April 22, 2013

A line of quilts based on topography of parks and urban landscapes

TopoQuilts These customized quilts bring together the line work of topographical maps along with the tradition and elegance of widecloth cotton quilts. These heirloom quality quilts reference the topography of specific landscapes and places which often hold a specific memory or meaning to the person who has commissioned the work.
posted by badego at 10:32 PM PST - 26 comments

Denis Leary fish face man

Krill Gill rants about stupid humans. From the Ghouligans.
posted by Doctormobogo at 9:47 PM PST - 7 comments

Make way for ducklings. (NSFW)

Ze Frank explains the duck penis.

You're welcome.
posted by R. Schlock at 9:19 PM PST - 54 comments

Star Power

"No GPS or weather reports—just a sailboat, the wild open ocean, and the constellations. Think you could find your way across the South Pacific? James Campbell rides along with a master navigator in the Caroline Islands, where they’ve been sailing this way for thousands of years." [more inside]
posted by the man of twists and turns at 8:47 PM PST - 19 comments

One Wish Jerusalem

Shot in one day, in Jerusalem, we invited everyone who passed to share a wish ... One Wish Jerusalem משאלה אחת ירושלים واحد يرغب القدس [more inside]
posted by Joe in Australia at 7:56 PM PST - 15 comments

Cage Against The Machine

Hanksy, underground street fartist.
posted by cthuljew at 7:37 PM PST - 16 comments

Angels and Dogs Are Not Very Different: Stanley Marsh III

Popular eccentric Amarillo millionaire Stanley Marsh 3 (previously) is best known for his art installations Cadillac Ranch and the bizarre road signs he placed throughout Amarillo. [more inside]
posted by mudpuppie at 7:01 PM PST - 6 comments

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A new Boards of Canada release surfaced during National Record Store Day.
posted by griphus at 6:50 PM PST - 104 comments

These are not your father's bumper cars

Cool bumper cars, from 1920s vintage cars to converted cars with motorcycle engines. [more inside]
posted by Room 641-A at 5:54 PM PST - 7 comments

Even Nixon & Reagan and the NRA once dabbled in gun control.

The ghost of gun control revisits the history of gun control in the US. (SLNYTOPED)
posted by Obscure Reference at 5:26 PM PST - 140 comments

John C. McGinley interview - career overview (A.V. Club)

"Welcome to Random Roles, wherein we talk to actors about the characters who defined their careers. The catch: They don’t know beforehand what roles we’ll ask them to talk about." McGinley discusses his roles in 42, Platoon, Wall Street, Point Break, Car 54, Where Are You?, Office Space, Seven, Mother and Scrubs.
posted by paleyellowwithorange at 5:10 PM PST - 33 comments

When Richie Havens Sings

Richie Havens has died. Havens, who first roared onto the national stage at Woodstock with the brilliantly improvised "Freedom," has died. [more inside]
posted by NedKoppel at 4:27 PM PST - 76 comments

Life is a little like lion-taming, wouldn’t you say?

Joe Posnanski, 2011's National Sportswriter of the Year, has an incredible portfolio of work. He also wrote 'Paterno', and writes for Sports on Earth. Previously, we addressed our tremendous respect and adoration for renowned film critic, courageous fighter, and man-about-town Roger Ebert. Today, on Posnanski's personal blog, an incredible treat: Roger Ebert's Opening Sentences. [more inside]
posted by eenagy at 2:44 PM PST - 10 comments

Who would win in a fight? Trudy or Annie?

Paul F. Tompkins and Allison Brie talk Community and Mad Men and then they create unsexy gifs and imitate various internet memes.
posted by The Whelk at 2:11 PM PST - 157 comments

100% Prime

"Each prime number is represented by a bright, white square, whereas a non-prime ("composite") is grey. Visitors can select difference spatial arrangements of these numbers, ranging from several variants of the well-known Ulam Spiral, over the Archimedian spiral, to the more sophisticated 3D Hilbert curves." [more inside]
posted by jquinby at 2:06 PM PST - 28 comments

I Am Only Going Into Another Room

"101 ways to say died: in this project, I will be cataloging all the synonyms for "died" that appear in early American epitaphs." Courtesy of Vast Public Indifference: history, grad school, and gravestones. [more inside]
posted by MartinWisse at 1:45 PM PST - 52 comments

"The tang of the real permeated his talk."

In Memory of a Friend, Teacher and Mentor by Philip Roth: [NYTimes.com] A eulogy for Philip Roth’s homeroom teacher, his legendary and noble friend Bob Lowenstein.
posted by Fizz at 1:36 PM PST - 3 comments

Nelson Van Alden FTW

Michael Shannon Reads the Insane Delta Gamma Sorority Letter (SLFunnyOrDie NSFW language)
posted by fearfulsymmetry at 1:28 PM PST - 147 comments

The Business of Phish

Phish has consistently been one of the most popular and lucrative touring acts in America, generating well over a quarter billion dollars in ticket sales. Yet, by other measures, the band isn’t popular at all... Phish doesn’t make money by selling music. They make money by selling live music, and that, it turns out, is a more durable business model. (via) [more inside]
posted by Horace Rumpole at 1:18 PM PST - 83 comments

Not quite retirement age yet

The Washington Spirit are a professional soccer team in the National Women's Soccer League. Like many of the lower earning professional sports, they have to be creative about costs, and often arrange host families for their players. Instead of host parents, Diana Matheson and Robyn Gayle got host grandparents. Several hundred of them.
posted by jacquilynne at 1:11 PM PST - 7 comments

Happy Earth Day!

Today is Earth Day! Google has a special Earth Day Doodle up. 350.org is encouraging people to speak out against the Keystone XL Pipeline. President Barack Obama has posted a proclamation, and people from all around the Earth are recognizing Earth Day in many different ways! What are you doing to celebrate?
posted by Cookiebastard at 10:07 AM PST - 82 comments

Electrical Banana – Masters of Psychedelic Art

Sci-Fi-O-Rama is proud to present a selection of ‘far out’ imagery sequestered from the fantastically titled ‘Electrical Banana’ Psychedelic art book – and yes that title is indeed derived from a reference to a certain type of ladies sex toy.
posted by Think_Long at 6:41 AM PST - 14 comments

Fascinating pics of Vietnam in the 1980s

Fascinating pics of Vietnam in the 1980s (Part 1) (Part 2). Photographs by Philip Jones Griffiths. Here's a 1993 interview.
posted by KokuRyu at 5:46 AM PST - 13 comments

Back For Another Bite!

Liverpool's Luis Suarez bit Chelsea's Brankslave Ivanovic on the arm during Sunday's Liverpool-Chelsea football (soccer) game sending the media into a frenzy. But this is not the first time he's bitten another player. In 2010, while in the Dutch Eredivisie, he bit Otman Bakkal. He also was suspended for 8 games this year for racist comments. However, he has a new twitter follower: Mike Tyson who bit Evander Holyfield's ear in a prize fight in 1997.
posted by BillW at 4:48 AM PST - 64 comments

Eight Writers and the Walks That Inspired Them

Lovely illustration from the New York Times
posted by holmesian at 4:30 AM PST - 12 comments

Lisa Kokin: Sewn Found Photos

Sewn Found Photos "Sometimes there are inscriptions on the back (“Susie, 7 years old”) but more often they come to me stripped of all identity. I sit in my studio and speculate about the nature of the photographed people’s lives. I will, of course, never know the truth, so I feel it is my job to give them new lives and rescue them from the obscurity they would be headed for were it not for me, humble servant of the arts. I try to invent an altogether different identity for them but of course, in the final analysis these works are more about me than any of the hundreds of anonymous individuals who appear in my work." More from Lisa Kokin.
posted by HuronBob at 3:54 AM PST - 10 comments

NATO airstrikes kill 12 children in Kunar, Afghanistan

On April 7, an airstrike on a Taliban commander killed him and a total of 16 civilians, 12 of them children. Hamid Karzai condemns the attack and says that the CIA is carelessly planning these airstrikes that go awry far too often. Kunar district was the site of another airstrike that killed civilians in February. [more inside]
posted by Sleeper at 2:19 AM PST - 191 comments

Get me out of here

Divinyls singer Chrissy Amphlett dies. [more inside]
posted by mattoxic at 12:22 AM PST - 65 comments

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