Friday Ephemera
At last. David Cronenberg’s The Fly is now an opera. Get those tickets booked. // The Danvers State Insane Asylum. (h/t, Coudal.) // Tentacles. // Behold the amazing Shit Box™. Oh, don’t look so indignant. // Bubble-wrap calendar. Imagine the fun. // TomTom hidden features. (h/t, Andy.) // Ideal wheels. (h/t, Vloody Cloody.) // Indian comics from the 1970s. (h/t, 1+1=3.) // Off-duty superheroes. // Chess + boxing = chess boxing. // There are waves on Saturn’s rings. // Satellite imagery as art. // The art of the tracking shot. From Touch of Evil to Boogie Nights. // Das Rad. // The abbreviated Plan 9 from Outer Space. (h/t, Matt.) // PES: Western Spaghetti. // Caffeine usage, visualised. // Avoid cramping at crucial moments. // If you’re tunnelling to the other side of the Earth, you’ll be needing a map. // Neo-NeoCon on arguing politics. // Fabian Tassano on academic “progress”. // The art of Chris Appelhans. // The colour of money. // Translucent creatures. // Robot calligraphy. // And, via The Thin Man, it’s Mr Ray Charles.
From the Shit Box technical specs:
Weight Tolerance: 55lbs/inch2
Bursting Force: 225lbs/inch2
Tested up to 20 stone/127 kilograms weight. [based on a dry unused box]
As this is a cardboard box it may collapse if used when wet – please keep dry.
“Where can it be used? Festivals, camping, building sites, fishing, travelling, kids caught short, etc”
Building sites?
It’s a versatile product.
The asylum photos are great. http://www.danversstateinsaneasylum.com/gallery_int.html
Have you been following the great wafer controversy?
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2008/07/fight_back_against_bill_donohu.php
What’s the betting the asylum’s being considered as David’s secret base for Operation Overlord?
Matt,
I somehow missed that mad little saga. Luckily, there’s a summary at B&W:
http://www.butterfliesandwheels.com/notesarchive.php?id=2364
Random,
Not so bloody secret now, is it?