Savage. https://t.co/1MCEiCxmR3— M.J. Mouton (@MJ_Mouton) August 1, 2019
Wednesday, July 31, 2019
Coalnado!
Video surfaced on Tuesday of a huge vortex of coal bits being sucked into the sky.
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This is being nicknamed a "coalnado" -- happening at a coal mine in Elkhorn, WV. Very similar to a dust devil -- it's a dust/dirt-filled vortice, created by strong heating at the ground. Interesting video!📽️: Randy Walters #wvwx pic.twitter.com/TwExjZEtj3— Meredith Garofalo (@GarofaloWX) July 30, 2019
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Colour Assimilation Grid Illusion
Chaser, the world's smartest dog, has died
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John W. Pilley, a professor emeritus of psychology at Wofford College, trained Chaser the border collie to recognize more than 1,000 words. For three years, Mr Pilley trained her for four to five hours a day. He showed her an object, said its name up to 40 times, then hid it and asked her to find it.
Chaser has passed away at the age of 15. If there is a doggie heaven it is now a smarter place.
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Mick Jagger Goes Rock Climbing
Young Mick Jagger, climbing at the high rocks, Tunbridge Wells, Kent 1959.
The Great Thousand Island Dressing Debate
It is one of the great big disputes of our times.
The Great Thousand Island Dressing Debate from Great Big Story on Vimeo.
The Great Thousand Island Dressing Debate from Great Big Story on Vimeo.
Tuesday, July 30, 2019
Tweet Of The Day
Amazing: Artists installed seesaws at the border wall so that kids in the U.S. and Mexico could play together. It was designed by architect Ronald Rael.— Jolt (@JoltAction) July 29, 2019
Beautiful reminder that we are connected: what happens on one side impacts the other ❤️❤️❤️pic.twitter.com/wWD71bOKls
Bleeding Shark Bath Bomb
Looking for a way to celebrate Shark Week? How about this shark-head-shaped bath bomb that bleeds as it dissolves:
Via Boing Boing
Via Boing Boing
Superb Paper Drawn Animation
The life of a commercial artist isn't easy. 'Irudika 2019 Promo' by Maite Caballero and Genís Rigol.
IRUDIKA 2019 from Genis Rigol on Vimeo.
IRUDIKA 2019 from Genis Rigol on Vimeo.
Photographs of the Flying and Climbing Cholitas of El Alto, Bolivia
New Zealand-born photographer Todd Antony's recent project, Cholitas, focuses on the Bolivian Cholita climbers and wrestlers of El Alto.
Historically Bolivia’s indigenous Aymara women were systematically marginalised, forced to work as servants for Spanish occupiers and to wear long skirts and bowler hats. Today Cholitas have taken their fight against racism, classism and sexism to the wrestling ring and the mountains wearing traditional layered skirts and colorful shawls.
Read more: It's Nice That
Sony’s Wearable AC
The Reon Pocket by Sony is a wearable mini cooling device. As well as cooling you during hot days, the device, which slots into the back pocket of a specially designed T-shirt, can also warm you up during the winter. Most of us would love to have one this summer because it's so damn hot but unfortunately the shipping date is March 2020.
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Via The Verge
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Via The Verge
These Lights!
Designer Matteo Ugolini of Karman of Italy creates unconventional light fixtures for commercial or private residences. I love the whimsical animal lights.
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More here: if it's hip, it's here
Incognito
"Cameras are able to recognise our age, mood, or sex and precisely match us to the database – the concept of disappearing in the crowd ceases to exist."Noma Studio has developed a mask that makes the wearer's face undetectable to facial recognition algorithms used in public surveillance cameras.
More here
Grand Canyon Polaroid Camera
For the 100th anniversary of the Grand Canyon officially being named a state park Retrospekt, Parks Project and the Grand Canyon Conservancy have released a limited edition Polaroid 600 made from refurbished parts.
Available for purchase here.
Via: COOL HUNTING
What Prison Cells Look Like Around The World
According to the Institute for Criminal Policy Research, over 10.35 million individuals are being held in penal institutions throughout the world, either as pre-trial detainees/remand prisoners or having been convicted and sentenced.What is the appropriate use of prison in a democratic society? Is it meant to rehabilitate or to punish? Bored Panda has collected photos of prison cells from all over the world to show how different countries treat their criminals.
Look at #14 in El Salvador. These cells are 12 feet wide and 15 feet tall and are usually packed with more than 30 people. They were initially constructed to serve as 72-hour holding cells, but many inmates stay for more than a year.
Does anyone in their wildest dreams think that a person can be rehabilitated in such a place?
More here
Look at #14 in El Salvador. These cells are 12 feet wide and 15 feet tall and are usually packed with more than 30 people. They were initially constructed to serve as 72-hour holding cells, but many inmates stay for more than a year.
Does anyone in their wildest dreams think that a person can be rehabilitated in such a place?
More here
Monday, July 29, 2019
Tweet Of The Day
Heard a sound come from the kitchen and noticed four fresh cookies went missing. pic.twitter.com/uqK8WLvb12— Aaron (@AaronMicron) July 29, 2019
Tom and Jerry Cat Concerto
16 year old Yannie Tan plays the Tom and Jerry Cat Concerto (Hungarian Rhapsody No.2 by Franz Liszt)
Via Facebook friend Mike Erskine-Kellie
Via Facebook friend Mike Erskine-Kellie
So These Four Dudes Took A Road Trip
Did you know that Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Harvey Firestone, and John Burroughs became famous as “the Vagabonds” — a traveling group that took to the (primitive) roads to see the country and make the occasional business deal? I didn't.
Via Miss Cellania
Via Miss Cellania
Quentin Tarantino's Visual References to Famous Movies
Have you ever wondered how director Quentin Tarantino came up with the some of the famous scenes in his films? Wonder no more.
Via: TYWKIWDBI
Via: TYWKIWDBI
Behold Ponyhenge!
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In Lincoln, Massachusetts dwells a mysterious herd of spring rocking horses that inexplicably multiplies and rearranges itself. It began with one abandoned horse and grew to a herd of nearly 50 horses; today the number is closer to 30.
"For the Kentucky Derby, that the horses were moved into lines, waiting for a starting gunshot that presumably never came. After Labor Day (when school starts in Massachusetts), the horses were arranged in rows as if they were in school. They’re draped in lights at Christmas, and sometimes they’re buried completely by snow during the harsh New England winters."
Read more here
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Who Is Chiune Sugihara?
Today Google Doodle celebrates a humble Japanese diplomat. Chiune Sugihara was posted at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas, Lithuania in 1939 where he saved thousands of people during the Second World War. He and a Dutch diplomat arranged for Polish and Lithuanian Jews to travel on the Trans-Siberian Railway through the Soviet Union, then into Japan before finding safety in the Dutch colony of Curacao in the Caribbean.
More here
Sunday, July 28, 2019
How To Tell Your Cat About Trump
Are you upset about Trump? Do you have a cat? Then this book is for YOU.
How to tell if your cat is a secret Trump supporter, reassuring your cat that Donald Trump is not going to grab it and more.
Buy It Here
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How to tell if your cat is a secret Trump supporter, reassuring your cat that Donald Trump is not going to grab it and more.
Buy It Here
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Louis Coulon and His 11-Foot Beard
Born in 1826, Louis Coulon was already shaving by age 12 and his beard was growing so fast that by age 14, Coulon already had a 50 centimeter (19.6 inches) beard. He could not keep up with shaving so just let it grow. By 1904 it was 3.3 metres (11 feet) long and served as a nest for his cats.
Lots of pics here
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Lots of pics here
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Sunday Links
The lovely Linocut above byVanessa Lubach looks just like our Carmen.
How to Have a Beach-Ready Body That Is Eight Feet Tall and Weighs 190 Pounds of Blind, Nightmarish Fury
What Technology Is Most Likely to Become Obsolete During Your Lifetime?
7 ancient ruins around the world, reconstructed
Ice Cream, Anyone?
A life-changing encounter between Hawaiian surfers and paralyzed Japanese man Via Miss C
3-D spacesuits: How To Dress For Space
Why I don't go to the beach
Seeing the Mountains of France Through a Citroen’s Clouded, Classic Windshield
Artist Makes Cheese Out of Mould That Landlords Won't Remove Avril Corroon takes samples from the most cursed fungal growths she could find in rented accommodation around London and made artisanal cheeses that look good enough to eat. Except, they’re not.
Wow! Scheendijk Islands, Netherlands
Cheap frozen dinners styled and photographed as dishes from five star restaurants
The Man with the Golden Airline Ticket: a good-for-life, go-anywhere American Airlines pass. Via
Detroit Rock City: A History Of Motor City Music Via Blort
Bimbo stars in Up to Mars
London water fountains were chosen by focus groups. They're really ugly.
Useful, harmless, and demented Via
The Toyota Century is Japan’s interpretation of the ultimate luxury automobile and unlike any other car, luxury or otherwise.
When CPR is a "huge mistake": This is what end of life looks like in the U.S.
Things You’ll Never Hear a Three-Year-Old Say
In 1980 the Sunday Times Magazine asked Raymond Depardon to go to Glasgow. To a photographer of the south and the desert, Glasgow seemed to be at the antipodes of his photography. And yet he discovered the northern light, and remembered it later when he photographed the north of France.
The Queen Of Magic: She Caught Bullets with Her Bare Hands — and Made Magic's Glass Ceiling Disappear
Why Hong Kong Wants to Build More Artificial Land
Penny Tiles: I have enough pennies, all I need is some inspiration.
At Home With Jimi Hendrix (1966): Photographs of Jimi Hendrix cooking, sleeping and smoking at his London home.
The Canadian Town Where Chinese Food Comes With a Side of Curling
Saturday, July 27, 2019
Fluorescent French Bulldogs
These two pups got into some green food colouring and gave their owner a bit of a shock.
Via Boing Boing
Via Boing Boing
Dark Deco
Architect and architectural photographer Amey Kandalgaonkar's photographs of the art deco architecture of Shanghai were inspired by the gothic backgrounds of ‘Batman: The Animated Series’.
1957 Gay Wedding Mystery
A collection of photos from a same-sex commitment ceremony was first printed circa 1957 at a neighborhood drugstore in North Philadelphia. The owner of the drugstore deemed them to be inappropriate and refused to hand over the prints. 60 years later, the photos were found and safely stored.
Can you help return these photographs to the grooms? Contact this link if you think you recognize anyone in these photos.
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Every Way to Cook a Potato
Do you like potatoes? They are my go-to comfort food. Bon Appetit editor at large Amiel Stanek attempts to cook a potato in almost every way possible and comes up with 63 methods.
Via Blort
Via Blort
Friday, July 26, 2019
Phenomenal Nature
Phenomenal Nature marks the first retrospective of Mrinalini Mukherjee in the United States. The exhibition explores the artist's longstanding engagement with fiber, along with her significant forays into ceramic and bronze.
The exhibition is at the Met Breuer (945 Madison Avenue, New York City) through September 29, 2019.
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The exhibition is at the Met Breuer (945 Madison Avenue, New York City) through September 29, 2019.
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Transformer More Than Meets The Eye
Aquanaut is an autonomous submarine robot developed by Houston Mechatronics Inc. to service deep-sea oil and gas rigs. It can transform into a partial humanoid.
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The Leaping Lawyer of Toronto
Don't try this at home, kids! Lawyer Garry Hoy worked on the 24th floor of the Toronto-Dominion Bank Tower. His favorite trick, during office parties, was to demonstrate how the building's glass windows were unbreakable. He did this by hurling himself at them.
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Matchboxes Feature Dogs With Human Personalities
Ravi Zupa's handpainted matchboxes feature dog portraits that poke fun at the complicated personalities of us humans.
More: Bored Panda
Via Miss C
More: Bored Panda
Via Miss C
Beautiful Mont Saint Michel Drone Footage
The island has held strategic fortifications since ancient times and since the 8th century AD has been the seat of the monastery from which it draws its name.
Thursday, July 25, 2019
Video Shot with a World War 1 Lens
This lens spent 100 years in the dark, the last thing it captured must have been the horrors of the World War I. Mathieu Stern of the Weird Lense Museum thought it was time to use it for something more light and positive.
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Olympic medals made from recycled smartphones
The Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic medals by Junichi Kawanishi are made from old electronic devices donated by the public. 6.21 million used mobile phones handed in at collection centres. Altogether these yielded 32 kilograms (kg) of gold, 3,500 kg of silver and 2,200 kg of bronze.
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Anything to declare? Just moon rocks and dust.
This document was signed 50 years ago by Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins after they returned from the first manned trip to the moon. The three astronauts came down in the Pacific Ocean and were taken to Honolulu on July 24, 1969, where they filled out this immigration form, declaring a cargo of moon rocks and dust.
More: Open Culture
More: Open Culture
Hotel Clings to a Famous Tourist Spot in Norway
The Cliff Concept Hotel is designed for Norway's famous Preikestolen which rises 604 metres above the Lysefjorden below. The proposal from Turkish designer and architect Hayri Atak features a cantilevered platform that juts out from the rock, complete with a glass-bottomed infinity pool. If you suffer from acrophobia this might not be the hotel for you.
More: Urbanist
Knowing the difference between tempered and laminated glass could save your life in a vehicle collision.
New research from AAA reveals that most vehicle escape tools, intended to quickly aid passengers trapped in a car following an accident, will break tempered side windows, but none were able to penetrate laminated glass. Tempered glass is designed to shatter into small pieces. Laminated glass is harder to break and designed to prevent ejections during a crash. One in three vehicles made in 2018 has laminated glass.
Find out which windows your ride has.
Read more: AAA NewsRoom
Thanks Bruce!
Wednesday, July 24, 2019
Tuesday, July 23, 2019
Tweet Of The Day
Anti-vegan activist previously ate raw pig's head at vegan festival in Brighton.Men ate raw squirrels in front of vegan food stall https://t.co/kI7W85SRF4— The Independent (@Independent) July 23, 2019
Lektoslogospoiesilalia Girl
Polly doesn't just think she is special. She IS special. She can only speak in spoken word poetry.
Via bookofjoe
Via bookofjoe
Flooded London
How To Dispose Of A Body (en español)
Learn Spanish the fun way with Alma and Miguel! Here they teach you how to discuss what might be a tricky situation. Hopefully you'll never have to use it.
Also in the series:
How To Disconnect Your Grandma From Life Support
How To Tell Your Friend You've Slept With His Dad
Also in the series:
How To Disconnect Your Grandma From Life Support
How To Tell Your Friend You've Slept With His Dad
Monday, July 22, 2019
Tweet Of The Day
Remembering Mable Hillery, born on this day in 1929 in La Grange, Georgia. Here she is singing “How Long Has the Train Been Gone” in Toronto in 1966. She’s accompanied by Sunnyland Slim on piano, Brownie McGhee on guitar, Willie Dixon on bass, and S.P. Leary on drums. pic.twitter.com/axgknU8tch— Dust-to-Digital (@dusttodigital) July 22, 2019
Freequences
French artist Alexandre Dubosc spent three months on his latest caketrope animation and it was definitely worth the effort that went into it.
Previously here and here.
Via Boing Boing
Previously here and here.
Via Boing Boing
Zombie Tidal Wave
Actor/producer Ian Ziering (Steve from 90210) and his director from all those Sharknado movies are premiering Zombie Tidal Wave on the SYFY channel August 17th. Here's the trailer for those who like this sort of thing:
Via: Geekologie
Via: Geekologie
Flying Scooter Display Team
To celebrate the 60th anniversary of the founding of Japan's Air Self Defence Force (ASDF), 24 ground staff rode on novelty scooters modelled after fighter aircraft.
Via Just A Car Guy
Via Just A Car Guy
Folding Kayak
Sunday, July 21, 2019
Bras For Turtles
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Donations can be sent to the Carolina Waterfowl Rescue at P.O. Box 1484 in Indian Trail NC 28079.
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Fish Hammer
It's hammer time! Smashie the goldfish swims around in its tank while a webcam tracks it’s position, moving a hammer that crushes tiny furniture.
Fish Hammer from Neil Mendoza on Vimeo.
Find out why Neil Mendoza created this projects and see instructions here.
Via Laughing Squid
Fish Hammer from Neil Mendoza on Vimeo.
Find out why Neil Mendoza created this projects and see instructions here.
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Tweet Of The Day
Best 6 minutes you can spend on Twitter today. https://t.co/kzzYI8Q4cj— Linda Clarke (@LindaMLC) July 20, 2019
Sunday Links
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Translator and amateur colorist Olga Shirnina has an incredible talent for transforming historical black and white photographs into images like these: Dazzling Color Photos of the Legendary Romanov Costume Ball of 1903 Via
Take a virtual hike along Rainbow Mountain in Peru Via MetaFilter
You may be pleased to know that The Minnesota State Fair will NOT offer "doughnuts with syringes" Thanks Bruce!
14 Words That Are Their Own Opposites
Daddy, what are those cognitive scientists doing? I believe they're mating, son. Via
Notre-Dame came far closer to collapsing than people knew. This is how it was saved.
Those Eyes!
Pop-Up Trombone Have fun! Thanks Bruce!
According to the autocomplete map Fort Wayne is Seventh on Hitler's List' and 'San Diego is Spanish for Whales'
An Ode to ‘On the Beach,’ Neil Young’s Most Beautiful (and Most Depressing) Album I am having a tempus fugit moment. Can it really be 45 years since it was released? I love it still.
The Copycat Towns That Replicate Western European Architecture
The Secret World of Air Traffic Controllers Darcy Frey spent the month of November 1995 side-by-side with controllers as the days counted down to the busiest American air-traffic day of the year: the Sunday after Thanksgiving. Thanks Bruce!
Did you know this: There Is A Time Traveler Running For President
I’m 20. I Have 32 Half Siblings. This Is My Family Portrait. Via Blort
I Dreamt I Saw Khrushchev (in a Pink Cadillac)
This home in Soda Springs, Ca is right up my alley.
Michigan Central and the rebirth of Detroit A gorgeous photo essay Via Things
Follies of the Madmen "Is it just me, or is the notion of an army of clones on the make for a lone gal a creepy thing?"
Where the American artists are
Exercise in space keeps astronauts from fainting when they return to Earth
Why Jack Frech Started Taking Journalists on “Poverty Tours” of Appalachia—And Why He Stopped This is a good story.
15,000 Years of Western Art On A Mug
Tiny Hedgehog Goes Camping You will OD on the cuteness.
Would you pay $31K for John Lennon's decayed tooth?
The world's oldest surviving letter by an actual Christian contains a request for fish sauce.
Titanic survivor Ella White’s battery-powered crutch guided her lifeboat to safety in 1912—and is now at the center of a family feud.
1940s Bike Girls: Fascinating Photos of Female Motorcyclists From 1949, Taken by Loomis Dean for LIFE Magazine Via
Saturday, July 20, 2019
Tweet Of The Day
This is a wonderful thread about how the show must go on. It made me happy and sad at the same time. There is a name dropped. https://t.co/wB9u4YREo0— Marilyn Bellamy (@NagOnTheLake) July 20, 2019
Motus Modules
Motus Modules is a company of professional dancer-choreographers and technicians who draw on a variety of artistic genres to create productions that defy the laws of gravity.
Spectacle Motus-Modules from StrasTV Production on Vimeo.
Spectacle Motus-Modules from StrasTV Production on Vimeo.
AI turns your selfie into a portrait painted by a master
AI Portraits creates original portraits based on photos of faces. The generative network was trained with 45,000 portrait images. I tried it out on a selfie and can't see the resemblance. Can you?
More: Boing Boing
More: Boing Boing
How Much Hotter Is Your Hometown Than When You Were Born?
As the world warms because of human-induced climate change, most of us can expect to see more days when temperatures hit 32 degrees Celsius (90 degrees Fahrenheit) or higher. The New York Times has published an interesting interactive site that shows how the temperature of your hometown has changed (the dataset goes back to 1960) and how much hotter it may get by the end of this century. The graph above shows the projected change in my hometown, Montreal, between 1960 and 2089.
My Garden
It's been awhile since I posted any garden pics. The rain has made everything a little jungle-y and the weeds are growing faster than the flowers but so far there has been consistent colour so I'm not complaining.
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