“To the person who left a painted rock that looks like a severed finger on the Arroyo Verde hiking trail, you’re my kinda people! I put the rock back to freak out the next passerby.”
[Found here, h/t Kirk W.]
Liberty [updated]
[Update: Image is NOT Isabella Eugénie Boyer; see below.]
The face of the Statue of Liberty. Isabella Boyer’s life is like an exciting novel. She was born in Paris, the daughter of an African pastry chef and an English mother. Isabella had a special beauty and, at age 20, she married Isaac Singer, the sewing machine maker, who was 50 years old. After Singer’s death, Isabella became the richest woman in the country. It is not surprising that she was chosen as the model for the Statue of Liberty, as she embodied the American dream. Widowed, Isabella traveled the world and married the Dutch violinist Victor Robstett, becoming a countess. He became a prominent figure in America and Europe, and met the French sculptor Frédéric Bartholdi at a world event. Bartholdi, impressed by her beauty and history, used her face as a model for the Statue of Liberty. Isabella married a third time and died in Paris in 1904 at age 62, but her face lives on in the iconic statue in New York, symbolizing freedom and American pride.
[Found here, h/t Eaglesoars]
UPDATE: The top image appears to be the work of Bas Uterwijk and is an A.I. generated image of Aphrodite, not Isabella Eugénie Boyer (who may or may not have been the model for the Statue of Liberty).
More about the viral photo here, here and here.
[h/t Gabriel]
Antiquarians
“Collectors like Hollister, left, and Porter Hovey, sisters with an appetite for late 19th-century relics like apothecary cabinets and dressmakers dummies, are turning their homes into pastiches of the past.”
New York Times 29 July 2009
[Found here.]
Creepo Amusement Parks
[Descriptions and more in here.]
Autumnal Equinox Hot Links
Blitzed, The Raveonettes (2007)
Indie retro post-punk noise rock duo from Denmark channel Phil Spector’s Wall of Sound.
Zhdun.
Zhdun piggy bank.
Zhdun piggy bank in action.
The Future was a long time ago.
GarE Maxton’s puzzles (with video).
FUTUREAMA [via Memo Of The Air].
Angela LOVES crashing into bollards.
The Carpentopod [via Mme. Jujujive].
Musical Quintracycle [via Bunkerville].
1948 Norman Timbs Special [via Bits & Pieces].
Fall begins today, 22 September 2024, at 02:43:12 PM.
[Top image: Photo of the sunset as projected from a vent in the west wall, through the roof trusses, and onto the east wall of our garage. It’s a giant pinhole camera; our own little Stonehenge.]
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago. 15 years ago.
Saturday Matinee – The Black Hole, Carolyn Wonderland, The Henrik Freischlader Trio & The Gary Hoey Band
The Black Hole (UK, 2008) is a short film starring Napoleon Ryan and a hole, directed by Phil Sampson and Olly Williams (Phil and Olly) who may or may not have been fans of Warner Bros. cartoons.
“Carolyn Wonderland describes herself as ‘a guitarist in a roomful of singers and a singer in a roomful of guitarists,’ was recently called ‘one of Texas’ finest Americana guitar-slingers’ by her hometown newspaper, The Austin American-Statesman.” – Alligator Records
The Henrik Freischlader Trio plays some damn good funkified blues. Freischlader is a German blues guitarist, singer-songwriter, producer, and self-taught multi-instrumentalist from Wuppertal, Germany.
Gary Hoey was in diapers when the Chantays recorded their 1962 classic, and he rips it up with respect.
Way too much happened this past week. I think some of the sensory overload is intentional and unnecessary, but we’ll cope.
Porch. Tomorrow. Noonish.
The .Gif Friday Post No. 872 – Gettin’ the Itch, Land Dolphins & The Seattle Bouncyboys
Black Water
[Found here.]
Stuff I Do When I’m Bored
Miscellaneous strays from my desktop, most previously posted elsewhere.
Tacky Raccoons 