- Going Underground: Ross Ashmore Paints Every Tube Station | Londonist
Fantastic work – I’ve been to many of these stations when I lived in London, but by no means did I get to visit them all.
- Machine with Concrete – Arthur Ganson – YouTube
I love stuff like this – the absurdity, the possibility that it might work, the raw mechanical nature of it.
- Detailed Floor Plan Drawings of Popular TV and Film Homes – My Modern Metropolis
I love seeing the fictional brought to life. Most of these groundplans probably only existed as disparate sketches in the office of the set builder before.
- Angola, NY: Scenes From The Past: The Block Hotel
A bit of a blast from the past. When I was growing up we used to come here all the time to get Friday fish-fry. I remember it was remodeled back in the early 2000’s and seemed to be doing well, but then one day it shut down for renovations and never re-opened. It was replaced by a Walgreens, which I still think was the dumbest bit of construction ever: 1) There was already a Rite Aid across the street, where the Save-Rite used to be. 2) Walgreens refuses to sell beer, which in New York is a death sentence for most businesses.
- R.K. Milholland to be Featured Speaker at UNT Comic Studies Conference | Benchmarks Online
I’ve been a fan of the webcomic Something Positive for a while. When the creator went back to his alma mater to give a talk, his old boss posted some of the cartoon Randy drew when he was a student.
- Pussy willow – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
After Easter dinner at my parents’ we brought back a bunch of pussy willow branches and stuck them in a vase on the table. Now that they’ve developed roots I’m going to try and plant them down by the creek.
- Nana nana nana nana Batman!
A great confluence of events, and an awesome visual pun.
- How Animals Eat Their Food – YouTube
I know I’m a bit late on this one, but it is absolutely hilarious. My favorite is the alligator.
- Mercyhurst University presents “Eurydice” – YouTube
If you want to see the director of Eurydice talking about the play, and some of the theatre and set in the background, then enjoy these two videos.
Category: x-personal
Random and intermittent postings about life, the universe, etc..
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RIP Charlotte
My grandma just passed away.
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Protected: Too many gut punches
Long rehearsal is long. Shaved my beard today, now my chin is cold.
Delicious Links for 2013-04-18
- The miniature coffins found on Arthur’s Seat | A Blast From The Past
Seventeen tiny coffins, hidden amongst the rocks of Arthur’s Seat in Edinburgh. A great article that takes this incident from "Ripley’s Believe It or Not" material to real history with some solid facts.
- MFA vs. NYC: America now has two distinct literary cultures. Which one will last? – Slate Magazine
While this was a fascinating examination of the differences between New York and MFA style "literary" writers, I kept flashing back to a novel I’d read a couple years ago, "The Thieves of Manhattan". Great story.
- Man Finds Out He’s Married to His Sister on Their Anniversary | The Stir
Wow, I just have no words to imagine this situation. And to think of the poor kids…
- The Abandoned Palace At 5 Beekman Street « Scouting NY
An incredible photo-filled article about a beautiful building in downtown Manhattan, boarded up and half-abandoned for decades and now undergoing renovation.
- Fake Yo-Yo Trickster Fools Every TV Station Everywhere
I just love the fact that somebody can pretend to have an unusual talent & a half-decent background story and still get on television in this day and age. It’s like nobody in local TV knows how to do basic research on the internet.
- 17 Secret Doorways To Help You Turn Your House Into Wayne Manor
These are all great, but I especially love the pantry door at #15. I know a guy who could finish his basement with one of these.
- Tiled Penny Floor » Curbly | DIY Design Community
I saw this on Tumblr with the headline of $1.44 a square foot (it’s really closer to $1.96) and I just fell in love with it. Someday I’ll my own house and I will find a room to do his in.
- Crazy ceiling fan – YouTube
Just watch this, it’s awesome. Now, I can’t picture how you could screw up assembling a ceiling fan that badly, and I don’t imagine it’d work forever, but in the short term it’s kind of awesome.
Surprise, I’m alive!
So, I’ve kind of spent the last eight weeks building three different shows. The first to go up was “Marriage of Figaro” about three weeks ago, then “Anatomy of Gray” last week, and a couple days ago we opened “Eurydice”. I’ll talk more about the whole process later but Eurydice is most on my mind, for obvious reasons.
The thing that sticks out most right now is something that happened at the opening matinee for a bunch of high-school students. After the show the cast and crew came out and sat on set and took some questions from the audience and there was this one girl in the front row who asked about the baptism theme and if that was intentional (it wasn’t on our part, but might be inherent in the story). After her question, she just sort of sat there sobbing while the cast answered a bunch of other questions. When we finished up I remarked to Mat (playing the role of Father) that she looked like the kind of girl who’d go home and start up a Tumblr about this play.
Then last night Gill and I were at the opening night performance and I’m positive baptism-girl was sitting behind us with a bunch of her friends. After the play was over I overheard her say “This play just gives me so many feels” and I knew that if we hadn’t banned video recording that there’d be a bunch of sepia-toned animated GIFs of our actors in a couple of days.
P.S. For support – the mood “blah” was pre-selected for me when I started writing this entry. Firefox 20.0.1, Windows 7 Professional.
Delicious Links for 2013-03-21
- Suicide Forest in Japan – YouTube
Creepy min-documentary about Japan’s suicide forest, so dense and remote that authorities only look for bodies once a year.
- No Fly Posters | Creature Forum
A wonderful dialogue between some artists and a building owner.
- 37 People Who Are Worse At Cooking Than You
Oh god, the pizzas!
- 15 bizarre green inventions: White Goat | MNN – Mother Nature Network
I love this. Insert ~40 sheets of used office paper and receive a fresh roll of toilet paper in 30 minutes.
- DIY: Changing Headlight Bulbs – Unofficial Honda FIT Forums
So one of the headlights on the car is out, and I thought maybe this is something I can do myself. But when the first two steps are to jack up the car and remove the tire, I think I’ll let a shop take care of it.
- Positronix comments on These fucking scissors
A beautiful thread on Reddit about the lab equipment of unknown provenance and usefulness that cannot be disposed of. It reminds me so much of diving through the theaters sometime, looking for the right part or piece of scenery
- Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Script Has ALL Eleven Doctors | GeekMom | Wired.com
Rumor and speculation about the upcoming 50th anniversary episode of Doctor Who. If this one is to be believed, it’ll feature all 11 Doctors, though I’ll believe it when I see it.
- Gender-Bending Chickens: Mixed, Not Scrambled | This Scientific Life
Huh. Half-n-half chickens.
- Applied Math – Futility Closet
Oh this is neat: you can use the Fibonacci sequence to quickly convert miles to kilometers.