Help me plan and plant a garden this summer!
posted to Ask Metafilter by onalark at 8:48 AM on June 4, 2008 (22 comments)

The Speculum theologiae is a beautiful medieval manuscript. Its diagrams demonstrate visually various aspects of the medieval worldview. The diagrams are explained and translated and most of them are expounded upon in a short essay. My favorite diagrams are The Cherub with Six Wings, The 10 Commandments, Plagues of Egypt and Abuses of the Impious and The Tree of Virtue and The Tree of Vices.
posted to MetaFilter by Kattullus at 5:00 AM on June 3, 2008 (14 comments)

What Was True. From the mid 1950s through the early 1980s, William Gedney (1932-1989) photographed throughout the United States, in India, and in Europe, and filling notebook after notebook with his observations. From the commerce of the street outside his Brooklyn apartment to the daily chores of unemployed coal miners, from the lifestyle of hippies in Haight-Ashbury to the sacred rituals of Hindu worshippers, Gedney was able to record the lives of others with clarity and poignancy. Gedney's America is a nation of averted eyes, and broken automobiles, and restlessness, a place Edward Hopper would recognize, but so, also, Walt Whitman.
posted to MetaFilter by matteo at 4:38 PM on April 27, 2005 (11 comments)

NYC fabric filter: where can I find cool upholstery fabric?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Atom12 at 4:53 AM on March 20, 2008 (7 comments)

Coverville is a wonderful, podcast which collects covers grouped by various themes.
posted to MetaFilter by shothotbot at 9:35 AM on March 6, 2008 (14 comments)

The Curious Cultural Journey of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah"
posted to MetaFilter by BuddhaInABucket at 2:35 PM on March 5, 2008 (165 comments)

Straight from the Department of Things Everybody But Me Probably Knew About Two Years Ago, it was only yesterday that I discovered the mind-boggling usefulness of the Amazon Filler Item Finder, which allows you to enter the exact price of the item you need to pad your order up to $25.00 for free shipping. Happy postage-free holidays.
posted to MetaFilter by XQUZYPHYR at 7:14 AM on December 4, 2007 (54 comments)

"I am sitting in a room (mp3), different from the one you are in now." is the opening phrase from Alvin Lucier's (Wikipedia) best known work, simply titled 'I am sitting in a room'. The piece involves playing a recording of a short speech back into the room and re-recording the result. This is done again and again, with the resonant frequencies of the room reinforced each time, until all that is left are the characteristics and resonances of the room. (Interview and documentary also available at ubu.com
posted to MetaFilter by TwoWordReview at 5:58 AM on July 14, 2006 (28 comments)

I Am Not Sitting In A Room With Reynols.
posted to MetaFilter by jtron at 3:03 PM on February 25, 2008 (13 comments)

What do you look at/notice, as you wander through the world, that I probably ignore?
posted to Ask Metafilter by wittgenstein at 12:15 PM on February 12, 2008 (130 comments)

Tape Babies. The Tape Species are generally passive and although they regard themselves as art objects do enjoy human interface. They also enjoy climbing trees, tearing down signs and floating luminously through the air. [via]
posted to MetaFilter by nebulawindphone at 10:58 AM on May 31, 2005 (14 comments)

Mark Khaisman makes incredible art using packing tape on plexiglass. (via)
posted to MetaFilter by spiderskull at 3:15 PM on February 1, 2008 (29 comments)

Virtual Morphologies - the dark surreal stylings of J. Karl Bogartte. "In 1973 I accidentally discovered that by moving things around on the ordinary copy machine (and in effect, subverting its intended purpose…), strange conjunctions revealed themselves. At the beginning of 2000, I just as suddenly abandoned this process and leaped into the 21st century, exploring the computer and the realms of digital surrealité."
posted to MetaFilter by desjardins at 6:06 AM on January 29, 2008 (6 comments)

We're looking for authentic Amish cooking in Indiana along I-90, and especially near Shipshewana, which we will be staying near. Any suggestions?
posted to Ask Metafilter by 14580 at 7:04 PM on October 3, 2007 (6 comments)

An inquiry into living while walking the roads of America, Mexico, and beyond
posted to MetaFilter by MetaMonkey at 6:55 PM on August 17, 2006 (16 comments)