Friday Ephemera
November 22, 2013
Magpie plays with dog. // Two computers play rock, paper, scissors. // Find the invisible cow, a game to test your patience. // A house made of silk. // Big fin squid. // Blade Runner in watercolours. // A guide to shooting rubber bands. (h/t, MeFi) // Monitor in motion. // Upmarket dog accessories. // How the Doctor Who theme might have sounded without Delia Derbyshire. // Drum kits of yore. (h/t, Coudal) // Factoid of note. // Luxury yacht pod. // Spectrographic handshake. // Diagnostic bee device looks fabulous, detects cancer.
Magpie plays with dog.
Okay, that does it. Everybody get ready for the Rapture...
Posted by: slick willy | November 22, 2013 at 06:54
Thanks for the Delia Derbyshire documentary.
Posted by: Mark | November 22, 2013 at 08:58
How the Doctor Who theme might have sounded without Delia Derbyshire.
I can't get the bloody thing out of my head now.
Posted by: Joan | November 22, 2013 at 10:26
I can’t get the bloody thing out of my head now.
It’s catchy, in a not-very-Doctor Who kind of way. Unless the Doctor drives a Jag, seduces switched-on babes and is played by Peter Wyngarde.
Posted by: David | November 22, 2013 at 10:37
Thanks for the squid link. It's my daughter's nickname and she can identify several species from pictures alone. I like trying to trick her with photos of cuttlefish. She's never heard of the very unique big-fin squid, so i can't wait to show her that video tonight.
Posted by: matt | November 22, 2013 at 19:09
Matt, dicentra has a collection of cephalopod images.
Posted by: David | November 22, 2013 at 19:17
The Doctor Who theme reminded me of http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TQUdcYk82U
Posted by: Runcie Balspune | November 22, 2013 at 20:40
The Doctor Who theme reminded me of…
Ah, the classics. Of my childhood at least.
Posted by: David | November 22, 2013 at 21:33
The Doctor Who theme reminded me of . . .
. . . consider also The Prisoner.
And in parallel compare the general productions of the 1965 What's New Pussycat with the 1967Casino Royale.
I suspect we have a matter of an overall shared sounds of the period . . . .
Posted by: Hal | November 22, 2013 at 21:48
The Invisible Cow thing has to be, even by the standards of the internet, the silliest game ever.
Posted by: ACTOldFart | November 23, 2013 at 05:59
I'm pretty sure you'll like this.
http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2013/11/the-life-and-times-of-an-elderly-superhero-captured-in-oil-paintings-by-andreas-englund/?src=footer
Posted by: AC1 | November 27, 2013 at 15:56
I like the high altitude selfie.
Posted by: David | November 27, 2013 at 16:06