Eiffel Tower Construction Timelapse

Fortunately, this never happened:

Proposed (and rejected) addition for vehicle access to Eiffel Tower 1939.

[Images – and more – found here.]

Temerarious Hot Links

RIDE!, Dee Dee Sharp (1962) Before going solo at 17, Dee Dee Sharp provided  vocal backup for recordings by Lloyd Price, Frankie Avalon, Fabian, Bobby Rydell, Jackie Wilson, and Chubby Checker (Pony Time). Sharp’s song made it to No. 5 on the charts. (BTW, pony was hokum for something else.)

Campin’.

Here is a tree.

Still not still life.

THIS needs video.

Bigass water pistol.

Rain storm and Sun.

Popple bocket alum.

Bassed [h/t Danny D.].

Dance of the Bedbugs.

Pretty sure I need this.

Eggshell solo [h/t Gord S.].

FATE [via Memo Of The Air].

Selfies of the past & future.

Ecuadorian woman got woke.

Doggie Sang Bass [via Bunkerville].

Designing a VR vehicle in real time

Whisper ‘Puss’ and a ‘Mew’ came in reply.
[Story here, via Mme. Jujujive.]

[Top image: “Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Chung-Hoon (DDG-93) steams in formation during a multi big deck event on June 8, 2023. US Navy Photo” via USNI.]


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

See The Man.

Photo credit: Inge Morath, 1960.
Outskirts of Memphis, Tennessee, during her 18-day road trip from New York to Reno, Nevada.
I hope she saw the man.
[Found here.]

Arco do Triunfo

Arco do Triunfo da Rua Augusta, of the Praça do Comércio, Lisbon, with a 40 watt. [Found here.]

Goin’ To A Go Go

“I spent about an hour taking a picture of the frog.” Kurit Afsheen

[Photos and story here. h/t Pam M.]

Models of the Masters

  

[Images found various places around the internest by Pam M.]

SE Asian Salt Marsh

[Unknown location, possibly Vietnam. Image found here.]

I call photoshop.

It’s a tribute to the work of THIS GUY (who explains it all in the video).

Photo of 7 mo. old “Murphy” was originally posted on a number of SubReddits on 6 December 2020 by Adamsma77.  [h/t Dina S.]

Videohead

Photo by Alfred Eisenstaedt, 1963, colorized.

The .Gif Friday Post No. 799 – Scratch Tapir, Do the Bonky Dance & A Travel Poster

[Found here, here and here. The tapir smile reminded me of this guy.]