Friday 7 August 2015
pequod
5x5
a gossip of mermaids: a delightful compilation of supernatural, ghoulish collective nouns, via the Wunderkammer that is Nag on the Lake
bling: uncompromisingly luxurious wrist watch that has an iWatch on the underside
plastic arts: prototype demonstration of a motorized sculpting glove
ennuigi: arcade game betrays Mario’s brother’s existential woes, world-weariness
catagories: ๐ญ, ๐, ๐ญ, ๐, myth and monsters, networking and blogging, Star Wars
psychobabble
catagories: ๐ง , food and drink, language
Wednesday 5 August 2015
spoilers ahoy or mise-en-scรจne
Via Dangerous Minds’ Dangerous Finds, comes this brilliant cinematic critique of the current trend in Hollywood blockbusters’ expositions that have become impenetrably complex, byzantine and shamelessly porous. Rather than a simple, straightforward—however unlikely—plot that can be pitched in a few word, like if the secretary fails to type under forty words per minute with fewer than two typographical errors, the bomb hidden in the office will explode, which will then be buoyed up by a series of stunts and explosive precursors or with the sponsorship of a can of Mister Pibb consumed conspicuously. Cut and scene.
catagories: ๐ฌ, myth and monsters
slaget i hafrsfjord
The intrepid adventurers at Atlas Obscura sends a picture postcard from Stavanger of the monumental commission of Sverd i fjell, which was among some our parting shots from our extended Norwegian vacation a few years back.
The peace declared that united the three warring factions of the western reaches of the kingdom under the leadership of good King Harald the Fair Hair (Harald Hรฅrfagre) is really kind of obscured by the sheer scale and sight of three giant swords plunged into the beach of Madla—though the event is very much celebrated and romanticized in popular culture and stands just as large in the shared imagination. One thousand, one hundred eleven years after the decisive battle, King Olaf V degreed that this Viking victory be immortalised and it was wrought and wielded in 1983 by native sculptor Fritz Rรธed. One of these days, we’ll make it back to those shores and find those swords half buried regardless of how much time and tide has passed.