Wednesday 11 July 2018
no, you’re the puppet!
portrait studio
Considering all the horrors that the USA les enfants terribles are perpetrating, it’s a real challenge to provoke any sort of relief or respite touching this regime—so we are appreciative of the clever photo-editing work of an individual called Chest Strongwell. Such a repulsive collection of people have never looked gentler (or at least candid) but none of us are being fooled by this feigned innocence.
one-armed band-width or the magic of maybe
catagories: ๐ง , networking and blogging
jinbaori
Via Present /&/ Correct we are treated to a lovely antique collection of Samurai clan banners and cloaks from the 1850s, the late Edo, Bakumatsu era, sourced from two woodblock printed manuscript books. The name for the traditional garment draped over the Samurai’s armour is a specially tailored kimono tabard (a surcoat designed to show off one’s heraldic pedigree) called a jinbaori (้ฃ็พฝ็น). Find a whole gallery of arms and supporters and learn more at the link up top.
Tuesday 10 July 2018
8x8
wild boars: all thirteen team members and coach trapped in an underwater cave in Thai are rescued
i’m in the business of vegetables, let’s take a selfie: covers of popular songs with auto-complete lyrics
art-o-mat: cigarette vending machines repurposed to distribute tactile unique collectibles
moral panic: how Tom Hanks’ debut film Mazes and Monsters informed parents about the danger of role playing games, via Miss Cellania
rip: heartthrob Tab Hunter has passed away
department of child-labour: more on the Trump regime’s plot to destroy the US educational system
omnishambles: UK Foreign Minister resigns over soft-peddling BREXIT
living daylights
The European Commission is soliciting feedback on the option to end the requirement for harmonisation across the EU for daylight savings time, citing the potential for negative health consequences caused by the bi-annual change and prompted by Nordic members who’ve dutifully sprung forward and fell back despite the fact that no hour of sunshine at these higher climes is won or lost.
Railway and telegraph networks necessitated synchronisation and standardisation in the late eighteenth century and the concept of adjusting the clocks with the seasons was first proposed by an insect collector and astronomer (and frequent train passenger) named Charles Hudson in 1895 and was not implemented until the spring of 1916 with the German Sommerzeit as a way to conserve coal during the war. The current EU compact dates to 1980, in response to the energy crisis of the 1970s, and if repealed, the change wouldn’t be automatically nullified, just the participation of each member state. What do you think? Modern time-keeping devices can assuredly handle the changes and dispensing with the ritual will be certainly welcomed by many but time and tide admit politics and identity as well.
catagories: ๐ช๐บ, ๐, transportation
highlighting the remarkable
I know it’s an advertising campaign but this series, found via Swiss Miss, from German marker manufacturer Stabilo takes a highlighter to historic photographs to help call-out the overlooked contributions of women to science and governance is pretty enlightening.