This happened yesterday to a three year old child at a kite festival in Taiwan. At the 49 second mark things get really scary.
Monday, August 31, 2020
Theo Testing Food
There's a rat in the kitchen! The Rat Review is a YouTube channel featuring a well mannered rodent named Theo chomping down on snacks. In the video below he tries a Wheat Thin.
Via: MetaFilter
Via: MetaFilter
Portrait of a Place: Korea (circa.)
"It’s another rainy day in Pyongyang and the long boulevards of utilitarian buildings have taken on a misty shade of grey. School children do daily exercises before saluting a portrait of Kim Jong-un and adults don lapel pins depicting their leader before a day’s work at the farm or factory."
Korea (circa) is the most recent film in the Portrait of a Place series by NOWNESS
Tweet Of The Day
Good morning all 😁 pic.twitter.com/GEWmFbLsfe— Deano (@Deano22639298) August 30, 2020
Sunday, August 30, 2020
Tweet Of The Day
Via Everlasting BlortAntifa cats, a thread pic.twitter.com/wfNiVmGmjh— My Cat Bites Fascists (@MapsCats) August 27, 2020
Music For Sunday Morning
Justin Townes Earle, an alt-country singer and songwriter who was a son of the country-rock firebrand Steve Earle, died last week at his home in Nashville. He was 38. This performance makes me so sad.
Sunday Links
“Cottagecore” in Paris |
Ekaterina Busygina's architectural photos in South Korea These are quite incredible. Via Memo Of The Air
Searching for America’s 1930s post office murals – a photo essay
Africans Used To Hide Escape Maps From Slavery In Their Hairstyles: Cornrows helped the African slave population by providing a discreet and easy to hide way to transfer and create maps in order to leave their captor’s place.
This cabin in Norway doubles as a viewpoint and ski jump
COVID-19 is turning us all into this:'A thing of its own': the man with five-metre-long hair, unwashed for 80 years
This vintage-style kart, repurposed from a Volkswagen beetle fender, is adorable.
Frog and Toad Tentatively Go Outside After Months In Self-Quarantine
Parkulator shows what percentage of your town is defined as dedicated to car parking. Via Maps Mania
Made in Taiwan? George Psalmanazar was a mysterious Frenchman who successfully posed as a native of Formosa (now modern Taiwan) and gave birth to a meticulously fabricated culture with bizarre customs, exotic fashions, and its own invented language.
The Convenient Truth of Rotisserie Chicken: A look at America’s favorite illogically cheap, ecologically dubious roasted chicken.
Beach volleyball from above
Find Your Home's Flood Factor (United States)
A food revolution in the Falklands This is an interesting article. I found out I know nothing about these islands and that Mr. Nag is an expert. I didn't even know that the Falklands and the Maldives are one and the same.
Alexander The Great- Submariner Extraordinaire Via Everlasting Blort
Raise your glass to the world’s finest distillery architecture
Riccardo Maria Chiacchio I: "All clothes have been washed in the Mediterranean Sea and been exposed to the ashes of Mount Vesuvius. All clothes will preserve the memories I have given them. All subjects were born and raised in Napoli."
Speaking in Tongues
Splendour and Misery of Soviet Interiors Photographs by Evgenia Maximova
I learned something new this week: A "buttload" is apparently a formal unit of imperial measurement
This is for real: Popular Pandemics Magazine: Charisma! How do we eliminate the scourge? Chicken Playground Appeases Vegans and more…Via Boing Boing
How COVID-19 Led To Soaring Divorce Rates In The US, Visualized
Sometimes one needs a room of one's own. The Ultimate Backyard Extra Room: The Mjolk Shepherd's Hut
Taxidermy Gone Wild Via Memo Of The Air
Saturday, August 29, 2020
Storm King Art Centre
Where could one put outsized works that were almost invariably abstract to give them a chance of seeming to mean something? In nature! Storm King Art Centre in New Windsor, NYcontains what is perhaps the largest collection of contemporary outdoor sculptures in the United States. Across Storm King’s open fields and rolling meadows are giant works by Sol LeWitt, Alice Aycock, Ursula von Rydingsvard; ensconced within the paths of a wood is smaller, earlier statuary by names grown obscure, as well as a weathered, trowel-nicked concrete slab by Mia Westerlund Roosen, a post-Minimalist sculptor well overdue for rediscovery.
Via 3 Quarks Daily
Via 3 Quarks Daily
Jet Suit Flight Over Iceland
When I was a kid I thought we'd all be travelling this way by the year 2000 but so far Gravity Industries has created one of the world’s only working jet suits. Here's a video of a jet suit flight over Iceland.
Via The Awesomerl
Via The Awesomerl
The Prison Drawings of Frank Jones
Frank Jones, “Untitled (Puerto Rican German)” (circa 1960), colored pencil on paper, 18.75 x 25 inches (all images courtesy of Shrine, New York) |
African-American outsider artist Frank Jones (1900-1969) did remarkable drawings in colored pencil on paper while serving time at the state penitentiary in Huntsville, Texas.
Frank Jones, “Untitled (number 602)” (circa 1960), colored pencil on paper, 20.5 x 25 inches |
Frank Jones – 114591 is an exhibition of nine of his drawings at Shrine (179 East Broadway, Lower East Side, Manhattan) through September 13. The show takes its title from the artist’s own prisoner number.
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Friday, August 28, 2020
A Chinese scholar is domesticated by his cat
Great thread!
Via MetaFilter
How Song dynasty poet Lu You poem-liveblogged his descent from cat owner to cat slave 800 years ago— XIRAN, Chinese History Educational Memer (@XiranJayZhao) August 28, 2020
The year is 1183. Down On His Luck scholar-official Lu You gets a cat because rats keep munching on his books. 1/? pic.twitter.com/MdMgVdiY5V
Via MetaFilter
One Iconic Look
Tom and Lorenzo are fabulous and opinionated and have been sharing their thoughts on fashion, celebrity, television, film, pop culture and LGBTQ life for over a decade. In a series of posts tagged One Iconic Look they discuss what makes certain outfits in films (a black dress with pearls, perhaps) iconic?
Via MeFi
Via MeFi
Incredible Volcano Expedition
In 2012 Geoff Mackley and Bradley Ambrose were the first people to get this close to Marum Volcano's lava lake on Ambrym Island, Vanuatu. Wearing Fire Brigade breathing apparatus and heat proof proximity suits they were able to stand on the edge and view the incredible show for over 40 minutes.
Via Everlasting Blort
Via Everlasting Blort
Thursday, August 27, 2020
Pic Of The Day
The very first Monarch butterfly to spread its wings, out of thousands, as the sun rises - Smithsonian Magazine
The Swingin' Rat Pack
Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Johnny Carson, and Sammy Davis, Jr. at the Kiel Opera House in St Louis, 1965. I didn't know Johnny Carson could sing like that.
Via Miss Cellania
Via Miss Cellania
Irrigation Systems From Above
Centre-pivot irrigation has created distinct circles within squares that, when seen from above, look like they belong on the walls of the MoMA. American architect Ronald Rael has launched an Instagram account spotlighting these irrigated circles.
See More: Gastro Obscura
I want to be hugged by this gorilla
Image: Tina Sokolovskaya |
To raise awareness and funds for the critically endangered gorilla species, public artists Gillie and Marc Schattner have created the world's largest sculpture of the animal in Hudson Yards. It can hold two to three humans in its hand. People are invited to sit in his hand and look up into his gentle face.
Link
Via TMN
Wandaland
A mixed-media biography of John Wanda, a fictional animation tycoon.
Wandaland from Richard Noble on Vimeo.
Wandaland from Richard Noble on Vimeo.
Tweet Of The Day
Incredible hair and makeup from the Beijing Opera— 🌈TheEverAvailableJacquiSasaki🌈佐佐木ジャッキー (@eltonjohnswig_) June 24, 2020
I honest thought that the king side hairs were actually painted on until now.
Fantastic techniques... pic.twitter.com/Z6g1B8wzNc
Via everlasting blort
Stop Motion/Timelapse Painting
“I Paint” is a short film by Dutch artist Thijme Termaat. It combines time-lapse and stop-motion and took three years to complete. He used still pictures with no digital effects.
More: TwistedSifter
More: TwistedSifter
Wednesday, August 26, 2020
Chromatic Adaptation
I like discovering how optical illusions fool the eye. Photographer, computational biologist, and science presenter Andrew Steele shows you how you can trick your brain into “adding” color to a black-and-white image.
More: PetaPixel
More: PetaPixel
The Safe Project
The Safe Project is one of the largest ecological experiments in the world. They are studying the effects of human activities on ecosystems and how much protection is needed to be effective.
At SAFE Acoustics you can listen to the soothing sounds of the rainforest in Borneo.
Via MeFi
At SAFE Acoustics you can listen to the soothing sounds of the rainforest in Borneo.
Via MeFi
TVTV: Preserving Guerilla Television
Top Value Television (TVTV) began in 1972 when a group of mediamakers, artists, and activists used newly available portable videotape equipment to document the 1972 Democratic and Republican National Conventions. This collective of "braless, blue-jeaned video freaks" set out to revolutionize not only how to capture the news, but also to transform the relationship between image producers and image consumers.
Preserving Guerrilla Television from BAMPFA Film Library on Vimeo.
Via Perfect for Roquefort Cheese
Preserving Guerrilla Television from BAMPFA Film Library on Vimeo.
Via Perfect for Roquefort Cheese
Tweet Of The Day
Read more about the musicianA recent performance in St. Petersburg, Russia. pic.twitter.com/EVQQT089U7— Dust-to-Digital (@dusttodigital) August 26, 2020
High Tech Noon
High Noon is one of my favourite movies. Seeing Kane wandering around town, searching for support against the bad guys, tugs at my heartstrings every time. Here it is remade with special effects.
Via Miss Cellania
Via Miss Cellania
Casey's Rubber Stamps
This short film from filmmakers Eric Maierson and Leandro Badalotti offers a glimpse into Casey’s intricate stamp-making process.
Tuesday, August 25, 2020
Smoke Curtain Was Used To Hide Ships During Battle
This smoke was dispensed from aircraft during WW2 to create vertical smoke curtains that protected ships from attacks by other ships or coastal artillery.
Via TwistedSifter
Via TwistedSifter
Fake 10 Downing Street Door Is Perfect For A Selfie
Number 10 Downing Street is the headquarters of the Government of the United Kingdom and the official residence and office of the Prime Minister. For security reasons taking photos of oneself on the steps of the building is forbidden. But just down the street is Adam House, also built by the architect of Number 10, that bears a striking resemblance to the government headquarters.
Go ahead, take a photo of yourself on the steps of 10 Adam Street and add an enigmatic comment about "tea with Boris".
More: ianVisits
10 Adam Street |
10 Downing Street |
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Alpha Mech Pilot Program
Imagine a global racing league that would pit multiple world-class athletes in head-to-head competitions, through complex, technical obstacle courses, wearing giant, powered mech suits. Prosthesis: Mech Racing has built the largest 4-legged exoskeleton on the planet.
More: Kickstarter
More: Kickstarter
Coronation: Ai Weiwei's Film About The Wuhan Lockdown
The COVID-19 pandemic is believed to have begun in Wuhan, a city of 11 million in China’s Hubei province. In January the government put the area into the largest documented lockdown in human history. Artist Ai Weiwei had a team in Wuhan who filmed the city under his remote direction for the duration of the quarantine. Here is the trailer for Coronation:
More here
More here
Monday, August 24, 2020
A Monolith In Melbourne?
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 uses AI from satellite images and crowdsourced data from Open Street Maps to fill in building details. Things got weird when someone accidentally entered height data for a Melbourne, Australia building as 212 storeys instead of 2. Players are apparently trying to land on its roof before the game is patched and the monolith disappears.
The images above are from this video of a tower landing made by Reddit user fulltimespy.
Via AI Weirdness
The images above are from this video of a tower landing made by Reddit user fulltimespy.
Via AI Weirdness
Tweet of The Day
Beep beep. It's the birthday of the extraordinary Lavinia Fontana (1552-1614), the first fully professional female artist. Get this - she had 11 children, and made her husband stay at home and look after them while she painted! Probably the first female artist to paint a nude! pic.twitter.com/fb7JX7Y158— WALDEMAR JANUSZCZAK (@JANUSZCZAK) August 24, 2020
Cocktails for academics (but you can drink them too!)
Via Perfect For Roquefort CheeseThis fall semester promises to be very challenging, so here's a thread of 25 cocktail recipes for academics in times of Covid-19.— Philipp Stelzel (@pjstelzel) August 20, 2020
Cheers! pic.twitter.com/KKdgWfIuuX
DIY Giant Sidewalk Chalk
Show off your sidewalk art skills, write political slogans, draw a hopscotch grid, do whatever you want. It will all wash away.
Here's what you need:
Materials:
- 2 Pringles cans
- Plaster of Paris
- Duct tape
- Tempura paint (optional, make sure it's washable and non toxic)
- Water
- Empty milk jug (not pictured)
- Bucket
- Stir stick
- Plastic cups (for scooping/measuring)
- Cutting device
- Can Opener
Instructables tells you how to do it. Get started.
Via Das Kraftfuttermischwerk
Wild London
Via Londonist
Skeleton Contraption Designed To Scare Criminals Into Confessing Their Crimes
What if, instead of an ordinary detective, the suspect of a crime would be questioned by a skeleton with glowing red eyes?
Unfortunately this skeleton-based interrogator was never built so we don't know how effective it might have been.
More:Bored Panda
Via Memo Of The Air
Image: Google Patents |
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Sunday, August 23, 2020
Edges Where Man Meets Water
Harry Gruyaert/Magnum Photos |
Four decades of seascapes by photographer Harry Gruyaert.
"Harry Gruyaert ignores the grammar of center and edge, finds the blurred boundaries of overlapping life, the places where one thing has begun to be another thing. He photographs processes, not results. He photographs moments caught in transition."
Harry Gruyaert/Magnum Photos |
Harry Gruyaert/Magnum Photos |
Link
Via Perfect For Roquefort Cheese
Nail-Scratching Genuine-Tapestry Weave
Tsumekaki hon tsuzure ori is a traditional Japanese tapestry weaving technique. The weavers file perfectly-spaced jagged edges in their fingernails. The video below shows how they use their nails as weaving tools.
Tweet of The Day
Via Everlasting BlortSylvie likes the dish rack, and if we take it down while cooking, she yells at us until we set it up for her to lounge on. pic.twitter.com/SNA9cb1Chi— Richard (@halkyardo) August 19, 2020
Sunday Links
Delft-Style Weaponry by Artist Helena Hauss Contrasts Fragility with Strength and Destruction (photo above)
City Guesser - Can you guess what city you're in? This game is seriously addictive.
This is kind of sweet: Alex Trebek serves Regis Philbin a sandwich Via MeFi
On The Market: Schindler’s Lovell Beach House, 1929 in Newport Beach, an example of the International Style in Southern California. Via
Hey cockroach hold my smoke!
Escape to the enchanting Italian village of Panicale, one of Umbria's magical hill towns. It looks idyllic.
Meet the world’s first hijab-wearing champion wrestler: At five-feet tall and around 94 lbs, the 20-year-old doesn’t look like your typical wrestling star.
Getting sick of the feline domination ot the internet? Here are 30 Lovely Vintage Jack Russell Photographs
Let's House Hunt for that All-American Utopian Commune. 12 listings that would be perfect your very own socially-distanced utopia in 2020.
In October Closer to Van Eyck, a new website devoted to the Ghent Altarpiece, will be launched that will include more detailed images of the restoration work on the15th-century altarpiece by painters Hubert van Eyck and Jan van Eyck.
The Sifter is a searchable database to assist people with food related questions. At present it includes over 5,000 authors and 5,000 works with details about the authors and about the contents of the works.
The Bubble House Eleven Domes. Twenty rooms. 1,050m2 floor space over three levels poised on 5,109m2. Via Rusty's Electric Dreams
A great thread by @JayHulmePoet: A few days ago I got a message from a priest like "do you wanna come and visit this church?" There was one odd thing about it though, he sent me the church name, and the post code - and that was it. No street name, no village, no... Nothing. Via MeFi
Font fans will appreciate this: Typeset In The Future | Typography and Design in Science Fiction Movies h/t to my Facebook pal Hal who turned me on to this.
The story of the Roanoke colonists who vanished without a trace from North Carolina in the late 16th century has always intrigued me. Now it appears that the 'mystery is over' Via Neatorama
How to behave in church via everlasting blort
Prisoners Share What Surprised Them About The World After Getting Out Via Miss Cellania
"Shifting Nests" Is a Concept for Tiny Homes on Vacant Urban Lots
The Sheep Of The Sea is a species of sea slug that has the unusual ability to photosynthesize.
stoxart (@stoxart): Stock charts reimagined as landscapes.The stock market never looked so beautiful.
To oblivion and back In 1929, the last sea otter in British Columbia was shot dead. Now they're back. And they're hungry. Via MeFi
An Egg Dressed for Every Occasion
Saturday, August 22, 2020
Friday, August 21, 2020
On The Rocks Official Trailer
This was written and directed by Sofia Coppola, one of my favourite directors.
Akira Kurosawa - Composing Movement
A video essay about film form from Every Frame a Painting (Taylor Ramos and Tony Zhou).
Via Duck Soup
Via Duck Soup
Urban Farm On A Rooftop
An urban farm has been created by landscape architecture and urban design firm LANDPROCESS |
Thammasat University Rooftop Farm (TURF) uses 236,806 sq. ft. of normally wasted rooftop space in Bangkok, Thailand as a public space that produces food while incorporating renewable energy, organic waste, and water management. The terraced gardens were inspired by traditional rice terraces.
Read more here
Thursday, August 20, 2020
Stressful Times For the Tower Of London's Ravenmaster?
Six ravens (plus a spare) have guarded the Tower of London since the 1600s. Legend has it the monarchy and the country will fall if the resident ravens leave the fortress. Few tourists have been visiting the site and the birds apparently are bored and have been flying off to seek excitement.
Read more: The Guardian
Tweet of The Day
I was here, all along! pic.twitter.com/uVgSwBkmYz— Dick King-Smith HQ (@DickKingSmith) August 20, 2020
A drone over Beirut after explosion
On August 4 Beirut's busy city center was torn to pieces, killing at least 180 people and wounding more than 6,000. The lives of many were changed forever.
Where Racist and Oppressive Statues Go to Die
Image: JOHN MACDOUGALL / AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES |
There has been a huge debate in America about Confederate statues and monuments. Do these artifacts glorify a racist past? Should they be destroyed or would that be an attempt to erase history? A permanent exhibition titled "Unveiled. Berlin and its Monuments" at the Spandau Citadel Museum in Germany reshapes how controversial statues and monuments are viewed:
"A monument is not a descriptive account of history, but instead a historical artifact that tells a story about power. In a setting that invites scrutiny, visitors can study Berlin’s monuments to grasp more clearly who had power and how that power was used."
More: Atlas Obscura
The IMAX of the 1890s
“We live in an environment where there are moving images constantly around us. But in 1897, this was startling and new and completely revolutionary. It was a different way of looking at the world.”
From the Museum of Modern Art, a comparison of Biograph 68mm film vs. Edison film.
Via bookofjoe
From the Museum of Modern Art, a comparison of Biograph 68mm film vs. Edison film.
Via bookofjoe
Wednesday, August 19, 2020
Dungeons and Diversity
Everybody can be a hero. Strata Miniatures has created miniature Dungeons & Diversity heroes in wheelchairs. The goal is to create more inclusive miniatures for those playing their tabletop games.
The figures are available as downloadable STL files for 3D printing or as resin/metal casts. 25% of sales goes to support work with the physically challenged.
Via Boing Boing
The figures are available as downloadable STL files for 3D printing or as resin/metal casts. 25% of sales goes to support work with the physically challenged.
Via Boing Boing
Chainmail For A Giant
Blacksmith Timothy Dyck forged 250 circles then riveted them together to make the world's largest chainmail. The finished piece weighs 1600 lbs and is over 11 feet tall!
The Awesomer
The Awesomer
Tuesday, August 18, 2020
Surreal, audacious, unfinished
Stone Cut is a profile of the Japanese sculptor Etsuro Sotoo, who, for 40 years, has made finishing Gaudí’s Sagrada Familia his life’s work.
Constructed Views: Stone Cut from NOWNESS on Vimeo.
Via Aeon Videos
Constructed Views: Stone Cut from NOWNESS on Vimeo.
Via Aeon Videos
It's amazing what this guy can do with with pen, ruler and paper!
Nathan Cox creates impressive optical illusions with just pen, ruler and paper.
Via Das Kraftfuttermischwerk
Via Das Kraftfuttermischwerk
Good Morning!
Via @madamejujujiveThese girls can DANCE! ❤️— BuzzFeed (@BuzzFeed) August 14, 2020
BIG shout out to Norah, Yarah, and Rosa, of the dance group Let It Happen!https://t.co/Lu6oifVwfEhttps://t.co/MCVuOz9nKx pic.twitter.com/kYCLGn5kfd
岚 The Mist Over Mountains
This video uses noise algorithms to generate mountains, clouds, mists, textures, and changes of the seasons.
岚 THE MIST OVER MOUNTAINS from Particle on Vimeo.
岚 THE MIST OVER MOUNTAINS from Particle on Vimeo.
Monday, August 17, 2020
Haunting images from an empire, just before its collapse
The ‘Fayum portraits’ were funerary paintings, fashioned while their subjects were alive, and placed over their mummified bodies upon burial.
More: Aeon Videos
More: Aeon Videos
True Facts: The Hummingbird Warrior
The hummingbird feeder in my garden is a constant source of entertainment. I'll never look at these tiny creatures in quite the same way after watching this video.
Via Miss Cellania
Via Miss Cellania
Katharine Hepburn as Joan of Arc 1934
COVID-19 Tattoos
People are getting coronavirus-themed tattoos that represent everything we’ve been living with in the past months.
More here
More here
Bring Back Giant Flying Boats
In 1943, Saunders-Roe, an iconic British aircraft builder, began planning for the future by drafting a design for a truly next-generation flying boat. It would soon become apparent that Saunders-Roe’s flying boat airliner had been designed for a future that never existed.
Via Memo Of The Air
Via Memo Of The Air
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