Can you spot a young leopard cubs face.@NikonIndia @ParveenKaswan pic.twitter.com/NPp3nBRFWs
— Mohan Thomas (@GetMohanThomas) June 25, 2021
Wednesday, June 30, 2021
Pic Of The Day
Bob Dylan Exhibition Marks His 80th Birthday
BBC unveils its trailer for the Tokyo Olympics 2020
Spot's On It!
Seven of Boston Dynamics' agile quadruped Spot robots synchronize their steps and appear to play off of one another’s dance moves. Hours of choreography and engineering effort come together for a 77-second performance.
Portable Solar Distiller
On This Day
Tuesday, June 29, 2021
Ready When You Are
Her Dark Materials
"The virtual display inaugurates WWAM, founded by Philippa Adams, a digital render of a former industrial warehouse which formed part of Wolverton Railway Works, that connected London to Birmingham."
“We’re in the United States, they can’t tell you to get rid of a dinosaur”
Monday, June 28, 2021
The Nannies
Inflatable Clothing
Sheep Tweet
Drone photographer Lior Patel followed a herd of sheep for several months, as the herd was shepherded to its summer pasture. Entrancing and relaxing. pic.twitter.com/2VyAFtwYnZ
— Arieh Kovler (@ariehkovler) June 26, 2021
Via @madamjujujive
Lovebird Builds A Nest
Look how this lovebird strips the leaves removing each midvein to tuck amongst its feathers for safe keeping...
— Science girl (@gunsnrosesgirl3) June 22, 2021
rather than taking each piece home separately, this is a more efficient way of gathering and transporting nest building material pic.twitter.com/gQPCsQA00j
Transition Contact Lenses
Sunday, June 27, 2021
Pic Of The Day
Sisters Cassidy Lennie-Ipana and Taylor Ipana of Inuvik, N.W.T. Cassidy finished high school, Taylor is all done kindergarten! (Submitted by Leah Ipana) |
Sunday Links
Pininfarina 1960 |
Photo above from Car Design History a data visualization celebrating the work of the great Italian design studios (via Memo of the Air)
I would be very content to watch the sunset from the private terrace of this 144-foot X-Space superyacht
150-Hour Chocolate Cake for those who like to take their time.
I have a huge travel file on Scandinavia and still hope to get there some day The Most Beautiful Places in Scandinavia
Sutton House , the oldest house in London's East End.
"Bart Simpson bouncing" or "lactating piracy"?
For the first time in 300 years Rembrandt's The Night Watch is complete again.
There were some truly abominable men's hairstyles in the 70s.
People who collect modernist houses (Via Things Magazine)
Overly morbid or not - what do you think? Cat Whiskers Case
Boathouses of Ine there are over 200 boathouses called funaya, some of them surviving from the mid-Edo period.
Summer reading from The Guardian: 50 new fiction and nonfiction books to enjoy.
I have only recently discovered the work of American artist Saul Leiter. His main subjects were street scenes and his small circle of friends. Leiter made an enormous and unique contribution to photography with a highly prolific period in New York City in the 1950s. This video explores his artistic photography.
Kamenstein World of Motion Carousel Kettle
Photos of colourful 'Old World Lizards'
As he lay bleeding to death, he screamed for help but his agonized cries were mistaken for those of peacocks from a nearby peacock farm. Yikes!
It's harder to get lost these days. Our pinch-and-zoom maps know where we are, and they tell us how to get where we are going. The Story of GPS (thanks Bruce!)
Blood test that finds 50 types of cancer before symptoms appear is accurate enough to be rolled out
Funazushi: For the past 18 generations, one family has preserved a 400-year-old recipe showing how sushi once tasted, and it doesn't use raw seafood, but fish aged for three years. (Thanks Bruce!)
Joanna Lemanska's beautiful photographs. (via Everlasting Blort)
Great news! You can now order your very own personalized shrunken head replica!
This week's house envy is a farmhouse nestled in the Buckinghamshire countryside
Does Catholic dogma still have moral authority? Don't ask these guys.
Fold House, an undulating structure in Southern Ontario.
The Winter Garden Theatre Cats (via Strange Company)
A whole lot of Monet paintings
Everything you need to know about the business of Ikea hacking. It's bigger than I thought.
Wayfinder
Saturday, June 26, 2021
Tweet Of The Day
This little one doing her best Freddie Mercury is just what the doctor ordered today…pic.twitter.com/JiE0mEQ71U
— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) June 26, 2021
Made With Care For A Much-Loved Child
An incredibly special piece to arrive home today. C.1880-90 Cree-Métis smoked caribou hide toddler’s jacket measuring a mere 14” across chest/15” from collar to hem. This was made for a little prince; an exact replica of an old time scout jacket common in late 19th century. pic.twitter.com/6ZsIeA9Rdb
— gregory scofield ᐅᒫᒌᐤ (@gregoryscofield) January 13, 2021
One Minute In New York
Confessions
Existential confessions on the big screen @brightonstation Post your message http://t.co/ks8VslpYf1 #bdf15 #brighton pic.twitter.com/6bExX2SFTH
— Free The Trees (@FreeTheTreesDev) September 21, 2015
This video about storks went in a direction I wasn't expecting.
STUFF. - Cicogne (2021) from VISUALS INTERNATIONALS on Vimeo.
Friday, June 25, 2021
Waiting For Myself To Appear
Buried On Orkney
Making a Luban Stool
Thursday, June 24, 2021
Old School Diving Technology
Former NRA President Tricked Into Giving Graduation Speech To 3044 Empty Chairs
Horse Quiltimation
Tweet Of The Day
Ok working from home is getting ridiculous pic.twitter.com/dOdlVCZoeq
— Rad Tasia Bass, Food Detective (@GroovyTasia) February 11, 2021
Organism
SHOK
Rooms On an Airbus 350 That You Have Probably Never Seen
Wednesday, June 23, 2021
Trailer: chekhovOS
Carved By Beavers
Wood sculpture bitten by beavers. Production Assistance: Izu Shaboten Zoo, Nasu Animal Kingdom, Sendai Umino-Mori Aquarium, Hamura Zoo and Iida City Zoo |
The project offers a unique perspective into our interactions with living creatures and the relationship between humans and animals.
Tuesday, June 22, 2021
When the Days are Long and the Sun Shines into the Night
Jessie Oonark, When the Days are Long and the Sun Shines into the Night 1966–69. National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. © Public Trustee for Nunavut, Estate of Jessie Oonark Photo: NGC |
"Born in 1906 in the Back River area, Nunavut (formerly Northwest Territories), Jessie (Una) Oonark spent the first fifty years of her life on the land in Utkusiksalingmiut hunting camps throughout the region with her family, before being relocated to Qamani'tuaq (Baker Lake), NU, by the Canadian government in the late 1950s. Towards the end of that decade, and during a time of enormous change and transition, Oonark began her career as an artist, innovatively and strategically translating customary life through new vivid forms."
BOOM: Welsh 'Rock Cannons'
BOOM: Full Ship Shock Trials.
Ten-storey Apartment Block Built In A Day
Shadow Art
Playing with shadows 👥 favorite? pic.twitter.com/eTR3k1kMTM
— Drawing Arts🎨🖌️ (@Drawlngarts) June 20, 2021
Monday, June 21, 2021
Huldremose Woman
I saw a Facebook post on the Huldremose Woman by my friend Simon and decided to find out more. She was an Iron Age woman from year 55 AC whose remains were naturally preserved in a Danish peat bog. "She was accompanied by two skin capes, a woolen skirt, a scarf and a hair band. Her dress is one of the finest preserved female dresses from the Danish prehistory."
On This Day
57 years ago today civil rights workers Andrew Goodman, James Chaney & Michael Schwerner were murdered by KKK for trying to register Black people to vote
— Ari Berman (@AriBerman) June 21, 2021
We must honor their legacy by fighting against voter suppression today pic.twitter.com/dSy5EqnVFk
Buddhist Monk Sings Rock N Roll High School
Wall Of Boxes
Sunday, June 20, 2021
Sunday Links
Image: Dipankar Sengupta |
The Rohat Chaikhana (photo above) is one of Tajikistan’s oldest surviving teahouses but in 2015 it faced demolition. Read more.
Why Some Civil War Soldiers Glowed in the Dark
Stupidity is saying two plus two equals five. Elevated Stupidity is doing the same thing, except you invoke Pythagoras, decry cancel culture when someone corrects you, then get a seven-figure book deal and a speaking tour out of it.
Gorgeous! A Charming Dutch Village in the Fog
Brian Eno Launches His Own Radio Station with Hundreds of Unreleased Tracks
What Happened to Paula: On the Death of an American Girl A complicated collaboration, resurrecting a cold case, and creating a narrative when there is no closure.
The fascinating story of John Simpkins' Flood Triptych (via Things Magazine)
Crying for cash: The Peculiar Profession of Professional Mourners
Bridge made of string: Peruvians from the Huinchiri community in Cusco region are rebuilding a 500-year-old Incan hanging bridge, using traditional weaving techniques to string a crossing together spanning the Apurimac river.
Pointy toed shoes were the cause of a bunion epidemic in medieval England (via MeFi)
Audacity,Elegance and the Vulgarity of Garlic: On My Dinner with Giorgio Armani
Daisyland Beautiful photographs.
Cancel Culture: A Glossary (via Perfect For Roquefort Cheese)
Diverse Perspectives: The Great Wall of China from various perspectives, some stretches of the wall you may not be familiar with and without tourists.
Orchid thought to be extinct in UK found on roof of London bank
This Website Will Self Destruct will disappear in 24 hours if it doesn't receive a message from at least one person every day. (via BoingBoing)No dogs allowed, pub kittens in training England's Accidental Cat Pub
You don't know your friend's exact street address? Apparently this was not a problem back in the day.
British Columbia is home to 204 First Nations communities; approximately 50% of the First Peoples’ languages of Canada are spoken in B.C. First Peoples' Map of B.C. (more at Maps Mania)
Saturday, June 19, 2021
Fun Blocks
Happy Pride
Happy Pride!!! #lilnasx #pride pic.twitter.com/hf1QTc0pGG
— Rudy Willingham (@RudyWillingham) June 10, 2021
Pic Of The Day
Alternate Realities CG Challenge
3D artists were provided with an animation to work from. Here is a compilation of the top 100 renders.
24 Hours In a Brandon Mississippi Waffle House
I am coming to you live from a Brandon, Mississippi Waffle House. I, a total loser, came in last place in my fantasy football league. As punishment, I spend 24 hours in a Waffle House. Every waffle I eat shaves an hour off the clock. It’s 4:07 Central. pic.twitter.com/oRugzU7rQT
— Lee Sanderlin (@LeeOSanderlin) June 17, 2021
Happy Caturday
Cat with a kitten, *gargoyle-chimère on the roof of the Château de Pierrefonds, France. Built ca.1393-1407, restored between 1857-1885. pic.twitter.com/DUZyzFenOg
— Archaeology & Art (@archaeologyart) June 4, 2021
Friday, June 18, 2021
I Believe I Can Fly
I can’t stop watching this. Lol 😍😂 pic.twitter.com/omokebjqOP
— Mayim Bialik (@missmayim) June 16, 2021
This man recreates airline meals at home
The ANA meal recreated in Nik and Graham's kitchen in Glasgow Image: Nik Sennhauser |
Thursday, June 17, 2021
Pinwheel Galaxy
One of the most detailed views of a spiral galaxy ever from Hubble, the stunning Pinwheel Galaxy (M101), located 25 million light-years from Earth and containing an estimated 1 trillion stars.
— Wonder of Science (@wonderofscience) June 17, 2021
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA pic.twitter.com/7jaR9b0IcR
The World's Largest Pinhole Camera Photograph
Image: Wikimedia Commons |
Thai Country Living
A Cat Named Cathode
Don't order the Big Breakfast. You'll regret it.
Via Everlasting BlortBOP OF THE SUMMER TBH pic.twitter.com/E99Fx8Uxgt
— vm ❊ (@tentwentysixpm) June 13, 2021
Wednesday, June 16, 2021
First Major Bloomsday (1954)
I posted this five years ago but, since it's Bloomsday, I'll post it again.
Much alcohol was consumed.Bloomsday, a commemoration of the life of Irish writer James Joyce during which the events of his novel Ulysses are relived, is observed annually on 16 June. It has been celebrated by some as far back as the 1920s, but in 1954, when Dublin’s literati of the day took to the cobblestones, the event came into its own.
On the 50th anniversary of the fictional events of June 16, 1904, Irish comedic writer Brian O’Nolan, aka Flann O’Brien; Co. Monaghan poet Patrick Kavanagh; a young critic named Anthony Cronin; A.J. Leventhal, the Registrar of Trinity College; and artist, publisher and publican John Ryan were joined by a dentist cousin of Joyce’s, Tom Joyce, to embark on a pilgrimage of all the Dublin sites named in the epic novel.
The Saddest Sculptures in London
Quite possibly London’s saddest sculptures.
— Look Up London (@Look_UpLondon) June 16, 2021
Read more about their history here; https://t.co/Hf9nW1UkAF pic.twitter.com/j1iuJZUUDm
Tweet Of The Day
Michael Volle, a German baritone, sings an aria from Richard Wagner's 1845 opera "Tannhäuser" in front of an MRI scanner. Now I want to see an entire opera performed this way... https://t.co/O989Dux4Gn
— Laura Grace Weldon (@earnestdrollery) June 16, 2021
Tuesday, June 15, 2021
Power Tool Dinner Party
Fallen
The Rashomon Effect:
Every NYT Front Page Since 1852
Space Shuttle Endeavour's Final Trek
Monday, June 14, 2021
Cranes Over Venice
Filming common cranes close-up while flying over Venice [full video: https://t.co/5K8RXSdAib] pic.twitter.com/K0g3ECXe3v
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) June 14, 2021
Radical Gardening in NYC
Hattie Carthan and Liz Christy set out to transform their neighborhoods by making them greener. Seed bombs, the "tree lady of Brooklyn," and the roots of urban gardening.
Poor Sailor
This beautiful short film by Victor Carrey is based on a comic book by Sammy Harkham. It tells the story of a poor woodcutter who leaves his home in the mountains to join his brother at sea.