Just a pile of random unrelated stuff.
Stuff I do when I’m bored
Tag: photography
Batrachivorous Hot Links
I Can’t Stop Dancing, Archie Bell & The Drells (1968)
Soul / R&B group from Houston, Texas, Archie Bell & The Drells had a string of hits in the late 60s-70s. They are best known for their 1968 dance hit Tighten Up which shot to No. 1 on the charts while Bell was recuperating from a leg injury he suffered while in the U.S. Army.
AiDA.
Stations down under.
Bear down under.
Lyrics to Hocus Pocus by Focus.
Limping devils and their vejigas.
Machines [via Everlasting Blört].
Warming up the car [Thompson, blog].
Happy blogoversary to The View from Lady Lake.
Morgan James sings Floyd [via Memo Of The Air].
[Top image: Snow couch found here.]
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago. 15 years ago.
The Friday .Gif Post No. 939 – Squirrel Happens, Fruit Frost & An Endless Corner
Inverted Holland
[Original un-inverted stock photo found here.]
Scream of the Forest
“Lasu Krzyk” – winter aerial view of a frozen pond in Łódź’s Arturówek.This is one of the largest forest areas within city limits in Europe (1,205.45 ha). When this shape appeared on the screen of my controller, I couldn’t believe my own eyes! It immediately reminded me of one of E. Munka’s works. Nature managed to create such images by itself! It’s as if the forest wanted to tell us something, or perhaps scream? With this post, I wanted to draw attention to nature. So that we look at it with wider-open eyes and care about it more. ©Arkadiusz Dalak.
[Found here; translation from Polish via GROK.]
199 & 201 Henry Street
In 1980, photographers Brian Rose and Edward Fausty conducted a photo survey of derelict NYC, particularly the Lower East Side. This image is of 199 & 201 Henry Street, with a 1967 Chrysler Town & Country wagon at the curb.
According to a recent comment on FB, Apartment No. 3 at No. 199 Henry Street is now a 1 bedroom / 1 bath and rents for $2,600 / month.
[1980 view found here, 2024 screencap via Google Maps Street View.]
Old News
[Colorized photo by Antonio Castellano found in here.]
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.)
It was a dark and balmy night.
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.
Parmesan Warehouse
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- 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.]
Have Another Year!
[Found here, and that’s not us.]
Tacky Raccoons 