Twitter is immensely improved by the addition of baklava!
ok enough Oscars twitter. let’s get back to Baklava twitter. pic.twitter.com/0bhzilnxZW
— keyv (@most_opppressed) March 28, 2022
Thursday, March 31, 2022
Baklava
This Film Was Made Using Pinscreen Animation
Alexander Alexeieff and Claire Parker made Le Nez in 1963 using the pinboard animation technique.
via Weird Universe
The Iconic Japanese Sword
A 1969 documentary goes inside a samurai sword workshop to explore the craft and history behind the iconic Japanese weapon.
Read more: Aeon
Easy Lemonade Scones
92-year-old Muriel Halsted demonstrates how to make perfect scones with just three ingredients.
Wednesday, March 30, 2022
Argo
Named after the mythical vessel that protected Jason and the Argonauts, Argo is a crib designed to protect an infant from damaging electromagnetic waves. It's made of walnut and copper, a metal used for electromagnetic shielding. I can't vouch for its effectiveness but it is a beautifully crafted piece of furniture.
Timelapse Montages of Echinopsis Cacti Blooming
Echinopsis cactus flowers bloom overnight and the flowers last for only a day.
Via Laughing Squid
Tuesday, March 29, 2022
Does anyone remember when Ricky Gervais hosted the Golden Globes?
Not saying it's right but Chris Rock wasn't the first awards host to cross the line. If I were a nominee I'd be afraid to attend the ceremony. Now I'd also be afraid to be a host.
Unprecedented: Collages by Carolyn Beehler
This new series by Carolyn Beehler is a tribute to her hometown, Franklin, Tennessee during the pandemic. She collects and cuts hundreds of pieces from magazines and newspapers and the end products resemble paintings.
More: Creative Boom
Great Grey Owl Lands On Photographer's Lens
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| Image: Thomas Pham-Van |
Anaïs Trépanier was supposed to be the photographer, not the subject. But during a photo expedition in the Côte-de-Beaupré area north of Quebec City a great grey owl landed on her lens. This is the magnificent photo she captured as it swooped in:
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| Image: Anaïs Trépanier |
Read more: CBC News
The Fish That Look Like Raviolis
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Adorable baby manta rays grow up to be 3 to 9 meters wide and have the largest brain of all marine animals. The video below shows baby rays at Macduff marine aquarium near Aberdeen, Scotland.
The Storm: On Bearing Witness
It was March 2020 and the COVID-19 pandemic had just been declared: all anybody could do was worry about the outside world.
Read more NFB Blog
Monday, March 28, 2022
The True History of The Traveling Wilburys
“The thing about the Wilburys for me is—if we’d tried to plan it, or if anybody had said, let’s form this band and get these people in it—it would never happen, it’s impossible. It happened completely, just by magic, just by circumstance. Maybe there was a full moon that night or something like that. It was quite a magical little thing really.” - George Harrison
Corner Symmetry
Architecture photographer Zsolt Hlinka records the symmetry that lives in the corners of the palaces of Budapest.
Stenofonen
When a young boy’s father takes away his violin his love of music finds an ingenious outlet.
via bookofjoe
Claude Monet's Most Radical Works
James Payne explains Claude Monet's water lily canvases which he created as “a war memorial to the millions of lives tragically lost in the First World War”. I saw them at The Orangerie many years ago and was overwhelmed.
Sunday, March 27, 2022
Sunday Links
Travel photographer Vincent Croce captures beautiful images of churches and chapels. (Via Design You Trust)
Conceived by a Danish homeware brand, Vipp Pencil Case is a one-room hotel inside an ex-pencil factory in Copenhagen. (via Dezeen)
Grandma was just making a sweater. Or was she? When Knitting Was an Espionage Tool
Europe's fiercely vegan, fairy-tale city It's also innovative, green and allows the existence of alternative lifestyles.
I know that there is no known scientific basis for astrology but this is kind of fun: Wines For Your Zodiac Sign (Thanks Lori)
Nuclear war shouldn't stop a "fallout shelter housewife" from providing her family with tasty meals and appetizing snacks. Recipes for the fallout shelter housewife
WYLABOCTGWTR - would you like a bowl of cream to go with that remark? Back in the day the FBI published an internal guide to internet slang.
The most common dream in every country In Canada we apparently dream about losing our teeth. I know I have.
Do you hear the sound of love? This site is perfect for those times you want to wallow in sorrow. It plays musical tracks alongside a person’s love-related YouTube comment. I know it sounds silly but I became teary-eyed when I listened to a Death Cab For Cutie song. via Web Curios
The stone carvers of Escolásticas - Walter Hodges shares a collection of images from the Central Mexican state of Querétaro. The New York Times
In The Mark E. Smith Guide To Writing, The Fall’s lyricist takes us through his writing process.
These cute temporary tattoos by Applied Illustrations! Can't choose just one? Buy a bunch. (via everlasting blort)
‘It is not unusual for passers-by to attack a scarecrow – stabbings and mutilations being the most common. Dead bodies have been hidden inside scarecrows, and stolen loot stashed in the pockets of their greatcoats’ Britain's terrifying army of scarecrows (via FB pal Hal)
To My Lost Trishaw Driver: Pico Iyer on decades of letters to a man he met, once, in Myanmar.
Eat your fruits and veggies or you could create beautiful sculptures with them. Your choice.
Books to revive your reading life offers something for everyone, from movie star romance to a critique of technology. The new Anne Tyler novel was already on my list and I can hardly wait to read it.
Vanishing Sydney A micro-blog about "the new shit replacing the old shit" via Web Curios
Defying the odds The largest all-male American family.
The symmetry of Solar Power Plants (via Perfect for Roquefort Cheese)
The cheesy art of mike geno
Saturday, March 26, 2022
The Panola Project
Dorothy, a convenience-store owner, goes door to door to convince her neighbors in a rural Alabama town to get their COVID-19 vaccines.
This Is Not America
The United States is not the only country on the American continent. Puerto Rican rapper Residente’s new music video “This is Not America” challenges Childish Gambino's powerful 2018 music video “This is America”
"America is not only the USA, dudeIt goes from Tierra del Fuego up to CanadaYou must be really ignorant, a complete deadheadIt's like saying that Africa is only about Morocco"
The Fleur
The Fleur is an art collection of 21 unique surreal flower specimen created by Ondrej Zunka that live on the Ethereum blockchain. (They're NFTs)
via Web Curios
The Weird World of Medieval Zoology
Medieval zoology is bizarre because many of the animals never existed and illustrations of the ones that did were wildly inaccurate.
Friday, March 25, 2022
Vertical Parking (1932)
This automatic car parking machine takes up the same amount of space on the ground as six cars but can hold 48 cars.
Goings On Below Stairs
Taken from actual memoirs and diaries, this video takes a look at the real lives of domestic servants.
Sheldon Tapestry Maps
These silk and wool maps showing the central counties of England date from the time of Queen Elizabeth I. Three are in the map collection at the Bodleian Libraries.
Thursday, March 24, 2022
Inuit Artist Meelia Kelly
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| Arctic Foxes - drawing Meelia Kelly |
Meelia Kelly (1940-2006) was a Kinngait-based graphic artist best known for her use of colour and exaggerated shapes.
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| Pursued - Meelia Kelly |
Evan's Drum
The sound of Inuit drum dancing fell silent for generations in Labrador. In the early 21st century the drum returned. Evan is part of a new generation of Labrador Inuit who are among the first in living memory to grow up with the sounds of drum dancing since birth.
Bin Laden's Hard Drive: A data lifecycle.
During the raid on Osama Bin Laden's compound in Pakistan in 2011 data were recovered from his personal computers and in 2020 a documentary was made using the declassified files. In this installation British artist Kurt Champion does something different. He prints 2% of the images, revealing something that was found and recovered and allowing us to draw our own conclusions.
"Audiences watch while a small thermal printer sitting on a plinth releases a seemingly never-ending line of images that once belonged to Bin Laden during the final 5 years of his life. The paper twists, bends and ribbons as it finds its own path into the clear perspex box which sits on the floor below. "
Via: Creative Boom
How To Pick Up A Duck
Just trying to help pic.twitter.com/SNnqahhijU
— jonathan slater (@slater_jona) March 23, 2022
Wednesday, March 23, 2022
A Sculpture Of Mechanical Flowers
Meadow is a soothing kinetic sculpture designed by Studio Drift for Chodov Centre in Prague.
Tuesday, March 22, 2022
Zebras
National Geographic Picture of The Year. Black images are shadows of zebras. Zoom in and you will see zebras. pic.twitter.com/6dwnJ0uBSC
— Lars-Johan Larsson (@LarsJohanL) March 21, 2022
Survey Drawings of Japanese Hotel Rooms
Read more: Spoon & Tamago
A LEGO Car That Climbs a Vertical Wall
Brick Technology created a motorized LEGO vehicle that could drive over a wall. It's harder than you might think.
Via The Awesomer
Make music while you write
Typatone is a website that turns text into music.
Here's one I composed:
(Via Das Kraftfuttermischwerk)
Cooking With Ina
It took six years for Trent from Storebought Is Fine to cook his way through all 1,200+ of the Barefoot Contessa’s recipes. To his delight Ina Garten herself joined him via Zoom to assemble the final recipe (Boston Cream Pie)
Monday, March 21, 2022
Going in Style
In Ghana, Anang Kwei and his children help the families of the deceased celebrate the lives of their loved ones with custom-made, handcrafted coffins.
A Is for Autism (1992)
Director Tim Webb’s award-winning short A Is for Autism (1992) offers a glimpse into the very private and personal worlds of autistic children and adults.
Via Aeon Video
Migrant Child With A Kitty
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| Hung Liu. Migrant Child Kitty. 2017. |
Hung Liu was a Chinese-born American contemporary artist whose work was often inspired by anonymous Chinese historical photographs, particularly those of women, children, refugees, and soldiers. She died in 2021.
Claude Monet's War Paintings
James Payne explains Claude Monet's water lily canvases which he created as “a war memorial to the millions of lives tragically lost in the First World War”.
Via Kottke
Sunday, March 20, 2022
Sunday Links
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| Saltine cracker art via TYWKIWDBI |
I first posted this 10 years ago: the amazing Annabel Carberry, Queen Of The Hula Hoop performing A Glass Of Red. I understand she is still going strong.
This pair of neoclassical villas in the forests of Piedmont look like they belong in a fairytale.
Production designer Grant Major has been nominated for an Oscar for his work on The Power of the Dog ranch. Created specifically for the film it is a "hyper-masculine alpha male environment"
This spaghetti dinner made me queasy and I didn't even have a bite! (via Memo Of The Air)
This adorable toddler is one of only 100 people in the world known to have Uncombable Hair Syndrome. (Mr. Nag fakes having it)
Martha Naranjo Sandoval reanimates stereoscopic photos to create miniature worlds (via perfect for roquefort cheese)
Putin Looking At Things (via FB pal Hal)
“Ernest’s lion was a young male in his prime, with immense fore- and hind-leg muscles and thick bones and muscles in his paws. Watching the skinning, Ernest bent down and with his pocketknife cut out a bit of the tenderloin beside the spine, chewed some and offered me a tidbit." Eat Like Ernest Hemingway
Freedom House rates people’s access to political rights and civil liberties in 210 countries and territories. My country (Canada) has a very high score - only New Zealand, Finland, Norway and Sweden have higher scores.
Cowboy Lips (via Memo Of The Air)
Slideshow: The Art Of The Batman So noir!
This embroidery subreddit tempts me to search out the needles, thread and embroidery hoops I put away years ago and put them to use again (probably won't though). Thanks Bruce!
Happy National Macaron Day to all those who celebrate!
“In 1988 these ex-shops didn’t have long left. Long after the interiors had turned to dust, what you see are pretty much their last appearances on earth." - Vintage Everyday
Toby and Noelle were joined in "Holy Catrimony" but unfortunately Noelle died just 6 months later. Despite efforts to find another companion for Toby he will probably not remarry. “Toby is Noelle’s husband ’til the day he passes.” The New York Times
Miss Beatnik of 1959 - No, it wasn't me!
Sister Rosetta Tharpe - Documentary 2011
American singer and guitarist Sister Rosetta Tharpe was born on this day in 1915 in Cotton Plant, Arkansas, United States.
Via 3 Quarks Daily
Saturday, March 19, 2022
Humanitarian Aid for Ukraine
Mini cheetah robot teaches itself how to run
MIT has released a video showing its mini cheetah robot running faster than ever before. It learns to run in a simulator, using a simple neural network as the controller.
More here
Interior
The East London Group posts Interior by artist Brynhild Parker (1930) on Twitter every Saturday morning. It's always a delight to see it.
Empty Strollers In Lviv
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| (Photo/Twitter-Euromaidan Press) |
109 empty strollers in Lviv’s central square represent the children killed during the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Birds With Arms
If birds had arms - Ep.2 pic.twitter.com/CaqrJ1XYSZ
— Curly Kid Life (@Curlykidlife) October 11, 2021
Friday, March 18, 2022
Calder's Mobiles Play the Theremin
This sound piece by Berlin-based composer and sound artist Dorit Chrysler has Alexander Calder’s sculptures interact with the theremin at MOMA in New York.
Thursday, March 17, 2022
Surrealist Makeup
Saharan Dust Turned European Skies Orange
Believe it or not, this is Sierra Nevada SKI 🏂🎿resort in southern #Spain, transformed by a thick plume of #SaharanDust.
— World Meteorological Organization (@WMO) March 15, 2022
From the station's webcam and via @CLIMATEwBORDERS https://t.co/gHF85ut2Gx pic.twitter.com/Xg9j2vTk73
Posing Women For Portraits
Photographer Jessica Whitaker shares her best tips on how to capture seated women looking their best.
Via PetaPixel
Pop Up Castles
Each of Uli Kirchler's wood sculptures holds a secret that is only revealed when it is shaken.
Wednesday, March 16, 2022
Is Pup Ballet A Thing?
I found myself oddly transfixed by this video of Joya, a tiny chihuahua, performing the Swan Lake ballet with handler Karin Baumann at the Crufts Dog Show.
via Miss Cellania
Today's Happy Tweet
Because you want to see a bouncy baby sheep happily eat a cookie.
— Danny Deraney (@DannyDeraney) March 16, 2022
Credit: Imgur/anlyin pic.twitter.com/RsleewsOTr
Stone House Reno
George Dunnett saw the potential in a tiny abandoned stone house in his Welsh village and turned it into a lovely home.
Tuesday, March 15, 2022
Tokyo to Izumo City In The Cheapest Sleeper Car
This looks quite comfortable. Pajamas and slippers are provided and you can take a shower.
Via Das Kraftfuttermischwerk
Hair Power
Ivorian artist and designer Laetitia Ky creates intricate hair sculptures constructed using her own hair, extensions, wool, wire, and thread.
She uses her work to create conversations around sex-based and racial oppression of African women, harmful beauty standards, mental health stigmas.
Jam or cream first? Whipped or clotted cream?
Do you want to make the perfect cream tea? There's a math formula for that.
Albrecht Durer's Pillow Studies
"These pillows, then, might be viewed as a kind of memory foam, which not only preserves the partial imprints of a sleeper’s face, but also the fantastic, hybrid creatures that populate her dreamscapes."
Monday, March 14, 2022
Cat Pencil Sharpener
What twisted mind came up with this one? This poor kitty meows pitifully when you stick a pencil up its butt and comes with a litter tray to catch the shavings.
Available for purchase here (if you buy it I probably don't want to know you)
via FB pal Hal.
Dig A Hole In The Ground (1983)
'Dig A Hole In The Ground' (or, 'How To Prosper During The Coming Nuclear War') by Fred Small. Grab a shovel.
via Memo Of The Air
What Is This A List Of?
- the formula for the making of Wrigley's chewing gum
- the recipe for Purina Dog Chow
- the city records of Chicago and Los Angeles
- most of the Walt Disney films, including all of the original prints from the Mickey Mouse Club
- 109,000 old MGM movies
- the wedding dress of a lady from Wichita
- fur pelts
- a collection of antique newspapers dating back to 1659
- copies of Bibles in 1700 languages and dialects
- a couple of jars of pickled frogs
Every Picture Tells A Story
Grzegorz Kurzejamski‘s character-driven photographs invite the viewer to speculate on the hidden storylines they portray.
Sunday, March 13, 2022
Sunday Links
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| Vincent Leroy converts abandoned windmills into artful wind turbines (via everlasting blort) |
Which London tube station has a monkey on the platform? Or a snake? Something To Spot At Every Central Underground Station
Marta Kulesza's Instagram account features stunning photographs of New Zealand, the Canadian Rockies and the Italian Dolomites.
The Marufukuro Hotel in Kyoto, Japan is built inside the former Nintendo headquarters. The building retains historic elements like the old Yamauchi Nintendo entrance plaques and window grilles patterned with details from the old playing cards. It opens in April.
This actually happened during my lifetime. I wonder if Irving took the judge's advice and clamped down before it was too late.
The first drum machine you could buy: 1959 Wurlitzer Sideman (Thanks Bruce!)
Love and Longing in the Seaweed Album The eros contained in the pressed and illustrated pages of notable algologists.
Have you ever been in the middle of cooking dinner when you suddenly realize that you don't actually have all the ingredients the recipe calls for? A guide to cooking substitutions when you're missing an ingredient
Before Polaroids and Kodak colour, before we could snap a selfie and pass it through a colour filter with a click of a button, there was Vivex.
This Japanese researcher wondered how sleep patterns would be affected if humans replicated the sleep habits of cats. She slept under beds and on stairs for 24 nights to find out.
Ten buildings that showcase the beauty of London's council housing (via Perfect for Roquefort Cheese)
Before I visit London I always check Lady In London's Self-Guided London Walking Tours (a great free resource!) I already have a couple earmarked for my next trip.
Graphic designer Todd Alcott creates clever cultural mashups. You can purchase prints at his Etsy shop.
During the Great Depression people learned the importance of being resourceful. This depression-era cake had an unexpected ingredient.
Who's a bad boy? Naughty Pets looking guilty.
Dreams do come true - a kitchen transformation.
Saturday, March 12, 2022
Enhanced Footage Of A Drive Along Sunset Boulevard c1952
The original vintage footage of Sunset Boulevard from Hollywood to the mid-Sunset Strip was shot from the rear of a moving camera car. Video restorer NASS has added colour and sound to improve the viewing experience.
Ukrainian Tartan
A new Ukraine tartan has been registered in Scotland’s national tartan register - very cool! H/t @natalielhall94 pic.twitter.com/PJNRU1neBA
— Bradley Jardine (@Jardine_bradley) March 10, 2022
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