Sunday, April 10, 2022

Sunday Links

Glass (1969) Isabel Quintanilla, (Spanish, 1938-2017), pencil on paper - Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum, Madrid


Where are you? Explordle is addictive. (via Perfect for Roquefort Cheese)

The World of Facebook Recipe Groups Join for the recipes, stay for the drama.

California Crazy: Jim Heimann's Obsession With California Architecture (via Memo Of The Air)


Colo River Crosings is a 2300sqft shipping container house with a plunge pool set atop a steep slope above the Colo River near Sydney, Australia. (via If It's Hip It's Here)


Before audio playlists, before cassette tapes and even before records, there were wax cylinders: Digitizing audio that's been unheard for about 100 years 

I was tremendously moved by this story: An imprisoned artist, the couple who saved his life, and the extraordinary gift he gave in return. Read The Caregivers  

Warning: comes with an annoying earworm!  An oral history of the song "Barbie Girl"

Julia Child & Taste An art narrative by Cynthia Korzekwa

Insane timelapse of an icebreaker on the Rivière Matane in Quebec  (via everlasting blort)


There are two types of cats: Shrimp for Breakfast

I want a Copper Cataplana. Long ago a Portuguese friend made pork and clams for me in one of these and it is one of the best meals I ever had. 

This is me every single night: You're not even watching the film.


Deleted Wikipedia articles submitted by insane people

The Kazam! Machine: How the Eameses molded plywood in the 1940s.

The Beatle Who Got Away Without Stuart Sutcliffe the Beatles story might have been very different.

An ode to the bowel: In 1949 English physician Zachary Cope published The Diagnosis of the Acute Abdomen in Rhyme


Prado's new exhibition will allow visitors to inhale fragrances of 10 items seen in The Sense of Smell.

One for the WTF file: Old Man Illegally Got 90 Covid Vaccinations For Money  Thanks Hal


Got some time to kill? Great parody: He would murder his passenger and escape with a fortune. Planning to blame their deaths on a mythical sea monster, no one is more surprised than Renzo, when the real monster appears with its own agenda. Creature from the Haunted Sea (full film)

1 comment:

  1. Lots of reading today, good stuff, thank you.
    Kazam happened parallel to developing the Spruce Goose.
    Coincidence?

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