The museum of snake charmer imagery. // Catch spiders with impunity. // Tarkovsky’s polaroids. // Cardboard Hasselblad. // At last, a beer holster. // Life-size horse puppet. // Historical maps. // How to hide your aircraft plant in wartime. (h/t, Dr Westerhaus) // Aerial photographs. (h/t, Peter Horne) // Secret garden. // Dads on vacation. // Juggling quadrocopters. // Mark Steyn on the politics of cowboy poetry recitals. Parts 1 and 2. (h/t, DB) // So how much extra tax would you volunteer to pay? // Cannabis Culture. (h/t, rjmadden) // Assorted LSD documentaries. “It dissolves in your mind as well as your mouth.” // Laughing owls.
Catch spiders with impunity.
I like that it comes with a plastic spider to practice with.
Posted by: Min | April 08, 2011 at 06:38
If only they made one for catching owls.
Posted by: David | April 08, 2011 at 07:45
Cannabis Culture.
For a minute I thought it was real (as in documentary) footage. Does anyone know where it's from?
Posted by: Sam | April 08, 2011 at 11:12
Sam,
“For a minute I thought it was real (as in documentary) footage.”
I think that’s the fun of it. It’s a redubbed scene from Miloš Forman’s 1971 film Taking Off.
Posted by: David | April 08, 2011 at 11:17
For a minute I thought it was real (as in documentary) footage.
It's a meeting of the Guild of Evil.
Posted by: carbon based lifeform | April 08, 2011 at 11:25
I'll go with answer #2. I want it to be true.
Posted by: Sam | April 08, 2011 at 11:28
"The Spider Catcher is approximately 65cm long which is enough to keep you at a comfortable distance..."
No. No, it's not nearly long enough. *shudder*
Posted by: JuliaM | April 08, 2011 at 11:45
Ah, Tarkovsky... the pampered child of the Soviet socialist culture elite. ;-)
Posted by: simplius | April 09, 2011 at 17:24
Talking about maps:
The Strange Maps blog
Posted by: simplius | April 09, 2011 at 17:48
“It’s a meeting of the Guild of Evil.”
There are usually more guns at a Guild of Evil gathering.
Posted by: David | April 09, 2011 at 18:08
Regarding drug use.
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-04-addiction-poor-drugs.html
Posted by: AC1 | April 13, 2011 at 00:18