— ππ€π πͺπ©π€ πππ£π©π€ (@Kemelwoo) October 30, 2021
Sunday, October 31, 2021
Amazing pumpkin Library (from Truro Library)… π pic.twitter.com/r2Jc3pqsX1
— Sue Nicholson (@suenichwrites) October 29, 2021
Sunday Links
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| Kinrai ryΕ«kΕ kabuki uwasa Kenbutsu no hara Internal bodily functions dramatized by popular kabuki actors |
The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) holds a collection of 400 health-themed woodblock prints from 19th-century Japan, all illustrated in the ukiyo-e manner. (image above)
This week's house envy is a light-filled home with a view in a picturesque town in Kent, England
A Puff Before Dying: When marionettes mix with marijuana, a joy ride becomes their last ride. (Language warning!)
Start planning a Halloween vacation for next year: 13 Haunted Hotels
I adore The Noordwijk Forest Villa. I'd like to buy a treed lot and build it right now!
The story behind Robert the Doll, Key West’s most cursed object.
“The worst spy cop movie I’ve ever seen” How British police tried to recruit an informant in Black Lives Matter
Air travel sucks. I am a small and relatively agile person and I find it awkward getting in and out of airplane seats. It is so much more difficult for people who rely on a wheelchair. This seating that allows air travellers to stay in their wheelchairs facilitates a smoother boarding and disembarking experience for passengers with reduced mobility.
These are the tiniest crochet pieces I've ever seen. I can't imagine having this kind of manual dexterity.
Saturday, October 30, 2021
Detail, mummy portrait of a woman- encaustic on limewood-Romano-Egyptian ca. 160-70 AD-portrait found in Rubaiyat, Egypt. Currently located at the British Museum. pic.twitter.com/6rKovCEuj2
— Archaeology & Art (@archaeologyart) October 30, 2021
Spider's vision made clear. How the tiny predators use their big eyes to focus in on prey [read more: https://t.co/FMFG4YfTyh] [photos by Javier RupΓ©rez, these and more on his Instagram account: https://t.co/hhzzAkBi34] pic.twitter.com/tyPxYcGp11
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) October 30, 2021
Cardboard Sculptures by Amber Dohrenwend https://t.co/6qhtQIw9En pic.twitter.com/4X0Jo0lq7q
— Sherwin Marasigan (@findingcain) October 28, 2021
Happy Caturday!
Russian artist Galina Bugaevskaya photoshops cat faces on anything you can think of: giraffes, fish, pandas, even edible things like potatoes, buns, and bananas.
Friday, October 29, 2021
The Sponsored Animated Films of the NFB
"From its creation in 1939 all the way through to the 1980s, the National Film Board of Canada was mandated to produce films for all federal government departments and agencies. These sponsored films were made according to the needs of the agency or department, to be shown in a variety of places. In many cases, humour was used to help convey a message."
Here's one that was created for the Department of Fisheries in 1957. It was animated by Gerald Potterton who rose to the tough challenge of making a fun film about bacteriological contamination of fish.
Thursday, October 28, 2021
Wednesday, October 27, 2021
This photograph was taken as President Lincoln's funeral procession moved along Broadway in New York City April 25, 1865. Future president Teddy Roosevelt, at the age of 6, can be seen with his brother gazing down on the spectacle from a window of their home.
Watch A Drone Screw in a Lightbulb
The video below is set to the sounds of the docking scene from the movie Interstellar.
Read more: PetaPixel
@insta360_official This is a legit “lightbulb moment”π‘@pixel & #insta360go2 #insta360 #filmmaking #drone #pov #fyp #viral
♬ original sound - insta360_official
Building a Celtic Roundhouse
Two adventurous cousins build an Iron Age Celtic roundhouse in Ireland without the use of modern methods and materials. This is Episode 1 of 24.
Via MetaFilter
Tuesday, October 26, 2021
Bloody Fun
Have no fear, for a lack of Halloween dressing! If you have Heinz, you have a costume. Shop for your very own costume kit, complete with a bottle of Tomato Blood, at https://t.co/3sb2VDR4Mg now.
— H.J. Heinz & Co. (@HeinzTweets) October 18, 2021
Then, share your costume creations with me using #HeinzHalloween.π©Έ pic.twitter.com/qoddFp9ISO
Scary Facial Treatment Is Perfect for Halloween
The Rejuvenique electric face mask does double duty as a Halloween costume. From a 1999 infomercial with Linda Evans.
That felt so good π pic.twitter.com/ZsCh1J2R2G
— Jonathan Webers (@JWeber988) October 17, 2021
Clever Floral Styling
Harriet Parry's floral interpretations meld history, art, fashion and film with the world of floral design.
(via Everlasting Blort)
Monday, October 25, 2021
Adieu Charlie
Charlie the Unicorn's magical journey comes to an end in this 40 minute grand finale.
(Via MetaFilter)
Nag In The Lake?
Climate change takes different forms depending on where we live.
ThisClimateDoesNotExist.com is an application that shows what a specific location will look like after being impacted by floods, wildfires or smog. Here is a visualization of my house under water:
It's not hard to imagine as we are close to Lake Ontario and have a damp basement in spring and fall.
Via Maps Mania
Squid Game Funko Pop Figures
I'd never heard of Funko Pops but I have watched Squid Game. Apparently you will soon be able to purchase the characters from the Netflix series. The figures are kind of cute and childlike, unlike the series which is cringingly violent.
This is what happens if you let your kids sew their own clothes
Sunday, October 24, 2021
The Jastrow illusion typically involves two toy railway tracks (or similar shapes) where the lower one appears to be larger. However, both are identical in shape and size [read more: https://t.co/ntVHAoYrfm] pic.twitter.com/1XHYTOv0ux
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) October 24, 2021
I know it's not Caturday but this was so good I couldn't wait!
@klrdubs This is why i do my own subtitles π
♬ original sound - KLR Dubs
Via BoingBoing
Sunday Links
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| Image: Ghoul at Heart |
Antipasto de los Muertos (image above) is perfect for Halloween. Cheese skulls on a bed of red butter lettuce, surrounded by a garden of salami roses, artichoke buds, onion vines and tomato flowers. How about some I Scream Cones for dessert!(via Vintage,Thrift and Simple Living)
The Oldest Depictions Of London
Free parking, employee discount, keg in the break room? You got it. We will do anything to get you to work for us except pay you a living wage
Photos of children with their Jack-o lanterns in the 1950s and 60s
Technological Disobedience: An article about artefacts of Cuban ingenuity and resourcefulness. Aluminium dinner trays were hoisted onto poles to repair broken aerials, discarded soft-drink cans became vessels for kerosene lamps and vinyl records were cut and thermoformed as replacement blades for missing fan heads. (via @KufferPit )
Dissecting fugu, a poisonous blowfish, is a matter of life and death and only chefs who have been through special training are licensed to do it but now you can do it too.
Behind the scenes of 'French Dispatch' Production designer Adam Stockhausen and set decorator Rena DeAngelo share how they transformed an entire town in France for the new Wes Anderson movie.
The streets of the Sicilian town of Gangi look like they would be difficult to navigate.
There are so many different hauntings, so many ways to do it. The first days of ghosthood would be tricky. How to choose your haunt style.
Because you like puzzles: "The Frogs and Tumblers" illusion.
Nothing says old like seeing the fashion trends of your youth coming around again. The Enduring Appeal of Laura Ashley (NYT article)
The Best Panoramic Photos of 2021
No need to worry about how billionaires have fared during the pandemic. In fact they have done well and some have done very, very well indeed. (via Miss Cellania)
8 Novels That Take Place Over The Course Of a Day - I've read three of these and just ordered two others from the list.
In a small village in southern Norway, a church wall is filled with thousands of tiny demons but that's not the oddest thing about Norway's Disturbing Demon Wall
Husbands can come and go, but whatever you do, hang on to your curtain-maker Best tips of the last 50 years from legendary interior designer Nina Campbell
Spanish Crochet Class Crafted a Giant Canopy To Beat The Heat
As part of his series, American Spaces Project, Franck Bohbot visited the world’s oldest McDonald’s restaurant in Downey California and took some nice retro photographs.
It's gloomy and chilly and the nights are getting longer, Advent Calendar season must be here! (thanks Bruce!)
How long have you got? Baking Cookies That Take 1 Minute, 45 Minutes, 72 Hours
Saturday, October 23, 2021
You’ve never seen this before. It’s a newly-unearthed color photo of Joe Strummer running the 1993 London Marathon and until an hour ago I didn’t know it existed and I FUCKING TOOK IT!!!#joestrummer #TheClash pic.twitter.com/X4IMlwX3lZ
— Steve Rapport Photography (@NorthBankNorman) June 30, 2020
BicibΓΊs
(Thanks Bruce!)Something special is happening in Barcelona. It started last month when some parents organized a bike ride to school for just five kids. Now entire neighborhoods are joining. They call it BicibΓΊs – or Bike Bus. pic.twitter.com/qIxsQEervG
— Zach Klein (@zachklein) October 18, 2021
God Only Knows - The Beach Boys (Isolated Vocals)
Pet Sounds is the best Beach Boys album. Listening to vocals only tracks make me appreciate the magic harmonies even more.
(Thanks Bruce!)
Some Caturday Weirdness
welp ive fulfilled my destiny u guys, i made ✨3 life sized cat men out of discarded cat hair!✨☺️ pic.twitter.com/rmOgK8RhtH
— candle ends (@marmapus) October 22, 2021
#HappyOctober "DANCEHALL OF THE CORPSE COUPLES 2007",charcoal&pencil on paper,33"x29.5" #Drawlloween2021 #drawing #art pic.twitter.com/fvhRn1d0JH
— Laurie Lipton (@laurielipton) October 1, 2021
How Autism Shapes Gregory Blackstock’s Art
This film showcases Gregory’s inner life and intricately detailed “list” drawings and shows how he uses his artwork to catalog and make sense of the world around him.
Friday, October 22, 2021
Take a tour of the Haruki Murakami Library
This month marked the opening of the Haruki Murakami Library in Tokyo which houses the author’s personal archive. You can take a video tour of the library here.
Searching for the Unmarked Graves of Canada's Indigenous Children
The New York Times followed a team of archaeologists who came to the Muskowekwan First Nation to search for the graves of indigenous children who were forced to attend the residential school there. It's heartbreaking.
Largest Triceratops Skeleton Ever Found Sells for $7.7 Million
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| Photo: Francois Mori (AP) |
“Big John” is about 66 million years old and roughly 23 feet long and 8 feet high at the hips. The skeleton was discovered on private property in South Dakota in 2014.
Sadly, demand for rare dinosaur fossils has inflated prices at the expense of museums, which often cannot afford to buy them. It was purchased by an American buyer for personal use.
Largest wooden building in Iceland
A Universe of Imagination
Sixty years after its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival the NFB short documentary Universe, directed by Roman Kroitor and Colin Low, remains a revered classic.
(Narrated by Douglas Rain, the voice of HAL in Stanley Kubrick's 2001:A Space Odyssey)
Read more: NFB Blog
"Unstuck In Time" - Trailer
Filmmaker Robert Weide made this Kurt Vonnegut documentary many years ago but it has only recently secured distribution and will finally be available in theatres and VOD.
via Boing Boing
Thursday, October 21, 2021
Hands-Free Gun Firing Device
In 1921 inventor Harry McGrath obtained a patent for a gun firing device capable of being concealed under the coat and fired when the hands are raised or at any angle.
It was intended to be used by cashiers or bank tellers who were told to put their hands up during a robbery. This device would have allowed them to fire their pistol without lowering their hands. (Yikes!)
Via Futility Closet
Wednesday, October 20, 2021
in 2008, Vermont prison inmates were being used as labor to make decals for cop cars. They edited the design to hide a pig in the image. 30 cop cars drove around Vermont with the hidden pig for four years before it was discovered. pic.twitter.com/VWOD2OjuyS
— i bless the rains down in castamere (@Chinchillazllla) October 17, 2021
Ontario in the 1980s
A c.1982 tourism video of Toronto, Muskoka, Niagara Falls and my town, Niagara on the Lake.
The Topiary Cat
The story of the Topiary Cat began when British surrealist artist Richard Saunders was walking a few years ago and saw a shrub shaped like a cloud. It reminded him of a sleeping cat and he decided to insert his beloved cat Tolly, who passed away in 2016, into a photograph he'd taken. He created many more similar images, some of which went viral on Facebook and were seen by millions. He tells the story here:
These giant cat topiaries don't exist in real life but wouldn't it be great if they did? You can see the Topiary Cat on Facebook or at this website,
New Vhils Mural Unveiled in Toronto
 Image: SΓRGIO MURATO/LUSA |
"It was a story that touched me a lot. We decided to make the mural, not only for women who are still alive, but for this whole movement that emerged to create better working conditions for the first wave of Portuguese immigration to Canada" - Vhils
Tuesday, October 19, 2021
Dance Performance for the Paralympics Hand Off Ceremony
French choreographer and dancer Sadeck Waff is known for his limb-centric performances. As part of a closing hand-off ceremony for the 2020 Tokyo Paralympic Games and the 2024 games in Paris he worked with 128 performers in this performance focused on arms and hands.
16th century optical illusion
This 16th century optical illusion may be the oldest ever. It appears in 'The Ambassadors', painted by Hans Holbein the Younger in 1533, which memorialises Jean de Dinteville, French ambassador to England, and his friend, Georges de Selve. It is only visible when viewed from the right.
Via Miss Cellania
The Hippie Temptation
CBS News series Who, What, Where, When, Why premiered on August 22, 1967, with “The Hippie Temptation”. Host Harry Reasoner visited the Haight Ashbury neighbourhood during the Summer of Love to advise hippies not to turn on, tune in and drop out.
Monday, October 18, 2021
Origami Emergency Shelters
Temporary emergency shelters must be compact, stable and easy to assemble and take down. A team at Harvard turned to origami for inspiration to build structures that meet those three criteria.
The First Horror Film
Georges MΓ©liΓ¨s’ The Haunted Castle was originally released in 1896. Although it is more funny than scary it is considered to be the first horror film ever made.
Creating Art Grain By Grain
Andrew Clemens (1857 – 1894) was a sand artist from Iowa in the United States. Clemens formed his exquisitely detailed pictures by compressing natural colored sands inside chemists' jars to create his works of art.
More: TYWKIWDBI
(A Google Image search shows many more of his pieces)
Sunday, October 17, 2021
Sunday Links
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| Jorna Newberry | Waru Tjukurrpa – Fire Dreaming |
Hypothesis: "Walk of Life" is the perfect song to end any movie. The Walk Of Life Project
This happened in Colorado last week: Elk with car tyre stuck around its neck for two years is free at last He feels much lighter now.
Jeppson’s MalΓΆrt tastes like pencil-shavings and heartbreak (via perfect for roquefort cheese)
New Minister
The Paintings of Nastya Chudakova evoke nostalgic memories of the Soviet past.
Amphibia, an Eau de Toilette for Muppet fans.
Music to read James Bond by And make some James Bond scrambled eggs as well (from last week's links) to recreate the full 007 experience.
Frank Lloyd Wright's last home is for sale: The Norman Lykes Residence is a futuristic circular home in the Arizona desert.
"Take a lot of the tomatoes, shove them into the pillowcase, and squeeze the s#*! out of them over the other tub so that the juice of the tomatoes oozes through the weave of the pillowcase, making it look like a relic of the Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre. Continue until all the tomatoes are gone or until you feel like Macbeth at the end of his play." Stanley Tucci Shares His Grandmother's Tomato Sauce Recipe
Worst excuses ever (apparently dogs no longer eat homework)
Inspired by Harry Potter: The Goblet of Fire Cocktail
Take a tour of this very large shipping container home currently rented as an airbnb. (Thanks Bruce)
Do you remember Upstairs, Downstairs? The award winning television drama series ran for five seasons back in the 1970s. It tracked the decline of the British aristocracy from the POVs of a wealthy family and their domestics from the turn of the century through the Great Depression in the 1930s. (A sequel was broadcast by BBC One in 2010)
Squid Game costumes for pets? No thanks, my animals prefer to flounce around naked.
From the inventor who disappeared along with the lighthouse he designed to the daredevil whose contraptions vaulted him to fame and then cut his life short:
Inventors Killed By Their Own Inventions (Thanks Bruce!)Lady's itinerary for 4 Days in Edinburgh
Abandoned and overgrown: Eerie photos of Bali without tourists
Give your mediocre toaster some TLC. It will last longer. (NYT)
Via Everlasting BlortOn April 5, 2008, the Japanese spacecraft Kaguya captured this full Earth-rise over the Moon limb in high resolution [source: https://t.co/LNwJgBtxVq] pic.twitter.com/cAk3DLTKr6
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) September 24, 2021
Music For Sunday Morning
This is the first single from Blue Rodeo's forthcoming new studio album Many A Mile.
Stained Glass Time-Lapse
Start Sunday morning at the Washington National Cathedral. (Full screen is best)
Music by Brian Eno
Saturday, October 16, 2021
Shark Pool
"So I hear you've been telling people not to go in the pool. I came here for 4 things - beer, bitches, babes and the pool - and I'm not going to let some punk ruin the party because he thinks there may be a shark in the pool."
This spoof trailer was made a decade ago but it gains new relevance in the time of Covid-19. Cue the Jaws soundtrack and enjoy:
How to find a missing cat
According to Japanese legend there is a surefire method to get your missing cat to return. Talk to street cats in the neighborhood and ask them about your cat, describe its colour, tell them its name. Ask them to help you look for it and to tell the missing cat that you love it and how much you want it to come home.
They will communicate with each other to help your cat return. (via FB)
Real Time: Sweeper’s Clock
A few years ago I posted a clock designed by Dutch designer Maarten Baas at Schiphol Airport. It features a man painting the time minute by minute. My FB friend Simon reminded me that it is still keeping time in Amsterdam. I visited the Baas website and found other real time clocks including this Sweepers Clock with two handymen sweeping trash for 12 hours, indicating the time as they go:
Check out more of his cool clocks at here.
Friday, October 15, 2021
Julie Buffalohead's work has focused thematically upon describing Indian cultural experience through personal metaphor and narrative. (I admit to posting this image because it resembles my dog, Liz.)
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| Revisionist History Lesson by Julie Buffalohead 2014 - Lithograph |
The breath of this singing male red-wing blackbird condenses into smoke rings in the frigid Virginia morning air, backlit by the rising sun, in this memorable image by Kathrin Swoboda (2019 Audubon Photography Awards) https://t.co/6vyQPWyJCb pic.twitter.com/xX1Awc0sZk
— Journal of Art in Society (@artinsociety) October 15, 2021
Thursday, October 14, 2021
Halloween is just around the corner…
Vincent Price does the Thriller rap for the only time live (1987) #HappyHalloween pic.twitter.com/EcmqVQMtRO
— Hammer Horror Films (@HorrorHammer1) October 10, 2021
Wednesday, October 13, 2021
Shots in the Dark With David Godlis
Between 1976 and 1980, young Manhattan photographer David Godlis documented the nightly goings-on at the Bowery’s legendary CBGB.
Tilt-Shift Venice
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