Tuesday, November 3, 2015

Sad, bad - glad? Cartoons that will make you very happy

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The less you say about cartoons like these, the better, but since I don't want to look like a total slacker, I should say somethin...

Eadweard Muybridge: HOW HE DID IT!

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SOLVED! The mystery of how Muybridge took all those photos which created an illusion of motion long before motion picture technology...
Sunday, November 1, 2015

Monkeyshines: more creepy than Halloween

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It's All Saints Day, the bellybutton of the Mexican Day of the Dead celebration which lasts from October 31 to November 2. In celebr...
Saturday, October 31, 2015

Hitler's ventriloquist

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The weird shit I find late at night! There seems to be no end to it. I'm now on a search for very early talkies, most of t...
Friday, October 30, 2015

Betty White - all right (and Bill, you're my thrill)

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I realize this blog, uneven as it is, has become dominated by the gif. The reason is this: I was born in 1954, and anything that hel...
Thursday, October 29, 2015

The stag in the cathedral

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This is worth watching on YouTube because it's high-res enough to watch full-screen. If you do, you will feel that you are there in ...

WAAAAAAAH! Mockingbird - Carly Simon & James Taylor

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Compare to the original. This is more Motown-flavoured, and it works for me, but there are no visuals so it's hard to make a com...

150 "Niet" Sayings that will Change Your Life

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"Pretty Niet, eh?":  150 Profound Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (October...