You may be familiar with “hook-a-duck”, a carnival game where you use a long rod with a hook on the end to catch a duck and potentially win a prize. Well, imagine, instead of a hook, you have a paper scooper (or poi) and instead of a duck, you’re trying to catch goldfish. Now you … | Continue reading
@bioloveds on Twitter wrote a thread on Palestinian jaffa oranges and what they represent/symbolize for the Palestinian people! The post A Twitter thread on Palestinian jaffa oranges appeared first on Cultrface. | Continue reading
The Cool Japan Fund is a public-private fund, founded in November 2013, as a way to contribute to the sustainable growth of Japan’s economy through the expansion of overseas demand and supply of attractive products and services unique to Japanese lifestyle & culture. The post The … | Continue reading
Oh, Jason. Poor sweet Jason. The post We didn’t deserve Cats appeared first on Cultrface. | Continue reading
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Street Fighter (1994) is free to watch on YouTube US so if you’re in the US or have a VPN, give it a watch if not solely for Raúl Juliá. Related: Michael Saba on why Street Fighter (1994) is so bad, it’s good The post Street Fighter (1994) is free to watch on YouTube US appeared … | Continue reading
I found a cool Neocities site called hill house and she has a page dedicated to Free Palestine web graphics and resource links. Really helpful if you want to support and show your solidarity. The post Free Palestine web graphics and resource links from hill house appeared first o … | Continue reading
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Apparently, it’s Pistachio Day today so here are some links and background info about it. Quick facts about pistachios Links The post It’s Pistachio Day! appeared first on Cultrface. | Continue reading
Researchers from the University of Nottingham released a paper this month about the “individual differences in emoji comprehension” across gender, age, and culture. Here’s the abstract: Emoji are an important substitute for non-verbal cues (such as facial expressions) in online w … | Continue reading
Lost brioche is a French dessert that derives from French toast or “pain perdu” (“lost bread” in French), where the leftover brioche bread from a bakery was used to make both dishes. Where lost brioche differs from regular French toast is in its consistency, which is more gooey b … | Continue reading
It never gets old seeing Pokémon: The First Movie in any context but seeing it in 35mm 4K hits me in the feels BIG TIME. I’d love to watch this movie again in 35mm and relive my childhood. Until then, we have this mysterious trailer which didn’t give much away (and that definitel … | Continue reading
JSTOR Daily on Paul Revere Williams as ‘an architect of firsts’: Becoming a Black architect wasn’t and still isn’t easy. Today, only about 2 percent of architects in the United States identify as Black. The post JSTOR Daily on Paul Revere Williams as ‘an architect of firsts’ appe … | Continue reading
Happy Chinese New Year, Lunar New Year, Tujia New Year, Tsagaan Sar, Hmong New Year, Ryukyu New Year, Korean New Year, and Vietnamese New Year to those who celebrate, in whatever way you celebrate, and in whatever name you call it around the world! It’s the Year of the Dragon—the … | Continue reading
In the 2004 movie, Sideways, Paul Giamatti’s character Miles Raymond uttered the infamous words “I am not drinking any fucking merlot” and thanks to its success, demand for Californian merlot dropped and pinot noir skyrocketed. This lead to vineyards rushing to meet the demand, r … | Continue reading
Paul Giamatti sitting in an In-N-Out Burger with his Golden Globe (via Brian Grubb on Bluesky and various other places on the Web) The post Paul Giamatti eating at an In-N-Out Burger with his Golden Globe appeared first on Cultrface. | Continue reading
If you’re going to Portugal and you’re making grilled cheese sandwiches, of course I’m gonna watch. Chef Tyler did exactly that but with a twist: he mixed his signature dish with Portuguese cuisine to see how it’d turn out. Some worked, some really didn’t, and while I’m sure a fe … | Continue reading
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Dunkey laid out the frustration of streaming services in classic comedic way. Wanna stream a classic movie on one of your platforms? Good luck! The post Dunkey’s guide to the long convoluting world of streaming services appeared first on Cultrface. | Continue reading
I’m gonna keep it real: I’m not equipped to unpack what this ICJ ruling is but the gist is that court has made a list of demands for Israel to “prevent acts of genocide in Gaza”. Al Jazeera has a live blog of the ruling for you to get up to speed. Here’s their tl;dr: … Continue r … | Continue reading
Atlas Obscura on Monopoly’s cultural impact: Played the right way, it’s as much about psychological warfare as economics; sidebar wheeling and dealing is not only encouraged but necessary. The post Atlas Obscura on Monopoly’s cultural impact appeared first on Cultrface. | Continue reading
Today’s short interview is with Mikey (he/him), an incredible visdev artist and illustrator from the US that specializes in character design. Check out Mikey’s work on his website, Twitter, and Bluesky! What is favourite city in the world? Toronto! Being from Western NY, I live v … | Continue reading
Wavey Casa is a bright and fun homeware shop from London and I love their stuff. They sell everything from candles to cushion, blankets, and rugs, all in an array of vibrant colourways. I particularly like their FUCK IT range of candles as well as their Playboy collab. The post W … | Continue reading
“I would not be a white American for all the tea in China, all the oil in Texas […] I really wouldn’t like to have to live with all those lies. This is what is irreducible and awful. You, the English, you, the French, you, the West, you, feel that there is something that you … Co … | Continue reading
The New Yorker explored Andrea Illy’s idea of a ‘World Cup of Coffee’, featuring a (temporarily) tired group of coffee appreciators to judge twenty-seven cups from nine countries: Early on a recent Thursday morning, nine coffee experts gathered on the fortieth floor of the Editio … | Continue reading
YouTube recommended this to me so I thought I’d share it with you all. It’s a “Tyrani-Tart” cocktail to colour match the Pokémon, Tyranitar. Ingredients The post The Tyrani-Tart cocktail appeared first on Cultrface. | Continue reading
In the 90s, LA Gear teamed up with Wayne Gretzky to release a line of street hockey shoes. These shoes are like the hockey version of Jordan’s. And we know what you’re thinking, you want to be like Wayne. Maybe these shoes will also turn you into the greatest hockey player ever. … | Continue reading
While Batman Returns is my favourite movie of all time, it wasn’t everyone’s cup of vichyssoise as Toy Galaxy explained in the above video. Dan looked at the history of the movie and how it put Warner Bros off Burton’s vision for anymore Batman movies (he was brought back for For … | Continue reading
I’ve written about a lot of different cheeses on this site but today I want to look at a Palestinian cheese called nabulsi cheese. Nabulsi cheese is a white brined cheese named after its place of origin, Nablus, a city in the West Bank. It is well known in the Middle East and is … | Continue reading
I had no idea that Chile had the largest Palestinian population outside of the Arab world and they have been making their voices heard: Chile’s Palestinian community, the largest outside the Middle East, is a strong force in the Andean nation, involved in local politics, culture … | Continue reading
Back in 2021, Salam Awad collated a visual history of Middle East Eye on Black-Palestinian solidarity for Middle East Eye: The intersection of Black and Palestinian activism is not a new phenomenon, of course, but rather a reemergence of a historic alliance rooted in the global f … | Continue reading
Wanna know how Pizza Hut was in 1990s Britain, from a trainee perspective? Well, VHS Wonderland has kindly uploaded a training video from 1991 showing new recruits how to treat customers, prepare food, and organise deliveries. It’s cheesy (pun absolutely intended) and so 90s and … | Continue reading
Last month, a volcano in southwest Iceland erupted and the above video shows drone footage of the eruption on its second day. Reports say the eruption spewed lava over 100m into the air which meant the town of Grindavik had to evacuate due to seismic activity. The post Drone foot … | Continue reading
‘Pizza Hut’ is a landscape oil painting by Danny Markey. The work depicts a Pizza Hut restaurant at night and was gifted to the Royal West of England Academy in 2001. The post ‘Pizza Hut’ by Danny Markey appeared first on Cultrface. | Continue reading
A New York sour is a cocktail almost identical to a regular whiskey sour apart from one key difference: a float of dry red wine. But according to Liquor.com, the New York sour originated in the late 1880s in a different city: The New York Sour updates the Whiskey Sour recipe (whi … | Continue reading
For The New Arab, Zoe Lafferty examined Israel’s cultural genocide of Palestine and how we must resist it: Erasure of Palestinian history and identity allows Israel to label with ease the people it occupies as “human animals” as global governments call for their murder as if it’s … | Continue reading
Atlas Obscura opened my eyes to some “hidden in plain sight” facts about the world map, including how more than 60% of Canadians live south of Seattle and Greenland is more north, south, east, and west than Iceland. The post Interesting map facts from Atlas Obscura appeared first … | Continue reading
Colossal on ‘POKÉMON X KOGEI | Playful Encounters of Pokémon and Japanese Craft’: On view at Japan House Los Angeles, the exhibition showcases more than 70 sculptures and installations that recreate the fantastical animated characters from Squirtle to Pikachu in ceramic, metal, f … | Continue reading
Al Jazeera on “afro-dabke”, a cultural fusion dance between Cameroon and Palestine: The energetic tempo, the stomping, and the ancient traditions. Dabke has a lot in common with various African dances, so Palestinian choreographer Sharaf DarZaid decided to combine the two. The po … | Continue reading
I haven’t seen Godzilla (the 1998 movie, starring Matthew Broderick and featuring a kickass Jamiroquai soundtrack) so I had no idea that the kaiju literally stepped foot on Jamaican soil. He also went to the Caribbean island in the animated series, Godzilla: The Series (in S1E1 a … | Continue reading
Firstly, happy new year to you all. I hope 2024 is even more prosperous than 2023. If you’re a creative or a lover of the arts, today’s events might help with that. 1st January is Public Domain Day as I’ve documented in 2019, 2021, 2022, and 2023. This year, that means that certa … | Continue reading
Back for a third year, I’ve compiled the top 10 posts published this year (see last year’s if you’re interested and 2021’s edition). I’ve actually published music less this year (226 vs. 358) but life happens! Anyway, here’s the top 10: And an honourable mention to 30 facts about … | Continue reading
Yule (also called Yuletide in England) is a 12-day holiday celebrated predominately in Germanic countries which takes place on 21st December–1st January. Although the modern version of Yule incorporates Christian traditions, the original holiday related to Scandinavian traditions … | Continue reading
If you’ve played the Spider-Man games from PS1 to PS5, you’ll have seen the significant improvements in Venom’s design. Steven Richter decided to marry the PS1 and PS5 Venom’s in one half-and-half sculpture and it’s truly a masterpiece. I never knew why they opted for blue for th … | Continue reading
Grubik’s Rubik’s Cube Solver is a godsend when you buy a Rubik’s cube for your son and he gets despondent when he can’t solve it. I’m hoping it’ll help me practice too. The post Grubik’s Rubik’s Cube Solver is a godsend appeared first on Cultrface. | Continue reading
Shout out to FT Depot for uploading the theatrical trailer for Casino (1995) in 35mm 4K. I enjoyed Casino when I watched it in regular SD but 35mm 4K would have been perfect. The post The Casino (1995) trailer in 35mm 4K appeared first on Cultrface. | Continue reading
For feedme.design, Chris Kernaghan journeyed back to the 80s when Sony, for its 35th anniversary in 1981, did a contest to redesign its logo and why they didn’t use any of the entries: Gathering nearly 30,000 global submissions, including the UK, Europe, North and South America, … | Continue reading
Jasper Joyner’s poem about apple cider vinegar and other magical things. My mum swears by apple cider vinegar so I know she’ll appreciate it. The post Jasper Joyner’s poem about apple cider vinegar and ‘other magical things’ appeared first on Cultrface. | Continue reading