[Found here, here and here. Santa smackdown h/t Gord S.]
Category: Bizarre
Godt Nytaar!
Metagrobolized Hot Links
The Fever, Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes (1976) The Fever was written by Bruce Springsteen, with back up provided by members of the E-Street Band. John “Southside Johnny” Lyon, 76, recently (and abruptly) cancelled tours and retired due to unspecified medical issues.
Blue house [via IDHMGO].
Is it safe? [via Feral Irishman].
Las Pelilargas [via Mme. Jujujive].
Swiss orchestra box [via Bunkerville].
Norty Blues Episode 96 (Christmas edition).
The Shadwell Forgeries [via Memo Of The Air].
Post Christmas Farts [via The View From Lady Lake].
[Top image: The Armies of Greenland prepare for war. h/t Gord S.]
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The .Gif Friday Post No. 886 – Spooks & Spooks & Spooks
Stuff I Do When I’m Bored
La Noche de Rábanos
La Noche de Rábanos (the Night of the Radishes) takes place every year on the 23rd of December in Oaxaca, Mexico, and is one of the most impressive vegetable festivals around the world.
The radish was brought to the Americas by the Spaniards in the 16th century, and vendors used to carve them and use them on their market stalls to attract customers. Although the origins of the festival cannot be traced to an exact period, it is considered that it all began in the year 1897, when the mayor of Oaxaca organized the first radish-art exposition. Ever since that first celebration, every year this humble vegetable is meticulously carved into animals, warriors, kings, dancers and pretty much any shape you can imagine. The artists sometimes make use of other vegetables, like onion and lettuce, to complete their work. There’s also a prize for the most beautiful piece displayed.
The carver’s work begins about three days in advance and on the 23rd of December, the day of the festival, the results of all their hard work is presented to the public. On that same day, especially in the morning, children have the chance to learn this incredible art of radish-carving, or at least some of its secrets.
The celebrations don’t end that day. They continue on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day with other joyful fiestas, parades of floats, fireworks, music and dancing.
[Images found scattered around the internest, description from here.]
Nepheligenous Hot Links
Party Hard, Little Isidore & the Inquisitors (ca. 2012)Little Isidore is the alter ego of David Forman, a little known musician with a great resume; he fronts The Inquisitors, aka The Golden Inquisitors, aka The Mighty Inquisitors. Live stream December 2024 reunion show here: https://volume.com/t/gGilog/
The Tree People [via Mme. Jujujive].
Sharing the bounty [via Bunkerville].
Merry Xmas from Panzergruppe Süd.
“…no shops, no temptations, no waste time…”
A volumetric 3D display [via Memo Of The Air].
[Top image: Raindrops on Weeds in a Broken Wall, Hollie Jane Wright photographer; via IDHMGO].
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The .Gif Friday Post No. 885 – An AI Christmas
[All created while playing with the DeepAI Video Generator.]
Soft. Poseable.
[Found here.]
The RenuLife Violet Ray ca.1917
James Henry Eastman, a Detroit inventor who held several patents for violet ray machines, established the RenuLife Electric Co., in Detroit, in 1917. The device was a hand-held Tesla coil with glass tubes to (theoretically) protect the user:
“Treatment with a violet ray machine involved attaching one of a various set of evacuated glass tubes to a handle, holding it to whatever part of your body was troublesome, and then switching it on. This caused a high voltage, high frequency, low electrical current to run through the body. Similar technology is actually still used today in TENS machines that zap low currents into a targeted area of the body to relieve pain through nerve stimulation, though modern machines are safer and their use is monitored by trained professionals who use them only for specific types of pain. A violet ray machine, on the other hand, was capable of creating a powerful electric arc that could cause serious skin burns.”
[History and images found here.]
Tacky Raccoons 