Wetlands is a short documentary by Persia Beheshti about a mermaid community in Virginia.
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Saturday, August 31, 2019
Colourized Footage of Workers Building New York's Iconic Skyscrapers
In this clip from the Smithsonian Channel we see the perils encountered daily on the building site by “roughnecks” who work without harnesses, safety ropes, or hard hats.
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More: Open Culture
Cannupa Hanska Luger: Every One
New Mexico-based artist Cannupa Hanska Luger’s project, Every One, is a social sculpture commemorating victims of the crisis of murdered and missing Indigenous women, girls, trans, and queer community members in Canada and the U.S. Luger invited communities across the United States and Canada to make 2-inch clay beads, each one representing a unique person who has been lost. The communities held workshops and responded with 4000 Massive clay beads.
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You can see it at the Gardiner Museum in Toronto from Fri Aug 30, 2019 to Jan 12, 2020.
Gimlet-Drinking Weirdos
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Is it just me or do the gimlet-swilling weirdos in this vintage Smirnoff ad bring to mind vultures sitting in a dead tree waiting for the lions to finish their meal so they can swoop down on the carrion?
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Matrioska
This is a dance of Russian dolls, as lively in its way as any performance of the Moiseyev Company.
Via Miss Cellania
Via Miss Cellania
Friday, August 30, 2019
The Rice Crispies Bowl You've Always Wanted
The Snap Crack and Pop Amplifier Cereal Bowl created by Dominic Wilcox has an integrated microphone, amplifier and volume control knob so you won't miss a single snap, crackle or pop.
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Via BoingBoing
Thursday, August 29, 2019
How to Make Sushi
Jonathan Lindgren’s How to Make Sushi follows the life of a lonely sushi chef as he perfects his masterful craft.
How to Make Sushi from jonathan lindgren on Vimeo.
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How to Make Sushi from jonathan lindgren on Vimeo.
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Tourists Do NOLA Homer Simpson Style
A couple of Swiss girls love the Simpsons so that they recreate the scene where Homer eats himself silly in New Orleans.
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Wednesday, August 28, 2019
In Stitches
Michelle Hamer's hand-stitched works are based on her own digital photographs of billboards, graffiti and instructional signage. Her tapestries grab fleetingly glimpsed messages from signage that make us take a closer look, ponder and interpret.
Via this isn't happiness™
Via this isn't happiness™
High Desert House
A couple’s handwritten note to renowned architect Kendrick Bangs Kellogg resulted in an iconic Leviathan of a home in the Californian desert. The 5,000-square-foot engineering marvel known as High Desert House sits on the edge of Joshua Tree National Park’s alien landscape.
Read More: Dwell
Tweet Of The Day
This might be the best video on the Internet right now. pic.twitter.com/6AyR6hricX— Blattman (@davidblattman) August 27, 2019
Man Paddles From San Francisco to Honolulu
Antonio De La Rosa paddled the "Ocean Defender" for 76 days from San Francisco to Hawaii. That's 2500 miles, alone and unassisted, across the Pacific Ocean.
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Via Boing Boing
Tuesday, August 27, 2019
The Block Tower
Hong Kong is one of the most densely populated areas in the world, with an overall density of an estimated 6,300 people per square kilometer. This video of public housing towers shows what this level of density looks like.
Via: TYWKIWDBI
Via: TYWKIWDBI
Sarajevo Roses
@oregonfrost posted a photo on Instagram today and it made me curious.
During the siege of Sarajevo from 1992-95 an average of over 300 shells hit the city every day. On July 22nd, 1993 alone 3,777 shells hit the city. The craters left behind by the shelling were filled with red resin to mark the casualties suffered at the spot. The patterns created are reminiscent of flowers and they were nicknamed “Sarajevo Roses.”
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During the siege of Sarajevo from 1992-95 an average of over 300 shells hit the city every day. On July 22nd, 1993 alone 3,777 shells hit the city. The craters left behind by the shelling were filled with red resin to mark the casualties suffered at the spot. The patterns created are reminiscent of flowers and they were nicknamed “Sarajevo Roses.”
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Tool Analyzes Your Tweets
Analyze Words uses scientific research to perform a personality analysis based on all the words it finds in tweets. I ran my Twitter handle through it. I'm pretty average except for being worried and angry.
Seriously though, who could go on Twitter and not become worried and angry?
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Seriously though, who could go on Twitter and not become worried and angry?
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Monday, August 26, 2019
Watch the top videos on YouTube exactly a decade ago
Bennett Feely's YouTube Decade is a website that shows the top videos at YouTube from exactly 10 years ago. Below are the most viewed videos published on August 26, 2009:
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Via Boing Boing
Fate Of Tokyo's Famous Capsule Tower Hangs In The Balance
Both retro and futuristic, Tokyo's 13-story Nakagin Capsule Tower was completed in 1972. Designed by architect Kisho Kurokawa, it is composed of 140 small metal capsules, each with a round window, and has sometimes been compared to a stack of washing machines. It is representative of the Japanese Metabolism movement that viewed buildings as structures composed of both permanent and impermanent parts, so they could evolve over time. The capsule was originally intended to be replaced in 20 to 25 years, but 47 years have passed without replacement.
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Last year, a limited-liability company bought the land under the tower from the original developer and announced its intention to redevelop it. But Tatsuyuki Maeda, a member of the Nakagin Capsule Tower Building Conservation and Regeneration Project, hopes the building can be restored.
Read more: CityLab
River of Raptors
The largest flyway for birds of prey anywhere in the world is in a narrow stretch of Veracruz State in Chichicaxtle. On any given day half a million raptors might be gliding overhead.
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Via MetaFilter
Back-to-basics home for a young family
This elevated concrete prism designed by Tilemachos Andrianopoulos houses bedrooms for a family of 4, freeing up the space below for indoor/outdoor living and dining rooms.
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Via *faircompanies
Cat on a Pinball Machine
My cat, Carmen, was entranced by this video. Perhaps I should buy her a pinball machine.
Via Miss Cellania
Via Miss Cellania
Muffler Men
In the early '60s, giant fiberglass figures stood outside businesses along the roadside, designed to reel in customers. International Fiberglass in California produced about a thousand of these 14-to-25 foot tall statues. They were dubbed “Muffler Men” although they were made to advertise many different products and took many forms. When the company closed in 1976 the original molds were destroyed and many of the figures now belong to private collectors. The Bay Area’s Bell Plastics holds what is perhaps the world’s largest group of original muffler men and they recently held their annual open house, allowing the public to see the advertising giants up close.
Photos:Bell Plastics
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Sunday, August 25, 2019
Islandia
For the short duration of this beautiful film, you will be transported to a time and place that could be a million years ago.
Sunday Links
Scratch and Sniff Cannabliss Wallpaper (above)
Inside the VHS-only documentary about the most mysterious musical collective ever A new movie about the Elephant 6 Recording Company, which housed bands like Neutral Milk Hotel, of Montreal, and the Olivia Tremor Control, receives an unconventional release. Anyone got a VHS player I can borrow?
Who wants to go in on this with me? Private island 60 miles from NYC asks $850K Not convinced? Watch this video.
Is it a rabbit or a bird?
Exploring the Montreal That Leonard Cohen Loved
Way Before Roller Coasters, Russians Zipped Down Enormous Ice Slides
In Men, It’s Parkinson’s. In Women, It’s Hysteria. An interesting article on gender bias in neurology.
Anthropodermic bibliopegy Yuck!
Average TSA wait times in the 25 busiest U.S. airports in 2018
A new word for an old practice: ‘breadcrumbing’
Living #Ferguson These are the voices of people who are directly touched by the systemic inequities exposed after Michael Brown’s death. Via Blort
Another fact I wouldn't know if it weren't for the internet: 7 Up contained lithium from its inception in 1929 until 1948
What Fruits and Veggies Looked Like Before Domestication
Downton Abbey Cast Reverses Their Roles Can't wait to see the movie! (Did you know that Lady Mary is my cousin by marriage?)
The easy way to season cast iron I've been doing it wrong.
Colossal coconut crabs may hold clue to Amelia Earhart fate
170 Cars Perform Simultaneous Burnouts To Set New World Record
Egguins are a real thing.
Why don't we all just move to Paris? Parisian Dream Pads For Sale
Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore shares his favourite songs ever (and there's a playlist) Via TMN
Extreme Ironing: The Insane Sport You Probably Never Knew About
Marilyn Monroe Recounts Her Harrowing Experience in a Psychiatric Ward (1961)
Alberta, Canada's oil sands the world's most destructive oil operation—and it's growing
One-room hotel Trunk House includes Tokyo's tiniest disco
Who is the best customer ever? A tale of one-upmanship.
'You're the guy with the ball to the crotch' - The inside story behind the funniest baseball card ever made. Thanks Bruce!
Plastics: What’s Recyclable, What Becomes Trash — And Why
The Angry Raisins? Mistranslated Book Titles Contest
Saturday, August 24, 2019
Tweet Of The Day
I added Aerosmith ft. Run DMC to this video of the shadow of a millipede walking and it has amused me more than it should have done. pic.twitter.com/esyBCaugXn— Amanda (@Pandamoanimum) August 23, 2019
NYC Storefronts in Miniature
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| Randy Hage with Pearl Paint 1/12th scale model |
Over the past 14 years, artist Randy Hage has photographed over 450 storefronts in the SoHo area of New York, 60% of which have since closed or been torn down. He has created models from these photographs to draw attention to what has been lost as urban renewal and gentrification displace the storeowners and residents of these communities.
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| 1/12th scale model of CBGB, 315 Bowery |
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| 1/12th scale model of Lenox Lounge, Harlem |
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| 1/12th scale model of McSorley’s Bar, Lower East Side |
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1945 New Guinea Rescue
The History Guy remembers the 1945 New Guinea Rescue or the Rescue from Shangri-la.
Thanks Bruce!
Thanks Bruce!
Sources of Colour In History
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"For most of human history, we've derived dyes from nature: People cooked plants and animals until they produced the desired pigment, or mined precious minerals from subterranean seams and ground them into paints."
Mummy Brown was derived from the flesh, bones, and bandages of well-preserved Egyptian corpses. Scheele's green came from a lethal arsenic tincture that actually killed people.
Read more: Popular Science
Friday, August 23, 2019
A 30-Year Time-Lapse of New York City
I've seen time-lapses of the New York City skyline before but I've never seen a 30-year time-lapse. Filmmaker Joseph DiGiovanna is working on a project will hopefully span three decades. The documentary is part of a series by photographer Emeric Le Bars.
More here
More here
Goatscaping
When the Richardson Olmsted Campus in Buffalo had an invasive weed problem they hired Let's Goat Buffalo to do some "goatscaping.". The goats are hired to eat all day long and are a natural alternative to using herbicides. Two days. NO chemicals. NO power tools. Just goats. These before and after photos show that green, natural methods are an effective option for weed control.
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Thursday, August 22, 2019
Every body needs milk
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So, did one billboard attract more attention than the other? Find out here
Inside the quest for social media stardom
Jawline is a documentary by Liza Mandelup that takes a look at social media’s teenage ‘meet and greet’ communities. 16-year-old Austyn Tester attempts to build a social media following that he can use to leverage himself out of his dead end life in rural Tennessee. Here's the trailer:
Jawline premieres on Hulu and in select theaters August 23.
Read more here
Jawline premieres on Hulu and in select theaters August 23.
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Ceaseless Tintinnabulation.
The Oxford Electric Bell has been ringing almost continuously since 1840. Due to electrostatic force, the clapper is first attracted to and then repelled by each bell in turn, so it’s been ringing them alternately for 179 years.
The bell has produced about 10 billion rings to date. It holds the Guinness World Record as “the world’s most durable battery [delivering] ceaseless tintinnabulation.”
The bell has produced about 10 billion rings to date. It holds the Guinness World Record as “the world’s most durable battery [delivering] ceaseless tintinnabulation.”
Dinosaur Mummy Found With Skin And Gut Contents Intact
This dinosaur (named nodosaur) was an enormous four-legged herbivore protected by a spiky, plated armor and weighing in at approximately 3,000 pounds.
110 million years later the mummified nodosaur is so intact that it still weighs 2,500 pounds.
Read more: ARCHAEOLOGY WORLD
Wednesday, August 21, 2019
Kitten
In 1968 a Russian team led by Nikolai Nikolaevich Konstantinov created a mathematical model of the motion of a cat.
Via Boing Boing
Via Boing Boing
Star Wars™ x Barbie®! I kid you not.
The Star Wars™ x Barbie® collaboration is an homage to Star Wars: A New Hope. This collection, inspired by the film’s original concept art, re-imagines iconic characters through a distinctive Barbie™ high-fashion filter.
More: if it's hip, it's here
Underground dome house of the family who led geese to fly home
Paula and Bill Lishman spent many winters in a poorly-insulated A frame cabin before realizing they needed to go underground to use the earth’s energy to stay warm, so they knocked the top off a hill, dropped in ferro-cement domes and covered it up again with dirt.
You might remember Bill Lishman from the work he did with Canada Geese in the mid-80s. He trained the birds to follow his ultralight aircraft to teach them migration routes to avoid a threatened extinction. Operation Migration brought him popular recognition with the 1996 movie Fly Away Home starring Jeff Daniels.
Read more: *faircompanies
You might remember Bill Lishman from the work he did with Canada Geese in the mid-80s. He trained the birds to follow his ultralight aircraft to teach them migration routes to avoid a threatened extinction. Operation Migration brought him popular recognition with the 1996 movie Fly Away Home starring Jeff Daniels.
Read more: *faircompanies
The Restaurant of Mistaken Orders
This Tokyo restaurant might not serve you what you asked for. "All of our servers are people living with dementia. They may, or may not, get your order right,", says its English introduction page.
Via Open Culture
Via Open Culture
On This Day in 1969
The first Gap store was opened by Donald George and Doris Feigenbaum Fisher on Ocean Avenue in San Francisco on this day in 1969 and became one of the largest companies in the world. They sold Levis and records. The company recently announced that it is closing a number of its Canadian stores. I stopped shopping there years ago but still have a few of their items stashed deep in my closet.
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Tuesday, August 20, 2019
The Great Colorado Mattress Migration
"We were hanging out by the pool and they were setting up for, movie night under the stars' with pillows and mattresses and then a storm rolled in."
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Surf Like a Girl
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| Maricel Parajes © Camille Robiou du Pont |
Surf Like a Girl is an empowering photo series brought to you by Carolina Amell, a graphic designer based in Barcelona specialising in contemporary visual culture. Her book is out on 16 September.
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| Arugam Bay Girls Surf Club © Max Gifted |
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| Anne Taravet © Karo Krassel |
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Monday, August 19, 2019
Funniest jokes of the 2019 Edinburgh Fringe Festival
1. I keep randomly shouting out “Broccoli” and “Cauliflower”. I think I might have Florets. – Olaf Falafel
2. Someone stole my antidepressants. Whoever they are, I hope they’re happy. – Richard Stott
3. What’s driving Brexit? From here it looks like it’s probably the Duke of Edinburgh. – Milton Jones
4. A cowboy asked me if I could help him round up 18 cows. I said, “Yes, of course. That’s 20 cows.” – Jake Lambert
5. A thesaurus is great. There’s no other word for it. – Ross SmithMore jokes from the fringe: The Guardian
A Lost Album From John Coltrane Is Found, Thanks To A French-Canadian Director
Blue World, a new album by the classic John Coltrane Quartet, with McCoy Tyner on piano, Jimmy Garrison on bass and Elvin Jones on drums, will be released on Impulse!/UMe on Sept. 27. It was recorded at Van Gelder Studios on June 24, 1964 as the soundtrack to a Canadian art film. Because the date had gone unnoted in session recording logs, this music has occupied a blind spot for Trane-ologists, archivists and historians.
Read more: NPR
Read more: NPR
Sunday, August 18, 2019
Tweet Of The Day
This may just be one of the most glorious food interviews I've ever read. https://t.co/dUNpiulkEZ— Fred Hogge (@fredhogge) August 17, 2019
Brainwaves Used to Create Art
In this cognitive performance, electrical activity in the musician's brain was used to generate digital art in real time.
Sunday Links
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Where would you eat if you didn't have long to live? Carpe diem and all that. This is a good story.
Laurie Anderson Announces New Album 'Songs From The Bardo'
Name That List
Pumped to announce I’m partnering with the government on an official collab. An absolute dream come true: An Influencer Reports for Jury Duty Hilarious!
It's not nice to make fun of people's homes but these are pretty egregious design fails. Via Miss C
Do you like Terrence Malick's movies? I do. Here's the official trailer for his latest work: A Hidden Life
Maine Modern: A Minimalist Shingled House, I love the simple design of this house.
An unexpected task for Conservation "We felt it wouldn’t be entirely prudent to place a live match in our priceless print collections, so down to our in-house conservation lab it went."
11 Useful Websites You Might Not Know About
President Obama recommends books for your late summer reading.
The Framed Sea This series of photographs by Levan Kiknavelidze appeals to me.
Once a first-overall pick of the Detroit Red Wings, Joe Murphy now lives on the streets of Kenora This is a terribly sad story,
20 Essential Pilgrimages to Inspiring Art Destinations I have some catching up to do, I've seen only two of these (The Venice Biennale and Giverny).
Does anyone really need Croc gloves?
Would You Stay In A Giant Dog?
The 50 Best One-Star Amazon Reviews of Lolita
A Tiny House Makeover (Ok, It's A Dollhouse) Via Mefi
38 Americanisms the British Can't Bloody Stand Some seem petty but others get on my nerves too.
Drone Etiquette
The greatest cat photographer of the 20th Century
The Eternal Lie of the Pools That Turn Blue If You Pee in Them I think I always half believed it. Thanks Bruce!
Eat Like Royalty With This Cookbook From the Emperor Who Built the Taj Mahal Thanks again Bruce!
A Forgotten Kitsch Supper Club is Reborn in New York
Kyoto Tachibana Senior High School Band
Saturday, August 17, 2019
Photographs celebrate the wonders of the scientific world
As part of the Royal Photographic Society’s inaugural Science Photographer of the Year competition, these images will go on display at the Science Museum in London this October.
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| Tribolium confusum. Confused flour beetle. © David Spears |
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| Safety Corona © Richard Germain |
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| Lovell Telescope Series 1C © Marge Bradshaw |
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What Do Cheetahs Sound Like?
Cheetahs are fearsome animals but they don't roar. They meow and purr just like their tiny feline relatives.
Find out more here
Find out more here
Made In America
Self-taught photographer Michael Eastman is most recognized for his explorations of architectural form and the textures of decay, which create mysterious narratives about time and place.
Many years ago my mother married an American and moved to the southern US. Whenever I drove down to visit her I felt like I was in a very foreign land. The accents, the food, the beat up towns seemed almost exotic to me. Eastman's Made In America series captures that feeling.
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Many years ago my mother married an American and moved to the southern US. Whenever I drove down to visit her I felt like I was in a very foreign land. The accents, the food, the beat up towns seemed almost exotic to me. Eastman's Made In America series captures that feeling.
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Milky Way Timelapse
This video by Aryeh Nirenberg was recorded using an equatorial tracking mount over a period of 3 hours and shows the rotation of the Earth relative to the Milky Way.
The Bug And The Beetle
In the early 1970s more foreign imports caused the American auto industry to undergo a sea change. This Chevy video, made for employees, blames sloppy workmanship and absenteeism of the blue collar workers and unions for the increase of foreign-made cars on American roadways since the 1950s. This doom and gloom video has a solution: the Vega.
Thanks Bruce!
Thanks Bruce!
Friday, August 16, 2019
The Trainee
Finnish performance artist Pilvi Takala got permission to pose as a trainee for a month at the accounting firm Deloitte. What she wanted to find out was how people at the firm would react if she did absolutely nothing...
Via Weird Universe
Via Weird Universe
1580s Land Survey Inspired Mexican Mapmakers
Mapmakers study a landscape and try to organize it into something that makes sense to them. In the 1600s the Spanish conquered Mexico and administrators distributed surveys and convened groups of residents to provide a lay of the land. The questionnaire asked for the history of the town, when it was founded, who was the conqueror, etc. The paintings below are responses to survey question 10, which asked for a visual representation of the town. They depict tangible structures like churches and waterways, but they also say something about the underlying power structure.
All Images: BENSON LATIN AMERICAN COLLECTION, LLILAS BENSON LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES AND COLLECTIONS, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN
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Via PfRC
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| We don't know the name of the artist who made this 1579 map of Quatlatlauca (or Huatlatlauca), but it was inscribed by Juan Hernández |
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| One traditional way of depicting mountains—as in this 1581 map of Tetliztaca— was as single, standalone shapes that look a bit like bells. |
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| This 1580 map of Amoltepec (now known as Santiago Amoltepec) in Oaxaca nods to the way the community changed over long stretches of time. |
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| This map of Iztapalapa (labeled as “Ixtapalapa”) includes landmarks that would have been frequented by local elites. The local seal, at the left of this map, is still in use today. |
All Images: BENSON LATIN AMERICAN COLLECTION, LLILAS BENSON LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES AND COLLECTIONS, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN
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The First And Last Times Mister Rogers Sang 'Won't You Be My Neighbor'
This is a video of both the first (February 19, 1968) and last (August 31, 2001) times Mister Rogers sang 'Won't You Be My Neighbor' on his show, some 33 years apart.
Via Geekologie
Via Geekologie
Thursday, August 15, 2019
Dogs Attending a Stratford Performance
A photo taken at the Stratford Festival shows pups sitting patiently at a production of Billy Elliot. The dogs are not theatre fans; they are training to be service dogs, and they're practicing what it's like to help their handlers navigate through a theatre.
More: CBC Radio
This Book Can Save Your Life
Chris Clarke has created an English version of Francois Caradec's Dictionary of Gestures, an illustrated guide to more than 850 gestures and their meanings around the world, from a nod of the head to a click of the heels.
First published in 2005, it's a compendium of movements involving everything from the lips to the eyelashes to the knees. The book is organized by the part of the body that is used to make the gesture. He starts with the head, the temples, the ear and the forehead, and works his way down to the groin, the genitals, the thighs, the knees, the legs and the feet.'
More: CBC Radio
Tweet Of The Day
Some Criminal Governance fieldwork almost-live-tweeting, at @cblatts suggestion, from João Pessoa, Brasil, where I visited a neighborhood dominated by the Okaida prison gang last week.— Benjamin Lessing (@BigBigBLessing) August 7, 2019
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They Told Him He Was 'Unteachable'
Meet Norman Gilbert, the 91 year old rebel artist who was told he was 'unteachable' while studying at Glasgow School of Art in the 1940s.
Michaela Tereshkova’s Extremely Obscure Discovery
Astronaut Tereshkova discovers she is not alone.
Michaela Tereshkova's extremely obscure Discovery from YK Animation on Vimeo.
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Michaela Tereshkova's extremely obscure Discovery from YK Animation on Vimeo.
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Wednesday, August 14, 2019
The Dalai Lama’s Land Rover Goes On The Block
Tenzin Gyatso, better known as His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, never drove but a 1966 Land Rover Series IIA became His Holiness’s official vehicle. Only a 4x4 could traverse the unpaved roads of the Dharamsala region of India, Nepal, and the Himalayas. The Land Rover served the Dalai Lama for ten years of his exile in Tibet, and was primarily driven by the Lama’s brother, Tenzin Cheogyal. In 1976, His Holiness upgraded to a Range Rover and the Land Rover was retired. It was maintained by Cheogyal until 2005, when it landed at West Coast British, a Land Rover repair shop based in Palo Alto, California, for a well-needed restoration. The car could fetch $100,000 to $150,000 when it comes up for auction at RM Sotheby’s starting August 29..
Read more: Atlas Obscura
Tweet of The Day
Incredible. 🧡— John Oberg (@JohnOberg) August 14, 2019
At Gentle Barn Tennessee, Henry carries hay to his brother, Horton, who is less mobile than him. Compassion is inside all of us, including these rescued pigs. 🧡 pic.twitter.com/JUPCFXlWXw
The 1619 Project
"The 1619 Project is a major initiative from The New York Times observing the 400th anniversary of the beginning of American slavery. It aims to reframe the country’s history, understanding 1619 as our true founding, and placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of black Americans at the very center of the story we tell ourselves about who we are."
The Early Internet is Disappearing
In the 1990s,the internet was a community inhabited by "netizens" who created websites that look very amateurish to us now. Flash, which made much of the early web run, will be shut down in 2020. Olia Lialina and Dragan Espenschied are part of a growing group of people who believe the early web is an artifact that should be preserved and archived.
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#FreeDorothy
Dorothy's mother thought she was spending too much time on the internet so she confiscated her daughter's phone, then her Nintendo, then her Wii but this didn't deter Dorothy from tweeting. Showing us that "where there's a will there's a way" she managed to tweet from the family smart fridge.
The #FreeDorothy hashtag has gone viral.
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