One for camera enthusiasts. A Nikon D3 very neatly cut in half. 

(h/t, Dr Westerhaus)

Baby, toys and time-lapse. // A year in photographs: 1, 2, 3. // Age your photos. // Zoom into this 1,474 megapixel image. (h/t, TDK) // Leap between buildings on Google Earth. // It’s a rainbow, or a cloud with a tractor beam. // Your very own Louis Vuitton caviar case. // How bacon is made. // Unfeasible teapot. // Fun with centrifuges. // Red square, a game. (h/t, Tim) // The perils of electrocution. (h/t, Things) // The scourge of cello scrotum. (h/t, Ephemeral Zed) // The Brain That Wouldn’t Die. (1962) // The eyeballing game. // Jazzmutant. More. (h/t, Coudal) // TV science fiction from the Seventies. // Asian film posters. // Alan Moore, avert your eyes. // And, via The Thin Man, it’s Mr Henry Mancini. 

More musical oddments from the ephemera archives.

Valaida Snow: Caravan. (1939)

Margaret Whiting & Johnny Mercer: Baby, It’s Cold Outside. (1949)

The Vince Guaraldi Trio: Linus and Lucy. (1965)

Astrud Gilberto: Agua de Beber. (1965)

Burl Ives: Ugly Bug Ball. (1963)

Ray Charles: It Should Have Been Me. (1954)

Lalo Schifrin: Shifting Gears. (1968)

The Flying Lizards: Money. (1979)

Les 5 De l’Harmonica: In the Mood. (Circa 1947)

Annette Lajon: Chanson Gitane. (1942)

By all means add your own. Previous mixtapes here, here and here. 

Having noted this site’s frequent references to fine meat products, Anna thinks we should see how hot dogs are made. Brace yourself for the “liquid smoke shower” and alarming quantities of thick, pink slurry, otherwise known as “meat batter”.

Don’t look directly at it, children.

Dr Westerhaus alerts us to the Museum of Retro Technology and in particular this gallery of sound mirrors and acoustic location devices, used to detect enemy aircraft prior to the development of radar.

Related, and a little more discreet: Concealed hearing devices of the 19th century, including the amplifying vase and the acoustic beard.