What does it feel like?
Friday, September 30, 2022
What it’s like to work in the world’s greatest office
The SC Johnson administrative building was Frank Lloyd Wright’s corporate masterpiece. The building’s construction finished in 1939 and offered the world a glimpse of the future of work.
What does it feel like?
Via Open Culture
What does it feel like?
An Experiment in Fox Domestication
These foxes are the result of a 60-year-long experiment begun by Soviet zoologist Dmitry Belyayev who began selectively breeding wild foxes for their dog-like friendliness toward humans.
(repost from 2018)
Whistler's Peacock Room Open After Restoration
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| Image: Freer Gallery of Art |
The Peacock Room was painted for the dining room of British shipping magnate and patron of the arts Frederick Richards Leyland.
The original designer of the room, Thomas Jeckyll, took ill and, in 1877, handed the project over to James McNeill Whistler. When Jeckyll returned he had a severely adverse reaction upon seeing the room, reportedly collapsing and dying in an asylum three years later. Leyland was also displeased with Whistler's work and the two had a falling out.
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| “This room is one of the masterworks of late 19th-century art and design, says the museum’s curator of American Art Diana Greenwold. Freer Gallery of Art Read more |
“The Peacock Room Comes to America” is open at the Smithsonian’s Freer Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
Thursday, September 29, 2022
Coal Mining Looks Like A Glamorous Career - Until You Get Black Lung Disease.
A somewhat incredible 1975 advert by the National Coal Board to tempt folk to take up a career as a Miner.
— Michael Warburton (@MichaelWarbur17) September 29, 2022
pic.twitter.com/0TR7ENXjPm
The Medieval Wound Man
The Wound Man diagram appeared in medical manuscripts for medieval surgeons to illustrate injuries, diseases and also potential cures for all of the depicted maladies. Surgical knowledge eventually outpaced the Wound Man’s usefulness.
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| Hans von Gersdorff 1517 Fieldbook of Surgery |
Wrought
This video captures the usually hidden world of decay through time lapse photography.
Wrought was produced by Anna Sigrithur and Joel Penner (2015-2022)
Wrought was produced by Anna Sigrithur and Joel Penner (2015-2022)
Painting Of The Day
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| Family and Rainstorm (1955) - Alex Colville Glazed tempera on hardboard National Gallery Of Canada |
Wednesday, September 28, 2022
Bowie's Starman Lyrics Bought by Tasmanian Museum
David Bowie’s handwritten lyrics to his 1972 song Starman have sold for more than £200,000 (A$334,958) at auction, five times their estimated sale price.
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| Photograph: Omega Auctions |
More: TheGuardian
Black Rock City
Waking Dreams by James Percy is a mind blowing aerial stitch of over 700 images taken at Burning Man 2022.
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Every Autumn These Trees Smile For The Camera
In 2011, Hampton Lumber planted a mix of Douglas fir and larch. Each fall the larch trees form a face when they turn yellow and drop their needles. The fir trees form the eyes and mouth.
The Haunting of American Airlines
Just when you thought flights were as nasty as they could get: American Airlines' in-flight announcements are now haunted by a mysterious voice.
The weirdest flight ever.
— Emerson Collins (@ActuallyEmerson) September 23, 2022
These sounds started over the intercom before takeoff and continued throughout the flight.
They couldn’t stop it, and after landing still had no idea what it was. pic.twitter.com/F8lJlZHJ63
More: Waxy
Pencil Shaving Lampshades
Nanako Kume uses a giant pencil sharpener to make these whimsical shades.
Tuesday, September 27, 2022
Ballet A To Z
Australian Ballet dancers demonstrate a pointe shoe-related point for every letter of the alphabet.
Dholida
Dholida (Drummer) from the film Gangubai is based on the life of prostitute and social activist Gaungubai Kothewali who lobbied for the rights of sex workers in India in the 1960s.
Via The Chawed Rosin
Monday, September 26, 2022
Nubia Way (2022)
This documentary from the Architecture Foundation tells the story of a
London community that was built by residents to defy housing discrimination.
London community that was built by residents to defy housing discrimination.
Six Action-Packed Seconds In Amsterdam
A lot happens in the blink of an eye.
via DasKraftfuttermischwerk
There is way too much happening in this 6 seconds video🧐 pic.twitter.com/3cb7J4imir
— Tansu YEĞEN (@TansuYegen) September 24, 2022
Sounds Of Silence
I always thought the original was kind of creepy. But this...
Holy shit. I'm out.
— SnarkTank™ (@SnarkkTank) September 25, 2022
😳😱#Dolls #creepy pic.twitter.com/LDXKWZMtEZ
Sunday, September 25, 2022
Hurricane Fiona
It was so windy in the Magdalen Island that this happened.
I’ve watched a lot of live hits today, but this might be the best demonstration of the Magdalen Islands winds so far 😂 Posted by Sven Meier, reposted with his permission. pic.twitter.com/8qT2MiPjXA
— Kate McKenna (@katemckenna8) September 24, 2022
Sunday Links
“If you see me, then weep.” Hunger stones are making an unwelcome return in drought-ravaged Europe.
Scream Into The Void [Type Your Feelings Here] (via)
How Renew A Cast Iron Skillet Using Easy-Off Oven Cleaner It might be necessary to strip down and take a shower at some point during the process to prevent the lye from dissolving your skin but at the end you'll have a clean pan. (via FB pal Hal)
The Dreadnought Hoax was an elaborate 1910 prank involving the battleship HMS Dreadnought and a fake delegation of Abyssinian royals that included members of the Bloomsbury Group. (courtesy of FB pal Hal)
A Trip to Infinity is a film that explores the nature of boundlessness (via Memo Of The Air)
A high resolution photo of Buffalo NY Public Library, Lafayette Square circa 1908. Link
Hot Road was a perfume by Harley-Davidson. It was not a big seller. Could be that it was not on brand or perhaps it smelled like hot tar and biker sweat.
The Post Building on New Oxford Street is a free roof garden in central London with stunning city views.
Good luck getting anything built in Sim Nimby, a game that supports new development, affordable housing, more equitable living, etc. (via perfect for roquefort cheese)
I found this uber creepy cooking video tweet at everlasting blort
Can I Tell You a Secret In this new podcast Guardian journalist Sirin Kale takes us to a small town in the north of England to uncover how one man began a decade of cyberstalking.
Activist-themed concept products by MOTHER GOODS (bullet-proof lounge wear, a luxury handcuff phone case, a tool manicure for the do-shit bitch, a gay blood collection and more) via Web Curios
A tour of all the pizza styles in the United States
43 Literary Movies and TV Shows to Watch This Fall (I've been looking forward to the documentary about the life of Patricia Highsmith)
I recently saw something in a petrol station toilet southbound on the M1 that I can never unsee Why are public toilets so crappy?
From full-on feasts in “Foundation” to intricate meaty platters in “Hannibal,” food stylist Janice Poon on how she creates otherworldly dishes for sci-fi shows.
Schedule 1 is a series by Chad Unger that documents his side-gig working on a marijuana farm in Northern California.
Marcella Hazan's exquisitely simple tomato sauce recipe is a much used favourite of mine. The thirtieth anniversary edition of her classic cookbook Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking has just been released.
All About Tritium Exit Signs The good news is they are zero power. The bad news is they're radioactive.
Saturday, September 24, 2022
Iranian Women Are Defying the Morality Police
Women in Iran are protesting after the death in police custody of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman who had been detained by morality police for allegedly wearing a hijab headscarf in an “improper” way.
Please take a minute to watch brave Iranian women stand up to their authoritarian, theocratic government.
— Yashar Ali 🐘 یاشار (@yashar) September 20, 2022
Iranian women have had enough of the control and abuse and there are many Iranian men who are standing with them. @AlinejadMasih pic.twitter.com/Z2xJee90YW
Happy Caturday!
Where are we going?
Damned if I know.
GYM time! 😹#Cats #Caturday pic.twitter.com/Xo174mhvy5
— CAT WORLD 🇺🇦🕊 (@meow_utopia) September 23, 2022
Two Victorian Teenagers
via Open Culture
Inside a Kingfisher Nest
Kingfishers, an up close and personal video by British wildlife artist Robert E. Fuller. Here the male is looking after the little ones. When the female returns home with the groceries you get a sense that their relationship is a bit testy.
Friday, September 23, 2022
Octopus Ballet
The Grimpoteuthis bathynectes, aka the Dumbo octopus, uses its ears, which are actually fins, to propel itself through the water. Only thirteen specimens have been recorded.
1956 Frigidaire Refrigerator
In those days appliances were built to last and I love that produce compartment.
Thursday, September 22, 2022
Glove
The true story of a glove that’s been floating in space since 1965.
Glove from Alexa Lim Haas on Vimeo.
Palestinian Farmer Discovers Byzantine Mosaic
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| Image: Ahmed Zakot |
Salman al-Nabahin, a farmer from Gaza’s Bureij refugee camp, was planting new olive trees in his orchard when his shovel hit something underground. For three months he dug out the soil and eventually unearthed a stunningly well-preserved Byzantine floor mosaic.
Building an 18 Kilometer Immersed Tunnel
The Fehmarnbelt tunnel between Rødbyhavn on Lolland and Puttgarden in Germany will be the longest immersed tunnel in the world after its completion in 2024.
ATK - BONOBO
ATK - BONOBO from McGloughlin Brothers on Vimeo.
Wednesday, September 21, 2022
60 Cycles (1965)
This 1965 short documentary directed by Jean-Claude Labrecque covers the Tour du St-Laurent. At 2,400 km (1,500 miles) along the St. Lawrence River from Quebec City to Montreal and back, the race was once the longest amateur bike race in the world. The soundtrack is cool too.
First videos of the Studio Ghibli theme park
Studio Ghibli's theme park in Aichi Prefecture, Japan is finally opening to the public this November, but many of the details have been kept under wraps.
via Boing Boing
Custom Cat Masks
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| image: shindo rinka |
If you send a photo of your kitty to Shindo Rinka, a creative planning office in Japan, they will create a mask for you. Perfect for the “crazy cat lady” in your life.
(300,000 yen + postage)
More: Design Boom
The Horseman of Corvo, the Statue Nobody Can Explain.
Corvo is the smallest of the Azorean Islands, a volcanic archipelago in the Macaronesia region of the North Atlantic Ocean.
via Miss Cellania
(Aside: The Azores are fabulous and I have a second trip planned there this winter)
Bökh
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| Photo: Ken Hermann |
Wrestling is the cornerstone of Mongolian culture dating back centuries to Genghis Khan’s reign when he used it to keep his soldiers battle-ready.
A 1995 Pizza Hut Commercial Starring The Trumps
From the era when Trump was merely repulsive and not a total lunatic. I can't believe I'd never seen this before.
Tuesday, September 20, 2022
Schweigt stille, plaudert nicht, 'Kaffeekantate'
If Bach had written an opera, it might have looked like this. This 'coffee cantata' tells of an independent-minded girl who is addicted to coffee, with a bit of sexual innuendo thrown in.
I seldom post opera here but I liked this one and hope you do too.
Deathly Dioramas
(First posted here in 2011)
At a time when women didn’t have any place among the police or law enforcement, and forensic science barely existed a elderly Chicago socialite named Mrs. Frances Glessner Lee became famous for her crime solving analytical skills, and taught an entire generation of cops how to search for clues…. using doll houses.The creator of 18 perfectly proportioned dioramas based on real-life crime scenes, these painstakingly crafted dioramas include functioning locks and lights and details such as overturned cups, bullet-holes, and boxes of chocolates as well as miniature corpses in a variety of macabre positions.
More pics: The Queen is not Amused...but I am.
Triangle Swimming Pool House
via Toxel
Knife Forging in Tottori Prefecture
Japanese metalsmithing artisans continue to use traditional traditions to forge knives.
Read more at Google Arts and Culture
Monday, September 19, 2022
Admiral TV Ads From the 1950s
See more: Vintage Everyday
(via Memo Of The Air)
Whales Hunting, Shot from a Drone
This episode of BBC's Frozen Planet II features spectacular drone footage of orcas hunting a seal.
via PetaPixel
Painting Of The Day
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| The Vision and Inspiration of Joan of Arc c. 1909- 1913 - Louis Maurice Boutet de Monvel (1850-1913) |
They Won't Call It Murder
For more than 20 years, no police officers were charged with murder for killing residents in Columbus, Ohio. They Won't Call It Murder is a 20 minute video by Ingrid Raphaël and Melissa Gira Grant.
Sunday, September 18, 2022
Sunday Links
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| Photo: Wikipedia Commons |
Certain famous figures are magnets for misattributions; savvy readers have learned to be wary of pearls of wisdom credited to Albert Einstein, The Dalai Lama or Abraham Lincoln. Among the wrongly-credited great minds of our time, though, one figure stands tall (and round) among them: Winnie the Pooh. Link
We are loud.
We are disabled.
We are squeaky. The Squeaky Wheel is the first-ever satire publication that focuses on the experience of having a disability.
The Queen’s English: How accents change as we age and how Elizabeth II’s manner of talking reflected broader changes in society (via Perfect for Roquefort Cheese)
The Country Music Cookbook
For Sale: An American House Owned by the Same Family for 300 Years. (Via Miss Cellania)
Black Rock Station: A mysterious rural train station appearing in the Black Rock Desert has become unstuck in time, haunted by ghost trains heard but not seen. Via Rusty’s Electric Dreams
Feeling crafty? Make a dragon scale scarf.
This beautiful house in Holland Park, London conceals a remarkable interior and is now, very occasionally open to the public. (Link)
Rescued Fox Sounds Like an Old School Fax Machine
How China tried to turn the desert green (and how it went wrong)
A compilation of Rare Raid Commercials
Hate pineapple on pizza? Can’t stand the word ‘moist’? You might be beige.
Families Far Worse Than Yours: A reading list
Filmmaker omozoc created a calming ASMR stop motion video that shows the construction of a coffee tray forged out of a wooden log.
The Earliest Color Photos of Ireland Taken by Two Frenchwomen
Try explaining a video cassette rewinder to a child. Obsolete sounds.
Saturday, September 17, 2022
Coat hanger/musical instrument
Photograph of the Day
I haven’t posted much the past week because I’ve been in beautiful Newfoundland.
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| Village of Quidi Vidi, Newfoundland - Marilyn Bellamy |
Wednesday, September 14, 2022
Tuesday, September 13, 2022
RIP Jean - Luc Godard
A repost:
Bande à part (Band of Outsiders) is a 1964 film by Jean-Luc Godard about two grifters with a fondness for Hollywood B movies. This scene is priceless.Photo of the Day
It’s a little dreary in St. John’s, NL today but this door is very cheery.
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| Image: Marilyn Bellamy |
How much do animals sleep?
This infographic by Giulia De Amicis breaks down the sleep patterns and lifespan of various animals from around the world.
A Portable Tea Room Atop Mount Fuji
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| Image credit: Mori Soyu and Kazumasa Murayama |
The tea house was designed by architect Shinichiro Hashiguchi, who is known for incorporating weaving twisted yarn into his work.
More: Spoon and Tamago
Monday, September 12, 2022
Yay Or Nay?
A new way of cooking eggs 🍳 pic.twitter.com/QEYO8HfeC9
— Genius Tips (@satisfact3ry) September 10, 2022
DIY Finger Extensions
You can grab things with them but it's kind of awkward. They look cool though.
Wow!
Buster Keaton said that the cameramen were so terrified they turned their backs to the shot. https://t.co/VQGEd1SXPh
— Farran Nehme (@selfstyledsiren) September 5, 2022
Sunday, September 11, 2022
Sunday Links
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| Image credit: PIERO CAVALLINA |
Tresigallo, the curious afterlife of a fascist utopia (Image above)
Hilarious: The Greeters Guild welcomes you to Poundland (via everlasting blort)
SALT is a fully AI-generated filmverse, where community choices drive a multi-plot story (via webcurios)
Bibliomysteries: Crime novels featuring libraries, bookshops, the publishing industry, and the world of collecting.
Maison Owl A restaurant that feels like a hideout.
The Rutan Voyager was the first aircraft to fly around the world without stopping or refueling. Very weird-looking.
Eater has posted a roundup of TV shows about food that are coming this fall. I'll be watching some of them.
Do you want to know how to fake a British accent, talk to your dog or have sex in a canoe? How to do everything (via)
Saturday, September 10, 2022
Summer Island
I really like Summer Island, a 40 page comic book horror story by Steve Coulson, with illustrations generated by Midjourney AI.
(via Webcurios)
GeoGuessing
GeoGuessr is a geography game where you are shown a Google street view shot and you try to guess where it was taken. I enjoy playing it but it's tough I'm not nearly as good at it as Trevor Rainbolt who can identify a location in less than a second. Here he explains how he became so skilled at the game.
Friday, September 09, 2022
Viral Logic Puzzle
The 17th annual Brazilian Public Schools Math Olympics featured this tricky logic puzzle:
via TwistedSifter
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