[Found here, here, here and here. Previously posted bat stuff here.]
Category: Odd
Women with Pumpkins
[Found in here.]
Best If Left Unopened.
Victorian Vampire Sorority
[CGI creations by FableArtsCo found here.]
Paperbag People
Saul Steinberg‘s Masks
“In 1958, when photographer Inge Morath went to his home to make a portrait, Steinberg came to the door wearing a mask which he had fashioned from a paper bag. Over a period of several years, they collaborated on a series of portraits, inviting individuals and groups of people to pose for Morath wearing Steinberg’s masks.”
[Images and caption found here.]
Quisquilious Hot Links
Skokiaan, Louis Armstrong (1955)
“Skokiaan” is an illegal self-made alcoholic beverage in Zimbabwe.
From Crime in South Africa, L.F. Freed (1960): “Isikoivane (skokiaan) appears to be a general term used for all drinks other than the traditional beer sold in municipal beer halls. But these drinks are sheer poison in that they are mixed with blue stone (copper sulphate), tobacco juice, dagga, methylated spirits, snakes, carbide, rats, beetles – anything to give a kick and a bite.”
Jaw jammer [via Thompson, blog].
Knit Bone Kitty [via Everlasting Blört].
The Bizarre Ways Cephalopods Make Bebes.
The Worm With 100 Butts [via Memo Of The Air].
[Top image: 2nd place winner of the 2026 Dog Photography Awards, Studio Category. This one and others found at My OBT.]
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago. 15 years ago.
The .Gif Friday Post No. 977 – Poppin’ A Mickey, A Lotta Bloons & The Final Count
Make a Million Dollars
“Uranium Rush was an ‘educator approved’ game from the 1950s. Players begin with $15,000 and prospect for uranium in an area determined by a spinner (mountain, hills, or desert). Claims can be purchased for $1000 each and may be auctioned off or tested for uranium. This involves an electric ‘Geiger counter’ that produces a buzzing sound if uranium is discovered. The claim is then sold to the federal government for $50,000. Players alternate turns until all claims have been staked and the person with the most money is declared the winner.”
Produced by Gardner & Co. (Gardner Games) in 1955.
[Found here.]
Stops Along the Way
Artist Jennifer Bolande created Visible Distance / Second Sight for the 2017 Desert X biennial exhibition in the Coachella Valley:
“In a cinematic experience animated by driving along Gene Autry Trail, viewers will encounter a series of billboards featuring photographs of the very mountains towards which they are heading. Each photograph is unique to its position along this route and at a certain point as one approaches each billboard, perfect alignment with the horizon will occur thus reconnecting the space that the rectangle of the billboard has interrupted. In the language of billboard advertising this kind of reading is referred to as a Burma-Shave.“
When Irish Eyes Aren’t Smiling
[Pothole somewhere in Ireland ca. 2012 found here.]
