunday, October 28, 2018
Surreal Neural Net Halloween Costumes
Last year, in a brilliant intersection between art and science, Janelle Shane trained a neural network on 4,500 Halloween costumes that her readers collected. This year, in a collaboration with the NYT, she trained a different neural network on over 7,100 costumes. Jessia Ma illustrated lots of them.
Here are some of the costumes that the neural network produced at various stages of training:
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Here are some of the costumes that the neural network produced at various stages of training:
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JR and TIME magazine tackle guns in America
Flying Eggs
A teenage boy interrupts a man on his morning run by throwing eggs out the window. This video takes an unexpected and disturbing turn.
Flying Eggs from Sheldon Chau on Vimeo.
Flying Eggs from Sheldon Chau on Vimeo.
Migingo: The most densely populated island in Africa
Even though the island is roughly half the size of a football pitch, it has everything a town needs. There’s a restaurant, a pharmacy with a doctor and even a hotel.
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Badass Boda Boda Drivers of Nairobi
Mad Max, Ghost Rider and Machete ride again! The drivers of Nairobi’s fleet of boda-boda taxis, decorate their motorcycles to draw the attention of customers. Dutch photographer Jan Hoek noticed that one driver had customized his bike to resemble the one used by Nicholas Cage in Ghost Rider and thought "this dude needs a matching costume". He collaborated with Kenyan/Ugandan fashion designer Bobbin Case to create outfits for seven boda-boda drivers in Nairobi.
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Not how I expected him to come back but okay. pic.twitter.com/dW0IdMZnNF— Daniel Powell (@danieljpowell) October 26, 2018
Poppies cascade down Calgary church for Remembrance Day
More than 7000 knit poppies spill down the outer walls of a Calgary, Alberta Church. Knitters around the world made them to mark the 100th anniversary of the armistice that ended the First World War this Remembrance Day.
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Sunday Links
Keep your fork, there's pie.
"Jesus Tried to Cheer up Paul McCartney -Using a Lambchop Puppet" Via
Have you always secretly yearned to totter about on cloven hooves? Now you can!
Websites in 2018
What happened to Europe's Original Dogs?
How to Transform Your Beard into an Art Form – Tips for Rugged Men
Mere Pseud: Retrospectral dispatches from the secret 1980s journals of a teenage modernist.
The Art Institute of Chicago Puts 44,000 Works of Art Online: View Them in High Resolution
20 Literary Would-You-Rathers Would You Rather have Captain Ahab give his mad soliloquy to you every night before you go to sleep or get swallowed by an actual White Whale?
Why There's a Columbo Statue in the Middle of Budapest
Where Americans vote (and don't vote...)
Public Domain Images - thousands of free vintage graphics Via
Why you NEED to Stay at a Japanese Ryokan and Onsen I would love to do this.
Notable Deaths 2018: Books
Andy Warhol Photography Archive - Contact Sheets: 1976 - 1987
Working on the Levee In 1978, Alan Lomax returned to the Mississippi Delta where he recorded an interview with men who had worked levee building work teams during the depths of Jim Crow.
Timeless patterns by William Morris, 19th century England’s celebrated designer, craftsman, and poet.
How an Astonishing Holocaust Diary Resurfaced in America
Vancouver Police Canine Unit Just Released Their 2019 Charity Calendar And It’s Badass Thanks Bruce!
5 Spooky Cocktail Recipes for Halloween
How the Women's Weekly Children's Birthday Cake Book changed the shape of Australian birthdays Via
Canadian Doctors Will Soon Be Able to Prescribe Museum Visits as Treatment
Saturday, October 27, 2018
Candy Graph
Frequent contributor Bruce sent me this graph with the comment "If you want to keep on the good side of the goblins (and their parents who steal half the loot), better have the right candy."
Thanks Bruce!
Damsels of Design
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| Glennie’s Fancy Free Corvette for the 1958 Feminine Auto Show —an exhibition staged to promote the female designers’ work. |
The Damsels of Design were ten women brought on board by General Motors in the mid-1950s, and the first prominent all-female design team in American history. There they worked on every interior element (seats, doors, trim, detailing, color and fabrics) except the instrument panel, which was deemed off limits to women. Sounds like a glamorous gig, doesn't it? But it was a male-dominated field and the damsels faced many challenges.
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| Linder loading a matching set of luggage into the trunk of her exhibition-model Impala Martinique. |
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Dogs romping to "Rompo i Lacci"
Oscar-winning actress Tilda Swinton's new music video, co-directed with her partner Sandro Kopp, features her adorable springer spaniels romping on a beach in Scotland.
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Via MetaFilter
Asleep on the Train
Asleep on the Train follows a businessman as his daily commute gets wildly off-track, leaving the audience to guess if his adventure was real or only acted out in a wishful dream.
Burgers two ways: Dean Martin style and Frank Sinatra style pic.twitter.com/AhMKrq8YfX— Daniel Holland (@DannyDutch) October 26, 2018
Friday, October 26, 2018
Julius Pringles Gets A Body Made Out Of His Own Can
Japanese paper artist, Haruki, decided that potato chip mascot, Julius Pringles, needed a body so he made one for him. He's kinda cute!
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A Frame for London
Spectacles have been a part of London history since Medieval times. The earliest spectacles found in London were made from bone and date back to 1430. To celebrate 600 years of spectacles in London, Tom Broughton, of London-based eyewear brand Cubitts, and his team have manufactured a special pair of glasses created from six centuries of detritus found at the bottom of the Thames.
The objects used were diverse, everything from a WW1 bullet and a boar's tusk to “witch pots” that were once filled with pubic hair and urine and used to “ward off demons”
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From Tree To Stool. Not The Easy Way.
All Purpose Nik made a stool using his fingernails and teeth as tools. There was more blood than he thought there would be.
Boing Boing
Boing Boing
Thursday, October 25, 2018
How to detect a suspicious package
Here's what postal services and government agencies look for when determining whether a package is suspicious:
If you come across a suspicious package, here are some tips for what to do next, according to the Department of Homeland Security.
Via CNN
If you come across a suspicious package, here are some tips for what to do next, according to the Department of Homeland Security.
- Leave the package alone, clear the area and contact emergency personnel
- Wash your hands and other exposed skin with soap and water
- Cordon off the immediate area, and shut down all equipment there
- If possible, and without disturbing the mail, jot down what you can about the package (what it looks like, markings, the name and address on it)
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Bad Reputation
I saw Bad Reputation, the Joan Jett doc, last night. She is a feminist anti war animal lover and a wicked guitarist. I saw her with the Runaways in NYC in 1978 with a friend who was a rabid fan but didn't know much about her life.
She's been at this since she was 15 and is still rocking at 60. She joined Dave Grohl, Krist Novoselic and Pat Smear to perform Nirvana's anthemic "Smells Like Teen Spirit" at the 2014 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony in Brooklyn. She was dynamite! Gotta share.
She's been at this since she was 15 and is still rocking at 60. She joined Dave Grohl, Krist Novoselic and Pat Smear to perform Nirvana's anthemic "Smells Like Teen Spirit" at the 2014 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony in Brooklyn. She was dynamite! Gotta share.
Good Morning!
Don't despair. There are still some very decent people left in this world.
There are some very decent people in this world. https://t.co/Hyn415Ml0y— Marilyn Bellamy (@NagOnTheLake) October 24, 2018
DIY "Follow Me" Eyes
These easy to make creepy eyes seem to follow you wherever you stand! They make awesome refrigerator magnets.
Full instructions from Eduardo Talbert at Make
DIY Dead Man's Toes
In the 1993 film Hocus Pocus, the gals whip up a potion using a critical ingredient - a dead man’s toe.
Now you can make your own, Find full instructions at the aptly named blog Eat The Dead
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See the blood vessels in your own eye!
Brown University neuroscience researcher, Guillaume Riesen, demonstrates why we have blind spots and shows a trick that allows you to see the blood vessels in your own eyeball.
Via Boing Boing
Via Boing Boing
Hedgehog Bra, Tempest in a B Cup?
Wow Fashion! World of Wearable Art includes bras made out of parrots, cacti and handcuffs, the work of the contestants of the New Zealand-based World of Wearable Art Award Show. But it is a taxidermied hedgehog bra made by designer Claire Third that is causing an uproar at the art exhibition in St. Petersburg.
Vitaly Milonov, a Russian lawmaker infamous for his authorship of the “homosexual propaganda” law, and local animal rights’ activists have called for the museum to be shut down or fined because the exhibit ‘promotes violence towards hedgehogs’.
Claire Third previously incited controversy with her Ginger Cat Handbag.
More:The Calvert Journal
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Vitaly Milonov, a Russian lawmaker infamous for his authorship of the “homosexual propaganda” law, and local animal rights’ activists have called for the museum to be shut down or fined because the exhibit ‘promotes violence towards hedgehogs’.
Claire Third previously incited controversy with her Ginger Cat Handbag.
More:The Calvert Journal
The Origins of Anime
It might surprise you to know that the roots of Japanese animation stretch back to the early 20th century, a period when Japan was attempting to modernize. The oldest surviving example is Namakura Gatana (Blunt Sword), 1917. Sadly, much of the earliest animated movies were lost following a massive earthquake in Tokyo in 1923.
Oira no yakyu (Our Baseball Match)
Production Year: 1931
Production Company: Yokohama Cinema Shokai
Oira no yakyu (Our Baseball Match)
Production Year: 1931
Production Company: Yokohama Cinema Shokai
Evil Mickey attacks Japan
Production Year: 1936
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Production Year: 1936
The Perfect Hoodie For a Trip Into Space
This space hoodie from GearHumans features a 3D photographic print of the suit astronaut Neil Armstrong wore during his Apollo 11 mission.
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Wednesday, October 24, 2018
Robots Among Us
Japanese retailer UNIQLO's Ariake warehouse was plagued with problems and inefficiencies so the company gave it a major overhaul. You won't hear any good humoured workplace banter in the warehouse now because 90% of the workforce has been replaced by robots. Everything from inventory management and storage to box assembly and distribution is now done by robots.
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CIA's former Chief of Disguise Reveals Techniques
An American posing as a European can give themselves away by holding a cigarette the wrong way, resting while standing on one leg, or holding a fork in their right hand. I did not know that.
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Tuesday, October 23, 2018
Death Metal Grandma
The story of 96 year old Holocaust survivor, former WW2 spy and famous songwriter Inge Ginsberg as she decides to pursue a new career: Death Metal.
Death Metal Grandma from 3 Point Pictures on Vimeo.
Death Metal Grandma from 3 Point Pictures on Vimeo.
Herwave Wrap
This scarf features hand-drawn illustrations of over 200 women running on the Democratic ticket for Congress in the 2018 midterm elections. 100% of profits from the sale of the HERWAVE WRAP go to Emerge America and Emily’s List, organizations dedicated to bringing more women into politics.
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Leonardo da Vinci’s Eye Condition
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| The painting "Salvator Mundi," attributed to Leonardo da Vinci, shows his exotropia |
New research suggests that Leonardo da Vinci’s suffered from exotropia, an ultra-rare eye condition that turns one pupil outward, limiting the traditional understanding of distance and depth when looking at things.
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— Laurel Raymond (@RayOfLaurel) October 22, 2018“Indelible in the hippocampus is the laughter,” said Dr. Christine Blasey Ford during her September 27 public testimony. Her words were spray-painted by an anonymous artist in the entryway of Yale Law School’s main building, alma mater to Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
Singapore’s Disappearing Hand-Painted Shop Signs
Vikas Kailankaje, a 34-year-old design lecturer and principal designer of Studio VBK, has been taking photos of vintage signs in Singapore which are in danger of disappearing. Urban planning and tight regulations of signs has meant these old ones were considered visual clutter.
More: Channel NewsAsia
Monday, October 22, 2018
Soviet Control Rooms
A collection of Soviet control rooms. Power stations, control towers etc. Vintage design.
More Present & Correct
More Present & Correct
The Geometry of Farming
Aerial photos bring rows of crops, meticulously terraced hillsides and other means of cultivation into sharp focus.
More: Quartz
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| Tourists visit a tulip field in Zhumadian, Henan province, China. Reuters |
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| Newly harvested red chili peppers spread out to dry Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, China. China Daily News/Reuters |
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Lost murals By Italian Futurist Rediscovered In a Bank In Rome
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| Balla's murals today. Photo: Banca d'Italia |
Murals painted by one of the founding fathers of the Futurist movement, Giacomo Balla, have been rediscovered in a building under renovation in Rome. The boldly coloured murals, which cover around 80 square metres of walls and ceiling, once decorated the Bal Tic Tac, the Futurist nightclub opened by Balla in 1921.
The murals will be visible to the public as part of the Bank of Italy's new museum, which is scheduled to open in 2021 – exactly 100 years after the Bal Tic Tac debuted.
More: The Local
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Sunday, October 21, 2018
Are You The Couple in This Yosemite Engagement Photo?
On October 26, 2018 photographer Matthew Dippel saw a man walk out to the edge of a cliff with his girlfriend and drop to one knee. Dippel captured a photo of the proposal from his vantage point in Yosemite National Park but, by the time he made his way over to the spot, the pair had disappeared. Now he’s searching for the mystery couple in his photo.
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Lest We Forget the Horrors
McSweeney’s has compiled a catalogue of Trump's worst cruelties, collusions and crimes to be read before the midterms.
Part 1 takes us up to February 28, 2017. It's overwhelming.
PLI.Ē Project: Hand-Folded Paper Ballet Costumes
Montreal-based artists Melika Dez and Pauline Loctin collaborated on PLI.Ē Project which fuses Dez’s skills as a movement photographer with Loctin’s expertise in paper art, and showcases dancers around the world wearing exquisite origami costumes.
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