Esther Stocker
Installation and show up now in Museum 52’s London space. Via Arkitip, which has more images.
Dog’s Head, Revived
If you saw this shit without prior knowledge, you might think it was a hoax. But it’s potentially real, even if the video is a recreation. Via Wikipedia:
Since its Prelinger Archives release, the film has provoked much controversy. Ken Smith, author of Mental Hygiene: Classroom Films 1945 – 1970, believes the film is fake. He [...]
Kwaaaaaaayzzyy Rollercoaster
Just opened last month at Hershey Amusement Park in PA, not too far from NYC. A long story about how it was built:
In just two months’ time, riders will crest this same piece of steel, then hurtle down a record-setting 97-degree slope—yes, that’s 7 degrees past vertical—on the steepest and most severe roller-coaster descent [...]
The Darkest Mystery of the Universe
From my new favorite website, The Daily Galaxy:
Cosmological calculations indicate that the vast array of objects we can detect are just foam on top of a vast invisible sea of matter we can’t detect, and two teams think the key to the undetectable lies in our very own star.
Foam on top of a vast invisible [...]
Man, This Video.
This is one of the more disturbing videos I’ve ever seen, for meta reasons. How can just watching a video make you feel like a racist? Why does just knowing the racist depictions that play off images like this one somehow feel self-incriminating? This one fucked me up.
Via Denver Egotist.
Your jerk IT guy that “doesn’t get it”? Might be austistic
This article explains a lot:
Grandin has compiled a list of jobs and their suitability to Aspies and autistics according to their skills. No surprise, tech jobs are cited early and often. Her list of “good jobs for visual thinkers”, for example, includes computer programming, drafting (including computer-aided drafting), computer troubleshooting and repair, web page design, [...]