[Image of the Houston Tax Day Flood, 17 April 2016, found here.]
Lake Street
[Image of the Houston Tax Day Flood, 17 April 2016, found here.]
Category: Bizarre
Toy Collections
Nothing Much Happened Today.
[Found here, via Memo Of The Air.]
Blesiloquent Hot Links
ASKO Beer, 50 Country Artists (2025) Compilation lifted from There I Ruined It: “I made a song entirely from 50 country artists singing ‘cold beer.'” [Related song here.]
About Industrial Sea-Foam Green.
Jumping Dave [via Everlasting Blört].
How bad was it? [via Thompson, blog].
Now they must cry. Cry, cry, cry.
But why do they cry? [via Memo Of The Air].
[Top image: 7-pack of ASKO Beer created by Grok per my request.]
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago. 15 years ago.
The .Gif Friday Post No. 951 – Unface, Lizard Leap & A Pro Throw
Kudzu
From The Kudzu Project, photography by Helene Schmitz, 2012.
Helene Schmitz began documenting kudzu while working on a field study in Georgia, Alabama and South Carolina, to investigate the effects of its ruinous nature in the summer of 2012. Each black and white frame produced took hours of preparation in the sweltering southern heat using a special large format camera.
[Monochrome photos and story found here.]
Cutouts of Paperboyo
“Someone once described me as a non-destructive vandal which I quite like. Within the confines of a camera viewfinder I transform known, and some not so well known landmarks around the world with bits of crafted black card.” – Rich McCor (aka Paperboyo).
[Photos found here, more of McCor’s work previously posted here.
h/t Jaime G.]
The Days of Our Hives
[These and more found here.]
Dithyrambic Hot Links
She’s Gone to Napoli, Laurel Aitken (1963) Dubbed The Godfather of Ska (and later Boss Skinhead) Cuban-Jamaican Lorenzo “Laurel” Aitken moved to the UK in 1960 and dropped 15 singles before heading back to Jamaica three years later. He returned to the UK in 1970 and continued performing and recording until his death in 2005.
Hickshit [via Bits & Pieces].
Decompaction [via Thompson, blog].
Hernán Cortés vs “the Noble Savage”.
The Chimpanzee Civil War (with video).
The Strandbeests [via Everlasting Blört].
1928 Ford LM Gypsy Wagon [via Miss Cellanea].
An excellent argument against large data centers.
WWII British home bomb shelters [via Memo Of The Air].
[Top image: A.I. modified 1969 Fiat Abarth 2000 Scorpione found here.]
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago. 15 years ago.
Tacky Raccoons 