“Old glues, pastes and mucilages…”
Fascinating insight into the work of a library conservator, one of the unsung heroes repairing papers and books and photographs so that people like me can get their grubby hands on them.
Artist Carl Warner on his fruit and vegetable recreation of iconic London landmarks: “It’s important to me that people look at this and go ‘London’, instantly.”
I love that that’s important to anyone. I love that anyone would want to spend three weeks striving to become the Christopher Wren of the fruit and veg world. I love that in the video accompanying the original article there’s at least one half-empty bottle of lager lying around the studio.
(newslite.tv, via Dark Roasted Blend )
A screenshot of Grackle68k, a Twitter client for Mac System 6 through to Mac OS 9. I bet this will really annoy the dude I posted about in September who went back to System 7 precisely to escape this kind of distraction.
(retards.org, via Minimal Mac)
Lounge rooms for the little people who live inside your PC. Beautifully done, but I bet the vacuuming is a bitch.
Bizarro collagey awesomeness by Melbourne artist Al Ouchtomsky.
When Tom Baker abstained from participating in Doctor Who’s twentieth anniversary episode, ‘The Five Doctors’, he was, for the purposes of a promotional photoshoot, replaced with a wax dummy. Now I’m wondering if he shouldn’t have been replaced with one of these adorable nesting dolls.
I love that the Hartnell and Troughton dolls are in monochrome.
(sweet is the wind, via lizbt)
Giant woven fish from Peru. Maybe it’s just me, but I’d go mental if I had to wake up to this every day. Mad craft skills, but.
Axel Erlandson’s tree sculptures
Inosculation, or tree bonding. “I talk to them,” says Axel Erlandson.