Home Video, The Automatic Process
Filmed in Treverton, Pennsylvania, USA, at the remains of a now defunct coal processing facility.
dear clusterflock
What are the rules?
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Or, as Jon Stewart asked, “How the fuck is it that Martha Stewart went to jail?”
The couple began making love and, “They were at it for a good five minutes before anyone realized what was going on,” according to one lifeguard.
Two-year-old chimpanzee “Do Do” feeds milk to “Aorn”, a 60-day-old tiger cub.
There are many different types of slipper in the world today, each with varying styles, materials and purposes.
The brains of children raised in violent families resemble the brains of soldiers exposed to combat, psychologists say.
The Sword Maker
Korehira Watanabe is one of the last remaining Japanese swordsmiths. He has spent 40 years honing his craft in an attempt to recreate Koto, a type of sword that dates back to the Heian and Kamakura periods (794-1333 AD). No documents remain to provide context for Watanabe’s quest, but he believes he has come close to creating a replica of this mythical samurai sword.
(via Product by Process)
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Hudson Bay inspired blanket
I am knitting this.
If I like it in its small form, I will also knit a much larger version. Almost everything I knit becomes a gift*, and every time I visit Deron and Amy I am reminded how special it is to surround yourself with your own creations. Thanks for the inspiration, friends.
* I get to keep the holey, mismeasured projects.
Adrian Younge, 1969 Organ
Adrian Younge did the soundtrack for the blaxploitation spoof Black Dynamite. “1969 Organ” is from Venice Dawn, his soundtrack for a non-existent film.
When it surfaced in 2000, Venice Dawn appeared to be the music from a lost 1969 Italian film, but don’t bother looking for it on Netflix.
Love. It.
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The seeds that fell off are the footnotes.
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Meaning: no way am I touching my fake bush till Christmas Day.
dear clusterflock
Favorite dog.
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Miguel Endara, Hero
Watch as Miguel Endara draws a portrait of his father by meticulously tapping out millions and millions of dots. Like 2 Years & +200,000 Jelly Beans, this really made me itch.
(via ★glass)
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Reflections on a Respiratory Infection
I coughed so long. I coughed so hard. Deron asked, “How are your ribs?” “Not as good as the ones at Hardeman’s,” I said. Not nearly so good as the gas station tacos at the Sylvan Avenue Valero’s either.
And I wanted to do what the mother of my long-time friend Melanie did when Melanie was little and had a bad cold and a dripping nose. Melanie’s mom took one of those tiny paper baskets they put Jordan almonds in at weddings and attached a string loop to it, then taped the string to the bridge of Melanie’s nose and made a drip bucket so Melanie would no longer have to blow her nose raw.
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“I tell people, if you’re sitting up front, you may get pulled onstage,” Ms. Hart said. “You may be asked to touch someone. You may be touched. So be O.K. with that.”
By replacing the nuclei of egg cells from an elephant with those taken from the mammoth’s marrow cells, embryos with mammoth DNA can be produced, Kyodo said, citing the researchers.
It’s as if there is something about the history of an object that gives it some special qualities over and above any material properties of the thing.
A cheeseburger cannot exist outside of a highly developed, post-agrarian society.
Kate Macdonald and Janelle Blanchard cover Neko Case’s Star Witness
I wish I could open my mouth and make sounds like these.
(thanks, Andrew)
One of these things is not like the other
No fewer than eight Ferraris and a Lamborghini Diablo were among the victims of Sunday morning’s collision, while the other victims were two top-of-the-range Mercedes-Benz, a Nissan GT-R and a Toyota Prius hybrid.
R.I.P. Hubert Sumlin (1931-2011)
The great guitarist Hubert Sumlin, best known for his work with Howlin’ Wolf: here with David Johansen (vocal), Bob Margolin (second guitar), and Charlie Musselwhite (harmonica). “Smokestack Lightning.” Memphis, 2002.
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She claims that her boyfriend was supposed to tattoo a scene from Narnia on her back but instead tattooed an image of a pile of excrement with flies buzzing around it.
Scientists with the group said the increase, a half-billion extra tons of carbon pumped into the air, was almost certainly the largest absolute jump in any year since the Industrial Revolution, and the largest percentage increase since 2003.
What use is it to know that we are deluded, if the knowledge does not dispel the delusions?
headline of the day
Study confirms many of us go online for no reason
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Cain Suspends Campaign
It’s official, Herman Cain has suspended his campaign. And he certainly picked an interesting opportunity to make the announcement:
The announcement, originally slated as the opening of his campaign’s Georgia office, featured barbecue, a blues band, and Tea Party movement supporters in colonial costumes, The Times reported.
Too bad. I suspect he would have truly shown brightly in the upcoming Trump-moderated Republican debate.
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When righteousness withers away and evil rules the land, we come into being, age after age, and take visible shape, and move, a man among men, for the protection of good, thrusting back evil and setting virtue on her seat again.
The young people in Mr. Hoepker’s photo aren’t necessarily callous. They’re just American.
If her voice could have been made into a smoke, we would have known.
But I am old enough to know that most of our lives are filled with days we do not remember.
No one has done more to illuminate the relationship between fossils and mythmaking than Adrienne Mayor, who has documented hundreds of instances during the last two thousand five hundred years when fossil bones provided the scaffolding for elaborate mythmaking, as frightened people sought to give meaning to the startling animal remains they happened across.
headline of the day
Nude yoga fueled Kim Kardashian-Kris Humphries breakup
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I thought “Women for Cain” was his itinerary.
