Tomb Sweeping Day, Taiwan

Visual artists Lilly Kaohsiung and Yin captured Fu De Keng public cemetery in Taiwan during the Qingming festival, also known as Tomb Sweeping Day.

[Source here, h/t Charlen604.]

ARE WE HAVING YET

[Photo by Frank Kunert found here.]

I, Ostrich

[Found here.]

Refulgent Hot Links

(Until Then) I’ll Suffer, Barbara Lynn (1971) Barbara Lynn (aka Barbara Lynn Ozen, Barbara Lynn Cumby) is a well-known blues / R&B singer, songwriter and electric guitar player* with an impressive discography. She was only 19 when she began her recording career with Give Me A Break in 1961, and the following year she scored her biggest hit You’ll Lose A Good Thing. Many years and many tours later, sharing the stage with almost every big name in the business, she’s still performing.

*Barbara Lynn plays a left-handed guitar without a pick [video].

Hyperdontia.

Portal to hell.

The Art of the Stair.

Do the Fudu Kumpo.

The Expert Witness.

Discarded treasures.

A Palliwood Tutorial.

Timelapse watercolors.

Running From Camera.

Norty Blues Episode 56.

Sampling! [h/t Jaime G.]

Get Up and Do The Wobble.

Trains of the Rock Island Line.

Billions In Change [h/t Linda M.]

Mr. Skygack From Mars [h/t Gord S.].

Another indictment [via Bunkerville].

Cephalopudlian [via Memo Of The Air].

Inspired [via The View From Lady Lake].

The Jackson Lean [via Sloth Unleashed].

“Yo mates! Look at his leg!” [via Mme. Jujujive]

Valtteri Bottas, famous racecar driver [h/t Nan N.]

[Top image found here. I messed with it a tad.]


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Paper Silhouettes

[Silhouette photos by Rich McCor, aka Paperboyo, found here.]

Stuff I Do When I’m Bored

[Update:  Re-arranged gallery, added Shut Up Helmet. All images previously posted elsewhere, click for larger.]

Red Bullet

After posting the photograph to Facebook, Scott Taylor was amazed by the attention the image received. “I am from a town of 960 people where everyone knows pretty much everyone, so to receive the amount of attention that I received was absolutely crazy to me. People from all over the world started contacting me.”

[Image and caption found here, via here, and everyone has already mentioned the game except for me, so don’t bother.]

Elephants

[Found here.]

Maw Belle

Selfie, unknown elephant, unknown location, 2024.

Selfie, unknown elephant, unknown location, 2024.
[Found here, via hereGoogle Images thinks it’s a ram’s horn.]

Papuliferous Hot Links

Bliz-aaard Ball Sale, David Hammons, 1983.

Come On Let’s Go, Girl In A Coma (2010) Joan Jett sings Richie Valens backed by The Ramones. From their album Adventures In Coverland, this is a fun mashup from the trio from San Antonio.

Oakland.

VW Busblast.

The Lockout.

Never Forget.

Elvis had a belt.

1896 calendar girls.

Recycled taco holders.

Bollards rock. And roll.

In the Pits [via Bunkerville].

Rat Selfies [via Mme. Jujujive].

Perpetual 1-Day Blinding Stew.

Four fuzzy things drinking coffee.

The village beneath New York’s Central Park.

Dead in Vegas [via The View From Lady Lake].

Look at this tardigrade [via Memo Of The Air].

Interview with Adele Morse, creater of Stoner Fox.

Freebird guitar solo on harmonica [via The Feral Irishman].

[Top image: “One of David Hammons most famous works is his 1983 performance Bliz-aard Ball Sale, in which he stood on the sidewalk in Cooper Square, selling snowballs. Each snowball cost $1 and they were arranged neatly according to size.” Found here.]


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