Category: Cool

Carphologic Hot Links

Old Man River, Ronnie Cates and The Travellers (1962) The lead singer sounds familiar, but I could find little more than a discography for this group.

Message to Rudy.

Message to Nellie.

Message to Garcia.

Men looking at potholes.

The Hunga Tonga eruption.

It’s hot [via Bustednuckles].

Harry Rocks and Handfast Point.

Men and women think differently.

“Pumpkin pie gave me the beetus!”

20 ways of Fiddlin’ [via Memo Of The Air].

Soccer coach Marcelo Gallardo has big brass ones.
[h/t Pam M.]

The Nature of Democracy (needs bongos and a flute).
[via Bunkerville]

Babies playing in the womb in 1512AD  [via Mme. Jujujive].

Juliane Diller (nee Koepcke) has an amazing story of survival.
[h/t Paul Y.]

[Top image found in here.]

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Saturday Matinee – The Avalanches, Chain & 12BBB

The Avalanches are, um, different, in a Devo kinda way. According to the Wiki, The band is an exponent of the plunderphonics genre. [h/t Sol L.]

Chain performed their hit single Black ‘n’ Blue on the NWS9 (Adelaide Australia) program Move (1971). Frontman Matt Taylor sounds a lot like Alex Harvey with a dash of Bon Scott and why they didn’t get more exposure in the US is a mystery.

12BBB aka The 12 Bar Blues Band was the winner of the Dutch Blues Foundation Award for Best Dutch Bluesband 2010.

That’s gonna be it for now, as the Utoobage is currently frozen, or maybe it’s just  my browser.  No idea why, but be back here tomorrow and we’ll do something different – as usual.

[Update: MS360 decided to jump into action without my permission, dropped a bunch of crap on my toolbar, so I disabled it. Then I found it had corrupted FireFox. A reinstall fixed it.]

The .Gif Friday Post No. 813 – Meet the Wipers

[Found here, here and here.]

The First Stock Photo

[Found here.]

More Rat Rods

[All images found at Rat Rods Rule! More rat rods here.]

Hey babe.

Chicks dig me.

[Found here.]

Flagitious Hot Links

Easy Rockin’, Sam Butera & The Witnessess (1960) Louie Prima‘s backup band. Sam Butera was already a rising star at the age of 18, playing sax for Ray McKinley‘s orchestra, and later for Tommy Dorsey‘s band.

Elephants.

THIS PARROT

The Field Trip.

EatSleepDraw.

The Honeymoon.

The Human Camera.

Arthur’s in the tank.

No explanation wanted.

The Amazing Jonny Kim.

CRUMAR [via Mme. Jujujive]

If you’re happy and you know it…

The origins and methods of Woke.

Zookeeper stories [h/t eaglesoars].

Are you left brain or right brain dominant?
(No you’re not.)

Steam powered Gramophone [h/t Bunkerville].

The Motor Cycle magazine covers [via Memo Of The Air].

[Top image: Mr. T‘s Maimdozer found here.]

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Saturday Matinee – Betwixt (2023), Reverend Peyton, Eliza Stark & the Dappers, and The Marcus King Band

Betwixt (2023). Animated short by Matt Semke, music by The Breaking Glass Trio . [h/t Mme. Jujujive]

“I thought I’d post this up in case anyone needed any cheering up today. Please like and share if it makes you feel good. This is a cover of the South African Artist, Hannes Coetzee’s song Mahalla. Music is life. Love and blessings to you all.” –Reverend Peyton

Eliza Stark & the Dappers – The first and only rockabilly band based in Montenegro.

The Marcus King Band  hails from Greenville, South Carolina. A fourth-generation musician, Marcus King started learning guitar at age three or four and has played professionally since he was 11.

That’s it for now. Have a great weekend, stay cool, and we’ll think about things tomorrow.

1965 NASA PDAD Robot

The ‘Power Driven Articulated Dummy’ project was under Contract No. NAS 9-1370 and ran from May 22, 1963 through July 31, 1965. It was originally built for Nasa’s Manned Spacecraft Center by the Illinois Institute of Technology.

The reason for a test dummy was officials hoped to use it during design and testing of a spacesuits, which might otherwise be painful, tedious or even dangerous for human beings.

The 1965 robot was able to simulate 35 basic human motions and used sensors to gather data on how the human body acted in a pressurized suit – but it never made it off the ground due to its tendency to leak oil.

Only two of these robots were created, the one selling for $80,000 and another that is owned by the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum.

[Found here; story with video here. More robot stuff here.]

Haplographic Hot Links

If I, Ko & The Knockouts (2002) Cover of IF I – OH I by Nolan Strong & The Diablos (1959) “Ko & the Knockouts formed when Ko Shih [aka Ko Melina, Ko Melina-Zydeco] was bartending at Detroit hot spot the Magic Stick and had been the bass player for the Come Ons, was approached by Long Gone John of Sympathy for the Recording Industry to put a song on his upcoming compilation of Detroit bands.” [More here.]

We vs. They.

Shoona horse.

Makin’ the balls.

Bollard got skillz.

Nightmare school.

Tetris block names.

How records are broken.

Pet snorks [via Mme. Jujujive].

It’s even more creepo with sound off.

The Clark’s Cove Guano Company
[via Philosopher Mouse of the Hedge].

Beyond 3D sidewalk art [via Bunkerville].

Ancient Egyptian egg ovens. [h/t Paul Y.]

Ragtime Rockabilly Disco [via Memo Of The Air].

Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.

Making shokuhin sampuru [via Nag On The Lake].

[Top image found here. Comic book source unknown.]

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