The New York Times Magazine asked artists Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari to interpret the 1971 Betty Crocker Recipe Card Library. While photographing the dishes, Cattelan said they styled the food “with humor and without mercy.”
Published in the NYT Magazine Food Issue, 11 November 2015.
[Found here, more about it here, and there’s a video.]
Top: Digital 3D template for a Buck Rogers-style retro ray gun.
2nd: 888 Ray Gun cap pistol, Japan.
3rd: Hubley Atomic Disintegrator Ray Gun cap pistol.
4th: Dr. Grordbort’s SPUTNIK 500, a one-of-a-kind movie prop.
5th: HR Productions Atomatic Space Ray Gun squirt gun, England.
[Found here.]
Breezin’, The Radiators (1997) Recorded live at Tipitina’s in New Orleans, the song was written and recorded by Bobby Womack in 1971. It became George Benson‘s biggest hit five years later. The (New Orleans) Radiators don’t appear to have an active website.
Rescuing a live ray [via Thompson, blog].
Ignoring a dead ray [via me].
From rough to fine [via Memo Of The Air].
P-Town 1937-1940 [via Everlasting Blört].
Passeig de Gràcia, Barcelona, Antonio Gaudi.
The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers, starring in Grass Roots.
[Top image: Unknown tire advertisement graphic found here.]
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago. 15 years ago.
[Found here.]
Just a pile of random unrelated stuff. The raccoon poster was the result of asking Grok for an image based on my Xwitter account.
[Images from a video of a rock stacker found here.]
Watching My Baby Get Ready, Reigning Sound (2011) Reigning Sound was an American garage rock / punk band originally based in Memphis, Tennessee, active from 2001 to 2022.
Caps.
Nope.
‘Sup, Rod?
They can fly? [via Everlasting Blört].
Related post here.
Main Mecha Unit [via Bustednuckles].
Lumps’ animations [via Memo Of The Air].
Where roaches come from [via Thompson, blog].
[Top image: Graffiti at the Muskator factory ruins in Düsseldorf’s industrial harbor found here.]
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago. 15 years ago.
This machine was found inside an abandoned underground cold food storage facility by urban explorers who documented the discoveries during an expedition into the derelict complex. From Grok:
The facility is the former Americold underground warehouse (a converted limestone mine) in Kansas City, Kansas. It was once described as the world’s largest underground cold-storage facility. A fire started there on December 28, 1991, and burned for months; at the time it held about 245 million pounds of food. Large sections were later abandoned and left to decay.
