Wednesday, September 30, 2020
Copycat
The Eyes of Animals Up Close
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Peacock |
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Long-Eared Owl |
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Alaskan Malamute |
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Nile Crocodile |
How To Make A Bread Mold Of Your Own Face
Time Required: >16 Hours
Difficulty: Moderate
Price: $60–$70 plus $10–$30 for kiln firing
Complete instructions at Make
Intricate Lace Mural Covers French Fashion Museum
Via Colossal
NeSpoon previously on NOTL here and here
Bike Ballet
Tuesday, September 29, 2020
Tweet Of The Day
ViaThursday is trampoline day 😆🙃🐾
— Robert E Fuller (@RobertEFuller) September 24, 2020
10/10 for the dismount?#stoats #stoatsatplayinmygarden pic.twitter.com/DbXKvDzPcg
Size comparison of fictional starships
New Album From 60s Band Ace of Cups
Ode to Desolation
New Book Documents The Flora and Fauna Of The Devon Countryside
More: Colossal
Pressure Washer Art
Via The Kid Should See This
Introduction to the Great Loop
Orange Shirt Day
Christmas at Moose Factory, Alanis Obomsawin, provided by the National Film Board of Canada
Monday, September 28, 2020
Tweet Of The Day
This zoom video sequence starts with a broad view of the Milky Way. We then dive into the dusty central region to take a much closer look. There lurks a 4-million solar mass black hole, surrounded by a swarm of stars orbiting rapidly https://t.co/MyR6QZuBGY pic.twitter.com/FSRZF4aiFe
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) September 28, 2020
A Categorization of Conspiracy Theories
I’m getting a lot of requests to post this here as well. I’m working a revision (I didn’t expect this to blow up) that I’ll post soon. Some things need to be moved/clarified (i.e. Antifa Wildfires and moon landing + flat earth which are moving up) pic.twitter.com/QisSQqBm0A
— Abbie Richards (@abbieasr) September 20, 2020
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Via MetaFilter
Mailing Letters In Unlikely Places
World's Biggest Rooftop Greenhouse
Sunday, September 27, 2020
Orchestra performs for people quarantining in former Soviet sanatorium
Tweet Of The Day
So that’s how they cut tall Palm trees? Wtf?! 😳😬😏🤣🌴 pic.twitter.com/tQbXBGxMXj
— Fred Schultz (@fred035schultz) September 24, 2020
Thanks Bruce!
Happy Blortiversary!
Happy blogiversary to my friend and fellow old-school blogger Everlasting Blort who has been offering up truckloads of blortiliciousness for two decades! I baked her a virtual cake!
Sunday Links
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Qantas Bar Cart |
Dance of Uranus and Neptune
Saturday, September 26, 2020
Tweet Of The Day
It’s a good drying day here in Orkney... 16 pegs on one super king duvet cover. And no ironing will be required. pic.twitter.com/lNjUOj6PY6
— kc (@kirsteencameron) September 25, 2020
How Small Can A Home Be?
Heygate was Home
Link
Via Things Magazine
The Scientist Who Believed In Bigfoot
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Image: Estate of Grover S. Krantz/Chip Clark |
Read more: Smithsonian Magazine
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Creating a Photorealistic Portrait
Friday, September 25, 2020
Tweet Of The Day
Remembering Glenn Gould, born on this day in 1932 in Toronto. Here he is performing Bach's Partita #2 at his cottage in Uptergrove, Ontario in the 1958 documentary “Off the Record.” pic.twitter.com/fEjI5ZrvBl
— Dust-to-Digital (@dusttodigital) September 25, 2020
Dissolving M&Ms
Leadenhall Market
More here
Face of 4000-Year-Old Dog Revealed

The reconstruction has been created from the skull of a dog discovered in Cuween Hill chambered cairn on Orkney.
More here
Thursday, September 24, 2020
Wednesday, September 23, 2020
Hand-making An Ornate Coffee Spoon
Via Boing Boing
400 Flavors of Kit Kat
- Delightfully, Coffee & Donuts
- Totally, Butter Tart
- Seriously, Blueberry Streusel
- Absolutely, Candy Cane
- Whoa, White Cranberry
A Wooden Church in Ukraine Hides Space Treasures
Tweet Of The Day
Shake of the day. pic.twitter.com/51jglWhY1h
— Dick King-Smith HQ (@DickKingSmith) September 23, 2020
Tuesday, September 22, 2020
Magical Dutch Town
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The Beijing Silvermine Archive
Beautifully illustrated letters by artists
More Than Words, by Liz Kirwin, which is available for purchase from Princeton Architectural Press and Amazon, contains more than 170 artist-made letters.
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Vincent Van Gogh |
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Frida Kahlo |
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Man Ray |
Monday, September 21, 2020
Washington National Cathedral Bell Tolls for 200,000 Covid-19 Victims
A Day in the Life of the Queen's Double
Via Messy Nessy
Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s Ailing Architectural Gem Is Placed In Intensive Care
The Hill House is one of the masterpieces of Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Scotland’s most celebrated architect. “Here is the house,” Mackintosh proclaimed upon its completion in 1904. “It is not an Italian Villa, an English Mansion House, a Swiss Chalet, or a Scotch Castle. It is a Dwelling House.”The building has deteriorated over the years and it has been enveloped in a vast steel shelter to protect the house during the necessary restoration. The Hill House Box — a sort of architectural intensive-care unit — is itself an atypical project, though very different to the structure it encloses.
The Cameraman's Revenge
They Call Me… High Octane
Premature Obituaries
- Ian Dury: The English musician was pronounced dead on Xfm radio by Bob Geldof in 1998, possibly due to hoax information from a listener disgruntled at the station's change of ownership. The incident caused music magazine NME to call Geldof "the world's worst DJ". Dury died in March 2000.
- Steve Jobs: On August 27, 2008, Bloomberg accidentally published a 17-page obituary. During a subsequent keynote address, Jobs joked about the accident by displaying on screen an imprecise quotation of Mark Twain (who was also the recipient of a premature obituary) reading "The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated". Jobs actually died of pancreatic cancer on October 5, 2011, at the age of 56.
- Rudyard Kipling: His death had been incorrectly announced in a magazine, to which he wrote, "I've just read that I am dead. Don't forget to delete me from your list of subscribers." Kipling died in 1936.
- Alfred Nobel (arms manufacturer and founder of the Nobel Prize): in 1888, the death of his brother Ludvig caused several newspapers to publish obituaries of Alfred in error. A French obituary stated Le marchand de la mort est mort ("The merchant of death is dead") and that Nobel "became rich by finding ways to kill more people faster than ever before" through his invention of dynamite. This distressed Nobel, who was concerned that when he truly died he would not be remembered well. This event led him to bequeath the bulk of his estate to form the Nobel Prize in 1895. Nobel died in 1896.
- Grady O'Cummings, civil rights activist and political candidate had his own obituary published in the New York Times in 1969. Four months later he held a news conference at which he stated that he had faked his own death due to threats against him and his family by members of the Black Panther Party. O'Cummings died on June 2, 1996.
Spice Chess
Sunday, September 20, 2020
Tweet Of The Day
At least he is smarter than the others. pic.twitter.com/ggn7Uen3Rz
— You Had One Job! (@_youhadonejob1) September 20, 2020
Built To Last
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Image Source: Reddit |
Sunday Links
Painting credit: Lawren S. Harris (1885–1970), Houses, Gerrard Street, Toronto (detail), 1912, © Family of Lawren S. Harris
Saturday, September 19, 2020
Pop Culture Scenes In Polly Pocket Cases
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The Byers Residence (Stranger Things) |
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The Simpsons residence |
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The Overlook Hotel (The Shining) |
Bees Encase Embroideries In Honeycomb
Friday, September 18, 2020
Liziqi: The Ancient Methods Of Sericulture
I've posted a couple of videos in the past of Liziqi, a food and country-life blogger who lives in rural China. Frequent contributor Bruce just sent me a couple more and, like all her videos, they are so beautiful I can't resist posting this one about the art of making silk:
Trailer: My Octopus Teacher
Sailing from Rotterdam to Amsterdam in just 10 minutes
Claustrophobic cave video
Thursday, September 17, 2020
Tweet Of The Day
@pinkrocktopus -> thought of you!!
— Mama is Mad *BlackLivesMatter* (@nmhwilson) September 14, 2020
“Why is the media not covering the fact that Raccoons are breaking wild hogs and riding them into battle against the opossums?” pic.twitter.com/g1pszdB4M8
Wednesday, September 16, 2020
Double Indumnity
The 100th Meridian, Where Wet Meets Dry
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Making beauty in a pandemic
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Eliza Firth’s 'Delta Rose' mask will be on display as part of the Breathe. Collection in Banff, starting in October. (Tony Devlin/Black Fly Studios) |
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King's daughter, Isabella, wears her art mask. 45 masks will be displayed as part of the collection. (Submitted by Christina King) |