Tag: Taiwan

Boustrophedonic Hot Links

Step By Step, The Four Hollidays (1963) One of several groups out of Detroit with similar names, this one had an extra L and featured Cleo “Sonny” Barksdale, Robert Barksdale, James Holland and Johnny Mitchell.

OCD.

Eatin’ bananas.

Urban graphics.

Getting unstuck.

Goose Creek Tower.

A gravesite service.

Somewhere in Detroit.

Organizing 72 demons.

Norty Blues Episode 90.

Lorem Ipsum Generator.

Getting the kids up to speed.

ElectroBOOM’s greatest hits.

Cat Hotel [via Mme. Jujujive].

Professional pool hustlers.
Jeremy Jones tells some stories.

Daisy has all the time in the world.

Printing concrete [via Bunkerville].

Unusual food phobias (including mortuusequusphobia).

Constance Frances Marie Ockelman [via Memo Of The Air].

An interview with UK Labour Minister Steven Pineless [via Bustednuckles].

The only instrumental single ever banned from radio in the US.

[Top image: Traditional Taiwanese fire fishing, story here.]

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

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.]

Keraunoscopic Hot Links

Run, Don’t Walk, The Ventures (?),  year unknown.That song title is not a typo, and I can’t find any info on the origin of the recording. One source claims it was unreleased, but that seems unlikely; it’s possibly the work of a tribute band. The Ventures had a huge hit with Walk, Don’t Run in 1960, but you knew that.

Lunch.

Outtake.

Luxury bumwad.

Trilobites of Morocco.

About Globohomo Art.

Soda theft prevention in 1919.

Titania McGrath’s predictions. They came true.

Average IQ of Students by College Major & Gender Ratio.

Disney made the lemmings leap to their deaths [h/t Barbara S.]

Economic factors may take some spring out of the Easter Bunny’s step this year.

[Top image is NOT a photoshop. It’s the aftermath of a 6.4 magnitude earthquake, Hualien, Taiwan, February 2018, via Bunkerville.]

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

Huang Yung-fu’s Contribution To The World: Painted Village, Taiwan

What started as a hobby became something with more of a purpose. Local families were protesting the scheduled demolition of an abandoned 1940s military encampment just on the outskirts of Taichung. Huang Yung-fu, who is now known as ‘Grandpa Rainbow’ is a veteran with no previous professional trainings. He just picked up a paintbrush about 4 years ago and the whole neighborhood is his huge and borderless canvas to paint.

[Images and caption found here via here.]