Friday Ephemera
Experiments in the Revival of Organisms. Sergei Brukhonenko and the disembodied dog’s head. (1940) // Farming with dynamite. (1910) // From bull fights to ape rights. // Snow globes of note. // Rice paddy art. // Echochrome. A game of perspective. // The book of sleep. // The worst places to be a woman. // Dr Ahmad Al-Mub’i shares his thoughts on marriage. (h/t, Cookslaw.) // A map of the political blogosphere. // A timeline of internet memes. (h/t, Crooked Timber.) // Peter Risdon on Marxists, memes and benefit cheats. // Jihad on the dole. Your taxes at work. // Guardian hypocrisy shock. // Bill Blake on Grand Theft Auto IV. Missile launchers, temptation and vigilante strippers. // Photographed while driving. // “Come and play with us, Danny.” Kubrick analysed. // The art of the title sequence. // George Dyson on the birth of the computer. // Dish camouflage. // Big science. // The Tokyo Sky Tree. (h/t, 1+1=3.) // The aerodynamic Nubrella. // And, via The Thin Man, it’s Flanagan and Allen.
Is the Brukhonenko film for real? It has to be faked – doesn’t it?
Anna,
It seems to be in part what was then cutting edge science – Bryukhonenko influenced the development of open-heart surgery – and part propagandist hokum. So far as I can make out, the original experiments were real enough; it’s the results that are in doubt.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experiments_in_the_Revival_of_Organisms#Fact_or_fiction.3F
Thanks!
It’s only a matter of time…
http://elkindjal.free.fr/futurama/personnages/richard%20nixon.jpg
The Nubrella seems like a kind of bad-weather pocket-protector: A device which, while practical, signals to one and all the user’s ineligibility for procreation.
But it’s got a hands-free option! I want one.