Mapping Emotions

Even before humans had words they used sounds to express themselves. We still use vocal bursts to convey distinct kinds of emotion.  A research study visualizes the complex, high-dimensional space of emotion conveyed by brief human vocalization within an online interactive map.

Click here for interactive version

Read more about the study here.

Via  Pasa Bon!

Strands Of History

Strands of History in Tahoe City builds functional items, like the bridge table above, using original vertical suspender ropes from San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge. Each rope was created from 229 individual strands at John A. Roeblin’s Sons Company and held the iconic structure up from 1935 until they were retired about fifty years ago.

More: Colossal

Incredible Marble Chain Reaction

YouTuber Kaplamino provides an explanation of the techniques he used to create Blue Marble 3.

Via Boing Boing

Eagle Tracks

TYWKIWDBI  posted the map above that shows the movement of an eagle over a twenty year period.
I found more information about the bird's travels at The Lone Traveller. Apparently the eagle began its journey in Russia where it was fitted with a solar powered tracker. It flew incredible distances over many countries before dying twenty years later in the Valley of the Child in Saudi Arabia.

I hope it earned frequent flyer points.

Tweet Of The Day

Say, man, you seen @SnoopDogg and Matthew @McConaughey's #CarpoolKaraoke yet?

It'd be a lot cooler if you did.

Watch the episode for free on your @AppleTV app! https://t.co/nibMfRgN8A pic.twitter.com/zEwOXHPf7j

— Carpool Karaoke (@CarpoolKaraoke) February 22, 2019

John Oliver Solves the Missing New Zealand Problem

Apparently world maps have been leaving out New Zealand (IKEA’s map poster is one example).  Last Week Tonight host John Oliver is peeved about the omissions and the show’s Twitter account has come up with a practical solution:

Feel free to print out this image of New Zealand and add it to any map that needs it. pic.twitter.com/ofVt9NeBBG

— Last Week Tonight (@LastWeekTonight) February 18, 2019

Via The Map Room

An 'Ice Shove'

A few days ago I mentioned in a post that the Niagara Parkway was closed down the road from me in Fort Erie, Ontario, when huge chunks of ice had been pushed onto the shore and were blocking parts of the road and threatening local residences. A recent post at Atlas Obscura explains this  phenomenon, sometimes called an “ice tsunami,”  also known as an “ice shove” or an “ice push.”



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Filmmaker turns Utah desert into a breathtaking Martian landscape

Equipped only with a Mavic Air drone and a knock-off astronaut helmet he bought on eBay, Pete Majarich travelled to the deserts of southern Utah with the intention of turning the desolate landscape into a melancholic portrayal of Mars.


THE VISITOR — A Short Film from Pete Majarich on Vimeo.

More here 

Tweet Of The Day

jacob wohl and matt gaetz competing for worst twitter account pic.twitter.com/Z8kuHkH8yq

— m i t h (@ManInTheHoody) February 26, 2019

The New Normal

Spike Jonze takes us on a journey through America’s complex history with cannabis.


The New Normal - A Short by Spike Jonze - MedMen from MedMen on Vimeo.

Tweet Of The Day

This 1923 film produced by the Fleischer Studios, explained (and still explains today) the Einstein's theory of relativity in a very informative way https://t.co/ZuZuPR4QVF pic.twitter.com/tL2D8lc4FK

— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) February 26, 2019

Overview

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A variety of flowers, grasses and other ornamental plants grow on a nursery in Oceanside, California, about 44 miles (70 km) north of San Diego. Plants grown at this facility are sold to landscape contractors, developers, municipalities and other buyers throughout the state. /// Created by @dailyoverview, source imagery: @nearmap

A post shared by Daily Overview (@dailyoverview) on Feb 24, 2019 at 1:39pm PST

Playing With Matches

Luckily for us the parents of multidisciplinary visual artists, Juan Delcan and Valentia Izaguirre, didn't warn them about the perils of playing with matches (or, if they did, little Juan and Valentia weren't paying attention). The pair have created a series of witty GIFs that are bound to bring a smile to your face.

See more on their Instagram account
Via Blort 

A Survey Of Public Transit Seat Covers Around The World

 CityLab focuses on issues facing the world’s metro areas and neighborhoods. In a recent post they asked their Twitter followers to choose their favorite examples of public transit seat coverings from around the world. The replies came pouring in and they ranged from fabulous to some that make you want to rip your eyes out.

My personal favourite is this classy little number from the Istanbul Metrobus:

This one from the Los Angeles system looks like it was designed to induce acid flashbacks:

See more here

Via PfRC

Sculpting an Orchestra From Ice

21 years ago Tim Linhart was inspired to make an entire, functional orchestra out of ice. He's still creating ice orchestras today.

  
Sculpting an Orchestra From Ice from Great Big Story on Vimeo.

Becoming Pikachu

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Sleepwalker

A short film about the air pollution crisis in New Delhi, India.


Sleepwalker from Matias & Mathias on Vimeo.

Cat Paw Socks

What are your thoughts on these hyper-realistic socks made to look like cat feet? Cute or creepy? I'm in the creepy camp.

SoraNews24

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Crazy Winds Yesterday

The photo above by Niagara photographer Christine White shows ice pushing up onto properties and threatening damage to homes on the Lake Erie Shoreline. The Niagara Parkway was closed, power lines were down, a tree was toppled across the street from our house and my dog, Lizzie, was terrified and trembled like a leaf all night. The winds are continuing this morning. I'm glad we had some very big, half dead trees on our property taken down a short while ago.

Tweet Of The Day

Rush hour in Los Angeles. pic.twitter.com/ZgO4K1c0xZ

— James Melville (@JamesMelville) February 22, 2019

Tweet Of The Day

I don't think you're a real policeman. https://t.co/mdwjzVpCXN

— Geraint (@geraintgriffith) February 23, 2019

Doctor Who Meets The Big Bang Theory

Warm Kitty, Soft Kitty  is Sheldon's Lullaby Sick Song on The Big Bang Theory. A dalek  is a dalak. Here's what happens when you mash 'em up:

Link

Via SylK's Playground

Music For Sunday Morning

Via Blort

Sunday Links

Image:  Melike Altınışık Architects

Robots will Construct Melike Altınışık' Robot Museum in Seoul 

All the Presidents’ Meals  Frozen cheese with watercress salad? Calf’s head soup? Terrapin with cornbread sticks? A collection of menus for white house state dinners dating back nearly 86 years. (Via Blort)

The Fuselage: Extreme Glamping

An audio tribute to the late John Peel: A huge downloadable archive of his shows  (Via)

"London Cries": the merchants' patter of 19th Century London

Makes you think all the world's a sunny day, oh yeah. The 1950s American Car And Road Trip In Kodachrome 

You can get a 5-tier wedding cake made of cheese at Costco

Hunter S. Thompson's 10 Best Albums of the 1960s 

If there were an Oscar category for Best Food Scenes these ones would be winners.

Between the Clock and the Bed: Musicians Patti Smith and Charlotte Gainsbourg tour an exhibition of Edvard Munch's work held at the Munch Museum in Oslo.

Book Explores the Bond Between 50 Famous Artists and Their Kitties

The story of Ontario’s last segregated Black school. It finally closed in 1965.

The new household rules:  How many towels does one person need? Should you change your sheets each week? And do you really have to clean the toilet with nothing but your rubber gloves?

A Series of Spells Conjured in Graphite and Watercolor: A Book of Staves by artist Jesse Bransford features painted charms inspired by Icelandic magic.

My Restaurant Was the Greatest Show of Excess You’d Ever Seen, and It Almost Killed Me: When the chefs of Joe Beef in Montreal gave up alcohol, their whole restaurant changed.

The allure of the maze: Mazes and Labyrinths (1922)

The Senster : Standing 8 feet high at the shoulder and “resembling a giraffe or dinosaur,” the Senster was basically a mechanical lobster claw mounted on a six-jointed neck actuated by quiet hydraulic rams.

Pasta Grannies: watch Italian 'nonne' in their own homes making traditional pasta dishes.

The European Tree of the Year Contest is searching for trees with interesting stories. Check out the finalists.

Moira Hahn's vibrant artistic style fuses East and West. (via Blort)

Has “ the staff of life” become “the spirit of disease”? How to make bread that doesn't cause gut problems. (Via PfRC)

Kiruna: challenge of moving town in Sweden is moving minds of the citizens 

Moving Japanese Style

If I can ever dislodge Mr. Nag from this old house, I want this company to move my stuff.



Via Cynical-C

A Guide to the ‘Chef’s Table’ Restaurants

Eater has posted a guide to the restaurants on the first six seasons of Chef’s Table, plus the France-themed mini-season, listed based on geography, west to east. This map includes one restaurant per chef, with notes about affiliated establishments and other projects, plus information that might come in handy if you’re planning a visit.

Click here for interactive map

Recreating Oliver Byrne’s Euclid Online

Euclid’s Elements is a collection of 13 books attributed to Greek mathematician Euclid circa 300 BC and laid the foundation for geometry, number theory, and many core concepts of math and logic still used today. In 1847, Irish mathematics professor Oliver Byrne published his celebrated edition of Euclid's original work using colourful illustrations.  Designer Nicholas Rougeux has recreated all six books of Oliver Byrne’s Euclid on the web, following the original as closely as possible while adding links between propositions and even making the diagrams interactive.

Geometric proof of the pythagorean theorem
from the first printed edition in 1482 (left bottom),
Byrne’s colorful rendition in 1847 (middle), and the online edition (right).

Read more about the project here

Purchase the poster here

Tiny meteorites are everywhere. Here’s how to find them.

Via bookofjoe

Tweet Of The Day

My sister accidentally locked me out of the house so I went to check if the back door was unlocked and this happened pic.twitter.com/2zkjeyFJk5

— Gabby Tropea (@gabbytropea) February 18, 2019

Top Climate Hazards in the US in 2050

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A new Climate Central research brief, CLIMATE PILE-UP, translates their results to 244 U.S. locations, finding that unchecked emissions could hit some areas with up to three severe, nearly simultaneous climate hazards by 2050. Which climate hazard is expected to intensify the fastest in your area?

Read full report

te reo Māori rendition of Bohemian Rhapsody

William Waiirua got more help from Hātea Kapa Haka than he bargained for when his car broke down...

Via MetaFilter

InfraScapes

The Phlog shot 20,000 images with a modified Canon EOS 750D to create this stunning 8k infrared timelapse video.



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Chart Compares Brand Value

This video compares the top 15 global brands since 2000.



Data source: Interbrand

Via perfect for roquefort cheese

Perpetual Calendar of Giovanni Antonio Amedeo Plana

Want to know the day of the week that the Western Roman Empire fell to the barbarians, on September 4, 476? This device, built by astronomer and mathematician Giovanni Antonio Amedeo Plana in 1831, will give you the answer (it was Monday). The Perpetual Calendar, which took 10 years to complete,  operates via a simple wooden crank that hides a stunningly accurate universal mechanical calculator spanning the years 1 to 4,000.

The Perpetual Calendar features windows that show key dates and moon phases for 4,000 years. ECCEKEVIN/WIKIMEDIA/CC-BY-4.0

A team of three students from the Polytechnic University of Turin spent months unraveling the device’s mysteries.

Read more: Atlas Obscura

Beyond Buccaneer

I'm always excited to see something new from culinary anarchists Bompas & Parr. Their latest project, Lost Lagoon, is a 'fantastical reinterpretation of the eponymous Captain Henry Morgan's world'. Guests get to navigate themselves by boat on the world's largest indoor lagoon to a series of islands inspired by the atolls of the south Pacific - and drink rum!



Dress code: Neo-Tiki

Kiliii Yuyan: Searching for Home

Kiliii Yuyan is a Nanai and Chinese-American photographer whose award-winning work chronicles indigenous and conservation issues. Wilderness survival experience has been critical for Kiliii’s projects across the Arctic and other extreme environments.

Photos: ©Kiliii Yuyan

Read more: LENSCRATCH

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Peep-achus?

Easter won't be here for awhile but Peeps are already rearing their cute little heads online. Grab a package of these iconic marshmallow treats, some edible ink pens and lollipop sticks and you'll be ready to create some adorable Pikachu Peep Pops!

Source: bakerella.com

Tweet Of The Day

I Scrubs - Katie who Keeps House in West Forty-ninth Street, New York, 1892.9 Yr-old Katie at the 52nd Street Industrial School, he asked what kind of work she did, & she answered, 'I scrubs.' Katie & her 3 older siblings took thei.. See more: https://t.co/0YiDe71qcF pic.twitter.com/waCCh8A3QC

— History Lovers Club (@historylvrsclub) February 21, 2019

Oh Sheep!

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Some Honky Tonkin' Hungarian Ladies

They blew my nose and then they blew my mind.



Via everlasting blort

Did You Bokeh My Child?

Apple turns ‘bokeh’ into a verb to advertise depth control on their new iPhone.



Via PetaPixel

Tweet Of The Day

Ever seen a Raven's ear? pic.twitter.com/MsenCGRLn0

— Daniel Holland (@DannyDutch) February 20, 2019

Noise Cancelling Doghouse Soothes Frightened Pets

My old dog, Lizzie, is terrified of thunder, fireworks and even the sound the wind makes in the eaves.  Theatre season causes her distress because each play opens with a fireworks display. Perhaps the Quiet Kennel is the answer:



A combination of soundproof ventilation, acoustic isolation panels and speakers alter the incoming soundscape to create a refuge, all packaged within an angular minimalist kennel frame.

Link
Via  Urbanist

How Southeast L.A. Culture Got to Japan

Walter Thompson-Hernandez grew up with Chicano and Chicana culture in Los Angeles and heard it had spread to Japan. Was this cultural appropriation? He decided to find out.



Read more:The New York Times

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Tweet Of The Day

It has been scientifically proven that cats are among the smartest creatures in the animal kingdom. Then there's Gary. pic.twitter.com/frI7gmwmS9

— Paul Bronks (@SlenderSherbet) February 18, 2019

The Charted Sandwich Board

Sandwiches are beautiful,Sandwiches are fine.I like sandwiches, I eat them all the time;I eat them for my supper and I eat them for my lunch;If I had a hundred sandwiches, I'd eat them all at once. - Fred Penner

Do you love sandwiches? You can purchase this chart of 50 deconstructed sandwiches at Pop Chart

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Kitbull

Together,a fiercely independent stray kitten and a pit bull experience friendship for the first time.



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IKEA to launch air-purifying curtain

Yesterday I posted a link about IKEA's cute little boat that clears trash from waterways. In another effort to improve its environmental footprint the Swedish furniture designer is set to launch an air-purifying curtain coated with a mineral-based surface that causes air pollution to break down when light shines through it.



The Gunrid curtain technology works in a similar way to photosynthesis – the natural process that plants and some other organisms use to convert carbon dioxide and water into food, using light.

More: Dezeen

How Colourization Artists Restore the True Colours of the Past

Hand colouring black and white photographs is more than simply colouring within the lines. Colourization artists use a combination of research, physics, and technology to digitally reconstruct history's black and white record.



More: Open Culture

Swiss Cat Ladders

A cat ladder is a climbing aid for cats, which is usually attached to buildings. Research on the cat ladders of the Swiss city of Bern reveals sociological, architectural and aesthetic perspectives.

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• Swiss Cat Ladders, a book by author, Brigitte Schuster, will be published in the fall of 2019.
  
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Death metal attracts sharks as it mimics "struggling fish"

In 2015, a Discovery Channel crew -- hoping to attract a large great white named "Joan of Shark" -- dropped a speaker underwater and played some. 



Via Boing Boing

Lady Gaga Fugue

Vincenzo Culotta plays a neo-baroque piece based on the theme from the song "Bad Romance" by Lady Gaga.



Sheet music available here

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The SNL Hall of Presidents

I don't remember Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush Sr, Clinton, Bush Jr or Obama whining about how they were portrayed on SNL, even though it wasn't always pretty.

Via Miss Cellania

The Good Ship IKEA

IKEA has designed a remote-controlled boat, the Good Ship IKEA, that clears trash from the water.  Each of the two large scale replicas of IKEA's Smakryp bath boat can collect up to 20kg of debris at a time. They are currently trawling Deptford Creek, near Greenwich, UK.

More Here

Abandoned Airport Terminal Transformed Into a Midcentury Dream

An abandoned airport terminal at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport has been reborn as the TWA Hotel, designed by firms Lubrano Ciavarra, INC., Beyer Blinder Belle, and Stonehill Taylor. The 1962 building, designed by architect Eero Saarinen, closed when Trans World Airlines ceased operations in 2001.

To access the luxury guest rooms, patrons enter through space-age flight tubes. Vintage tunes play throughout the hotel. There's even a hotel museum dedicated to TWA chronicles the midcentury modern design movement and the rise of the Jet Age. 

The floor-to-ceiling windows are built with Fabrica glass - they're the second-thickest windows in the world, following those of the U.S. Embassy in London - so the sound of the jet engines is muffled.

More: Dwell

Trump Makes People Cry

Apparently, scores of “big, strong” men keep crying in front of President Trump.

 

The Washington Post

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A Dream of Myanmar

Myanmar. A country that has been sleeping for a long time wakes up.


A Dream of Myanmar from HINDSIGHT on Vimeo.

What The Sydney Opera House Might Have Looked Like

 Image Credit: Budget Direct via NeoMam Studios

An iconic piece of architecture recognized around the world, the Sydney Opera House (above) was designed by Danish architect, Jørn Utzon, following a 1956 competition that attracted 222 competition entries.
Budget Direct Australia and NeoMam Studios have generated images for seven rejected proposals for the venue. Here are three of the spectacular runners up:

Philadelphia Collaborative Group’s Design

Sir Eugene Goossen’s Design

Peter Kollar and Balthazar Korab’s Design

Utzon’s winning entry has become one of the defining symbols of Australian culture, gaining UNESCO World Heritage Site status half a century after the original contest for its design.
More here
Via ArchDaily

Music For Sunday Morning

Sunday Links

APOD: 2019 February 12

The Fab Four’s farewell, the Rolling Stones’ airlift out of Altamont, the Who’s infamous toilet stop … the great rock photographer Ethan Russell was there

Want to get away from it all? Irish island for sale: gulls, grass, wind and no mod cons

Finding Dick Davy a mysterious "lost" comedian who once championed civil rights and antiracism (Via BoingBoing)

Taking Philosophy to the Streets (Via PfRC)

Finding the Story of New York in 5,000 Dog Pictures 

The Books That Mattered Most to David Bowie, Bibliophile

Choose Your Own Corporate Adventure It’s a bright weekday morning, and you are just arriving at work. Are you Mike or Megan?

A pretty cool collection of Prince GIFs 

Rick Feeney, Official White House Squirrel Feeder  (Via Miss C)

Do you have stink bugs? I first noticed them in my house about four years ago and they have appeared every spring since then.  New Research Could Help Keep Stink Bugs Out of Your House

An Artist Searches for Her Missing Mother: As a way to process her feelings of grief, frustration, and loss, Lauren Hana Chai made a series of paintings titled Last Known Locations, each imbued with imagery inspired by her missing mother.

“The Witness,” a very short story by Jorge Luis Borges 

Very rich people review very expensive 2018 Winnebago Horizon

Movie Pitches for Women the World Forgot

Honeybees can crunch numbers, solve tasks, give directions, understand zero and share decisions.
More here

Rent-a- Goalie (Thanks Bruce!)

Two Weeks in the Yucatan Peninsula There's so much more to it than the Riviera Maya.

16 Secrets in the Life of a 1960s Playboy Bunny Few jobs have been as glamorous as the Playboy Bunnies of the 1960s.

Why Harriet Tubman made St. Catharines her home

A restaurant will bring a teddy to your table, so you do not have to eat alone

Tundra Lodge Rolling Hotel The Polar Rover provides the ultimate polar bear viewing experience.

Are you allowed to buy 'throwaway' plane tickets to avoid high fares? I admit I've thought about doing this.

Three's a crowd! Helle's toilet: Nine hundred years after the roughly carved three-person loo seat was placed over a cesspit near a tributary of the Thames, it will form the centrepiece of an exhibition about London's’ “secret” rivers.

Since we're talking about toilets: The Porta-Potty King of NYC Faces a Threat to His Throne

Tweet Of The Day

The little black swan was only born and does not know yet that he is able to swim.
To it both people, and mother with the father help to understand it pic.twitter.com/ATKXTPycdu

— Gretchen⊰◎◎⊱Reinhardt (@KlatuBaradaNiko) February 15, 2019

Pol Kurucz's 'Subway to Nowhere'

Subway to Nowhere features a collection of the strangest and most interesting characters you could ever hope to meet in a subway car. Trapped in their own surreal worlds between stations, the characters are the true embodiment of Pol Kurucz's invigorating wit, imagination and style.

Read More: PLAIN Magazine

Via Blort

The Breadmaker

The Breadmaker tells the story of how a Chavista collective in Venezuela has been occupying a Caracas bakery since March 2017 in an attempt to provide their local community with affordable food.

See How Your Address Has Changed Over 750 Million Years

Click here to see interactive map

This interactive tool enables users to hone in on a specific location and visualize how it has evolved between the Cryogenian Period and the present.Users can input a specific address or more generalized region, such as a state or country, and then choose a date ranging from zero to 750 million years ago. Currently, the map offers 26 timeline options, at intervals of 15 to 150 million years.

Read more: Smithsonian

The Evolution Of The Perfect Home According To IKEA Catalog Covers

Nordic Style Magazine has discovered a trove of vintage Ikea catalog covers at the company's official Pinterest account. I have always had a few IKEA pieces kicking around. I swear that my Billy bookcase purchases have kept them in business. Check out the furniture people have been assembling since 1951!

See all the covers here
 Via 

Mysteriously Perfect Japanese ‘Tree Circles’

A half-century ago cedars were planted in precise circles in Miyazaki, Japan.  The trees were carefully arranged this way not for aesthetic effect but to test out a botanical theory of tree growth. 50 years later they resemble lovely land art when viewed from above.

Via  Urbanist

What Is The Dirtiest Place In Your Home ?

Your home is filled with thousands of species of bug, bacteria, fungus. And while you might assume most live in your bathroom, the dirtiest place in your home isn't your toilet. It's your own body.

Valentine's Day Yarn Zoetrope

Filmmaker Sam Tilson and yarn artist London Kaye made a Valentine's Day zoetrope that features a volcano dripping hearts down to milk boxes, which in turn squirt hearts from their straws into the cups of coffee below.

Via Geekologie

See behind the scenes photos here

My Funny Valentine - Chet Baker

DIY Dino Bike

Norwegian artist Markus Moestue has hand-crafted a magnificent dinosaur bicycle using a kitchen knife to carve the body of the beast from styrofoam. The dino was attached to a frame, welded together from three different bicycle pieces. Why, you may ask? Moestue explains his reason for creating this Jurassic masterpiece:

"For a trip across the bible belt in Norway. It was a protest against the dogmatic religious education of children, and the idea originated from the theme-parks of creationists that teach children that humans and dinosaurs used to live together.’

More here

Via Blort

How To Open a Chastity Cage with a Condom Wrapper

I hope none of you need this information but here it is, just in case.



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A Tip For Valentine's Day

Via Duck Soup

Siouxsie Sioux's Isolated Vocals on The Killing Jar

English singer, songwriter, musician and producer Susan  Ballion, aka Siouxsie Sioux, is best known as the lead singer of  rock band Siouxsie and the Banshees and the drums-and-voice duo The Creatures. AllMusic named Siouxsie as "one of the most influential British singers of the rock era".



More: Open Culture

The Tallest, Shortest, and Fattest Men in Europe Playing Cards

In this colourized photo by Jecinci, we see Europe’s tallest known man (Cornelius Bruns) playing cards with Europe’s fattest man (Cannon Colossus) and shortest man (unknown) in 1913. Apparently the original black and white photograph appeared on a French postcard.

Via TwistedSifter

Neons & Sakuras

This video contrasts the fast-paced life of Tokyo with the enchanted and mysterious landscapes of Wakayama.


Japan - Neons & Sakuras from Oliver Astrologo on Vimeo.

This Clock in La Paz Runs Counterclockwise

In 2014, the clock on La Paz’s House of Congress was reconfigured to run backwards so that its hands turn counterclockwise. Bolivia’s Foreign Minister David Choquehuanca declared the mechanism to be ‘The Clock of the South’.



The modern analogue clock is an evolution of the Roman sundial. In the Northern Hemisphere, the shadow from a sundial naturally moves in a clockwise direction. Down in South America, however, the opposite is true. Choquehuanca sees the backwards clock as paying homage to the nation’s indigenous heritage, a way for the masses to more closely identify with their indigenous roots.
In case you're wondering, the country did not impose the new clock style on all its citizens.

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Photos of rare African black leopard

British wildlife photographer, Will Burrard-Lucas, has taken the first professional camera trap photos of a wild black leopard in Africa, using a Camtraptions camera trap that included wireless motion sensors. These are the first confirmed images in nearly 100 years of a black leopard in Africa.

More: The Guardian