Category: Odd

Advesperating Hot Links

Yasuhiro Ishimoto, Halloween, Chicago, circa 1950

Slow Down, Larry Williams (1958)
From Wiki: “Lawrence Eugene Williams (May 10, 1935 – January 7, 1980) was an American rhythm & blues and rock & roll singer, songwriter, and pianist from New Orleans. He is best known for writing and recording some rock & roll classics from 1957 to 1959 for Specialty Records, including Bony Moronie, Short Fat Fannie, Slow Down, Dizzy Miss Lizzy (1958), Bad Boy and She Said Yeah (1959).”

Chili.

90 years.

A little fire.

All that time.

Bang – Zoom.

New ringtone.

+Zoom -Zoom.

Dave’s not here.

The Boney Fjord.

Josephine Baker.

Rolling with Grok.

Meet the Hoppers.

Hidden Melbourne.

Acoustic Weapons.
Example.

You know, the drills.

An hour of Appalachia.

Missing Fish & Yemana.

The Sierpinski Triangle.

Mining without machines.

The Great Chicxulub Tsunami.

Trolling Valheim [via Neatorama].

Dentalheads [via Everlasting Blört].

Remembering Jonathan and Darlene.

Two cats, two theremins [Thompson, blog].

Try these for openers  [via Memo Of The Air].

[Top image: Street fighter ca. 1950 (colorized) found in here.]

From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago. 15 years ago.

The .Gif Friday Post No. 938 – Playing with Round Things, BZZZT & A Flippy Book

[Found here, here and here.]

A 400 Year Old Coin

GROK says: “The coin appears to be a worn hammered type, possibly a 17th-century silver piece like a Charles I shilling.”

[Very old friend’s coin found here.]

Me and Sal

[Found here.]

Old News

[Colorized photo by Antonio Castellano found in here.]

Trash Animals

Trash Animals are the work of Bordalo II, aka Arturo Bordalo, a self-described street artist and “artivist” from Portugal.

[Photos and more found here. Click to enlarge.]

UPDATE: Here’s another one, previously posted in 2021.

Uropygium Hot Links

Can I Change My Mind, Tyrone Davis (1968)
In the 1950s, Davis was a popular R&B singer in the Chicago area, began recording in the late 1960s. A DJ friend in Houston played the the B-side of one of his singles on the air, and Can I Change My Mind made both the Billboard R&B and Top Pop charts. It eventually sold more than 1 million copies and his career took off. (In 1969, Joyce Jones recorded Help Me Make Up My Mind as an answer song.)

Ye’s eggs.

“IT’S A MENU!”

Squash happens.

The US of Alcohol.

Situation acrobat.

Cool infrared pics.

The hat relay of 2017.

They was a-wrasslin’.

The Curse of Peter Pan.

The ghost of Miles Davis.

“A top climate scientist…”

When the internet goes down.

It was a dark and balmy night.

Happy tractor hood ornament.

The many worlds interpretation.

Happy Bloggleversary, Miz Beth!

Shoplifter [via Everlasting Blört].

Antarctica poop [Thompson, blog].

ALIEN concept sketch [via Bits & Pieces].

Magnetic distraction  [via Memo Of The Air].

Flicks in the Public Domain [via Neatorama].

VERY COOL interactive tessellation generator [via Nag on the Lake].

[Top image found here. That’s Cricket, a baby rhesus macaque who lives at the Safari Zoological Park in Caney, Kansas.]

From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago. 15 years ago.

The .Gif Friday Post No. 937 – C-Walk Fail, The Answer & Splashy Sloth

[Found here, here and here.]

Watercolor

[Mural in Marijampolė, Lithuania, by New York artist Ray Bartkus found here.]

Parmesan Warehouse

    • Pictures you can smell. I smell feet.
    • Unlike Parmesan, Edam is made backwards.
    • That’s a really sharp image. I think it’s grate.
    • Imagine all the cows and calves who died for this.

Credito Emiliano, a bank in Italy’s Emilia-Romagna region, offers loans in exchange for uniquely Italian collateral: golden wheels of Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese.

Housed in a high-security complex surrounded by barbed wire, the bank, known locally as Credem, holds some 430,000 wheels of Parmigiano-Reggiano made by farmers in the area. The stacks sit 20 wheels high and are carefully monitored. Credem staffers regularly clean, rotate, prick, and even taste each wheel.

All told, these assets are reportedly worth around €190 million.

[Image with more cheesy jokes found here.]