Month: May 2017

Someone’s not amused.

[Found here.]

John Logie Baird’s Contribution To The World: The 1926 Televisor

The eerie image … shows the first image to ever be transmitted onto television. The year was 1926, and Scottish inventor John Logie Baird had successfully broadcast his business partner’s face through an apparatus he dubbed “the televisor”, which was of course the early version of all television sets today.

I’m guessing that’s a still from a 16mm test film, or perhaps it wasn’t animated at all and it was just a flickering image transmitted to a small (3.5″ x 2″) video display.

Another source includes this commentary:

One staff member quoted [the Editor of the London Daily Press] as saying: “For God’s sake, go down to the reception and get rid of a lunatic who’s down there. He says he’s got a machine for seeing by wireless. Watch him – he may have a razor on him.”

Following his demonstration in 1926, Baird developed colour TV and brought out the world’s first mass produced television set in 1929.

[Top image and caption found here; 2nd image and cap here.]

G’head. Pull it. I dare you.

[Found here, h/t Austin T.]

Moses Don’t Surf.

He makes the breaks but can never ride them.

[Found here. Related .gif in here.]

Dialing Up the Hot Links

Soulsville, USA. Ax your chilluns what it means to dial a number. Better yet, plug in a rotary phone and dare them to call one of their friends.

Do you (or your parents /grandparents) have boxes of slides and negatives that you don’t want to lose? This may be a relatively painless archiving solution.

Eat a bug.

I find this disturbing on multiple levels.

Cold glass sculpting + Fibbonacci = Amazing [via].

This mouse is tired.

This looks like a fun excursion if you have the bucks. Oh wait. Nevermind.

From the I Am Woman Department: I really don’t know what to make of this – whether to pity or to laugh – but the jerk is being a jerk.  NSFK / NSFW

[Top image found here.]

Saturday Matinee – Tito Puente, Mickey Hart & Todd Rundgren

Pure percussion by Tito Puente e Los TropiJazz All Stars. I could listen to this stuff all day.

Decades ago (in college) we attended an off-campus house party that seemed to have a live band. I asked the host about it and he replied, “That’s the Rhythm Section. They’re in the basement.” So I went downstairs and found people taking turns on vinyl trash cans, bottles, cans, buckets, with wooden dowels and spoons, and it all sounded great as it morphed, non-stop. No electronics, just stoners people grooving on impromptu syncopated rhythms.

Micky Hart‘s Planet Drum project got my ear as well. Hard to say what musical instrument came first, the bone flute or the drum. I’d guess the latter, because you can bang on anything to create a tempo, and everything else is secondary. (Vocals don’t count unless you’re talmbout Hollerin.)

Then of course there’s this RetroSka classic:

Have a great weekend, folks. We’ll be back here tomorrow whether you like it or not.

Cinco De Mayo Taco Pizza. Have at it.

Just showed this to the missus. Her response was, “Taco pizza, pizza taco. What’s the difference?”

[Found *urp* here.]

4 May 1970 – Kent State University

[Image found here, related posts here.]

Facebook in North Korea

Better click “like.”

[Found here.]

What a load…

[Images via email, h/t Nancy H.]