Friday Ephemera

No corkscrew? No problem. Use a shoe. // What astronauts see. // Curtains made of slides. // Ant megalopolis. // Pulsate, a diversion. // Petri dish paintings. // Portraits by Tom Hoops. // Awkward family pet photos. // Wigs of note. // Crowd scene, Chicago 2010. // Critters of the deep. // David Horowitz on the one-party classroom. // The crushing tedium of Tarkovsky’s Solaris. // Escher in Lego. // 8-bit Gary. // Exploitation tat. // Bugatti Veyron Super Sport. // Bacterial fashion. // Bowerbird nests. // Attention Xbox users. // Tonight you’ll dream of cow spiders.

Comments

[Mr Eugenides]

That shoe - wine bottle trick is simply the most amazing thing I have ever seen. Right, I now need to find a bottle of wine and an uncarpeted room...

[rjmadden]

The French take their wine very seriously. A lack of corkscrew was never going to stop them.

[Rafi]

David, thanks for linking the Horowitz video. I've just ordered the book.

[Anna]

Love the curtains made of slides. Not sure about the bacteria dress though.

[Jason]

Tarkovsky’s Solaris is gone. :(

[AC1]

Every home should have one..

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-10682693