Month: October 2013

Hold Still. We’re Going Velour.

Velour

It’s almost a Norman Rockwell moment.

[Found here.]

Ents

Ents On The March

In a tiny corner of western Poland a forest of about 400 pine trees grow with a 90 degree bend at the base of their trunks – all bent northward. Surrounded by a larger forest of straight growing pine trees this collection of curved trees, or “Crooked Forest,” is a mystery.
[via]

[Found here. Related post here.]

Saturday Matinee – Sand Castle, Whistling and Harpo Marx

The Sand Castle, 1977, Co Hoedeman [via].

Loud, piercing and sharp… a whistle is hard to ignore. But whistling languages are in danger of dying out. But residents of Kusköy on the Black Sea coast still communicate by whistling.An ee sounds higher than an ah. Consonants are distinguished by changes in pitch over different intervals of time. Eskimos communicate with whistles; so do indigenous people in the Amazon, and in Europe shepherds keep boredom at bay and communicate by whistling to each other. But the world’s 70 whistling languages are slowly becoming extinct. Kusköy in Turkey is defending the tradition.

[Found here.]

And because last night was a full moon, with a partial penumbral eclipse that no one noticed, we have these:

Dub Side Of The Moon

Jazz Side Of The Moon

David Gilmore’s acoustic version of “Breathe”

Nat King Cole’s version of “Blue Moon,” and this:

I’m not sure if Harpo was self-taught, but I know that some items in his Wikipedia entry are contradicted by Groucho’s Autobiography. The story I recall (that means “I seem to remember but I’m too lazy to research it”): there was a dispute with a theater owner where the brothers were perfoming. Harpo was pissed, said he hoped the place burned down. It did, and Harpo vowed never to speak on stage again. I don’t know if it’s true, but I recall (again, that means “I seem to remember but I’m too lazy to research it”) that’s what Groucho claimed.

Have a great weekend, folks.

Bunk

The .Gif Friday Post No.302 – Lotta Dancer, Dog Blower & Pound Dropper

Dance Hard 15

Dog Blower

88 lbs in 1 year

[Found here and here. I lost the link to the first one after looping and cropping, so if anyone knows the source, lemme know and I’ll update. – Bunk.]

Armed Furniture – A Table without legs

Cephalopod Table

Bronze n’ glass table by Isaac Krauss. I pity the husband who gets to move it for vacuuming – it weighs 500 lbs.

[Found here via here.]

Ale Wars

its-a-chalice

[Found here.]

Parking Wizardry

Truck Maneuvering Genius

That’s not a photoshop.

[Found in here.]

Giorno del Signore Cristoforo Colombo

columbus-day-facts

[Click on the image for “10 Things You May Not Know About Christopher Columbus.”]

Hot Links Seeping From The Basement Floor

Robyn Anderson

Bizarre illustrations by Gustave Doré from The Mythology Of The Rhine And The Stories Of The Grandmother, 1863.

Grammar Crackers.

On 6 September 2013, NASA unintentionally launched a frog. True.

Kiwis replumb a friend’s house with beer. Pure awesome prank, even though it was promoted by these guys.
(Tip of teh tarboosh to SH.)

Tiny Cupcakes and Pies is very cool [via].

Some folks on Reddit liked our 2009 post on the timeless brilliance of Milton Friedman.

The Grimm Brothers. Nasty stories.

This Lady looks familiar.

Interview with Robyn Adele Anderson, vocalist for Post Modern Jukebox, and featured in the .gif animation above. Pure awesome.

Saturday Matinee – Post Modern Jukebox, Jason D. Williams, and a WTF

Awesome Retro Cover of Miley Cyrus’ “We Can’t Stop,” and it beats the hell out of the original. Post Modern Jukebox is amazing, and that song is dedicated to Calo who’s having some tough times. Get well, Suki.

Jason D. Williams cranks boogiewoogie piano and feeds the ghost of Jerry Lee Lewis.

It can almost outrun a human, but humans get tired. This thing doesn’t.

Have a great weekend, folks. See you back here tomorrow for more of the usual awesome.