Available at Etsy, prints of Star Wars characters wearing designer clothes by John Woo (not the director). A stormtrooper wearing Thom Browne, Boba Fett wearing Supreme Visvim, and my favorite, Jango Fett wearing Comme des Garçons. Woo does similar illustrations outside the Star … | Continue reading
It’s so soothing and satisfying watching this person unslicing tomatoes. (via digg) Tags:food meditative video | Continue reading
The American showman P.T. Barnum published a book of rules for making money called The Art of Money Getting. Here are the 20 rules from the book: 1. Don’t mistake your vocation 2. Select the right location 3. Avoid debt 4. Persevere 5. Whatever you do, do it with all your might 6 … | Continue reading
David Galbraith updated his post on where the web was invented (which includes an interview with Tim Berners-Lee) to include the juicy tidbit that the building in which TBL invented the web is in France, not Switzerland. I’ll bet if you asked every French politician where the web … | Continue reading
A poster on Reddit asks: What are two events that took place in the same time in history but don’t seem like they would have? A few of my favorite answers (from this thread and a previous one): When pilgrims were landing on Plymouth Rock, you could already visit what is now Santa … | Continue reading
♬ With the shovel out, the ice’s less dangerous / Drop the shovel, entertain us / I feel stupid and contagious / Drop the shovel, entertain us ♬ Magisterial. I love the internet. This is even better than the door that sounds like Miles Davis. (via @slowernet) Update: Oh, and thi … | Continue reading
Everyone knows that The Karate Kid is the story of Daniel LaRusso, an undersized new-kid-in-school who, with the help of a wise mentor and unconventional training in the martial arts, is able to triumph over a gang of bullies picking on him. What this video presupposes is, maybe … | Continue reading
Back in the olden days, you just tied your cameraman right to the car: Looks almost as goofy as Google Glass. Legendary F1 driver Jackie Stewart wore this stills-only proto-GoPro at the Monaco Grand Prix in 1966 (though not during the actual race): Stewart ended up winning that … | Continue reading
I’ve never seen a better audition tape than this improvised scene by Henry Thomas for the part of Elliott in E.T. The tears were inspired by thoughts of his dead dog. And the final line from Spielberg is gold. (via @Colossal) Tags:E.T. Henry Thomas movies Steven Spiel … | Continue reading
Taken from the Studio Stories series included on the Blu-ray versions of Toy Story 1 & 2, here’s a short story about how Toy Story 2 was almost erased before the film could be rendered for theaters. Woody’s hat disappeared. And then his boots disappeared. And then as we kept chec … | Continue reading
In 1942, the US government hired Dorothea Lange (of Migrant Mother fame) to take photos of the removal and imprisonment of Japanese Americans during World War II. Although Lange quit after a few months because government censors wouldn’t let her shoot images of barbed wire and th … | Continue reading
Using Google Earth, dialect coach Andrew Jack gives a tour of the accents of Great Britain and Ireland. The audio is originally from this BBC program. See also Peter Sellers doing various English accents. (via devour) Tags:Andrew Jack language maps Peter Sellers vi … | Continue reading
This is Cedro di Versailles, a sculpture by Giuseppe Penone, carved out of a five-ton cedar log from Versailles. To create the piece, Penone removed the outer rings of the tree to reveal the younger tree within. (via ★spavis) Tags:art Giuseppe Penone trees | Continue reading
A person who makes scissors by hand is called a putter, short for putter togetherer. The Putter is a four-minute silent film by Shaun Bloodworth that shows putter Cliff Denton making scissors. You can order a pair of these handmade scissors at Ernest Wright & Sons; a pair of 6-in … | Continue reading
For the Journal of the American Revolution, Todd Andrlik compiled a list of the ages of the key participants in the Revolutionary War as of July 4, 1776. Many of them were surprisingly young: Marquis de Lafayette, 18 James Monroe, 18 Gilbert Stuart, 20 Aaron Burr, 20 Alexander Ha … | Continue reading
Tadao Cern sets people up in front of powerful fans and takes their pictures. Instant fun house: Many more of Cern’s photos are available on Facebook. (via colossal) Tags:art photography Tadao Cern | Continue reading
Former Seattle Seahawks running back Marshawn Lynch on approaching problems head on: That might be the best answer to any interview question ever. (via digg) Tags:football Marshawn Lynch sports video | Continue reading
It’s been about five months since I announced I was taking a sabbatical and lately I’ve been getting messages from members and readers asking what’s been going on. While I don’t have anything specific to say about how it’s been going (other than I’m well and that I’ve been mostly … | Continue reading
Free diver Guillaume Néry looks like an astronaut floating around in space in this underwater video. See also this surrealist free diving video and Néry’s underwater base jump. (via ★interesting) Tags:free diving Guillaume Nery sports video | Continue reading
We all know Michael Jackson invented the moonwalk on-stage during a performance of Billie Jean at the Motown 25th Anniversary show. What this video presupposes is, maybe he didn’t? What the video shows is that as early as the 1930s, performers such as Fred Astaire, Bill Bailey, … | Continue reading
It is nearly inconceivable how small we are in comparison to the size of the universe, but this video may make it a little less inconceivable. Do you know that the Sun is tiny compared to some other stars? Tags:space video | Continue reading
A woman recently took to the streets of NYC and walked around for 10 hours. She walked behind someone wearing a hidden camera that captured all of the catcalls and harassment directed toward her during that time…108 incidents in all. This is what it’s like being a woman in public … | Continue reading
From a 1995 article in The Independent, an account of how the CIA promoted and funded US and other Western artists during the Cold War, including abstract expressionists like Rothko and Pollock. The decision to include culture and art in the US Cold War arsenal was taken as soon … | Continue reading
Bless me Father Sloan, for I have committed a radical act on the Internet. I have watched this slow motion video of ballet dancers four times and loved, yes, loved the display of precise power and grace contained therein. And playing a remix of Radiohead’s Everything in Its Righ … | Continue reading
It is the assertion of The Walk of Life Project that the Dire Straits song Walk of Life is the perfect thing to play at the end of movies. I have watched more than a dozen of these and they are all great, but I picked Lost in Translation, There Will Be Blood, and Terminator 2 to … | Continue reading
Helen Green drew all the hairstyles worn by David Bowie from before he was a star in 1964 on up to the present day. Here’s they are in a glorious animated GIF: Green also did a one-sheet of the B&W drawings. See also every Prince hairstyle from 1978 to 2013. (via @Coudal) Tags … | Continue reading
When you look really closely at record grooves, like at 1000x magnification, you can see the waveforms of the music itself. Sooo cool. This video shows how the stylus moves through the grooves. As Lisa Simpson would say, “I can see the music!” Update: Here’s a great visual expl … | Continue reading
After discovering the recipe for Robie’s Buttermilk Flapjacks in a magazine a year or two ago, my wife has been making them for breakfast most Saturdays and they are, no foolin’, the best pancakes I’ve ever eaten. They are fluffy and moist and delicious. Here’s what you do. Combi … | Continue reading
From Petapixel, a list of photographic firsts, including the first photograph (1826), the first digital photograph (1957), the first photo of the Sun (1845), and the first photograph of a US President (1843). John Quincy Adams, the sixth President of the United States, was the fi … | Continue reading
For the sufficiently skilled front-end loader driver, doing a front wheelie with a 20-ton machine is a piece of cake. Got this from Modern Farmer’s selection of “Jaw-Dropping Russian Tractor Videos”; the other one I liked from the list is this guy who souped up his tractor with … | Continue reading
This is possibly the best three-minute demonstration of anything I’ve ever seen. Derek Sivers takes a shaky video of a lone dancing guy at a music festival and turns it into a lesson about leadership. A leader needs the guts to stand alone and look ridiculous. But what he’s doin … | Continue reading
It is Friday and this is the perfect Friday sort of post. BeamNG is a video game of sorts that’s “a dynamic soft-body physics vehicle simulator capable of doing just about anything”. In the simulator, you can quickly devise all sorts of situations with a variety of cars and then … | Continue reading
Men in the US typically do not talk about or worry about birth control that much, to the detriment of the health and safety of women. In the spirit of trying to change that a little, I’m going to talk to you about my experience. About a decade ago, knowing that I did not want to … | Continue reading
Inspired by this short video I found on Twitter of people doing extreme stunts on pogo sticks, I found a few videos on YouTube that showcase what’s possible on what’s commonly thought of as an old-fashioned children’s toy. Gotta admire the spirit of humanity that turns absolut … | Continue reading
This 360° time lapse video, filmed by meteorologist Witek Kaszkin in 2015, follows the never-setting Sun in a 24-hour trip around the sky above the Arctic Circle as the icy Arctic landscape is bathed in constant summer sunlight. See also — and I may be burying the lede here — Kas … | Continue reading
In this video from 1965, electronic music pioneer Delia Derbyshire, who arranged the original theme music for Doctor Who, demonstrates how electronic music was made at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. It’s such a treat watching her construct songs from electronic sound generators an … | Continue reading
Google has developed a typeface called Noto that seemingly includes every single character and symbol used for writing in the history of the world. I mean, look at all these different options: Korean, Bengali, Emoji, Egyptian hieroglyphs, Coptic, Old Hungarian, Cuneiform, Linear … | Continue reading
May the 4th be with you and here’s the trailer for the upcoming Disney+ series, Obi-Wan Kenobi. The story begins 10 years after the dramatic events of “Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith” where Obi-Wan Kenobi faced his greatest defeat — the downfall and corruption of his best friend … | Continue reading
Dr. Dipti S. Barot writing for HuffPost, My 11-Year-Old Patient Was Pregnant. Here’s What I Want You To Know About Being ‘Pro-Life.’ (Content warning: rape.) Sophia is in her 20s now. I wonder how she has healed, how she has processed that trauma. Did she get to go to college? Ha … | Continue reading
Melissa Gira Grant writing in The New Republic with a reminder that activists have seen this coming for a long time and moderates did not heed the warning: Reproductive justice advocates have long warned that Roe v. Wade was in danger, well before the court agreed to take this ca … | Continue reading
Speaking of the fundamentalist movement to repeal the 20th century, Jack Mirkinson isn’t writing for The Atlantic and therefore is free to not mince words: [Alito] says that Roe should be scrapped because the right to an abortion is “not deeply rooted in the Nation’s history and … | Continue reading
Adam Serwer writing in The Atlantic about the leaked Supreme Court opinion draft penned by conservative justice Samuel Alito that will, if it remains substantially unmodified, overturn Roe v Wade and other precedents that guarantee the right to an abortion in the United States. “ … | Continue reading
You have to admire Daniel Radcliffe for his movie & theater role choices since Harry Potter. He’s done Swiss Army Man, Equus on Broadway, all sorts of small & independent films, several on- and off-Broadway plays, and now he’s starring as Al in a Weird Al Yankovic biopic. And……it … | Continue reading
In retrospect, maybe today wasn’t such a good day to watch a video about how incredibly scary brain-eating amoebas are. But, as you might guess from the title, we don’t actually need to worry too much about them. While the Naegleria fowleri is clearly extremely deadly and the inf … | Continue reading
Spurred by a near death experience in the Civil War (after sustaining a saber wound to the chest) and looking for a way to manage the resultant addiction to morphine, pharmacist Dr. John Pemberton invented the drink that would become the globally famous and lucrative fizzy drink, … | Continue reading
From film fan Benito Mussolini and the postwar explosion of Italian filmmaking to a financial rule with big effects and Federico Fellini’s La Dolce Vita, Evan Puschak tells the story of how the paparazzi was created. The history of celebrity paparazzi disrupted the highly manicur … | Continue reading
Today I discovered that all I want to do is listen to Natasha Lyonne talk about her experiences in showbiz. But instead I got a little more than 7 minutes and that’s just fine: I’m a few episodes into the second season of Russian Doll right now and it’s so good. Tags: movies … | Continue reading
Elissaveta M. Brandon recently wrote about the uptick in companies placing huge logos, often drawn in solar panels, so that they can be seen in satellite imagery. I collected images of a few examples of logos that are viewable from space above: a solar array at Walt Disney World, … | Continue reading