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A Eurasian eagle-owl spreads out its body and feathers in a threat display (photo above). From a photographic essay celebrating magnificent owls. See more: The Atlantic
I love Tim Dowling. This made me laugh until tears were running down my cheeks: My hand is hot, I'm hearing things and my wife says I'm going mad.
A shot-for-shot parody of the opening of Patrick McGoohan's 1960s surreal spy-fi TV series, The Prisoner. (via Memo Of The Air)
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The Scotch Cap Lighthouse Tragedy (via Facebook pal Hal)
If you buy this painting for me I will be forever grateful.
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Check out this double optical illusion
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Alfred Sohm's Time-Hiding Clock (via Perfect for Roquefort Cheese)
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Forestiere Underground Gardens In the early 1900s, Sicilian immigrant, Baldassare Forestiere began turning useless farmland into a subterranean escape from the summer heat of Fresno, California. He excavated for forty years, growing fruit trees and grapevines underground, going as deep as 25 feet and spanning over 10 acres.
A new Andy Warhol documentary series will resurrect the pop artist using an AI Andy.
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The Forestiere Underground Gardens are not in Arizona but rather outside Fresno, California. I was there in 1968 or '69 when I was 10. The road signs advertised it as the Human Mole Caverns. There was a walking tour given by alternately a young man and a young lady. I recommend you read the wikipedia article for the entire story of Forestiere's life and work and bad time at love. (He spent decades digging, the whole time expecting a girl he'd only had a few words with, and who had stopped writing him back nearly immediately, to travel from back East, appear, and marry him in the underground chapel, which was one of the first rooms he dug out.)
ReplyDeleteThe parts of the tour that impressed me most: 1. Trees with all different kinds of fruit on them, with branches of as many as a dozen different species all successfully grafted to one trunk and living underground with a glassed-over skylight above them cut out of the desert hardpan. 2. The curving driveway to what would have been the underground parking lot for the underground restaurant he was digging out at the end of his life. There were booths cut into the sides of alcoves in the impending restaurant. 3. Tables of displays of descriptions of his inventions, such as blasting compound made from, among other materials, orange peels. To this day, when I have both and orange and a match, I peel the orange, light the match and pinch a bit of the peel to fold it inward and spray oil from the outside of the peel above the flame to make it /flare/. Try it. Also he was interested in radio. He made his own radio equipment.
Thanks Marco. I read Fresno but my brain said Arizona. Perhaps I was distracted by the situation in Ukraine or the antics of my cat.
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