cataloguing 1000 shades of white

laundry

Hand-embroidered laundry bag I just bought:

I almost cried when I found this. What can I say? I'm a moody person.
What am I going to put in it? Not laundry!

make me psychic

I am a big fan of animator Sally Cruikshank. Her work is delightfully bonkers and she seems like a cool person.


I just found her blog!
"Quasi at the Quackadero" is a favorite, but I can't embed it. She also did this part for the Twilight Zone movie that I think is funnier out of context.




Since my computer died I've been going through dusty stacks of cd's looking for stuff to re-upload, and finding all kinds of music I forgot I liked. Bands like The Gerbils? And The Black Heart Procession? That I listened to alllll the time in 2001? It's giving me feelings somewhere between nostalgia and indigestion.

tonight I am delighted to be celebrating the construction of this beautiful sand castle

throbbing or melting? I couldn't tell you...

Can you think of a more disturbing question proposed by a movie poster than this one here, "what did they lack?"

painted bollywood film posters

so good

three things too beautiful

my grandmother and her sisters

I love everything about this photo.

cigarettes

this is a pretty accurate representation of what smoking cigarettes is like.

weird whales

sometimes my mind cracks open and whales come out

blinky watts is not blind

To the person who found my blog by searching the phrase "causes of attitude problem", I'm sorry I can't help you. I have no idea where my attitude problem comes from. I think I might have Bozeman's Simplex though.

pansy's mouthpiece

object story

"Pansy kept several of the mouthpieces she used in her 'teeth spinning act'. The teeth marks on this one show how a firm bite was all that kept her from a dangerous fall."

birdsong translations

nightingale-song.com
I don't understand how this works or what it means, but I've been entering words like "hairbrush" and "round table pizza", and they are very pleasant to listen to.

found via fed by birds

I have no idea

I would like to credit both these amazing artists, but I can't because I don't know who they are.

wholesome fun at the magic kingdom

gold used for evil purposes

the world is filled with mystery and confusion

mary blair tea set

It seems too adorable to be real, but it is. Too bad it's doll-sized, I would find it very amusing to serve tea from that triple-spouted pot.

stromboli's orchestra

from hollywood animation archive

ultimate feline reality

from the Museum of Hoaxes:

David Starr Jordan, president of Stanford University, published an article in Popular Science Monthly describing the discovery of a new form of photography that he called Sympsychography. Starr explained that it allowed invisible brain waves to be made visible on a photographic plate -- similar to the way in which invisible X rays produce an image on a photographic plate.

The first test of sympsychography, Starr wrote, had been conducted by Cameron Lee, who burned an image of a cat onto a photographic plate merely by thinking of a cat. The Astral Camera Club, which met on April 1, then took the concept one step further. Seven of its members simultaneously concentrated their minds on a photographic plate while thinking of a cat. What emerged was not one man's image of a cat, but rather a joint "impression of ultimate feline reality." The resulting picture (shown here) was reproduced in the article.

Starr wrote, "it will be noticed that this picture is unmistakably one of a cat. But it is a cat in its real essence, the type cat as distinguished from human impressions of individual cats."

Jordan thought the readers of Popular Science Monthly would immediately recognize his article as a joke. Instead he received numerous letters from people who had taken the article at face value. One clergyman even confided to Starr that he had prepared six sermons on "the Lesson of the Sympsychograph."