In Which I Resist Words
You can follow along at the fine photoblog of Ms. Shoes.
Morning Linakge (Sep 10)
Three sets of photographs today.
From Chile — a set by Big Picture of the scene of the collapse of the San Jose copper and gold mine. Humanity.
What we eat — if we’re on the ground in a combat zone. MRE’s of the nations. Click each package for a look at the contents. Comfort food is very cultural. (the related essay is behind the register wall. it’s worth a throw away email address.)
National Geographic will premiere a new special “Night of the Lion” on Sept 13th — in the UK — sigh. all sorts of cool photographic technology was used to catch lions doing what lions do at night. (Video clips and photo galleries.)
And that’s it for a week or so. There will be daily bloggage at Ms. Shoes blog. The usual trip reports with photos and galleries. Links will be posted here.
Take good care of yourselves while I’m gone ;-)
Morning Linkage (Sep 9)
Transportation
Rumors abound. And now there are pictures. The US Gran Prix circuit in Austin TX.
A 1943 WLC (that’s a Harley-Davidson) has been sitting since 1950 waiting for some guy’s grandson. Now it’s out of the basement in the hands of James of Jamesville Customs. Hopefully for a straight forward minimal restoration. It’s so lovely just the way it is.
Yeah, really. Where is the CB1100? Now that’s a perfectly plain bike that I’d give house space.
Two dashing fellows and a trailer of bikes. Jack and Frank Chiswell raced speedways in Britain in the 1930’s. Googling will get you bits and pieces of their history.
Food
We all know it’s all about the drawings on They Draw, They Cook. Two nicely illustrated recipes for fall dishes. Lentils and sausage by Jonathan Hawker… and a mushroom and pea risotto by Weef.
Art, Images, and Design
Clichéd peasant girls. Hungarian painter Oszkar Glatz depicts idealized youngsters. His palette is wonderful.
Movable architecture, ritual buildings, and camping. From Saudi Aramco World, an essay on the tent cities of Central Asia. Most of the images are clickable for larger views.
I pointed you all to Maleonn’s circus-themed, fairytale images about a year ago. There’s another fine set of surreal photographs called Second Hand Tang Poem, reviewed by Wurzeltod. Also available in larger size in a flash gallery:
Animation
A little music to enhance your day. Make a Blues Song. A perfect use of Flash to drive a little browser-based app. Compose a blues song and hear it played just for you (or share your creation.)
until tomorrow then my dears,
Morning Linkage (Sep 8)
Transportation
Stunning indeed. I love the red cradle frame and the squat mushroomy tank. Triumph.
You will, no doubt, have an opinion. I think the mechanicals are interesting and the paint abominable.
Sometimes a simple clean up and sort a few details job turns into a real remake/remodel. Especially when the “running” part of the advert was, well, optimistic. Sometimes that remake turns out to be way more special than a simple sprucing up could ever have been. A 1957 BSA B31 becomes a Clubman Goldstar Replica.
Unsettling views of a beam that needed repair on the Tacoma Narrows Bridge. I hated driving over it before. I may never cross is again. (WS-DOT continues to publish interesting stuff on its blog and on flickr .)
Science
Sunspots are the celestial weather machines that drive our atmosphere (hyperbole alert.) The Big Bear Solar Observatory captured the best-so-far real light image of a sunspot recently. It’s like a black hole in the sun. Very cool. There’s more interesting stuff at the observatory’s website including lots of raw data. I haven’t a clue what to do with the data but I want to applaud that it’s there, freely available to anyone who cares to use it.
Art, Images, and Design
Another delightful little building. This one perfect for a bibliophile with a tiny bit of a back yard. The Reading Nest would have been a perfect hide away for the 13-year-old me. The Reading Nest is prefab and you can see photos of one being trucked in and placed on site on the website of the architects.
Goodly Creature by Leah Palmer Preiss. A vintage feel and form but a modern imaginary animal. Details of the Goodly Creature’s creation on her blog, Curious Art Lab.
Pop-ups, fairy tales, and an animated trailer for a book. What could be better? Il Etait Une Fois, to be published in November, illustrates a handful of fairy tales with complex pop-ups of crucial scenes. I particularly like the playing card army from Alice in Wonderland. Leave the sound on while watching the video if you can. (Video)
it’s mid-week darlings, hang in there,
Morning Linkage (Sep 7)
Transportation
Ducati Streetfighter + Finishing Touch 4U (ugliest name in customs?) = yummy paint and just right details.
IED students do concept designs for Ducati. 10 designs were submitted to Ducati and one produced as a full-scale mock-up. You might find something you like here.
A gallery of garish and hard to take seriously PR materials for the Suzuki GSX-R50 GAG4.
Science
It’s the start of hurricane season. NASA puts a lot of people and equipment into the air to track and analyze hurricanes. Earl was the first hurricane to be recorded from NASA’s new drone, Global Hawk. The article also includes graphics and a link to NASA’s twitter where the scientists flying into and out of Earl on the DC‑8 made some comments. NASA’s twitter stream is fun in general.
Art, Images, and Design
Okay — that’s cool. The rolling shutter artifact put to good use. The prop isn’t supposed to look that is it? Need more rolling shutter? Flickr offers a tag.
Robert Spencer painted the less idyllic side of life along the Delaware River in the 1910’s and 1920’s. Unlike most of his contemporaries who focused on the pretty and rural, Spencer was fascinated by the factories, river traffic and daily life of the under class.
Always Audrey.
off you go…