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Terence Gray was an English born aristocrat of an Irish family. He tried his hand at Egyptology, drama and theater, but gave it up to keep the family vineyards in the Monaco. He owned the
winner of the 1957 Ascot Gold cup.
He also became a mystic.
posted to MetaFilter by fcummins
at 12:58 PM on July 1, 2008
(9 comments)
"It's somewhat fitting that a man named
Charles Bird King--a name both eminently European yet vaguely Amerindian--would depict the natives of the American East (Creek, Crow, Seminole, Cherokee, Choctaw, Iowa, Fox, Winnebago, etc) at a time when there was a semblance of parity (parody of parity?) between the Old and New Worlds. This was expressed in the dress of natives as well as many whites who lived among them: European brass gorgets and artfully knotted cravats around the neck of a men with painted faces and feathers in their hair. The synthesis is breathtaking: both fierce and fey. It's a damn pity the European influence eventually crushed the Native--this could very well have become our national mode of dress."
Lord Whimsy.
posted to MetaFilter by vronsky
at 12:56 PM on June 25, 2008
(8 comments)
Rémi Gaillard
leaves a trail of befuddled witnesses and victims in his wake.
posted to MetaFilter by Dave Faris
at 9:52 AM on June 24, 2008
(43 comments)
Help me find real-world magic items.
posted to Ask Metafilter by MrVisible
at 12:34 PM on June 17, 2008
(47 comments)
Over the last few months one of the Metafilter regulars has produced a number of comments demonstrating an above average grasp of the democratic parties political process as well as an above average ability to articulate that understanding in to language that highlights the substance of the comments.
posted to MetaTalk by iamabot
at 3:12 PM on June 7, 2008
(100 comments)
Paul Nicklen
grew up in the Arctic, and his photography is amazing...A short, narrated presentation on the National Geographic site.
posted to MetaFilter by HuronBob
at 6:39 PM on June 7, 2008
(24 comments)
Please Vote for Me (official site) is a documentary about Chinese third-graders electing a class monitor.
posted to MetaFilter by generalist
at 9:57 AM on June 1, 2008
(35 comments)
Fascinating account
(w/ pix) of a motorcycle journey through Angola. Stumbled onto this from the Black Flag forums and have not been able to stop reading it.
posted to MetaFilter by jcruelty
at 9:29 PM on May 26, 2008
(40 comments)
Give me your baby hacks! My wife and I are expecting our first child in November. What tips and tricks can you offer us to make our lives a lot easier? For example, a friend of mine swears that putting a crying baby in front of a mirror will cause it to stop. Another uses noise cancelling headphones to temper the noise from his shrieking child. I am looking for hacks on everything from diaper changing to stroller modifications. Make our lives easier as we enter into parenthood.
posted to Ask Metafilter by jasondigitized
at 9:16 AM on May 20, 2008
(47 comments)
WTF, Nature?
is a blog about natural oddities. Kinda like Cute Overload, but with a different adjective.
posted to MetaFilter by owhydididoit
at 12:12 PM on May 7, 2008
(12 comments)
In this way, Lu Yang became one of the "RMB gamers" she disdains. More than 10,000 RMB was quickly and nearly imperceptibly spent. In the game, the "queen" possessed fearsome power. She carried out vengeance for herself and her friends, she accepted entreaties, and she protected the caravans of the kingdom. At the same time, she went out with the heroes to invade other kingdoms. Her reputation spread far and wide. [...] "Long live the Queen!" People bowed to her in submission. That was the high point for Lu Yang on ZT Online, and for that one fleeting moment, she felt that the time and money she had spent was worth it.
The System is a translated Chinese article examining ZT Online, an MMORPG that has taken fleecing gamers to a new level.
posted to MetaFilter by Kattullus
at 7:40 PM on May 6, 2008
(34 comments)
Ways of Seeing, the BBC documentary written and hosted by novelist and art critic
John Berger, is back up on YouTube. (scroll down for direct links to all four half-hour episodes) "I actually find it rather disturbing that -- despite our claims to be a culture that's increasing freedom of choice all the time -- we haven't come up with anything quite as astute, subversive or beautiful as Ways of Seeing since. Not on the BBC, and not even -- especially not -- on the internet. Download it while you still can."
posted to MetaFilter by vronsky
at 2:06 PM on April 30, 2008
(32 comments)
how do you throw a ball?
posted to Ask Metafilter by krautland
at 9:15 AM on April 29, 2008
(23 comments)
Tohoku University's Kano Collection
is an unparalleled collection of japanese books from the Edo period. The beautiful and grizzly
Kaibou zonshinzu anatomical chart has been
making the blogrounds lately but that's only one of the countless treasures the Kano Collection has to offer. Stumbling around near-blindly, like a non-Japanese reader such as myself, with only minimal help from the site, I have come across an amazing variety of beautiful objects, such as
this picture book,
a scroll with images of animals,
city map,
map of Japan,
battle map,
another picture book,
the Kaitai shouzu anatomical chart and
this picture scroll which has
my favorite little scene I've come across in the collection. Whole days could be spent just surfing idly through the Kano Collection.
posted to MetaFilter by Kattullus
at 4:06 AM on April 28, 2008
(9 comments)
KayakPaddling.net
These animated sea kayak paddling tutorials, created by a single student as a final work, just won Finnish eLearning award over national broadcasting company and other big name publishers.
Try
melontaopas.fi for other languages.
posted to MetaFilter by Free word order!
at 2:46 AM on April 17, 2008
(8 comments)
Chinese MC Hammer.
Move for move nearly perfect redo of the original Hammer video. In someone's living room. While mom knits on the couch. It's a thousand kinds of awesome.
via blort
posted to MetaFilter by mathowie
at 10:35 PM on March 29, 2008
(75 comments)
"Ten Thousand Cents"
is a digital artwork that creates a representation of a $100 bill. Using a custom drawing tool, thousands of individuals working in isolation from one another painted a tiny part of the bill without knowledge of the overall task.
posted to MetaFilter by sveskemus
at 6:24 AM on April 12, 2008
(35 comments)
Wearing an
old-fashioned diving suit,
William "Diver Bill" Walker worked in 14 feet of murky water beneath
Winchester Cathedral, digging out the old timber and peat foundations and replacing them with bags of concrete cement and concrete blocks. Staying
underwater six hours per day for five years (1906-1911), Diver Bill moved 25,800 bags of concrete and laid 114,900 concrete blocks, saving the Norman building from certain collapse.
posted to MetaFilter by chuckdarwin
at 2:40 PM on April 9, 2008
(38 comments)
I've got a list of phone numbers (xxx-xxx-xxxx) that I need addresses for. I know I can Google them, one at a time, and get the addresses, but is there a way I can do them in batches?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Framer
at 3:12 AM on April 9, 2008
(8 comments)
Grapes in milk... now what?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Rinku
at 4:57 PM on April 2, 2008
(180 comments)
