Via Memo Of The Air
Wednesday, June 11, 2025
LEGO Factory Line
Dr. Engine created a fully functional mini LEGO machine that stamps and cuts modelling clay.
Tuesday, June 10, 2025
An Origami Of Automotive Insanity
Behold the 1951 Reyonnah, the car that could fold itself to the width of a barstool. Built by Parisian inventor Robert Hannoyer, the Reyonnah looked like a plane, drove like a scooter, and fit through your garden gate.
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This Feline Tattoo!
Chinese tattoo artist,Victoria Lee, creates incredibly detailed colour tattoos that look like high-definition photographs.
Via Design You Trust
A Kind of Testament
A young woman comes across animations on the Internet that have clearly been created from her private selfies. An unknown female with the same name confesses to identity theft.
Monday, June 09, 2025
Bee Movie
Honey bees flap their wings up to 250 times a second. Here they are slowed down to capture footage for a documentary.
Prince Roller Skating on His Tennis Court at Home, 1989
Jeff Katz photographed Prince at his Chanhassen home to promote the soundtrack for the movie Batman in 1989.
Mitchell and Webb - Casino Royale
Comedic perfection from odd couple David Mitchell and Robert Webb. I admit to having watched every episode of Peep Show multiple times.
Via Memo Of The Air
Sunday, June 08, 2025
Sunday Links
Scientists create 'world's smallest violin' How small is it?It’s itsy bitsy, teeny weeny. (image above)
What you should hoard to help protect yourself from the effects of tariffs.
Pirates of the Ayahuasca “Sarah Miller did not want to kill herself. She hoped that something beyond what she knew of this world would show itself and give her the strength to stay in it.” (a long, intense read but a good one)
Bow selector Scanned from How to Gift Wrap, 1988.
There is a working pink fridge in the middle of the Namib Desert. It is is powered by solar panels and it’s stocked with cold drinks for passing tourists.
If you snooze you lose: Her boyfriend fell asleep on a 6-hour train journey and she found a future husband in the smoking car.
Trapped in the Future “The colors you can paint your house in my community are carefully controlled. Any color that cannot be found in human excretions is not permitted: poopy browns, urine yellows, all shades of mucous beige tending toward green, milky spermy whites, these are permitted and even welcomed.” (via Web Curios)
The new Zürich Stadttunnel for bicycles has parking and lockers and is attached to the train station. Many European cities have a strong cycle culture that improves the ambience of city streets for everyone. We did a cycle tour of Belgium and The Netherlands a while back and I was impressed, and very envious.
Singing for the last time Despite this awareness of life’s endings, I somehow never expected that there would be a last time that I would sing with my steady, reliable voice.
This assemblage of Mrs. Doubtfire vacuuming her way around scenes from other movies and TV shows makes me remember how absolutely fabulous Robin Williams was.
A Cartography Of Genocide: A spatial analysis of the Israeli military’s conduct in Gaza since October 2023. (via Memo Of The Air)
Astounding video: How the Swiss village of Blatten was wiped off the map
How to cook perfectly crispy tofu (Yes, I happen to like tofu)
I have made this easy chicken recipe a couple of times. It’s quick and delicious.
Are Dead Sea Scrolls older than we thought? By combining writing styles with carbon-14 dates of manuscripts using artificial intelligence, the date-prediction model Enoch is able to produce an accurate date for the manuscript.
This Strip Mall sounds like hell incarnate. In fact it sounds so bad I might check it out if I’m ever in that neck of the woods. (via Web Curios)
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