Category: Odd

Harry’s Airplanes

 

Beat culture musician, filmmaker and avant-garde artist Harry Everett Smith collected things, including paper airplanes.

The Collections of Harry Smith, Catalogue Raisonné
“Volume one features richly detailed photographic documentation of 251 paper airplanes gathered by Smith from the streets of New York City over an approximately 20-year period. Whimsical and weird, the paper airplanes rank among Smith’s most mysterious collecting pursuits. This extensive compendium presents the fruits of his extraordinary aeronautic pursuit and highlights the tangled history and myths that accompany them.”

[Found here, description from here, h/t Chuck S.]

Ray the Bass Man

THE POT OF LUNKER BASS AT THE END OF THE RAINBOW
Raymond Gauthier has reached the end of the rainbow and has been justly rewarded with the fisherman’s pot of gold in these lunker bass caught on Toledo Bend Lake. On July 3, 1973, while fishing near Pendleton Bridge he hauled in 7 bass that tipped the scales at 56 pounds even. Since then he has caught 63 bass in a 2 acre area. 20 of these weighed over 6 pounds each, 20 more weighed over 7 pounds each and 12 of these weighed over 8 pounds each with the 2 biggest weighing 9 pounds 14 ounces each. Since then he has caught many more in the same weight range that have not been mounted.

[Postcard with caption found here.]

Metopomancing Hot Links

ALL PEEPS ARE GO

T-Model Boogie, Rosco Gordon (1951)
Rosco Gordon had a long career with several major hits including Booted (1952), No More Doggin‘ (1952), and Just a Little Bit (1960). His simplified boogie-woogie piano style emphasized the back beat, and was the inspiration for ska, the precursor to rocksteady and reggae. Like many other artists of the time, he was cheated out of a lot of royalties.

“Sorta.”

The Herds.

Flatmobile.

The hand-off.

Junior Samples.

The Shoplifter.
More shoplifters.

Speaking Hadza.

Aluminum colony.

A shrimp’s daily routine.

Norty Blues Episode 112.

The Blob of Barry Nowlan.

The Penny-Farthing Tank.

The 1980s: Dangerous Times.

A lonely EB [via Everlasting Blört].

If your phone doesn’t ring, it’s me.

Trimming Bennies [via Bunkerville].

The Disease Formerly Known as Monkeypox.

The 1958 Grundig Party Boy [via Memo Of The Air].

How to play a Chromatic Audience [more at My OBT].

Conducting business with Chinese companies (2019).

[Top: .Gif found at This Isn’t Happiness.]

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

The .Gif Friday Post No. 901 – K-Cup Glee, Slinkercise & A Happy Water Dance

[Found here, here and here.]

Easter Lamb Cakes

[Found here. Related post here.]

Bzzzt

[Found here.]

Stuff I Do When I’m Bored

All previously posted elsewhere. Mouth woman clipped from this vid. Puma Negra is the inverse of Puma Blanca. Ostrichman morph derived from this pic. Sluggo’s Potty Break is the prequel to this Nancy strip.

Vectitating Hot Links

Lobster Pot Provincetown, oil, Robert Abele III 2017.

Big Ugly Wheels, The Beat Farmers (1990)The Beat Farmers (1983–1995) were a great band from San Diego, California (best experienced live) and featured the late Country Dick Montana. According to their website, they’ve since reformed re-formed with a new lineup.

Hold on…

Chew this.

Spacepoop.

Toast Malone.

Hell of a woman.

Property values.

Alan and Denise.

Folklore Music 8.

Ce n’est pas pizza.
C’est une pizza.

G.I. Jive with G.I. Jill.

“Do NOT call me ‘Roo’.”

Write like an Egyptian.

Norty Blues Episode 111.

The Briden-Roen Sawmill.

Sesame Street Wargaming.

Evel Knievel home movie clip.

The War Between The States.

Dogs and horses [via Bunkerville].

Who put Luebella down the wych-elm?

Bailong Elevator [via Everlasting Blört].

“Can we keep him?” [via Thompsonblog].

Electric throat guitar?! [via Memo Of The Air].

[Top image: Painting by Robert Abele III, found at My OBT.]

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

The .Gif Friday Post No. 900 – Some Urkeling, Some Cheddaring, Shock Chalk & A Light Gull

[Found here, here and  here. Shock Chalk was a looping glitch, original found here. There are now over 2,700 .gifs in The Archive.]

Man of Mystery

[Photobooth portraits of unknown man found in Photobooth Journal.]