Friday Ephemera
The museum of scientifically accurate fabric brain art. (h/t, Cronaca) // Kate MccGwire makes sculpture out of pigeon feathers. // Airplane hotel, Costa Rica. // B-2 stealth bomber. // Water-powered jet pack. // At last, a heated ice-cream scoop. (h/t, sk60) // Your very own wine tasting bar. // Another circumhorizontal arc. // Vanity pixels. // Vertical radiators. // Futuristic megastructures. // Ruins. // How to draw animals. (h/t, Things) // Vintage picture stories. // Vintage health and safety. (h/t, Coudal) // International toothpaste museum. // 19th century obstetrics dolls. // A history of political correctness. // And, via The Thin Man, it’s Mr William “Count” Basie.
I’ve got to have a water-powered jet pack. I want to try it in my local pool.
“I want to try it in my local pool.”
There may be some intermittent thrust issues, especially when water wings, inflatables, small children, etc, get sucked into the mechanism. And those who survive the carnage will be nagging for a turn themselves.
The airplane hotel suite is great but it’s funny the website is giving it some eco-spin:
“Five big trucks were needed to get the plane out to the resort, and while the transportation certainly had a negative ecological impact, the finished project is a stunning example of adaptive reuse.”
Count Basie meets Bond… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqSoQBllVUc
Thanks for the history of political correctness. I hadn’t seen that before.
James,
I can’t say I share William Lind’s general worldview, aired elsewhere (especially his mutterings of impending doom and quaint ideas of gender roles, etc), but the lineage of cultural Marxism is interesting nonetheless. And it’s easy to forget that broad political trends can arise from small groups of academic “theorists”. Or incorrigible fantasists with authoritarian leanings.
And history aside, it’s quite funny watching someone who does the “I’m-holding-my-pipe-as-I-speak” thing with total seriousness.