Sunday Links

Image: Sami Ucan, Turkey
Street Photography Awards 2019

LensCulture Street Photography Awards 2019

Game, set, match: The Bastard Professor

Apollo 11: A real-time journey through the first landing on the Moon. All mission control film footage! Via 

Because you love optical illusions: All the balls are of the same color. Brown.

Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370: Where Is It? This is a fascinating read.

What do tinnitus, gangrene and cheesemonger have in common? They are all names given by neural networks to cats Via

Reframing the Black Model at the Musée  d’Orsay Her name was Laure.

A Dying Miner's Letter To His Beloved Wife (1902) : On May 19th, 1902 an explosion rocked the Fraterville Coal Mine in Tennessee killing 216 miners. For a while, 26 miners survived in an underground side passage.

Music Documentaries: 37 Essential Watches For Music Fans  Via

On the Hunt for the World's Rarest Pasta Su filindeu (or the "threads of God") is a pasta made of hundreds of tiny strands by a single woman in a hillside town in Sardinia. She'll make it for you too—if you're willing to walk 20 miles overnight.

James Mwenda, Carer of the World's Last Northern White Rhinos

Unbuilt Tokyo: Protected by cylindrical walls of reinforced concrete, the steel and glass “depthscrapers” extend hundreds of metres underground. Only a single floor of each inverted 35-storey skyscraper is visible at ground level.

A Pied Piper Mystery What happened to the children of Hamelin? Via

I hear marbles: Why so many apartment dwellers hear the sound of rolling objects through the ceiling

Shot on iPhone XS — Christopher Anderson

Drag lip-sync history: Prancing around the kitchen with a wooden spoon as a microphone, Luster was acting out the personae and identities of men in the adult world. But, as Luster became a gender-nonconforming adolescent and teenager, the options for self-expression and experimentation shrank.

"Perhaps We're Being Dense." Rejection Letters Sent to Famous Writers  Some kind, some weird, some unbelievably harsh.

How Birds and Bees Survive in Cities 

When shoes go rogue: Some TV shows have been ruined by sneakers on the bed. Via

Every year a bobcat mama gives birth to a litter of kittens on his roof. He set up a camera this time around.

Purses made from household trash

Cowboy Throat Singing

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