Sunday Links

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

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).

I Was a Mid-Century Look Away Knitting Pattern Model 

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!)