Archive for April, 2008
Log
From the Times Online
Pyotr Kuznetsov was in hospital yesterday after he was discovered hitting himself over the head with a log. Members of his religious group have been hiding in a cave since November, believing that the world would end in May.
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Tags: cults, mental illness, religion
Sticky Date
Years ago I lived in a house with a guy that I’ll refer to as “Jaden”. I did not enjoy living with this person, because he was a spoilt and ineffectual twerp. His habits were interesting to observe which went some way towards making cohabitation temporarily bearable.
Every morning he would singe one piece of [...]
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Tags: food, humour, insects
Two word sentence
I like swearing. I don’t believe there are bad words, only the bad use of words. The most elegant sentence I know of was constructed out of just two words, one of which was “fuck”. What’s more it was uttered by somebody I once met; his name was Ramon. He was unsuccessfully attempting to fix [...]
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Tags: cussing, fuck, language, swearing
Unlikely prize fights
From Zooilogix
A new exhibition of nature drawings, paintings and renderings has just opened at Buckingham Palace. The event focuses around four artists and a collector (Leonardo da Vinci, Cassiano dal Pozzo, Alexander Marshal, Maria Sibylla Merian and Mark Catesby) who lived from the mid 15th century to the late 18th. As an added bonus the [...]
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Tags: animals, art, dinosaur, natural history, squid, whale
Wilfrid Wood
Take a look at Wilfrid Wood’s peculiar organisms…
He used to work on the British satirical tv show Spitting Image.
Via Drawn!
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Tags: art, artists, illustration
Smoking Jackets
According to Wikipedia, the smoking jacket
…became a popular accessory in Victorian times, when it was believed that the sensitive and delicate nostrils of ladies would be assailed by the pungent fumes of tobacco clinging to everyday clothing. Consequently it became de rigueur for every considerate gentleman to don his smoking jacket before lighting his cigar [...]
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Tags: clothes, history, retro, smoking cap, smoking jacket, victorians
The Metamorphosis
Franz Kafka’s tale of a salesman that wakes up to find he has been transformed into an insect is a favourite of mine. Scenes from the book lend themselves to illustration, and two illustrators that are capable of rendering images with suitable pathos have interpreted it within within the past few years
Peter Kuper’s adaption of [...]
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Tags: art, comics, crumb, illustration, kafka, kuper, literature
Corrugated iron tank
Ah New Zealand, land of corrugated iron. Once we even had our own corrugated iron tank, actually three Semple tanks were built before it was discovered that they had a top speed of minus 5 inches an hour. It turned out that bunging a corrugated iron shell on top of a tractor chassis just wasn’t [...]
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Tags: history, new zealand, tanks, war, weapons
