Here's to the new year, the new decade and new beginnings!
Tuesday, December 31, 2019
Monday, December 30, 2019
God's Belly Button Fluff
The Swedish Language Council’s "new word list" contains 35 words that became part of the daily conversation in 2019 – not necessarily brand new words. Here are three of them:
aspludd: A dusting of aspen tree seeds that blanketed parts of Sweden in May was coined "God's belly button fluff" by a biologist.
dra åt helvete-kapital: Cash savings you can use to quit your job, leave a cheating partner, walk out the door without having to stop to worry about money aka 'go to hell capital'.
gretaeffekten: The positive effect teenage climate campaigner Greta Thunberg has had on environmentally-friendly behaviour.
The Butterfly Map
Butterflies is a Leaflet powered map which allows you to explore images of butterflies from the Natural History Museum's digital records. The map shows over 150,000 butterflies which have been organized, classified and mapped using deep learning.
Zoom in and click on a butterfy to find out more about it.
Read more: Maps Mania
Crate Stacks 2019
Munich-based photographer Bernhard Lang's aerial photos show beverage industry crates as you've never seen them.
Via Petapixel
Via Petapixel
Sunday, December 29, 2019
The Decade in Dumbasses
Will the past ten years go down in history as the dumbest decade ever? Futurism has compiled a list of the idiots, morons and rubes who made the 2010s insufferable. From anti-vaxxers to Elon Muskrats to congress, they're all here.
Via MetaFilter
Sunday Links
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| Baby Yodarita |
Toast the new decade with a Baby Yoda Margarita
15 Inspiring Landscape Photographers
The Secret Afterlife of Lost German Luggage Via Davelog
Like jazz? Here's a treat for you: The Best Jazz Albums of 2019
Gary Janetti portrays Prince George as a cleverly snide wee boy who likes to mock his royal kin.
If you've seen The Irishman (great film) you might want to read this piece: Who Really Killed Jimmy Hoffa? (And was the frozen salmon a red herring?)
Hiding Homosexuality on the Cover of America's Magazines a Century Ago: The art of Joe Christian Leyendecker.
Percy the Fainting Pigeon
Wow! This would improve my abysmal air travel experience. A review of Air France's La Premiere from Paris to Beijing Thanks Bruce!
Another end-of-year list Things Removed from Body Orifices in 2019
The King William's College General Knowledge Quiz has been frustrating quiz connoisseurs since 1904. The paper consists of 18 sets of 10 questions, each set covering a particular theme, which in many cases is far from obvious.
Men would be silent and women would shed tears Chinese text messaging shorthand.
This is awful. Abandoned at sea, the cargo crew adrift without wages, fuel or supplies: A podcast
Good story: My Semester With the Snowflakes "At 52, I was accepted to Yale as a freshman. The students I met there surprised me." Thanks Bruce!
King Herod’s Holiday Tweetstorm “So ridiculous. Christ must work on his Anger Management problem, then go to a good old-fashioned chariot race with a friend! Chill Jesus, Chill!”
Cheer up, it's not as bleak as it seems. Ten wildlife success stories to sing about in 2019
Dine Like a Doomed Pompeiian
A mystery in the world’s oldest desert Some believe they’re footprints from the gods, others think they’re formed by dancing fairies or UFOs.
Museum of Hangovers opens in Croatia
Mother Transforms her Bathroom for Harry Potter-mad Daughter
I'll leave you with this: Watch them bounce and make it rain. Via DAVELOG
Tweet of the day
If you're feeling grim about the world, here's my effort to put the bad news (which is real) in context: Overall 2019 was probably the best year in human history. Here's why: https://t.co/DpIfNKKHV0 pic.twitter.com/rKHsRWpIR8— Nicholas Kristof (@NickKristof) December 28, 2019
Sounds Like VanSpirit
Bringing the European Continent a little closer together with an old rusty van and some microphones.
Via MetaFilter
Via MetaFilter
Saturday, December 28, 2019
Siouxsie and the Banshees
This is great.
So, Robert Smith's been at the Bailey's then. https://t.co/c7SGkVj1So— Michael Moran (@TheMichaelMoran) December 28, 2019
Squirrelly Burrito Joint
This burrito joint in Lexington, Kentucky was built for a very exclusive vegan clientele: squirrels. GirlsGirlsGirls Burritos built a popup mini version of their restaurant designed for members of the Sciuridae family. The menu featured peanut puree, sunflower and pumpkin seeds, acorns, and a variety of different nut butters.
Here's the ribbon cutting:
Here comes a customer!
Via
Here's the ribbon cutting:
Here comes a customer!
Via
Pop Culture Icons as Ancient Ruins
In his Pop Culture Dystopia series Prague-based artist Filip Hodas visualizes a post-apocalyptic future, where all that’s left behind are the relics of our not-so-distant past.
More here
More here
Making An Agatewear Teapot
Agateware ceramics were popular in England during the 18th century. In the video below ceramic artist Michelle Erickson recreates an agateware teapot from the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
Making an Agate Teapot from Victoria and Albert Museum on Vimeo.
Making an Agate Teapot from Victoria and Albert Museum on Vimeo.
Robotic Workmates
Agility Robotics has developed a pair of robots that work cooperatively. When the job is done they celebrate with a little happy dance.
Previously
Via Miss Cellania
Previously
Via Miss Cellania
Tweet Of The Day
Van Anh leading a performance of "Ghost Riders in the Sky" on a dan bau on HTV7 Channel Vietnam in 2012. pic.twitter.com/YdiueWC5eJ— Dust-to-Digital (@dusttodigital) December 27, 2019
Friday, December 27, 2019
Tweet Of The Day
Every Christmas Swedish food artist and motion designer Caroline Eriksson designs and bakes incredibly detailed (and delicious) gingerbread sculptures. https://t.co/IK2tHaas4t pic.twitter.com/O4zMhZX0YV— John Evans (@Distinctboxes) December 27, 2019
Chase Scene From Puppet On A Chain
A spectacular chase through the canals of Amsterdam from the 1971 movie Puppet on a Chain.
Via Pasa Bon!
Via Pasa Bon!
A Shoutout To This UPS Driver
Last January, Walt Gorczowski recorded footage of a UPS driver going the extra mile to get a package up to Gorczowski's house after an ice storm.
Via Neatorama
Via Neatorama
Thursday, December 26, 2019
Wednesday, December 25, 2019
The First Christmas Movie
Santa Claus, the world's first Christmas movie, was made in 1898 and was directed by George Albert Smith.
Read more about it at Boing Boing
Read more about it at Boing Boing
Salvador Dalí's Christmas Cards Were Too Avant Garde for Hallmark
In the 1940s and 50s Hallmark began reproducing the art of Pablo Picasso, Paul Cezanne, Paul Gauguin, Vincent Van Gogh, Georgia O’Keeffe and other artists on its Christmas cards. In 1960 surrealist artist Salvador Dalí designed ten holiday greeting cards for them but eight were deemed too unsettling to use. Hallmark only produced two of the Dalí cards, a nativity scene and a depiction of the Madonna and Child, but traditional consumers weren't ready for an avant garde Christmas and the cards were dropped from their product line.
Images: Hallmark Archives
Via: Open Culture
Images: Hallmark Archives
Via: Open Culture
Full Moon
Night skiing without artificial light
FULL MOON - Night Skiing Without Artificial Light from El Flamingo Films on Vimeo.
FULL MOON - Night Skiing Without Artificial Light from El Flamingo Films on Vimeo.
The Insects' Christmas
Ladislaw Starewizc's "The Insects' Christmas" (1913) is one of the earliest examples of stop-motion animation.
Spend Christmas With Jamila Woods
Here's something to listen to along with a pre-Christmas dinner cocktail. Chicago artist Jamila Woods’ wonderful LP LEGACY! LEGACY! pays tribute to legends like Eartha Kitt, James Baldwin, and Muddy Waters. She celebrates 12 of her heroes, along with the cultural lineage they have created for her.
Here is her tribute to Eartha Kitt:
Here's the playlist:
More about the album and the songs: Pitchfork
Here is her tribute to Eartha Kitt:
Here's the playlist:
More about the album and the songs: Pitchfork
Tuesday, December 24, 2019
Tweet Of The Day
Via FB pal Hal.@NuclearAnthro Not as good as giant military cats, but cats in dollhouses are pretty good, too. pic.twitter.com/Avup8c1fTV— Nathan Taylor (@nataylor) December 23, 2019
Feral Hogs Are Now Building Pigloos
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More: Boing Boing
Oldest Known King Eider Survived Oil Spill
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| Male King Eiders are super colorful sea ducks commonly found in the Arctic waters of the Bering Sea. CC photo by Ron Knight |
A male King Eider that was oiled as an adult during an oil spill in Alaska in 1996 survived 23 years after oiling and release, and according to federal banding information, this may well be the oldest known King Eider.
Read more: International Bird Rescue
Merry Intergalactic Christmas
Toronto mom Angela Young and her two wee beasties celebrated both the 2019 holiday season and the 20th Anniversary of the Beastie Boys music video for “Intergalactic” by recreating part of the celebrated video for this year’s holiday card. They did an amazing job.
See the original video
Link
See the original video
Link
Pretty Paper
The wonderful Canadian/Kiwi singer Tami Neilson singing a Willie Nelson Christmas song.
The Shepherd
The year is 1957, an RAF pilot is heading home from Germany for Christmas. Fog sets in, all radio communication is lost. Frederick Forsyth's “The Shepherd” read by former As It Happens host the late, great Al Maitland.
Transcript | CBC Radio
Transcript | CBC Radio
Monday, December 23, 2019
To Be Queen
Becoming Watermelon Thump Queen in Luling, Texas is a really big deal.
To Be Queen from The New York Times on Vimeo.
By Farihah Zaman and Jeff Reichert. Read the story here: nyti.ms/2Z8UOhs
To Be Queen from The New York Times on Vimeo.
By Farihah Zaman and Jeff Reichert. Read the story here: nyti.ms/2Z8UOhs
Flowers Blooming
Via Everlasting BlortThese Queen of the Night flowers are just BEAUTIFUL.— 𝕣𝕙𝕪𝕞𝕖𝕤 𝕨𝕚𝕥𝕙 𝕡𝕒𝕡𝕒𝕪𝕒 (@ziyatong) December 20, 2019
The bloom time lapse is over 15 hours. pic.twitter.com/yDi9YXf5ZT
Little Theatres of Memory
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| Photo © Marc Giai-Miniet. |
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| Photo © Marc Giai-Miniet. |
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Tweet Of The Day
This poignant, moving, incredible image captures the horror my beloved country is enduring. A firefighter and a koala watching their home burn.#bushfirecrisis pic.twitter.com/pGZYZA3vGy— 💧Peta Rogers 🌟🦄🌠🌈✨ (@PrinPeta) December 23, 2019
Sunday, December 22, 2019
Giant Fabric Butterfly and Moth Sculptures
North Carolina-based fiber artist Yumi Okita creates large, one-of-a-kind sculptures of insects inspired by existing species.
More: Colossal
UNICEF Photo of the Year 2019 Is Heartbreaking
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| © Hartmut Schwarzbach, Germany (Argus Photo Agency) |
Hartmut Schwarzbach, born in 1956 in Elmshorn, studied photo design and photojournalism at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Dortmund. The living conditions of children in Asia and Africa have been his main focus as a photographer and documentary filmmaker.
More here
Adult Wednesday Addams
Wednesday Addams is all grown up and it's time for her to get a haircut.
Via my FB pal Hal
Via my FB pal Hal
Sunday Links
Photograph Collection of a 19th-Century Sexologist Via Everlasting Blort
One hundred news stories that gripped the world in the 2010s
I can't think of a fucking thing to tell you, except that I'm always in the market for fine mescalin. An Xmas Letter From Hunter S. Thompson
Listen to Brian Eno's mournful cover of Johnny Cash's "Ring of Fire"
Definitely an espace atypique: Former cooperative cellar with a Brutalist architectural style
Sensible Hairstyles for Women Over 50: Chop off your shoulder-length hair, wrap it around your decommissioned womb, and return it to the heavens inside a paper lantern.
What Lies Beneath The Painted Hallways at SF Art Institute?
'Dude With Sign' holds up signs that capture what people are thinking.
Gary Larson’s Sketchbook - TheFarSide.com
Meet the artist who designed a hotel room that’s difficult to stay in. By making life difficult for visitors, Christopher Samuel wants to give them a taste of the access problems faced by disabled people. Via
Before and After: See the Amazing Results of the Restored Ghent Altarpiece
How To Unroll a Fragile 2,000-Year-Old Buddhist Scroll: First, construct a humidified chamber.
A brief history of the BBC Christmas Tapes
Siberian hermit, 75, who ‘lives in 18th century’: Agafya Lykova is the last of a family that settled on the Bolshoi Abakan River in the 1930s and lived in isolation until a geologist search party stumbled on them in 1978.
According to every Christmas movie I’ve ever watched, Christmas spirit is in great peril every year. That’s why we need overpriced fondue pots more than ever. The 2019 Hater’s Guide to the Williams-Sonoma Catalog
Photographs of refugees living in the decaying health spas of the Soviet Union
Vegan roast roadtest: The vegan ham, once cooked, is vibrantly orange. Offensively so, according to my mother, who has left her slice uneaten on the side of her plate. My father has, miraculously, gone back for seconds. He will regret this later.
Copycat Ikea Swedish Meatballs
"I always said that when my time came I’d want to go fast. But where’s the fun in that?" The Art of Dying
A new study shows an animal's lifespan is written in the DNA: Humans have a “natural” lifespan of around 38 years, according to a new method we have developed for estimating the lifespans of different species by analysing their DNA. Thanks Bruce!
If the Niagara Frontier is bombed : what to do in case an atomic attack. Now I feel prepared. Via FB friend Hal
A Personal Act of Reparation The long aftermath of a North Carolina man’s decision to deed a plot of land to his former slaves Via
Icebound - The climate-change secrets of 19th century ship's logbooks
Saturday, December 21, 2019
Tweet Of the Day
Some of the stranger jobs listed in the 1881 census were turnip shepherd, gymnast to house painter, electric bath attendant, examiner of underclothing and ‘running about’.— Quite Interesting (@qikipedia) December 19, 2019
30-plus years of ‘Garfield’ comic strips at auction
Cartoonist Jim Davis is offering up more than 11,000 “Garfield” comic strips hand-drawn on paper in an auction that will stretch into the coming years. The strips featuring the lasagna-eating feline span from the launch of "Garfield" in 1978 to 2011, when Davis began drawing the comic digitally. They will be offered exclusively through Heritage Auctions over the coming years in a series of Signature, monthly and weekly Sunday Internet Comics, Animation and Art Auctions.
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Biscuit Tin Democracy
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| Photograph: Twitter/NZ Parliament |
Read more: The Guardian
World War II Escape Scarves
During the second world war, the British army created a secret organisation called MI-9, in charge of providing the pilots with escape means. Christopher Clayton Hutton, a RAF skilled pilot, developed a set of objects for that purpose, the escape scarf being the most iconic object of the set.
More here
Via Everlasting Blort
More here
Via Everlasting Blort
Friday, December 20, 2019
Can Red Reclaim His Spot As King of Deers?
Once a legend, hero, and leader of the pack, Rudolph now lives alone in a trailer on the outskirts of the North Pole.
Via Geekologie
Via Geekologie
Tweet Of The Day
Sometimes words fail me...!!!! pic.twitter.com/syg8ZGWZ6F— John Evans (@Distinctboxes) December 19, 2019
Winter Solstice in Latvia
In the Baltics many traditions survive from the ancient pagan celebrations of the winter solstice – the longest night of the year. Over the centuries these old pagan traditions have blended with the Christian ones.
Via
Via
Thursday, December 19, 2019
Photo essay: The last glass-eye maker in Britain
As the last maker of glass eyes in Britain, ocularist Jost Haas reflects on a trade that combines intricate craftwork, medical knowledge and psychological support.
Read more: Wellcome Collection
"Tucked inside a well-kept but entirely ordinary-looking house, on a cherry tree-lined street in deepest suburbia, Jost’s workspace is a tiny front room, with blank white walls and carpet tiles on the floor. It has two desks in it – one for paperwork, the other littered with eye-making kit, including numerous glass rods and a gas Bunsen burner, which is hooked up to the mains. It’s here that Jost makes protheses while his patients watch and wait in a chair tucked to one side."
Read more: Wellcome Collection
Circle World
Holiday season got you down? Take a journey through a magical world that is eternally creating itself. It's seriously distracting.
Via MetaFilter
Via MetaFilter
Street Map Haiku
I think this is so clever! OpenStreetMap Haiku is a map that will write you a personal poem based on your current location. I shared my Niagara on the Lake location and they gave me this haiku:
Via Maps Mania
Via Maps Mania
DIY Baby Yoda Christmas Ornament
Someone fetch me some scissors and some glue. Ima gonna make this.
Via Boing BoingHere’s a craft project from #TheMandalorian that one of our artists put together for you. Get your scissors and tape. #HappyHolidays @LandisFields pic.twitter.com/Tks8zUk1fx— Jon Favreau (@Jon_Favreau) December 14, 2019
The World's Most Expensive Airplane Ride
YouTuber Casey Neistat got to travel in ultimate luxury in exchange for making a video of the experience. I am green with envy.
Via TwistedSifter
Via TwistedSifter
The Liverbirds
In the mid-1960s, four teenagers from Liverpool were changing the face of pop music. Their names were Mary, Sylvia, Pam and Val.
More: The New York Times
More: The New York Times
Tweet Of The Day
An excerpt from “Domestic Hindustani” by Lt Col D.C. Phillott. In case you were wondering what a British officer in India felt were the most useful phrases to learn. pic.twitter.com/RjqoZui8AT— Ned Donovan (@Ned_Donovan) December 17, 2019
Wednesday, December 18, 2019
Pickle Man
Facing certain death by ALS, Arthur Cohen decides to leave a legacy of pickles.
Pickle Man from Nastasya Popov on Vimeo.
Via
Pickle Man from Nastasya Popov on Vimeo.
Via
Tweet Of The Day
This is a public service announcement 🎄 📚 🤓pic.twitter.com/vCYELqyVQa— Waterstones (@Waterstones) December 16, 2019
Requiem 2019
In this film, directed by Rutger Hauer and Sil van der Woerd, the last remaining blue whale shares its story of extinction with its only enemy: mankind.
Requiem 2019 from Sil van der Woerd on Vimeo.
Requiem 2019 from Sil van der Woerd on Vimeo.
Tuesday, December 17, 2019
Frosty the Cheeseball Man is a jolly happy soul
Kitschy cook, Charles Phoenix, has created a dish that's destined to become a Bellamy holiday tradition: Frosty the Cheeseball Man.
Check out his new book, Holiday Jubilee, for more retro festive feasting.
Via Boing Boing
Check out his new book, Holiday Jubilee, for more retro festive feasting.
Via Boing Boing
Dual Axis Optical Illusion
A Lissajous curve appears to rotate around a vertical axis when viewed regularly or when moving your head from side to side, but appears to rotate around a horizontal axis if you move your head up and down.
Via Geekologie
Via Geekologie
Monday, December 16, 2019
Tweet Of The Day
ON THIN ICE: A man came to the rescue of three deer stranded out on a frozen lake in Canada while he was skating on his lunch break, safely pulling them back to shore. https://t.co/q9ZVkLkQEc pic.twitter.com/IvRjOeEDID— ABC News (@ABC) December 16, 2019
From Fish To Candle
The eulachon’s buttery flesh is so rich in oil that a dried fish will actually light and burn like a candle. Watch eulachon being caught, processed, and used as candles.
Via Weird Universe
Via Weird Universe
Cake House Looks Like A Crack House
This confection is decorated with graffiti and trash. Yum!
Via English Russia. I did an image search but couldn't find any information on the confectioner.
The world's first 3D-printed neighbourhood
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| Photo: Joshua Perez |
New Story, a nonprofit whose aim is to end global homelessness, is using a giant 3D printer called the Vulcan II to create new homes in rural Mexico for people earning less than $3 per day. Each one takes 24 hours to build and lets local families upgrade from a shack to a two-bedroom house.
Could this be part of the global housing solution?
More here
The Prado Museum Updates Masterpieces to Illustrate the Impact of Climate Change
The melting of glaciers, rising sea levels and increasingly extreme weather events will not leave any continent intact. The Prado Museum collaborated with the World Wildlife Fund to digitally update four paintings for the recent Madrid Climate Change Conference that illustrate the urgent need for action on climate change.
Read more: Open Culture
Read more: Open Culture
Porsche 356 - 90 Cabrio
Jordi Reixach makes a miniature version of a Porsche 356 - 90 Cabrio model, at 1: 6 scale, piece by piece.
See more of his creations at his site.
Thanks Bruce!
See more of his creations at his site.
Thanks Bruce!
Sunday, December 15, 2019
Tweet Of The Day
Just found on the Thames foreshore. Is this human?#londonmudlark #mudlark #mudlarking pic.twitter.com/1xuEbIK0lI— London Mudlark: Lara Maiklem (@LondonMudlark) December 15, 2019
Optimist or imbecile?
Bomboclaat pic.twitter.com/1vJAk4W1rV— Toky 🇲🇬 (@Tokyisma07) December 11, 2019
Mice Brawling in London Tube Station
Station Squabble is a perfectly timed photograph by Sam Rowley taken for the Natural History Museum in London's Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition.
Via Insider
The Deep Sea
The Deep Sea is an interactive page where you scroll down into the ocean to see the depths at which different animals and plants dwell. Try it, it's fun.
Via Kottke
Sunday Links
A Twitter feed showing composers doing normal shit Via FB friend Hal
The Kentucky Cardinal, a bourbon-centric cocktail named after the nightly train service that once connected Chicago to Kentucky. Bottoms up!
Back in the USSR by doll photographer Lara Vychuzhanina
You might never be a Nobel Prize winner but you can eat like one: This Restaurant in Sweden Offers Every Meal Served at the Nobel Banquet Since 1922
Mining Accident Dolls
Chalkdust puzzle Christmas card 2019: The card looks boring at first glance, but contains 9 puzzles. Via Futility Closet
Tipsy, the Expert Midtown Mouser Who Helped Police Solve a Murder Two weeks after the body of an unidentified woman was discovered in a Connecticut mill pond, a cat helped police find the murder weapon in the East 40th Street apartment where the woman had been killed. Via
Cyclist creates festive reindeer on map app
The community of the deodars: Altadena’s Christmas Tree Lane
Repairing a hand-knit sock with a knit-in-place patch You're welcome.
A decade of destruction in New York City Via PfRC
A Drive Around Lake Michigan in November, Searching for One Thing or Another
Purple Rain and She’s Gotta Have It Among 2019 Picks for National Film Registry
The Last Shakers? The last members of the celibate sect whose population has been in decline since the Civil War.
82 Vintage Cookbooks, Free to Download
The adorable Thorne Rooms at the Art Institute of Chicago are decorated for Christmas. Link
DIY Rocket Inspired Atomic Camper
When a DNA Test Says You’re a Younger Man, Who Lives 5,000 Miles Away Mr. Long had become a chimera, the technical term for the rare person with two sets of DNA.
9 Rules of Wile E. Coyote
The story of these children was horrifying. For some it didn't get much better. Ceausescu's Orphans 30 years later
Saturday, December 14, 2019
Learning to Cook From Grandmas Around the World
Your grandmother's food is always the best, even when she's not a gourmet chef.
Learning to Cook From Grandmas Around the World from Great Big Story on Vimeo.
Learning to Cook From Grandmas Around the World from Great Big Story on Vimeo.
Friday, December 13, 2019
Picturing a Voice
In the late 1800s Welsh singer and philanthropist Margaret Watts-Hughes invented a device called an Eidophone that combined the auditory with optical phenomena. It consisted of a mouthpiece leading to a receiving chamber, over which was stretched a rubber membrane, or diaphragm. Her experiments with this device involved sprinkling a variety of powders onto its surface, then singing into it to see how far these powders would leap. Beautiful images were produced by placing the Eidophone's diaphragm face up: the figure would then be sung into existence, and the glass plate then placed on top to capture it. She called the images "Impression Figures".
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| Single pitch Impression Figure by Margaret Watts-Hughes, pigment on glass, date unknown. Courtesy of Cyfarthfa Castle Museum and Art Gallery. |
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| Plant forms, an Impression Figure by Margaret Watts-Hughes, pigment on glass, date unknown. Courtesy of Cyfarthfa Castle Museum and Art Gallery. |
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| Plant forms, an Impression Figure by Margaret Watts-Hughes, pigment on glass, date unknown. Courtesy of Cyfarthfa Castle Museum and Art Gallery. |
Vegan Gamers Can Finally Enjoy Christmas Dinner In A Can
Everyone knows that gamers have more important things to do than to cook a Christmas dinner. That's why UK-based video game retailer GAME invented the easy peasy Christmas Tinner in 2013. The company finally realized that vegan and vegetarian gamers were wasting away at their keyboards and has released animal-free varieties of its table for one in a can.
One turn of the can opener and a nine course meal is served.
Geekologie
One turn of the can opener and a nine course meal is served.
Geekologie
Festive Dogs 1990 - 2015
Bristol based photographer Peter Thorpe has been making wonderful Christmas cards featuring his two rescue terriers, Paddy until 2002 and Raggle since 2004.
Festive Dogs 1990 - 2015 from peter Thorpe on Vimeo.
Via Everlasting Blort
Festive Dogs 1990 - 2015 from peter Thorpe on Vimeo.
Via Everlasting Blort
Conserving one of the oldest photographs in MoMA's collection
Lee Ann Daffner, MoMA’s Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Conservator, explores the sensitive chemistry of removing tarnish from early photographic images.
Via Doobybrain.com
Via Doobybrain.com
Thursday, December 12, 2019
J'adore Mr. Bean
Christian Dior's ad for the new J'adore Absolu fragrance stars the always glamorous Charlize Theron. crookedpixel decided that embedding Rowan Atkinson, of Blackadder and Mr Bean fame, into it would make it even more sublime.
See the original ad
Via Boing Boing
See the original ad
Via Boing Boing
Natural Mystic
This drone footage of Sam Favret skiing through the solitude of the Aiguilles Rouges of Chamonix is breathtaking.
NATURAL MYSTIC BY SAM FAVRET - DRONE PROJECT from Favret Sam on Vimeo.
NATURAL MYSTIC BY SAM FAVRET - DRONE PROJECT from Favret Sam on Vimeo.
The Deer Mother of Winter Solstice
Taking flight from the darkest longest night of the year, she brought the life-giving light of the sun back to the land, in her antlers.
Remembering The Deer Mother of Winter Solstice from Danielle Prohom Olson on Vimeo.
Remembering The Deer Mother of Winter Solstice from Danielle Prohom Olson on Vimeo.
Wednesday, December 11, 2019
How a new alphabet is helping an ancient people write its own future
In the 1980s, two kids in Guinea in West Africa took out pens and paper and started drawing. They drew curves, straight lines, arches. They were constructing letters.
They wouldn’t have dreamed that the script they invented would change lives and open the door to literacy for millions of people around the world. Read about two brothers who created an alphabet to help keep their culture and language from dying out.
The Big Data of Big Hair
A public dataset of 37,921 portraits was culled from yearbooks from 115 American high schools in 26 states between 1905 and 2013.
View the full interactive here
Via TMN
View the full interactive here
Via TMN
Tweet Of The Day
ViaSomeone is putting tiny cowboy hats on Las Vegas pigeons pic.twitter.com/s936wX1ql7— Klara Sjöberg (@klara_sjo) December 7, 2019
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