Saturday, 27 May 2023
quote [ Unpacking the monsters of the Swiss painter who inspired Ridley Scott?s Alien ]
Just driving home from visiting the HR Giger museum in Switzerland and thought this might spark some interest.
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Monday, 22 May 2023
quote [ Ooh or only £52 for a romantic couples getaway in the Slough of Despair. ]
You can play it via remote. It's near indecipherable from the looks of it.
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quote [ We love a good story about a missing painting missing. This one starts in Christmas of 2008: a Hungarian art historian is at home with his young daughter Lola, watching the popular children?s film Stuart Little, when he notices a painting in the background that shakes him up so much, he almost drops his daughter from his lap. ]
Everybody needs a Stuart Little
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Saturday, 20 May 2023
quote [ In the 1930s, artist Else Bostelmann illuminated in art what scientist William Beebe dictated to her from his cramped seat in a spherical steel bathysphere as it explored the deep sea off Bermuda. She also set up an underwater studio. ]
Deep sea diving through your mind's eye I just wanna find out why
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Friday, 12 May 2023
quote [ Female voices ? of a higher frequency than male voices ? need almost twice as many bits of information! ]
Great little videodoc on influential synth pioneer Suzanne Ciani designing sounds and tunes for the XENON pinball cabinet. Wiki page suggests the snippet was aired on a show called Omni: The New Frontier.
(thumb source)
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Thursday, 4 May 2023
quote [ Guy tries to crawl into a balloon and it collapses on him. ]
An internet classic. And yet I don't remember it.
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Sunday, 23 April 2023
quote [ We are all now lonesome cowboys; it's time to learn how to paint shotguns. ]
Quote is deep down from the comments. This is a very absurd story about some adult cartoon occupying a webcomic internet person a little too encompassed in space station research.
NSFW because they seem to have found the trope.
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Sunday, 2 April 2023
quote [ I see a guy cleaning a big clock suspended from the ceiling. He seems to be wiping the clock-face from the inside. I can?t understand why so many people have their smart phones directed upwards. ]
You might now similar stuff. Back of clock in extended.
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Friday, 31 March 2023
quote [ To me what is fascinating is that the wireframe imagery simultaneously is simple in terms of its abstract form, and advanced, in that wireframes are drawings made by computing machines. ]
From a longer thread (nitter proxy link, may need multiple tries) with more infos on props. Somewhere, they mention more reflecting tape used by Cameron.
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Monday, 27 March 2023
quote [ I explained in a few lectures the ins and outs of this project, and now I will do it here. ]
great story and complex infographic. It has the full visual attached which is informative in itself.
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