Sunday, May 26, 2019

Sunday Links

Image: Heather Dewey-Hagborg

3D printed portraits made with DNA from cigarette butts I love the Wellcome Collection.

The cat who saved a Japanese rail line: the ‘cat master’ became so famous she was knighted.

The Beat Scene: Burt Glinn’s Vivid Portrait of a Subculture  Via Blort

Brooklyn's Revolutionary Social Club: It safeguards the boots of Mexican revolutionaries, and the sound bites of rebels; it collects buttons, posters, and anything upon which one could scrawl a grassroots manifesto.

Periodic Table of Music Genres by DJ-Glass

A Wisconsin Bar Had an Enormous 1885 Circus Poster Hidden Within Its Walls


Animated Editorial Illustrations by Andrea Chronopoulos

Name That List, #58

Flying Body Parts Lawsuit Crazy!

Some of the world’s oldest people have lived on the Japanese island of Tokunoshima. Can a Drink a Day Keep the Doctor Away? 

How Do You Move a 320-Year-Old House Across an Ocean? 

Giant Arms in Venice Form A Bridge

A Glimpse Into A Disturbing Masquerade Ball This mysterious surrealist party took place at a Rothschild’s mansion in 1972.

 Women in Rock and Roll's First Wave: For sixty years, conventional wisdom has told us that women generally did not perform rock and roll during the 1950s. They were wrong. Via 

The Oliver Twist workhouse is becoming a block of luxury flats with a "poor door" 

What it's like inside an Amazon fulfillment center "I was no doubt the worst packer on the floor during my two-package stint."

What next? Be a part of something with NOTHING

Floating dairy farm in Rotterdam shows how food production can become less vulnerable to climate change.

No More Wasted Space Between Your Fridge And Counter  Great idea!

Death and Life in Great American Cities: To bury a loved one from Queens is to confront displacement in the here and beyond.

The Best Restaurant Table Is Yours, If You Ask for It 

20 of the most beautiful villages in Italy

Digital Collections of the Library of Congress Free to Use

Whimsical Street Art  Cal inserts cartoon illustrations into statues, vents, iron plates, peeling walls, weeds, and abandoned objects.

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