Friday Ephemera
The American Family Association experiences technical difficulties. // Sweden’s classroom esteem police. // Excuse me, sir - do you have any cigarette in your marijuana? // Medical mannequins. // Kubrick. // Abandoned hotels. (h/t, Things.) // Impressive swimming pools. (h/t, Coudal.) // Pencil sculptures. // A very large drawing. (h/t, 1+1=3.) // The Metzo School, Doetinchem. // Undersea internet cables. // The Amazon bookstore browser. With virtual shelves and everything. // Vintage comic book covers. // Vintage gay paperback covers. // Porn for the blind. (sfw) // Two decades of party flyers, 1987 - 2007. // Hey, mobile DJ. // 120 years of electronic music. // Faces and pocket contents, scanned. (h/t, Quipsologies.) // Octopus jewellery. Precious tentacles. // And, via The Thin Man, it’s Ms Greta Keller.
"After the race, Homosexual and Dix looked at each other and slapped palms, then hugged." :)
Posted by: John D | July 04, 2008 at 07:59
The Greta Keller song is lovely. Very Marlene Dietrich.
Posted by: Anna | July 04, 2008 at 08:57
Daily Telegraph gave publicity to this story in its Blogs several days ago, ridiculing fundamental Christianity. I’m up for a bit of that. Making innocuous words taboo does have a down side, as the Telegraph now realise, as they obscenity screening changes the word ass into ***. And Jesus rode into Jerusalem on an ***. So hoisted with your own petard, DT. Bury me upside down so the world can kiss my donkey.
Posted by: Andrew Milner | July 05, 2008 at 09:38
The pencil sculptures are neat.
Posted by: sk60 | July 05, 2008 at 09:52
David,
If you're feeling bored I'm sure you can have some fun with this.
http://timworstall.com/2008/07/07/hurrah-hurrah-4/
Posted by: AntiCitizenOne | July 07, 2008 at 08:50
AC1,
Thanks, I saw. As a source of confused, tedious, half-thought-out ideas, the Guardian rarely fails to deliver. I find it’s best approached with ironic detachment. Otherwise, one could go ever so slightly mad. As, apparently, many readers and contributors do.
Posted by: David | July 07, 2008 at 09:31
Re porn for the blind:
"It does seem like they might want the recordings to be a little more like obscene phone calls, and a little less like directions on how to make a spinach quiche." :)
Posted by: longshot | July 07, 2008 at 16:14