Wednesday, March 31, 2021
Couple Makes An Amazingly Detailed Mini House With Man Cave
A Missouri couple created a mini three storey mid-century modern house complete with a man cave with an itty bitty Farrah Fawcett poster.
The Amazing Triple Spiral
Dominotrix Hevesh5 spent 25 hours over 8 days building this massive triple spiral structure with 15,000 dominoes.
Via Book Of Joe
Coming Down The Mountain
A real time view of the Gelmerbahn descending from the summit into the valley. I had to stop watching this because I was getting nauseous.
Trailer for 'The Day The Earth Changed"
Narrated by David Attenborough, this documentary takes a look at nature’s response to a year of global lockdown. Coming April 22.
Before and After Photographs of 5Pointz Mural Site
5Pointz graffiti murals in Queens, was a monument to graffiti art. In 2013 it was transformed into a bleak gray luxury highrise, sucking the soul out of the neighbourhood.
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Left: Hrag Vartanian/Hyperallergic / Right: Valentina Di Liscia/Hyperallergic |
Two decades’ worth of murals by legendary street artists were illegally whitewashed overnight at the request of developer Jerry Wolkoff. Nine of the artists sued Wolkoff for failing to give notice and preventing them from documenting or preserving their work prior to the building’s demolition. They won but their work is gone forever.
Read More: Hyperallergic
Naturally Dyed Easter Eggs
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| Image: Christine Chitnis for The New York Times |
This article in The New York Times gives instructions for making pretty coloured Easter eggs with ingredients from your kitchen - red cabbage, onion skins, turmeric and more. Easy peasy even for the non-crafty. And you can eat the product for up to two weeks, provided you keep the coloured eggs refrigerated.
Tuesday, March 30, 2021
Cattle Dogs Loading Bulls into a Trailer
I'm always impressed by the intelligence and obedience of trained herding dogs.
Thanks Bruce!
J.S. Bach's Music Performed on the Lautenwerck
The lautenwerck is a gut-stringed instrument that resembles the harpsichord with a unique sound that imitates the soft timbre of the lute. JS Bach's cousin built several types of lute-harpsichord and the great composer is known to have had two. None have survived but several artisans are reconstructing lautenwercks based on written descriptions. Below early-music specialist Dongsok Shin plays Bach’s Prelude, Fugue, and Allegro in E-flat, BWV 998 on a lautenwerck built by Anden Houben of Tuscaloosa, AL in 1997.
How Post-Soviet Cities Could Look - Hypothetical Before and After Photos
In his Flourshing project Ukrainian digital artist and blogger Andrey Goopsa imagines how crumbling post-Soviet cities could look if proper care were taken to maintain and preserve them.
Housework Showdown
Two days ago, I decided to stop doing the dishes. I make all the dinners and I am tired of having to do all the cleaning too. SINCE THEN this pile has appeared and at some point they are going to run out of spoons and cups and plates.
— Miss Potkin (@MissPotkin) March 17, 2021
Who will blink first? Not me. pic.twitter.com/IZkOwP3a6B
Good thread. Via MeFi
Monday, March 29, 2021
A Concrete Treehouse
Suspended on concrete "branches" Casa Sperimentale was built in a seaside town outside of Rome by a family of architects in the late 1960s. It has since fallen into ruin and has been vandalised with graffiti..
Update on #EVERGIVEN
🎥: The Ever Given Vessel re-floated and has restarted its engines.#Suez #Evergreen #EVERGIVEN #SuezUnblocked pic.twitter.com/ejHwcm5r1T
— Mohammed Soliman (@ThisIsSoliman) March 29, 2021
Ping Pong Door
This clever Ping Pong Door by Tobias Fraenzel is wicked expensive but I really want it. Should I set up a GoFundMe page?
The Beauty
This animated short directed by Pascal Schelbli is a poetic journey through the oceans where plastic is integrated into sea life. It's both beautiful and terrifying.
Via Moss and Fog
Blue Monday Played With 1930s Instruments
Orkestra Obsolete plays New Order’s Blue Monday with only instruments that were available in the 1930s - from the theremin and musical saw to the harmonium and prepared piano. No electric guitar, synthesizer, keyboards, etc.
Via: about:blank (2016)
Sunday, March 28, 2021
Tweet Of The Day
No otter left behind... pic.twitter.com/8PICg1iWWM
— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) March 28, 2021
Sunday Links
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| 1956 Pontiac Club de Mer pedal car, sold for $33,925.00 |
A collection of Adorable Pedal Cars both vintage and modern reproductions via Memo Of The Air. (photo above)
Unusually shaped sheetmusic for pieces of music in the “Makrokosmos 1” cycle by George Crumb.
In 1984 classical music rescued 2000 entrapped belugas. See more Via my friend Alan Parker.
What If? Via Memo Of The Air
Hear Marianne Faithfull Sing Three Versions of "As Tears Go By" The three versions of the song represent the evolution of its original singer.
Download the IKEA ScrapsBook, a cookbook dedicated to cooking with the little things we usually throw away. It's free!
I found this in my Facebook memories just in time for Vodka Gummy Bear season!
She just appeared one day, tattered and listless. She must have been flying quite some time before she found us.What a Songbird Lost at Sea Taught Me About Survival
Living In A Country That Doesn't Exist : 6.5 million people across Europe are trying to live normal lives in countries mostly unrecognised by the rest of the world. Thanks Bruce!
Brock Commons Tallwood House is an 18-storey wood skyscraper in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Social distancing: Living in 2 Tiny Houses on a Private Island in Florida
The Modern House is one of my favourite real estate sites because it always gets me dreaming. This article is about homes with surprising features
I love this so much: Gabby The Papillon Blazing Through The Agility Course Like A Bullet
She's out of this world: Miss Space
The Trade Cards Of Old London: a selection of cards you might find, rummaging through a drawer in the eighteenth century.
Designing for Prison: Anti-suicide clothing hooks, unbreakable mirrors and more.
Ray Mackey's outstanding photographs of Newfoundland icebergs.
6 of the Longest Experiments Ever Via FB pal Hal.
A Brief History of Waffles Yes, there are recipes.
Saturday, March 27, 2021
Friday, March 26, 2021
Peepsi?
Two iconic brands have come together to create a questionable beverage that combines the crisp taste of Pepsi with the sweet flavor of Peeps - but it won't be available in stores. You can only win it by posting photos of yourself with Peeps Marshmallow Chicks and Bunnies on Twitter or Instagram. Tag @pepsi and use #HangingWithMyPEEPS and #PepsiSweepstakes. (I don't like Peeps or Pepsi so I won't be competing with you for prizes.)
Hand-cranked toy submarine contains wooden animals going about their day
Toymaker Chi-Chun Yin of AnadouMuZuo Studio in Taiwan created this hand-cranked wooden automata submarine filled with activity and movement, including workouts, naps, medical checkups, and even a monkey reading a newspaper on the toilet.
Thursday, March 25, 2021
Pic Of The Day
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Sticky Toes by Beverly Houwing A red-eyed tree frog perched on the leaf of a plant in Costa Rica. |
So this is how it's done…
Yeah man. Tik Tok ain’t for me. I thought they edited these outside of the app. Lol. Wow. pic.twitter.com/Rw1ZdPZCpC
— Kevín (@KevOnStage) March 15, 2021
Clothes That Grow As Your Kids Do
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| Image: Petit Pli |
I used to buy lovely clothes for my kids when they were little but many of the outfits were only worn a few times before they were outgrown and given away. My favourite item was a sturdy pair of lined OshKosh overalls that had rollup cuffs and adjustable straps. Both my boys got a lot of wear out of them and they were still in good shape when I passed them on to a friend with younger children.
Now Ryan Mario Yasin, a trained aeronautical engineer and founder of Petit Pli, has developed garments that grow with children, prolonging the life of the product and impacting the fashion industry at large. Accordion-like inner structures allow the garments to stretch, while cinched cuffs and silicone grippers hold them in place. And each piece is constructed from seven recycled water bottles!
Ice Drums
Spring ice drums in the village of Oymyakon, Yakutia, otherwise known as The Pole of Cold. Video shared by https://t.co/zxB1UnjEWP pic.twitter.com/9y5nrYnNnW
— The Siberian Times (@siberian_times) March 18, 2021
Meet the Artists Who Create the Sounds For Nature Documentaries
These are the people who replicate the sounds of sharks swimming, of orangutans chewing, of spiders shooting their webs, of mushrooms sprouting and more.
Eric and the Bees
Beekeeping is a lifesaving form of therapy for Eric Grandon, a U.S. Army veteran who suffers from PTSD after 20 years in combat.
Eric and the Bees from Zendesk on Vimeo.
Wednesday, March 24, 2021
He's Been Everywhere
EverywhereMax has been to all 92 places named in the Johnny Cash song "I've been Everywhere."
Via Neatorama
Haunting The West
As a child, the US artist Michael Rakowitz was visiting the British Museum in London when his mother, who is of Iraqi-Jewish heritage, asked him a troubling question: why were priceless Assyrian artefacts displayed here, of all places?
Zhangjiajie Wulingyuan
Abel Blanco filmed the otherworldly landscapes of Zhangjiajie National Forest Park in Wulingyuan, south-central China with his Phantom3P.
Via Kuriositas
Transparent Squid
The cockatoo deep water squid has arms that resemble a bird’s plumage, and a body that looks like nothing at all.
Via bookofjoe
Tweet Of The Day
Bird walks like a model
ボソ
— 旭川はよいところ(埼玉も) (@SNS_is_Not_Sagi) March 22, 2021
モンロー･ウォーク pic.twitter.com/JDaV7U69oA
Tuesday, March 23, 2021
Bardable - Instruments for Everyone
This guy builds easy-to-play instruments in his garage in Tucson.
The Faery Investigation Society, one of the strangest British organisations ever to come into being
You can become a member of the FIS free of charge but before you commit to membership you might want to read a little more about the background of the eccentric society here.
Via Boing Boing
Can Origami Save Your Life?
The mathematics behind the Japanese art of paper folding.
More: Open Culture
Monday, March 22, 2021
Fagradalsfjall volcano eruption captured by drone pilot
This video from drone pilot Bjorn Steinbekk surfs the lava right up to the crater.
Via Geekologie
Dangerous driveway? No problem.
I have been in situations where reversing onto a busy road was fraught with danger. A rotating driveway would have been helpful.
Tweet Of The Day
Singing for your supper. Fascinating knives, great thread. https://t.co/BMtoGbmBzs
— madamjujujive (@madamjujujive) March 20, 2021
The pandemic's stark impact in photos
Axios pulled paired images from the top Getty photos for a given month in 2019 compared to that same month in 2020.
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Kurdish New Year in 2019 (left). Employees on lunch break in Wuhan in 2020. Photos: Micah Garen and STR/AFP via Getty Images |
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| Protestors in Hong Kong in 2019 (left). Pilgrims circumambulating around the Kaaba in Mecca in 2020. Photos: Philip Fong/AFP and STR/AFP via Getty Images |
Thanks Bruce!
Sunday, March 21, 2021
Clothes Form
I think I'd rather have sweat stains than be seen wearing this contraption:
In 1927 Butler Baker invented a "clothes form" to prevent clothes from sticking to a person's body in hot weather. It consisted of a scaffolding of wire rings to be worn beneath a person's clothes.
Tweet Of The Day
no matter what you think is gonna happen in this video, you’re wrong
— Noted Elitist (@SortaBad) March 20, 2021
pic.twitter.com/DyCPp2urXj
Pic Of The Day
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| Boris Ignatovitch (1899-1976), At the Hermitage, Leningrad (St. Petersburg), USSR, 1930's. |
Sunday Links
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| American propaganda postcards included a “patriotic fantasy” of star-spangled fish |
Propagating Propaganda: the story of the “Liberty Bond Fish”(above) and the wider use of animals in propaganda of the time.
The Fenland Black Oak Project In 2012 Hamish Low and his team discovered a 13 metre long, perfectly preserved 5000 year old black oak tree in an East Anglian peat bog. They are making a very long table out of it. Via BoingBoing
I love this tiny house deep in London's East End.
There's a new pasta shape in town and it has sauceability, forkability and toothsinkability!
Joy Every Day: New Yorkers in their fabulous apartments.
Looking for a new career? Switzerland has just opened up a new school of shepherding in recognition of the need for shepherds through Europe. Via Everlasting Blort
A grand tour of Britain: 10 cultural highlights The only one I've seen is Stonehenge.
Sperm whales in 19th century shared ship attack information Thanks Bruce!
This home in New York’s West Village was once used as a factory and wagon shed. It's an appealing (at least to me) mix of old and new.
The World's 'Most Dangerous' Cheese is also its most disgusting.
Mémoires Vives - Sequences shot in the studio of Marc Giai-Miniet.
These Nikes are kind of cool but I wouldn't want to run a marathon in them.
The humble Allen key exemplifies the essence of IKEA and it is finally getting the attention it deserves.
This is a good thing: The body of work of 2021 Pritzker Architecture Prize winners Lacaton & Vassal has been dedicated to designing affordable new spaces out of existing structures.
Saturday, March 20, 2021
Lego to Mass-Produce Van Gogh's 'Starry Night' as an Official Toy Kit
Vincent van Gogh’s 1889 Post-Impressionist masterpiece Starry Night
will now have its very own Lego set thanks toTruman Cheng, a 25-year-old PhD student from Hong Kong, who submitted the suggestion to Lego Ideas.
Thanks Bruce!
Brown Hyenas
The elusive brown hyena is Africa's rarest predator. This 15 year old hyena has raised 9 generations of cubs in a ghost town in the Namib Desert.
Thanks Bruce!
Friday, March 19, 2021
Evergreen Crystal Palace
Apparently Evergreen Lake Estate in Branson West, MO is on the market. Urban explorer BigBankz says he was given permission to shoot this real estate video for the $80,000,000 glass mansion built out of glass, green marble, and brass.
Via Things Magazine
Zoom Escaper
Zoom Escaper is a tool to help you escape Zoom meetings. "Please be mindful of how you use this tool. Consider who is in the call and what impact it will have."
The Lost Sound
"A woman looks at the inheritance of language in her family and laments what is lost when a language is lost."
The Lost Sound was created using strata-cut plasticine, coloured pencil, paper and ink. More about Steffie Yee's process here.
La Chapelle de l'Ange au Violon
La Chapelle de l'Ange au Violon (The Chapel of the Angel with the Violin), was built in the 19th century. But the church was abandoned many decades ago. Although it is unknown why the chapel was abandoned, nature decided to seize the opportunity and take over.
Via Photographize
Tweet Of The Day
My wife Lola will be selling her crocheted dolls in the precinct this Saturday, all proceeds to the drop-in-centre. For God's sake buy one, she's made 600 of the bloody things. They're all over the house. Every time I open the airing cupboard it's like being attacked by Chucky. pic.twitter.com/Qi4iB0uBS5
— Councillor Rowan Battley (@CllrBattley) February 11, 2021
Thursday, March 18, 2021
It's Amazing What This Guy Can Do With A Deck Of Cards
Cardboard Creationism cuts and stacks playing cards to make 3D art.
Artist Animates Folding Screen That Pictures Ancient Japanese Battle
Videographer Yusuke Shigeta used pixel animation to reconstruct the Battle of Sekigahara (c1600) depicted on a folding screen, adding details of the natural landscape that still exists at the ancient battlefield.
The artwork is part of Culture Gate to Japan, an initiative to convert Japan’s airports — drastically underutilized due to the pandemic — into museums.
More: Spoon & Tamago
This Too Shall Pass
Official video for OK Go's "This Too Shall Pass" off album "Of the Blue Colour of the Sky".
Song of the Paddle
In this beautiful 1978 film from the National Film Board Of Canada Bill Mason, sometimes referred to as "the patron saint of canoeing", and his family share their love of the outdoors and their bond as a family.
Read more about the award winning film at the NFB blog
Wednesday, March 17, 2021
Monsanto's House of the Future
This video from Park Ride History tells the story of Monsanto's House of the Future from its debut at Disneyland in 1957 to its demise a decade later.
Via BoingBoing
Rosemarie's Life
This lovely 3D animation by ROOF Studio tells the story of a care home resident from birth to old age. It is part of the 'Make a Career of Humanity' campaign that promotes careers in Long Term Care.
More: Creative Boom
The Year Without A Summer
I'm looking forward to some nice weather. If Tambora erupts again I'm going to be very angry.
Via FB pal Hal
Wind Phone
In the town of Otsuchi in northern Japan, 2,000 residents were lost in the tsunami in 2011. A phone booth provides solace to survivors.
Tuesday, March 16, 2021
The Wheel of Fortune
In one of the earliest examples of a major record label covering an independent black hit, Capitol recreated The Cardinals' arrangement for Kay Starr's hit version of Wheel Of Fortune in this cheesy 1952 Scopitone.
Upcycled Chopsticks Canoe
Shuhei Ogawara, an artist in Fukushima, Japan, made a canoe from 7382 chopsticks discarded from the city hall cafeteria. It took him 2 years to build the 66 pound, 13′-4″ canoe.
Six Months of Weather in 3 Minutes
Watch this awesome video by Dustin Farrell in full screen.
Via Memo Of The Air
Monday, March 15, 2021
10 Years Later
In March 2011 a devastating tsunami struck Japan, killing 20,000 people and leaving half a million homeless. Photographer Munemasa Takahashi's Lost & Found Project grew out of a volunteer effort to gather and preserve family photographs scattered among the debris in hopes of returning them to their owners. Memory Salvage digitized more than 750,000 images, and more than 460,000 have made their way back to their owners. The damage to the photographs highlights the level of devastation wrought by the disaster.
Pre-War Amplifiers
This site features photographs and schematics of guitar amplifiers built before the Second World War.
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| Gibson EH-150 |
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| Rickenbacher "The Speaker" (V.2) |
Experts recreate a mechanical Cosmos for the Antikythera Mechanism
Researchers at University College London have solved a major piece of the puzzle that makes up the ancient Greek astronomical calculator known as the Antikythera Mechanism, a hand-powered mechanical device that was used to predict astronomical events decades in advance.
Thanks Bruce!
Sunday, March 14, 2021
Sunday Links
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| Link - Thanks Bruce! |
Blackbird Cabin: From a back of a napkin sketch to a serious piece of design engineering.
World War II Couple's Love Letters Found Beneath British Hotel's Floorboards
Some neighbors are better on your T-shirt. When Sid Vicious lived across the hall
Maps Mania brings us two sites that show the locations of thousands of bombs that landed on London during World War 2.
Very creepyYet another case highlighting the significance of wrongful conviction in the United States: Hertz "deeply saddened" that it took 5 years to find the receipt to free an innocent man
Some Memes to mark a year of lockdown. Via Miss Cellania
Spring is Here, Cats Flying Back Home
A series of Then and Now photographs from around the world at The Guardian
I was hoping we wouldn't be wearing masks by now but we are so this might be helpful: How to Prevent Foggy Glasses While Wearing a Face Mask Thanks Bruce!
Apparently there was a time when making wine for children was okay.
A beautiful essay about hearts and hummingbirds Via MetaFilter
14 Things You Might Not Know About 'Nineteen Eighty-Four'
I've been enjoying ginger lately and will try to grow my own: How to Grow Ginger in Containers And Get a Huge Harvest
Gore Vidal and Orson Welles Play Warhammer Via MeFi
BirdCast - Bird migration forecasts in real-time
The lost tourist who thought Maine was San Francisco.
I like this sinuous stone house that blends into a Greek hillside.
Explore the Bayeux Tapestry online Via Everlasting Blort (and here's a link to some of my related posts)
Lockdown LPs Via Things Magazine
From The Guardian: A lost poem by Vladimir Nabokov, written from the perspective of Superman as he laments the impossibility of having children with Lois Lane, has been published for the first time.
The best bus shelter in Britain
Paris Apartment Renovation Reveals Hidden Revolutionary Frescoes
After Ice
After Ice overlays imagery from the archives of the National Land Survey of Iceland with current day footage of six outlet glaciers in Southeast Iceland.
Saturday, March 13, 2021
How to operate an airport in Antarctica
Learn about what it takes to receive a 767 in Antarctica, how they built a blue ice runway and more.
A reader sent a link to a photo collection - check it out in the comments below.
Spicy Village
This film by Jiali takes us behind the scenes at Spicy Village, on one of the few days they take time off: Chinese New Year.
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