Month: September 2022
Photo Restoration
The story behind the picture: Someone posted restored photos on r/interestingasfuck and I made a comment that received no replies or likes, but despite that photo restoration artist u/LadyAkane reached out to me via DM and offered their help.
My comment: “My uncle died way back in 1937, 2 years before my dad was born. He was only 5 years old and my grandparents went through hell all around that time—they lost him to polio, then lost their home and most of their belongings to the Ohio River flood.
Only one photo of him survived—one of him with my grandmother just weeks before he fell ill. [I realized when I took the photo out this was wrong since he’s too young in the pic. I was mixing up illnesses—my grandmother contracted TB shortly after this pic and would spend the next few years in a sanitarium.] We found while going through my dad’s things after he died, but it got put in a back jeans pocket then in the chaos of the time went through the washing machine. It made us all sick to see it so faded.
That little pic has been stashed inside my jewelry box ever since, hoping to find a way to restore it (and for technology to advance to where it could be successfully done) over the last 13+ years.”
[Found here.]
Stuff I Do When I’m Bored
Bottom image is a photo of a 1947 football game, mangled with the Deep Dream Generator. (Original image below the break.) Continue reading “Stuff I Do When I’m Bored”
The End Is Neigh
[Found here.]
Nothing Much Happened Today.
[Found here.]
Galericulate Hot Links
Early Morning Boogie, Wini Beatty & Slim Gaillard (1946) Slim “McVouty” Gaillard had much success, and he’s anything but an unknown. Although Wini Beatty also appeared on many recordings, I found scant information about her.
STOP.
A perfect little tiny kitchen.
Barbados songs by Barbadians, courtesy Queen H.
Filthy Photos of the most polluted rivers in the world.
The US Space Force has an official song, but dammit, Jim, they left out the theremin. [via Memo of the Air]
[Top image: Vintage RV, September 2015, North Dakota. h/t Charlene.]
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago.
Saturday Matinee – A Band of Bees, The Hi-Jivers & The Future Shape of Sound
A Band of Bees got a bit of swampy jug band in their blood.
Nashville retro-rockers The Hi-Jivers, filmed in the Torremolinos hills of Spain during the 2020 Rockin’ Race Jamboree.
Dawna Zahn – Vocals
Austin John – Guitar
Hank Miles – Upright Bass
Jason Smay – Drums
Lord help me. I don’t think I’ve heard shakedown gospel this good since Sister Rosetta Tharpe. This is The Future Shape of Sound.
Gonna get hot again this week, maybe get wet, maybe not. See you back here tomorrow for an in-depth discussion, or maybe we’ll do something else instead.
The .Gif Friday Post No. 749 – Invisible Chocolate Chipper, Ostrich Swarm & A Rear Ender
Booster No. 9
[h/t Pam M.]
Splaycat
Yeah, I got bored around 1am.
[Top image h/t Suz P.]
Tacky Raccoons 