Monday, July 31, 2023
The Tender Game 1958
Survival in Likely Target Areas In The Event of Nuclear Attack
The Emergency Measures Organization prepared publications to assist Canadians in major cities which might be target areas in the event of nuclear war. Survival in LikelyTarget Areas is the fifth in the series. I don’t remember seeing it but, if I had, I doubt that it would have made me feel any safer.
Vintage Ad Of The Day (1953)
Sunday, July 30, 2023
Sunday Links
Saturday, July 29, 2023
Oppenheimer’s Secret City
Architect’s mid-century house and studio harnesses the sun
Neat old fashioned pencil sharpeners…
Rotten Tomatoes Critics Choose The Best Movies of the Last 25 Years
Friday, July 28, 2023
Thursday, July 27, 2023
Sister Sinead - Kris Kristofferson
Hokusai Drawings Are Being Carved Onto Woodblocks & Printed for the First Time
In 2020, the British Museum acquired 103 drawings by Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849) titled The Great Picture Book of Everything. The drawings had been in a private collection in France and forgotten before resurfacing in 2019. The museum is collaborating with Tokyo-based Canadian printmaker David Bull to bring Hokusai's unpublished drawings to life.
Wednesday, July 26, 2023
Making Ice Cream From a WW2 Era Recipe
Fresh eggs and milk were in short supply during WW2 so this recipe from The Navy Cookbook calls for powdered versions.
(Thanks Bruce!)
When Peasants, Cooks and Market Workers Replaced The Aristocracy In Art
Inside A Super Yacht Designed For And By An Architect
Schwer - an altered version of reality.
The Human Camera
Tuesday, July 25, 2023
Mural at River of Life, Masjid Jamek
1894 Singer sewing machine restoration
This 1894 Singer sewing machine had been left to rust in a henhouse. It looked like it was beyond repair but after two months of restoration it was in working condition again.
Restoring a Scottish Castle Home
Chris Thompson - Houses
The British artist explains: “My paintings are a celebration of the everyday, the half noticed and the overlooked. From an isolated building next to a silent canal, an unremarkable row of houses to hidden passageways. These are all parts of London but they could be anywhere.”
Gathering together all the houses I have painted so far... pic.twitter.com/AKeqTrUuDJ
— ChrisThompson (@cthompson_art) July 22, 2023
The One And Only 1960 DiDia 150
Bobby Darin and his DiDia150 |
Monday, July 24, 2023
1965 NASA Robot
Penguins Making Landfall
via everlasting blortPenguins making landfall.. 😅 pic.twitter.com/QrWD5OQuiw
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) July 4, 2023
Apocalypse Clown - Trailer
Sunday, July 23, 2023
Sunday Links
The Big Lebowski Themed Bowling Alley (above), designed by Cowboy Creative, is pretty cool. Make sure to scroll down to see the clip from the movie that provided the inspiration. I never tire of this film.
Saturday, July 22, 2023
Big Croc!
Aerial photography of China’s Fanjing Mountain
Bach Adagio BWV 974
Happy Caturday
Image: Marilyn Bellamy |
Friday, July 21, 2023
Canada’s Only* Car-Free Neighbourhood
Who knows, they might even become as good, civilised and enlightened – almost – as we white people.
Boys at Kamloops Indian Residential School, probably before the 1920s - Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre at the University of British Columbia |
“Between 1890 and 1978, at Kamloops Indian Residential School in the Canadian province of British Columbia, thousands of Indigenous children were taught to ‘forget’. Separated from their families, these children were compelled to forget their languages, their identities and their cultures. Through separation and forgetting, settler governments and teachers believed they were not only helping Indigenous children, but the nation itself. Canada would make progress, settlers hoped, if Indigenous children could just be made more like white people.”
Sound-Activated Lingerie
Thursday, July 20, 2023
Floor and wall fashions by Sloane
Some years ago blogger Rusty Blazenhoff came across a small wooden dresser at a thrift store. Someone had tacked vintage western-themed linoleum pieces onto this wee piece of furniture and Rusty was smitten. Now she’s thinking about re-homing it and came across the source of the tile in this 1952 catalogue of floor and wall fashions by Sloane.
12,795 photos of 12,795 objects
Objects from Iweins’ bathroom |
Her most treasured belonging is a dahlia (below), at once delicate and invulnerable, preserved in a jar of formalin. She is drawn to its permanence.
Read more: The Guardian
Hong Kong's Monster Building
Cloud Forest Fungi
Aurapex penicilliata |
How to Make a 2000-Year-Old "Pizza"
Wednesday, July 19, 2023
Photo Of The Day
Yick Fat Building, 1048-1056 King’s Road, Quarry Bay, Eastern District, Hong Kong. |
via @BrianRoemmele
The collective noun for a group of butterflies is kaleidoscope
How apt.
A group of butterflies is called a kaleidoscope.pic.twitter.com/TXS1Kq4PI4
— Wonder of Science (@wonderofscience) July 14, 2023
Jet Engine/ Liquor Cabinet
Sci-fi Vehicles Presented as Vintage Magazine Covers
This series of illustrations by Austin artist Chet Phillips reimagines sci-fi vehicles from cult movies and classic TV as Modern Mechanix covers from the 1930s and 40s. Above is Dr. Who’s Tardis. Below is a slideshow of all six illustrations in the series: