Omnibus

2009-12-02T19:04:00.001-08:00

By Robert A. Maguire

2009-11-28T18:56:00.000-08:00

Akira Kobayashi in Yasuharu Hasebe’s Black Tight Killers (1966) Via: Cinebeats

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Via: trixie treats

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Via: all things amazing

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Via: pilllpat (agence eureka)'s photostream

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Along Dixie Highway by Lisa Anne Auerbach

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Via: I've had dreams like that

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By Clivanel, Lassalvy. Via: Deadlicious

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A still rescued from a Thai ad agency. The pencilled grid lines would have been reference for someone doing a wall-mural or large painted poster of the image triangle-by-triangle.

Via: Vintage Ninja

2009-11-05T19:56:00.000-08:00

"A jet-powered carnival ride, built onsite at the Robodock festival in Amsterdam. Two booming propane pulse jets spun a 200-pound steel fish and a rider fast enough to turn the horizon vertical. Insanely loud. Radically unsafe." Via: The Madagascar Institute

2009-11-05T19:48:00.000-08:00

Safe, clean and tiny.The legoland metro. Via: The Brothers Brick

2009-11-03T17:25:00.000-08:00

Searching for Value in Ludicrous Ideas. The art of Steven M. Johnson. By Allison Arieff

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The man who folded himself, Eric Testroete. Via: Today and Tomorrow.

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“I have never met a vampire personally, but I don’t know what might happen tomorrow.”
Via: Retrozone

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The photographs of Jason Barnhart. Via: begin being

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Happy Birthday, Godzilla. Via: The Good, The Bad and Godzilla

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Something happens in the fridge of Mad Scientists

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Modernist nature. Via: Arts and Crafts

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The man in the bubble, Darryl Starbird (pict via: )

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For the man who has everything. Vintage Lawnmower Models

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Creating Archigram's Walking City. By Joseph Robson

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A trip to the Maskatorium. Via: boingboing

I am Woman.

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Via: bibliodyssey

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Allen Harris we never once considered the artistic possibilities of subway exhaust. Using only tape and garbage bags, Harris creates giant inflatable animals that become animated when fastened to a sidewalk grate.

2009-11-01T10:17:00.000-08:00

In the future there will still be hallways. Via: The Drex Files

Sunless.

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Sans Soleil (Sunless in English) is a 1983 film by French director Chris Marker. The title is from the song cycle Sunless by Modest Mussorgsky. Sans Soleil is a meditation on the nature of human memory and the inability to recall the context and nuances of memory and as a result, how the perception of personal and global histories are affected.

Stretching the genre of documentary, this experimental essay-film is a rich composition of thoughts, images and scenes, mainly from Japan and Guinea-Bissau, "two extreme poles of survival". Some other scenes were filmed in Iceland, Paris, and San Francisco. A female narrator reads from letters supposedly sent to her by the (fictitious) cameraman Sandor Krasna. Sans Soleil is often labelled as a documentary or travelogue, however it contains fictional elements and moves from one location to another without regard to a location or character-based narrative.

2009-10-28T12:49:00.000-07:00

The Rev Wilbert Awdry. One of the residents of The isle of Sodor.

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Via: Hedi Slimane Fashion Diary

2009-10-27T10:59:00.000-07:00

Yes, but will it match the curtains? Owning the Man in the Iron Mask.
Via: Kropserkel

2009-10-27T10:56:00.000-07:00

Men who play with model trains should start to worry: Aliens have landed. Via:

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The List of Adrian Messenger (1963) is a black and white thriller about a retired British colonel (George C. Scott) investigating a series of apparently unrelated deaths. The film is based on the 1961 novel of the same title by Philip MacDonald. A number of prominent Hollywood actors are advertised to appear in the film heavily disguised in make-up: Tony Curtis, Kirk Douglas, Burt Lancaster, Frank Sinatra, and Robert Mitchum. Their identities are revealed to the audience at the very end of the film, when each star removes their disguise and make-up.

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Via: fixotic's photostream

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"Coates was convinced he was the best actor in business - or at least that is what he claimed. He forgot his lines all the time and invented new scenes and dialogue on the spot. He loved dramatic death scenes and would repeat them - or any other scenes he happened to take a fancy to - three to four times over." Via: MKF

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Potato Chip Ice Cream, wild brook trout roe, malt crisps. Via: Ideas in Food

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Created by Magnus Muhr. Via: Grinding

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In 1949 Don Haynes, a 39 year old truck driver, made a bet that he would spend the next 14 months traveling to each of the 48 states while welded inside his car. The car came equipped with a chemical toilet and phone (and, someone suggested, removable floorboards so he could occasionally sneak out). Haynes’ wife was pregnant at the time so when she delivered Haynes had the car lifted on a crane so he could check in on his wife and baby in their second floor hospital room. Unfortunately, Haynes gave up just three weeks short of completing his journey when he lost track of his advance publicity man. Later, he would embark on quest to collect pajamas from the governor of each state though he failed to complete this task as well, stopping after collecting 41. Haynes would return to the car throughout the 50s and 60s- in the late 50s he and wife his shut themselves in and traveled the country billing themselves as “The Nomads”- but what became of the “Seaman of the Sealed Car” after that is a mystery.

Via: Square America

2009-10-26T17:57:00.000-07:00

“Enemy tracer bullets weave an intricate pattern as they shoot towards the planes of the Royal Air Force during a night attack on Hamburg. Via: Xplanes

The Mad Potter of Biloxi

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Self-styled eccentric George E. Ohr's wild, weird, wonderful pots gathered dust in a garage for half a century. Now architect Frank Gehry is designing a museum dedicated to the artist who made them. Via: Smithsonian Mag

2009-10-26T17:12:00.000-07:00

On the radioactive streets of post-war Hiroshima, the mutant Kaba car—hippopotamus sound car of Kabaya Confections (machine translation) trolls for children starved for sweetness in this photo taken in December 1946. Via: 3yen

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Ulica Kubusia Puchatka: (Winnie-the-Pooh Street ) Warsaw. Via: Ewa's Oceans' photostream

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The art and craft of the Lure. Image via: Medusa's Lover's photostream

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"Well, I hope that the small bench, even if not yet saleable, will show you that I have nothing against tackling subjects with something agreeable or pleasant about them, which are thus more likely to find buyers than things with a more sombre sentiment. [..]

There’s so much paint around that it has even got onto this letter — I’m working on the big watercolour of the bench. I hope it comes off, but the great problem is to retain detail with deep tone, and clarity is extremely difficult.

Adieu again, a handshake in thought, and believe me, Ever yours, Vincent"

The Van Gogh Letter Sketches. Via: Bibliodyssey

2009-10-25T10:42:00.000-07:00

The Teddy bear-Improved. By: Rohby

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The tiny Craft of Nikolai Aldunin. Via: Design You Trust

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The Anatomy of Japanese folk monsters. Via: Pink Tentacle

2009-10-21T16:35:00.000-07:00

This issue by Dean & Son dates to circa 1950, and shows a couple of pre-war style Grand Prix cars duelling on track. Despite the cover illustration, there are no motoring tales within this book's covers. Via: Old Classic Car

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The history of the Parasol. Via: InventorSpot
(pict via:)

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Via: The Boydell Shakespeare Gallery

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Cheeky Road Rover toy cars via: Jake Fowler's photostream

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A trip to the Fantastic Planet. Via: Sans Concept

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George Gross1909-2003) was a great cover artist,. Before the WWII he painted hundreds of freelance pulp covers for Action Stories, Air Stories, Baseball Stories, Complete Northwest, Detective Book Magazine, Fight Stories, Football Stories, Jungle Stories, North West Romances, and Wings. Via: Diesel Punks

2009-10-18T17:29:00.000-07:00

William Radam was one of the most notorious 19th century snake oil salesmen in America. This distinctive logo, as well as his ambitious tagline "Cures All Diseases," makes his Microbe Killer tonic bottles a favorite of collectors today. Via: Bad Banana Blog

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Roland Topor. Via: Its Deadlicious

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The art of pipe smoking. Via: The Selvedge Yard

Andrew Bush

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Person driving somewhere in the last decade of the previous millennium (whereabouts unknown)
By Andrew Bush

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London 1950! A still from the 1928 film High Treason.
Via: Skyscraper World

R is for.

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Radiolaria are holoplanktonic protozoa widely distributed in the oceans. They occur throughout the water column from near surface to hundreds of meters depth.

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Via: FFFound. Via: The Destroyer

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See other definitions for Ninja

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When Concept artists create art: Fabian Lacey

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Via: It's nice that

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Rik-o-shea ‘The Ultimate Dance Weapon’ Via: Rave Archive

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The Ziegfield Forum Project. Via: Dudecraft

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Via: 3AM

Flatland.

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Wiki:

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions is an 1884 satirical novella by the English schoolmaster Edwin Abbott Abbott. Writing pseudonymously as "a square", Abbott used the fictional two-dimensional world of Flatland to offer pointed observations on the social hierarchy of Victorian culture. However, the novella's more enduring contribution is its examination of dimensions; in a foreword to one of the many publications of the novella, noted science writer Isaac Asimov described Flatland as "The best introduction one can find into the manner of perceiving dimensions." As such, the novella is still popular amongst mathematics, physics, and computer science students.

Several films have been made from the story, including a feature film in 2007 called Flatland. Other efforts have been short or experimental films, including one narrated by Dudley Moore and a short film with Martin Sheen titled Flatland: The Movie.

2009-10-02T17:53:00.000-07:00

Edward Ihnatowicz was a Cybernetic Sculptor active in the UK in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s. His ground-breaking sculptures explored the interaction between his robotic works and the audience, and reached their height with The Senster, a large (15 feet long), hydraulic robot commissioned by the electronics giant, Philips, in Eindhoven in 1970. The sculpture used sound and movement sensors to react to the behaviour of the visitors. It was one of the first computer controlled interactive robotic works of art. Via: Networked Performance

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Speak to the Nightingales in their own song. Pict via: terrain.org

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The Man who could see the future, Ron Cobb

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Snail Shell System, The smallest home on earth. Via: Coolbuzz

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Living with the future: My Moonbase Alpha

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To Boldy Go: “Massachusetts Slim” takes a break. Via: The Drex Files

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The secrets of the Baxter building. Via: Bullys Comics

Lovecraft on food.

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"Speaking of industrio-economic matters—let me assure you that a 2-or-3-dollar-a-week dietary programme need not involve even a particle of malnutrition of unpalatability if one but knew what to get and where to get it. The tin can and delicatessen conceal marvellous possibilities! Porridge? Mehercule! On the contrary, my tastes call for the most blisteringly high-seasoned materials conceivable, and for desserts as close to 100% C₁₂H₂₂O₁₁ as possible. Indeed, of this latter commodity I never employ less than four teaspoons in an average cup of coffee. Favourite dinners—Italian spaghetti, chili con carne, Hungarian goulash (save when I can get white meat of turkey with highly-seasoned dressing)."
H.P. Lovecraft to Mrs. Fritz Leiber, 20 December 1936

Via: HP Lovecraft.com

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A straight line to the future. Francois Dallegret

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The history of the diving bell. Via: Diving Heritage

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"The Cricket Cage Peddlar", Kiyonaga, ca. late 1700's. Via: Insects in Human Culture

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Caspar David Friedrich "The Wreck of the Hope"

The Solar Mount.

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The Samrat Yantra in Jaipur, India is the largest sundial ever built. Its gnomon is 73 ft. The sundial is part of the Jantar Mantar complex in Jaipur, India, one of five large astronomical observatories constructed out of stone by Jai Sing II between 1727 and 1734.

Via: Moon River

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"Mercury" by Greg Brotherton

Burning the media-Ant Farm.

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Ant Farm was a group of architects who produced experimental works on the "fringe of architecture" during the period 1968-1978. They documented their work with video, and were influential early video and performance artists. The most well known work to come from the group was the famed Caddilac Ranch, but his remains our favorite.

Ant Farm's "Phantom dream car" in its brief glory, but at the end of the day what did it all mean?...

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Creating Contemporary Japanese Bamboo Art. Via: Textile Arts

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Haruo Nakajima, the man in the rubber suit. Via: Collection DX

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" A Cadillac, A cigar and a ticket to the bullfights" Via: The La Carrera Panamerica

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Fagin in his cell. Copperplate engraving, 1838 By George Cruikshank

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Yuefenpai. The art of the Chinese propaganda poster. Via:

V is for...

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Vampyroteuthis infernalis (Vampire squid). The squid has large fins at the to of its body that resemble large ears. It is very gelatinous in form, resembling a jellyfish more than the common squid. The vampire squid has the largest eyes of any animal. It is a small animal, growing to a length of about six inches, bit it has globular eyeballs as large as the eyes of a large dog. The vampire squid's body is covered with light-producing organs called photophores. This gives the squid the unique ability to "turn itself on or off" at will. When the photophores are off, the squid is completely invisible in the dark waters where it lives. These squid live as deep as 3000 feet. Unlike other squid and octopi, the vampire squid has no ink sack. The vampire squid's arms are covered with sharp tooth-like spikes. This gives the animal its name. One pair of arms has been modified into retractile filaments that can extend to twice the body length of the animal. The squid may use these arms to capture its prey. When threatened, the squid can draw its arms up over itself and form a defensive web that covers its body. The vampire squid can swim extremely fast for a gelatinous animal. It can reach a speed of 2 body lengths per second and can accelerate to this speed in only 5 seconds. If danger is present, it can make several quick turns in an attempt to escape its enemies. The vampire squid is found throughout the world in most tropical and temperate regions.

Via: oddee

2009-09-26T08:22:00.000-07:00

Munchausen's Voyages Imaginaires

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Dancers from Berlin's Sasha Waltz And Guests performed Purcell's Dido And Aeneas in a water tank filled with 7,500 gallons of chlorinated warm water. Via: spluch

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The sons of Lee Marvin and Jack Palance. Via: Popcorn and Sticky Floors

どうもありがとうミスターロボット

2009-09-25T10:58:00.000-07:00

Mr. Roboto was a fictional character created by Dennis DeYoung in 1983's classic Styx concept album Kilroy Was Here and the 1984 mini-movie in Caught In The Act Live. Mr. Roboto, the first single from that album, was a #3 Billboard hit for Styx, and the Roboto character remains an enduring symbol for the band.

Via: The Center For Roboto Research And Preservation

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Life in the small city. Via: fffound

The Fragile Machine.

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The art of Arthur Ganson. "As long as the idea is nonphysical, it is permanent; it becomes temporary as a physical device; and then it becomes permanent again in the mind of the viewer."

Via: We Make Money Not Art

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Gentle reminder that clothes do not make the man. Via: Black Watch

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le dragon volant du piz maluns. Via: Deadlicious

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Inside Edward Gorey's house. Via: Boing Boing

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Can a toy be a work of art? Yes.

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"My Soul is in the Sky" The story of the Colditz Glider. Via: MKF

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Iran: An Unlikely Treasure Chest Of Funk. Via: NPR

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By David Church

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By René Magritte. Via: X-Planes