Friday Ephemera
When the parachute doesn’t open. (h/t, Dr Westerhaus.) // Your very own dinosaur suit. Frighten children, impress women. More. // Idhi oka idi le. Bollywood psychedelia. // Bicycles with enormous speakers. It’s a thing, apparently. // Stop-motion fireworks. // Stop-motion chalk. (h/t, 1+1=3.) // Water sculpture. // Bruce Mozertom’s underwater photography. (1938) (h/t, DRB.) // Japanese goblin shark. Does anything about it look… familiar? // Guinness and light. // Sun spots and climate change. // Sunglasses of the Sixties and Seventies. (h/t, Anna.) // Nigerian man to divorce 82 of his 86 wives. // The size of Africa. (h/t, Norm.) // Michael Jackson at 50. // Tube clocks. // Buildings of note. // A short history of anatomical maps. // Architectural jelly. // Geothermal energy projects. // Deodorising snowflake gun brings joy to consumers. // And, via The Thin Man, it’s Ms Valaida Snow.
The goblin shark has alien teeth! Underwater no-one can hear you scream.
Is that snowflake gun filled with cocaine? 😀
That would explain the exuberance.
Hey Fishbulb, perhaps a better name for the deodorising cocaine/snow product would be “Mr Sparkle”.
Be disrespectful to smells in your home prefecture.
New Best-o Washoo!
I’m guessing it’s some kind of atomised grade-A Colombian. Unless euphoria can be induced by curtains that smell of grapefruit.
Looks more like acid.
David, you may like this. A tribute to Valaida Snow: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6e7ye-fiJA
Thanks for that. What a gal. I love the bit about her driver and pet monkey in matching outfits.
Well, you would, wouldn’t you?
I want a dinosaur suit. I want one now.
Can I really score in a dinosaur suit?
I’m told it may appeal to a specialist subset of furries.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furry_fandom
I wonder why someone felt a need to compare a continent to a bunch of countries. How does Africa stack up against Eurasia, or North America…