Friday Ephemera
Samurai katana versus tomato. // How to advertise Japanese pasta sauce. // Magnetism, visualised. // John Wyndham: The Invisible Man of Science Fiction. Part 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. // Vintage Japanese robots. // 19th century scientific instruments. (h/t, Coudal.) // Diseases and genes, an interactive graph. // Typographic mishaps #231. // A history of photo tampering. // How to make a pop-up photograph. // The photography of Dennis Stock. // The hexomniscope and other unusual cameras. // Good and bad ad hominem. // Matthew Sinclair on the decline of the traditional family. // Greg Lukianoff on the creep of campus speech codes. // Pulp of the Day. // The Weener Kleener. (h/t, The Thin Man.) // Torpedo rooms of note. // Road trip from LA to New York, compressed into 4 minutes. // Geometry town. Canberra, from above. // Paris in the Fifties. // A gallery of wine labels. // The virtual corkscrew museum. // And, by The Lovers, La Dégustation.
“La Degustation”… it’s so rude! ;D
That’s an early mix. The album version is much better.
http://www.voilathelovers.com/
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Album-Lovers/dp/B000QUU2RU/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1212735950&sr=1-3
See also:
https://thompsonblog.co.uk/2007/03/irony_heartache.html
“You’re so young and firm and full of juice!” Hilarious. Thanks David.
Very funny song. The John Wyndham film is excellent too – especially the part on The Midwich Cuckoos.
Alan,
Yes, the Wyndham documentary is very good. I re-read The Midwich Cuckoos a couple of years ago and enjoyed it more than I expected. It’s a pity none of the film versions have managed to do justice to the book’s implications, though the low-budget 1960 version is much better than John Carpenter’s more recent piece of hokum. The item below, again from BBC4, may also be of interest.
https://thompsonblog.co.uk/2007/12/meeting-the-mar.html
Thanks!
Gah! Help!
Does someone know the name of that song on Oliver Gondry’s short film “Behind”? I followed the links, but they ended up at old, discontinued blogs and 404 errors.
Lacquer: “Behind”
http://www.discogs.com/release/198485
http://www.myspace.com/iamlacquer
On the wine labels site, I must say that as an Israeli I was a bit embarrassed to see the following note (also in Hebrew!) on the section of wines from WWII:
http://home.datacomm.ch/wineman/#war
However, some cause for pride is the quality of wines made today in Israel:
http://www.stratsplace.com/rogov/israel/i_wine.html
http://www.amazon.com/Rogovs-Guide-Israeli-Wines-2008/dp/1592642101
“Johnnie Worker’s Red Labial.” Ouch.
Thanks Anna! I saw the name “Lacquer” on a few of the still existent blogs, but I didn’t make the connection that it was the name of the group, or that “Behind” was the name of the song. I thought it was the production company, and the name of the short film. Thanks again!