Dreamy Dud steals a man's pipe because he is fascinated with smoking and blowing smoke rings but then things get weird.
Sunday, April 30, 2023
Sunday Links
Stories on a Handkerchief, the embroidered art of the Chamba Rumal (image above). (Memo Of The Air)
Spectacular photos of a Canary Wharf skyscraper being completed have been rediscovered more than 30 years after they were taken.
The United States incarcerates a larger share of its population than in any other nation on earth. American Prison Writing Archive replaces myths with a sense of the true human costs of the current legal order. (webcurios)
It is the last day of National Poetry Month so here is link to "A World Not of This World" that pictures poems on maps. (Perfect For Roquefort Cheese)
Powerful Poetry: Andrea Thompson / A Selected History of Soul Speak
Don't waste money on expensive dentists. Apparently Jesus has better rates.
I'm not a fan of Pyrex but this guy is.
A is for Anarchist, a counter-culture abecedarium, was written by New York–based rapper billy woods and illustrated by painter and comics artist m. musgrove in response to Covid. (Perfect for Roquefort Cheese)
A Delta stewardess shares details of a 24 hour layover in the Big Apple in 1964.(NYT link)
Charles Hindley's Cries Of London (Strange Company)
I settled on simple capital letters, like Scrabble squares: “It stands for ‘F*ck This Shit.’” Abigail Thomas on getting a tattoo at 80.
Feed the Koi (It's very relaxing)
Britain’s mapping agency has its roots in military strategy: mapping the Scottish Highlands following rebellion in 1745. An interactive history of the Ordnance Survey
This Army Man will hold your wine.
Gun Violence Is Worse In Red States It’s the southern swath of the country — in cities and rural areas alike — where the rate of deadly gun violence is most acute, regions where Republicans have dominated state governments for decades.
Canopic Studio's seriously creepy pottery inspired by nature and anatomy. (Boing Boing)
Built in the Clouds: Villages frozen in time.
The King Of Sting: "A ritual gone wrong, satanic. The gas lamp in the old church explodes in your face when you light it."
Yucky! Food Disgust Test via Memo Of The Air
Music For Sunday Morning
Listening to this as I watch my own lovely magnolia blossoms about to unfurl.
Saturday, April 29, 2023
Ranked: The World's 25 Richest Countries
The world GDP per capita continues to grow every year, and is projected to be $13,920 for 2023.
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Czechia's Mid-Century Supervillain-Lair Hotel
In 1973,Hotel Ještěd opened outside the city of Liberec, in what was then Czechoslovakia and it looked like nothing anyone had seen before.
Link
(sorry, I can't remember where I found this post)
A Modernist Masterpiece
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| The Modern House |
World's Fastest Trash Can
63MPH! It's fun but you have to watch out for garbage trucks which may mistake you for a piece of trash.
Friday, April 28, 2023
Regeneration
A regenerative forester extracts resources to cultivate growth in an ancient English rainforest.
(Aeon Videos)
Pepperoni Hug Spot
This AI created pizza ad is creepy AF. I don't want to know what their "secret things" are. Do you?
Nag's Job Board: Gough Island
Thursday, April 27, 2023
Signs of Life
English author, Neil Gaiman has his first full-length album coming out, a collaboration with Australian indie string quartet FourPlay called Signs of Life. He does background vocals on Bloody Sunrise (below), a song about a heartbroken vampire.
Next Goal Wins - Trailer
I don't follow soccer but this new film by writer/director Taika Waititi looks like fun.
Go Ahead, Play with Your Food
Cardboard Animal Sculptures
Wednesday, April 26, 2023
Humphrey Bogart's Shoes
Bogart was quite a bit shorter than his co-star Ingrid Bergman so he wore these platform shoes during the filming of Casablanca.
Magnetic Music
What musical instrument do you play? I play the magnet. Magnetic Games demonstrates how the vibrations caused by magnetic fields can make music,
(The Awesomer)
It's a Wes Anderson World
Videographer @avawillyums captures the aesthetic of a Wes Anderson film and her homage to Anderson has inspired other TikTokers to post edited videos that mimic the American filmmaker’s unique cinematic style.
@avawillyums With a good imagination, everything is symmetrical. Let a girl day dream! #wesanderson ♬ Obituary - Alexandre Desplat
Tuesday, April 25, 2023
Food Flags
The Mystery Of The Great Houses Of Chaco Canyon
The houses of Chaco Canyon (New Mexico) were built 1000 years ago, using the wood of over 200,000 trees. But how did the Chacoans transport the wood 70 miles to the construction site without draft animals or wheels? In an attempt to solve this mystery, researchers Rodger Kram and James Wilson carried a ponderosa pine log weighing more than 130 pounds for 15 miles up and down a forest road in Boulder County, Colorado—and they did it using only their heads in a technique inspired by sherpas in Nepal.
Plaid - Return to Return (Official Video)
Plaid (Ed Handley and Andy Turner) have been performing their distinctive style of electronica since the 1990s.
Monday, April 24, 2023
Barnfind Car Auction
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| Gallery Aaldering presents: The Palmen Barnfind Collection |
"It is unlikely that anyone will ever see a collection of this caliber and in this condition again in their lifetime."
via Things Magazine
Prefab Home Installed In Just One Day
This modular house by DublDom was pre-made at a factory and delivered and installed on the lot in one day. Another 1-2 weeks are required for the final exterior finish. It looks very comfortable.
Bruised Banana Art
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| view more on Instagram |
Anna Chojnicka, aka the Banana Bruiser, strategically bruises bananas to create art.
By managing the timing, it’s possible to make intricate images with graduating shades. There’s a short window of time when the image looks its best; I photograph the banana, and then eat it.
OUR ARK
OUR ARK explores the attempts by technologists to ‘backup’ the planet through 3D models of animals and objects, as if ecological collapse could be staved off through a digital Noah’s Ark.
OUR ARK from Institute of Time on Vimeo.
Sunday, April 23, 2023
'Question Mark, Ohio' - A Tale Told On Instagram
Sunday Links
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| Tens of thousands of people in the United States may be connected to this album, which offers an "unprecedented opportunity for people of mixed heritage, especially, to access never-before-seen ancestral portraits." Mark Gulezian, NPG |
This collection (image above) of 1,800 cut-paper silhouette busts by American artist William Bache was contaminated by arsenic but his ledger book can now be safely viewed online on the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery website.
For those of you who like to argue: DebateDevil (via Web Curios)
The 2023 Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival in Toronto includes over 20 public art installations.
If you open this link you will not be able to sleep tonight: Borbie, The Shave And Play Barbie
Let's play a game: Where in the USA is this? (It's a GeoGuessr/Wordle cross)
Eleven minutes of folkie goodness: John Prine and Steve Goodman sing a Hank Williams medley at the 1973 Philadelphia Folk Festival
Since she's been in the news lately I thought I'd repost this gem from 2011: A dramatic reading of Gwyneth Paltrow's cookbook
This Playful Handpainted Chess Set features cat and dog playing pieces.
I like Shin Oh's 126³ Tiny Voxel Shops series which portrays hawker stalls and traditional businesses of Malaysia. (via Present&Correct)
From intermittent fasting to ice water facials: Twenty-First-Century Wellness Trends That Were Also Hardships Jane Eyre Suffered at Lowood School
My friend Hanan sent me a couple of links that portray alternate histories envisioned by AI : Link 1 Link 2
My friend Hanan sent me a couple of links that portray alternate histories envisioned by AI : Link 1 Link 2
Oh blimey! I'm covered in OFFAL! Listen to the world’s first AI-voiced radio show. (via Web Curios)
As we edge slowly into warmer weather I'm looking forward to fresher veggies and am feeling inspired by these Vegan Meal Ideas
From Traditional to Barbiecore: A Guide to Most Popular Interior Design Styles (At the moment I'm partial to Japandi).
It's a bird! It's a plane! No it's Tyler the Super Pizza Delivery Guy! I feel a meme coming on.
From my 'I Did Not Know This' file: Why young cheddar makes a better grilled cheese sandwich Have you been doing it wrong? I have.
Death by metric system? Guns don't kill people, metrification does.
Artists have posed video as an agent of global change—from televised revolution to electronic democracy. Bringing together a diverse range of work from the past six decades, a special selection of video works is presented in conjunction with the exhibition Signals: How Video Transformed the World, now on view at MoMA. (Thanks Bruce!)
Saturday, April 22, 2023
Birds Of A Feather
Over 20 million parrots are kept as pets in the US. They are highly intelligent and have emotional needs that are often not met. A new study which helped pet parrots make video calls to each other suggests that the birds may have benefited from the social contact.
Intuitive Daily Stitching
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| Image: Karen Turner |
Tears of Joy
This added some sunshine to an otherwise gloomy day.
This is my favorite video on the internet pic.twitter.com/T7pDKkIPK7
— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) March 21, 2023
Mocktails of the European Space Agency
These Jupiter-inspired Mocktails were entered in a contest to publicize the ambitious expedition of the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer. After 70 space enthusiasts from ESA member states sent in their entries, all were compiled into the Space Juice Recipe Book.
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| This layered smoothie features waffle cut-outs representing Juice’s solar panels. @ELENI.KT |
Friday, April 21, 2023
Five Graphs That Changed the World
Beginning with John Snow’s cholera ‘dot map’ of London from 1854, this video highlights five data visualisations that gave rise to the form, and changed the world.
Via Aeon Videos
Watch A Cruise Ship Being Assembled in 7 Minutes
The AIDAnova is the first of a new generation of LNG Powered Cruise Ships for Carnival Cruises - the Helios Class. The vessel is 337m long and can house 6.600 passengers.
Ancient Rome in 20 minutes
Caesar, The Colosseum, Republic, Nero, geese, plebeians, legions - everything that you once knew, but forgot, in a crash course video by Arzamas.
If you liked this video you can also see a very short history of ancient Greece at Open Culture
Frank Lloyd Wright's Westhope Mansion is For Sale
Westhope was built by the master architect in 1929 for his cousin, Richard Lloyd Jones, and is one of Wright's largest residential builds. It is the only Wright-designed project in Tulsa.
(All images by Sotheby's)
Thursday, April 20, 2023
Kenzo House In Paris Hits The Market (Someone please buy it for me)
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The home of Kenzo Takada, late founder of the Kenzo fashion brand, has come on the market. Set within a courtyard of a traditional 18th-century building, it is a serene oasis in the bustling Bastille area of Paris.
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Buying An Abandoned House In Japan
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| Image: Andrew Faulk for The New York Times |
Japan has millions of empty houses. Want to buy one for $25,000?
Drone Captures Unique Images of Ballet
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| Hibiscus | © Brad Walls |
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