Tuesday, August 31, 2021
Building a Log Cabin In The Woods
18-year-old Erik Grankvist heard the call of nature and spent a year alone building a log cabin in the Swedish wilderness.
This fascinating timelapse of an orb-weaver spider building her web is even more remarkable considering she removes it before dawn each day and constructs a new one every night to avoid daytime predators.
— Wonder of Science (@wonderofscience) August 30, 2021
Credit: dinaoren0/tiktok
Full Video: https://t.co/JGkWPHeBwS pic.twitter.com/b939r8rTEi
Monday, August 30, 2021
Tiffany Glass Biscuits
Just a rat playing an harmonica…
Via Everlasting Blort@spacecaptainz It's not the best song but at least he tried! 🥺🎵 #ratsoftiktok #rat
♬ origineel geluid - ratscratch
An Old Shark
Researchers performed radio carbon dating on the shark's eye-lens to determine her age. Radiocarbon dating does not produce exact dates so the shark is between 272-512 years old. Greenland sharks reach sexual maturity at 150 years old. pic.twitter.com/FPYsVCSPxh
— Eigenbros (@eigenbros) August 28, 2021
Art Saves Lives
These vintage public health posters shared by the Poster House Museum site helped to eradicate killer diseases like tuberculosis and polio by illustrating the proper precautions to take during a pandemic.
Sunday, August 29, 2021
An Illustrated Calendar Of London's Barmiest Annual Events
British illustrator Adam Dant has created this calendar of quirky London events. I love his work.
Sixteen years ago today Hurricane Katrina made landfall in New Orleans as a Category 3 hurricane. Today Hurricane Ida has strengthened into a life-threatening Category 4 storm, and is still intensifying as it nears Louisiana.
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| Dawn breaks over the Katrina memorial at Shell Beach on the 16th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina as Hurricane Ida approaches the Louisiana coast in St. Bernard, La. Saturday, Aug. 28, 2021. (Photo by Max Becherer, NOLA.com, The Times-Picayune | The New Orleans Advocate) |
Sunday Links
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| Some Colours Returning, 2020 - Kate Waters |
It Takes One To Know One is an exhibition of photorealistic works by Canadian painter Kate Waters that captures everyday people going about their everyday lives. (Image above)
From Ablative Heat (Reentry) Shield to Zero-Time Jail: A dictionary of science fiction inventions (Via Memo Of The Air)
Flowers For Sick People is a lovely multimedia art and health project by California artist Tucker Nicholls. He will mail a small flower painting on your behalf to a loved one in need.
The House Mill of 1776 at Bromley by Bow is the largest tidal mill in the world and the only remaining mill at Three Mill Island on the River Lea.
A podcast about Spite Houses (Via FB pal Hal)
Edith Sitwell’s gossipy address book found: Cat torturers' names withheld
Hiding Images in Plain Sight A Magic Window that produces a 3D hologram.
Hopes and prayers: Best saint to implore to intercede against Covid on your behalf (via Perfect for Roquefort Cheese)
Attacked by two sharks at once ‘That second shark ended up saving my life.’
What is the most dangerous food?
A (rather long) video of intrigue and drama, set against grand Africa and its wildlife: The Queen Of Trees (Thanks Bruce!)
We know Elvis Presley as the King Of Rock and Roll. In Friedberg, Germany he is the King of the Intersection.
Animals in Daguerreotypes in the Early Years of Photography
This lovely collection of salt prints of old Japan came up in my Facebook memories.
In the Dead Archives In early 2009, a 52-year-old grandfather began leaving comments on the Internet Archive’s Grateful Dead collection, where nearly every note the band played live can be listened to for free.
After The Tone (via Memo Of The Air)
Hopes and prayers: Which Catholic saint would you choose to intercede against Covid on your behalf? (via Perfect for Roquefort Cheese)
Who's a good boy? Dog ejected from car during crash found on sheep farm, herding sheep
From Burgundy to Le Havre: The Man Who Swam the Seine (Thanks Bruce!)
French woodworker turns the Lord Of The Rings ring into a lampshade
This is all that remains of the house of one of the greatest artists ever to have worked in Rome, Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475–1564 CE). Or is it?
A Japanese village dedicated to foxes
A Twitter thread about brass rubbings (Via everlasting blort)
Tourist Attraction: ‘My brother brought friends to marvel at the awful state of my body’
A 'Ghost Forest' in the middle of Manhattan
Experts' Expert: How to remove stains from furniture and carpets You're welcome.
DIY Camera Obscura
This video shows how you can build a camera obscura with craft store supplies.
Via PetaPixel
Music For Sunday Morning
Fourteen years ago Robert Plant and Alison Krauss made an album together. They just made another one.
Saturday, August 28, 2021
Our dog Liz is also a 17 year old Katrina rescue. I don't imagine there are many of these dogs left. Read Tyler's story.
A dog who survived hurricane Katrina is now 17 years old and living his best life with a family in York County. On @fox43 news at 10, we'll tell you more about Tyler's second chance at life. pic.twitter.com/DtOvxLg3Ip
— Paola Belloso (@PaolaBellosotv) July 18, 2021
Charlie Watts Tribute
The Rolling Stones have released a video tribute featuring key moments of Watts’s career.
Sometimes I just need a picture of Leonard Cohen jumpstarting his car pic.twitter.com/ZQAW1kiJJZ
— Irish Literary Times (@IrishLitTimes) August 28, 2021
Friday, August 27, 2021
Prayer plant time-lapse
By day, its leaves are flat and open, and at night, its leaves raise up, folding like praying hands.
Happy Birthday Mr.Nag!
Here's a very old photo of Mr. Nag channeling LBJ with our dog Heidi.
Here's a link to the LBJ story for those of you who are too young to remember it.
Here's a link to the LBJ story for those of you who are too young to remember it.
American Kestrels have super head stabilization skills, making it look locked in one position in the air. This video by YT channel Talons and Teeth shows the natural ability this bird has to stabilize its head [source, full video: https://t.co/5OUdd8idLl] pic.twitter.com/A0KVCerSWt
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) August 27, 2021
Google translate: “A long time ago, a photo of a used robot shop in the neighborhood came out.” https://t.co/v4Qjaj8RGL
— madamjujujive (@madamjujujive) August 27, 2021
Don't Leave Your Babies Home Alone
When barn owl parents return to their nest they find a pigeon has moved in and laid an egg. Drama ensues.
Via Das Kraftfuttermischwerk
Professional hang gliding pilot Wolfgang Siess some months ago shared this impressive clip of his launch off a mountain near Interlaken, Switzerland [full video: https://t.co/rmYyhQFKAo] pic.twitter.com/iImhuRepLC
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) August 25, 2021
Thursday, August 26, 2021
Projection mapping, similar to video mapping and spatial augmented reality, is a projection technology used to turn objects, often irregularly shaped, into a display surface for video projection. This was in Bucharest https://t.co/AkWlljscWq [gif: https://t.co/2HXmPq74nT] pic.twitter.com/KIdbcMfdZX
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) August 26, 2021
Wednesday, August 25, 2021
Trash Transformed Into Ghibli-Inspired Miniatures
Studson Studio creates miniatures and dioramas inspired by video games tv, and movies. He uses trash to make models inspired by Studio Ghibli and the films of Hayao Miyazaki and demonstrates the process so you can do it too. Below he shows how he made the bathhouse from Spirited Away.
Tuesday, August 24, 2021
Charlie Watts ‘Night Train’
Charlie Watts 'Night Train' on Jazz 625 BBC4 from Marcus Liversedge on Vimeo.
Via my friend Alan ParkerVintage Colour Photos of Vancouver 1972-1982
“When I started making these photographs, especially the pictures of people in the mid-1970s, I felt like I was photographing a world nobody knew anything about, apart from the people living it, of course.” - Greg Girard
I haven't been to Vancouver since the days when Greg Girard was prowling the streets of Vancouver with his camera. I'm looking forward to visiting the city in October. It will be interesting to see the changes.
"I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of a Library."
The great Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges was born on this day in 1899.
Mirrors are not more silent
nor the creeping dawn more secretive;
in the moonlight, you are that panther
we catch sight of from afar.
By the inexplicable workings of a divine law,
we look for you in vain;
More remote, even, than the Ganges or the setting sun,
yours is the solitude, yours the secret.
Your haunch allows the lingering
caress of my hand. You have accepted,
since that long forgotten past,
the love of the distrustful hand.
You belong to another time. You are lord
of a place bounded like a dream.
Capybaras Move Into Town
In 2020, fires devastated more than 300,000 hectares of wetlands in the Parana River delta, driving capybaras into a Buenos Aires suburb.
A Fantasy House for Josephine Baker
When American entertainer Josephine Baker moved to Paris in 1927, Austrian modernist architect Adolf Loos decided it might be fun to design a weird and wonderful home for her. It was never built.
Monday, August 23, 2021
#OnThisDay 1967: "The greatest social upheaval in Sweden's history."
— BBC Archive (@BBCArchive) August 23, 2021
Sweden was preparing to switch to driving on the right hand side of the road. pic.twitter.com/9gNqS5SvSI
Harold Harvey was one of the few Cornish-born artists associated with the Newlyn School which sought to inject British painting with a dose of the plein air tradition. Harvey painted real-life subjects (such as his wife Gertrude) with a focus on atmosphere and local colour. pic.twitter.com/tW9UPcM4dN
— Richard Morris: Art History in a Tweet (@ahistoryinart) August 23, 2021
Via Everlasting BlortSo Perfect! https://t.co/vhbg2OXspo
— It's the Climate (@mbdmaine) August 10, 2021
Bubbles
Macro photography ideas using nothing but water, dish washing liquid and glycerine.
Sunday, August 22, 2021
Bob the Street Cat Now Has His Own Statue
Read more of their story here
Reflections OfThe Past
In this touching photo series by commercial photographer Tom Hussey elderly people look in the mirror and see reflections of their younger selves.
Via Memo Of The Air
Sunday Links
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| I.A. Persinger’s scrapbook stands more than a foot tall and weighs 36 pounds. Image: Eric Oglander |
“DEAR FRIENDS OF MINE, Please write a line / In this little Wash Tubbs book of mine. / Help me Keep you in my Mind” The 36-Pound Comic Scrapbook That Chronicles the Great Depression (photo above)
People walking. It's Japanese. It's synchronized. It's extreme.Via Memo Of The Air
The original 'Cabin Porn' dwelling is for sale
A rebroadcast of an April 1995 concert at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee with Chet Atkins, Nanci Griffith, The Fairfield Four and Robin and Linda Williams and Kate MacKenzie.
Type The Alphabet I'm not much of a typist. My time was 13.326s
Question of the day: Is a croissant without butter really a croissant?
I'm hooked on Name Drop
The John and Alice Coltrane Home in Dix Hills, New York. John composed his masterwork, A Love Supreme, in the second-floor bedroom.
Architectural Models in Film (via Everlasting Blort)
When the weather gets warm I spend a lot of time on my porch reading. drinking coffee or cocktails (depending on the time of day) and watch the world go by. Joyce, my old cat, broils out there on even the hottest afternoons and refuses to come in until the sun goes down. These summer living rooms appeal to me.
In Ghana they call them dead white man's clothes.
Would you have entered the Dole Air Race 1927? Ten lives were lost and six airplanes were lost or damaged beyond repair. (via FB pal Hal)
How many female composers can you name? The Map of Female Composers
How an auspicious sacred sign was twisted to become the graphic embodiment of hate and intolerance. The ancient symbol that was hijacked by evil
Wingspan, a game with beautiful hand-painted cards and gentle, strategic gameplay, is transforming the $11b board game industry. (Thanks Bruce)
Eight Things The Beatles Pioneered
The Station Hotel, Ayr, Scotland closed in 2015 but retains almost all of its original features inside and out. It's sad to see a once grand building left abandoned.
Every Limbo Boy and Girl All Around The Limbo World Going to Do The Limbo Rock All Around The Limbo Clock
The first thing you notice is that the watch is handsome: the gold case engraved with an elegant filigree, the fine script announcing it was made by the Elgin National Watch Company. What a Watch Tells Us About the Titanic's Final Hours
Nanci Griffith on David Letterman from 1988-2005
Herman Melville explains why a sleeping apartment should never be furnished with a fire
Cool food for hot days (New York Times)
It may be the Happiest Place On Earth but is it art? (Thanks Bruce)
An immense mystery that was built by a prehistoric people 6,000 years before Stonehenge.
Saturday, August 21, 2021
Atlas for the Blind, 1837
"The Atlas of the United States Printed for the Use of the Blind was published in 1837 for children at the New England Institute for the Education of the Blind in Boston. Without a drop of ink in the book, the text and maps in this extraordinary atlas were heavy paper embossed with letters, lines, and symbols. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first atlas produced for the blind to read without the assistance of a sighted person."
Via @presentcorrect
Happy Caturday!
Our #Caturday Feline of the Week is the athletic Hans, Cat Fireman. (Battle Creek Enquirer 1922, via @_newspapers) pic.twitter.com/z4RGlgf42h
— Undine (@HorribleSanity) August 21, 2021
Dead Pubs of London
Via Webcurios I ran across the Dead Pubs of London Instagram account and stopped in to mourn the demise of one of my favourite London watering holes again.
Hair Art
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| Hair-art created by Gabe Sin, Styling by Janghee Junn photography by Minhyun Woo. |
Making Artisan Dinnerware
Ceramicist Jono Pandolfi shows how his team makes handcrafted plates, mugs, cups, and other dinnerware for some of America’s best restaurants.
Thanks Bruce!
Japanese Fire Trike
This extremely rare Kurogane Model 1 Fire Trike, used in the Japanese and Malaysia fire departments, was found in Malaysia in bad condition. It is currently displayed at the museum complex Motorworld by V.Sheyanov where it is being restored.
Wow, this is a surprise!
Wanda Jackson dated Elvis – then made him look tame with her growling, high-energy rock’n’roll. At 83 years old, she has a new album, her 32nd: Encore, a collaboration with Joan Jett.
Friday, August 20, 2021
The Potato Photographer of the Year 2021
I know this sounds like it might be boring but it's not. It's actually very imaginative.
Via Kottke
Just Wow!
This is INSANE!
— Ann is still European ♥️ Vaxxed AF still masking (@56blackcat) August 12, 2021
The bit at the end 😱 pic.twitter.com/Vcep9dQ0aT
How a Grave Cleaner Uncovers the Past
Alicia Williams cleans gravestones in her local cemetery in Bedford, Virginia. Her videos are also history lessons. She doesn’t just reveal the headstone hiding beneath years of wear and tear. She reveals the person, as well.
Follow her on Instagram
Read more: Atlas Obscura
Brutsch 200 Spatz
In the 1950s German automaker Egon Brutsch designed a plastic 3-wheeled microcar called The Brutsch 200 Spatz (German for sparrow). The car was lightweight and promotional photos showed a woman lifting it with one hand.
Unfortunately vibration caused the exterior body panels to crack so it never caught on. Only five of these cars were produced.
Thursday, August 19, 2021
Wednesday, August 18, 2021
Heartwarmer Of The Day
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| Image: Martin Meissner |
19th century astronomical drawings compared to NASA photos
Via Boing Boing
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