Friday Ephemera

South Korea’s charming and subtle penis restaurant. // Pocket picnic blanket. // An Alien production scrapbook. // “Austerity” and “spending cuts.” // Spot the cuttlefish. // Cars with propellers. // Standing stones. // “The sexiest baritone hunks from opera.” Your mileage may vary. // Tree tents. // “One and you lose your reason; two and you’re on your knees.” // The smartphone case you’ve always wanted. // Why parents rarely want their children to be artists, part 9. // Death metal construction worker. // Making scissors. // Mechanical elephants and other projects. // Small magnet with big oomph. // Clay food miniatures. // Tiny burritos. (h/t, Ian Fleming) // Paper microbes. // And finally, we must de-beef the machine. 

Comments

[pst314]

Cars with propellers on the front or the rear, depending on whether you hate pedestrians or tailgators?

[R. Sherman]

I really don't blame you for the Penis Restaurant link. East Asia? Genitalia? Food? Sure, why the hell not? My own damn fault.

[Simen Thoresen]

Some light music from 2012 to start the weekend;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktvTqknDobU

I notice that the past keeps getting richer and more weird - is someone still making DLCs for 2012? Wake up people, 2015 should be out in the market in just half a year!

Still, assuming funding, 2015 could also be fun...
http://www.bugjuggler.com/

(via the guy who also brought me this;
http://www.jwz.org/blog/2014/07/say-feeling-love-just-say-feeling-love-now-close-your-eyes/ )

Love,
-S

[David]

Still, assuming funding, 2015 could also be fun...

I’ve often felt that a giant car-juggling robot was the way to go.
Because then they’d pay. Then they’d all pay.

[Anna]

“One and you lose your reason; two and you’re on your knees.”

Great track (and album).

[Theophrastus]

http://www.odditycentral.com/travel/guolizhuang-beijing-famous-penis-restaurant.html

[sk60]

Why parents rarely want their children to be artists, part 9.

Wouldn't it be even edgier to put the 'artist' in there with them and then weld the door shut?

[David]

Wouldn’t it be even edgier to put the ‘artist’ in there with them and then weld the door shut?

No, you mustn’t mock. It’s a “cutting-edge contemporary work.” You see, passers-by will be “invited to observe the resulting vibrations.” Because watching a soundproof box that may or may not vibrate very, very slightly is “enhancing our urban environment.”

You must be one of those haters of culture we hear so much about.

[Jimmy]

Where would we be without such colossal artistic expressions?

[Steve 2: Steveageddon]

You know, sometimes I wish the Daleks really would invade London.

"Hello, I'm a performance artist, give me money."

EXTERMINATE!

And the Doctor would be like:

http://media1.giphy.com/media/jt3vDWgJPQXFS/giphy.gif

[Rafi]

Death metal construction worker.

A shocking disregard for health and safety. :-)

[Randy]

The death metal construction guys were mostly doing demolition, a lot easier task when gyrating like that than actual construction.

[dicentra]

Looks like a 1950s pinup, bakes like Tim Burton.

[rabbit]

Rafi: Exactly.

Twirling long hair around power equipment. What could possibly go wrong?

And don't even get me started on the lack of safety glasses.

[David]

And don’t even get me started on the lack of safety glasses.

Nonsense, his hair will deflect any flying debris. It’s basic science.

[newrouter]

can you buy those scissors on the internet?

[Darleen]

"synthetic polio"??

As if the real stuff isn't bad news enough ...

[mojo]

Because watching a soundproof box that may or may not vibrate very, very slightly is “enhancing our urban environment.”

Missing a trick here, I think. Issue passersby with sledgehammers and encourage them to make the box vibrate more.

[Spiny Norman]

newrouter,

can you buy those scissors on the internet?

Yes, direct from the manufacturer.

Those are quite lovely, as hand-made tools usually are. I wonder if they ship to the US...