My mom painted these Converse Chucks in the Attic red-figure technique as a gift for my fiancée, the classics prof. Each of the four sides displays a different scene from a different Greek vase – that’s Odysseus bound to the mast in the foreground there. (If it were really in the red-figure style, of course, the red clay would be the only unpainted bits. But why be a noodge?)
Boing Boing reader Dave Kha says, “While staying at a hostel in Prague I noticed this graffiti on one of the doors. I’m not sure if they’re just taking the old “there’s no place like home” joke and mistranslating it, or making a statement about the life of a wanderer.”
Moment of tabloid video zen: OJ Simpson (who’s since been arrested) leaves a Las Vegas wedding where he reportedly served as best man — on the way out, he’s singing “If I only Had a Brain,” from the Wizard of Oz. Some bystanderdude yells, “Hey, I got a brain!” Video Link.
Over at StreetTech, BB pal Gareth Branwyn has a neat post up today on a tribe of Steampunk bellydancers. Gareth says, “I especially like how the belt apparently says ‘Not Yours.’ Gotcha.” Link.
In this very odd YouTube video, worshippers at a Syrian mosque witness what they believe to be a holy miracle (the details are in the video description). Everyone holds their cellphones up in the air, hoping to phonecam video the sacred apparition.
