Sunday, November 29, 2020

Sunday Links


image: © Wayne Thiebaud


American artist Wayne Thiebaud recently celebrated his 100th birthday. He is best known for his colourful works depicting everyday objects like the tasty arrangement of confections above. (I was familiar with his work but always thought it was more recent)




Watch this video: Hans Zimmer performs Time Soundtrack from Inception live mixed with a film by Bashir Abu Shakra shot in the Dolomite mountains of Italy. It took him 2 years to make the film and it is absolutely stunning. Thanks Bruce!

This X Does Not Exist Is it real or is it a GAN image?



Architecture For The Apocalypse In her 1957 novel Atlas Shrugged, right-libertarian philosopher Ayn Rand introduced "Galt's Gulch", a utopian society which has striking echoes in the despicable actions of today's billionaire doomsday preppers.


Crazy Optical Illusion (Honestly, the circles don't move)

The amazing adventures of Bridget The Cat.

The futuristic cargo ship made of wood It will have one of the largest marine electric engines of her kind in the world and will be shipping cargo between Costa Rica and Canada.

The Marion Stokes Project: The woman who taped 33 years of TV news.

From the "nice place but I wouldn't want to live there" files: This Vancouver home is shaped like the pancake of the sea.


Impress your colleagues by taking your Zoom meeting from Vita Sackville-West's reading room.

Five hearty cocktails that evoke the holiday spirit.

A Woman Called Hey: Thirty-five years ago, a Bouyei ethnic minority member was trafficked across China to a faraway village where nobody spoke her language. This year, she miraculously found her way home.

Goats In Trees calendar. You know you want it.

Have a very merry Mandalorian Christmas! And here's some music to fit the mood.

50 times people took a photograph and realized it’s “Accidental Renaissance”

Gallery of 43 Illustrated Homes Celebrate the Work of Paul R. Williams in California Thanks Bruce!

You saw it on "The Crown," now here's the real story of Princess Diana's visit to a Lower East Side homeless shelter during her 1989 visit to NYC.

This 2021 Social Justice Kittens Calendar is the perfect gift for your cat loving socialist friend.

The secret space where your 787 pilots and attendants sleep In most cases, they’re on a second level above the passenger seats — even on planes that don’t feature two floors.


The Chilling, Little Known History of Nuclear Experiments in the US Southwest Cara Despain’s From Dust addresses the nuclear testing program which rained down on the American West for four decades.

They had one job…Architecture of Doom 


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