View this post on Instagram #ASonnetADay A post shared by Patrick Stewart (@sirpatstew) on Mar 31, 2020 at 1:06pm PDT "Having spent so much of my life with Shakespeare’s world,… Read the rest of the article: Watch Sir Patrick Stewart read a Shakespeare sonnet every day
Aquarium Drunkard is an incredible audio hub of reviews, podcasts, features, interviews, and sessions sure to please all crate diggers, outré musicologists, fringe culture fanatics, and deep music geeks. Their… Read the rest of the article: Outstanding, free, and far-out music stream from Aquarium Drunkard
MedFetUK, a UK fetish company that deals in medical supplies and equipment for sex play has donated its supply of scrubs to a National Health Service hospital. “It was just… Read the rest of the article: Kinky medical role play and fetish supplier donates scrubs to hospital
The Wizard of Oz (Ted Eshbaugh, 1933)Watch this video on YouTube Directed by Canadian-American filmmaker Ted Eshbaugh, this "Wizard of Oz" cartoon from 1933 predated the classic Hollywood movie by… Read the rest of the article: Watch the wonderful Wizard of Oz cartoon that predated the classic film
"Triggernometry" – mapping music to facial expressions in real timeWatch this video on YouTube AI artist Mario Klingemann used Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), one of the primary techniques to create… Read the rest of the article: Astonishingly weird video of AI-generated facial expressions mapped to music
Donato Sansone created this fantastic experimental video "Concatenation," a word I just learned is defined as "a series of interconnected things or events." Sound design by Enrico Ascoli. (via Waxy)
Last night some asshole smashed a glass door at the Singer Laren museum near Amsterdam and stole Vincent van Gogh's oil painting “The Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in Spring 1884."… Read the rest of the article: Van Gogh swiped last night during museum smash-and-grab
Excellent editing chops by Austin-based video post-production house Cut to Black.
A key challenge in building colonies on the moon is that it's incredibly expensive to transport construction materials to space from Earth. That's why researchers are exploring how moon bases… Read the rest of the article: Astronaut urine could be a key concrete ingredient on the moon
Talking Heads Full Concert 11 04 80 Capitol Theatre OFFICIALWatch this video on YouTube Well, they're performing at the Capitol Theater in Passaic, New Jersey in 1980, but I'm watching… Read the rest of the article: Join me to watch Talking Heads perform in my living room
The new Mars rover Perseverance, set to launch in July for a February 2021 landing, will be outfitted with its own small helicopter. NASA engineers at Kennedy Space Station recently… Read the rest of the article: NASA's Mars helicopter almost ready for take off
Johnny Carson Jokes About The Recent Toilet Paper Shortage – 12/19/1973Watch this video on YouTube No, that isn't a deepfake. In 1973, the stock market crashed and an Arab oil… Read the rest of the article: Watch Johnny Carson joke about the toilet paper shortage
Bob Dylan – Murder Most Foul (Official Audio)Watch this video on YouTube Bob Dylan just released his first new song in eight years. It's a 17-minute murder ballad about the… Read the rest of the article: Bob Dylan just released a 17 minute song about JFK's assassination
La espectacular imagen de un coyote sobre el puente Golden Gate, en San Francisco. La llegada de animales salvajes a las ciudades desiertas es un hecho #COVID2019 #QuedateEnTuCasa #COVID19 #LugaresyMás… Read the rest of the article: Coyotes on the streets of San Francisco
Making the quietest exhaust system – 9 mufflers!Watch this video on YouTube The Russian gearheads of Garage 54 outfitted a car with nine mufflers to almost entirely dampen the exhaust… Read the rest of the article: Russian gearheads make the quietest car exhaust using 9 mufflers
Years ago, Philip Anderson, founder of the great Cinefile Video store in Los Angeles, and designer Bob Bianchini created a genius line of t-shirts that combined the names of auteur… Read the rest of the article: Kubrick/Kraftwerk t-shirt
Happy Birthday Curly Neal! | Harlem GlobetrottersWatch this video on YouTube The legendary Fred "Curly" Neal of the Harlem Globetrotters died this morning. He was 77. I remember the first… Read the rest of the article: The Harlem Globetrotters' Fred "Curly" Neal, RIP
My buddy Ken Goldberg, a UC Berkeley professor of robotics, his 10-year-old daughter Blooma, and science communicator Ashley Chase wrote a delightful children's book called How to Train Your Robot!… Read the rest of the article: How To Train Your Robot, a free kids book by an engineer and his 10-year-old daughter
Keep on doing your part by staying inside and keeping a safe distance from one another. For those who don’t have that option for whatever reason…thank you and stay safe❤️… Read the rest of the article: Enjoy this rather weird social distancing flipbook animation
Give Me Love – Rosie & OriginalsWatch this video on YouTube Rosie and the Originals' "Angel Baby" (1960) is a classic doo wop ballad, beloved (and covered) by John Lennon.… Read the rest of the article: John Lennon called this song "one of the greatest strange records"
