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Color footage shot at the 1939 World's Fair in New York set to "Perpetuum Mobile" by the Penguin Cafe Orchestra. Amazing stuff.
I'm reblogging a few of my favorites. There are many more here. You're welcome.
Every state capital spoken by different actors in different movies.
The ending where the children are hacked to death by a dragon appears to have been cut, but, trust me, it happened.
Haunting photos from Denver Post Photography Blog:
Up and down Detroit’s streets, buildings stand abandoned and in ruin. French photographers Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre set out to document the decline of an American city. Their book “The Ruins of Detroit“, a document of decaying buildings frozen in time, was published in December 2010.
Evangelist Peter Ruckman didn’t say "you wore short-shorts or matador britches" but he still thinks "you don’t have the sense God gave a brass monkey"
Who hasn't done at least some of this stuff?
Leah Gibbs, 23, met Adam Minton on Facebook. He apparently didn't include "armed robbery" as hobby on his profile.
He asked her to give him a lift to a nearby Ladbrokes [gambling establishment] and she agreed to wait outside, thinking he was placing a bet.
But minutes later he ran out wearing a black bandana, holding a knife and a bag full of cash. He leapt into her car and screamed: "Drive, drive,...
Rough translation via youtube:
For the first time in their lives, the chimps see the sun. They lived in a lab for decades and this is the first moment they get to walk outside. "They hugged as if saying 'we're finally free'.. and after such a long time, it's as if they're saying 'I can't believe it!' to their friends." At 1:30 the man talks about how he saw a chimp looking at a butterfly and remembering...
Created by Florentijn Hofman for Örebro, Sweden's OpenART festival, The Big Yellow Rabbit stands approximately 42 feet high.
Learn more about it the OpenART 2011 website.
It's not often that you get a chance to witness a first in sports. So, if you find yourself in London on September 10, you'll definitely want to catch the Chessboxing match between Emma Richardson and Kath Dodson. Chessboxing has been around for a few years, but this match will mark the first time female contestants will alternately push pawns and throw punches.
Chessboxing combines alternating rounds of...
The Waffle House has a well-developed natural disaster response infrastructure, including a mobile command center:
The company decided to beef up its crisis-management processes. Senior executives developed a manual for opening after a disaster, bulked up on portable generators, bought a mobile command center and gave employees key fobs with emergency contacts.
From The Guardian:
Across the French capital, the summer has been enlivened by a corporate collage contest known as La guerre des Post-it (the Post-it wars). The battle is between presumably underemployed office workers who are devoting large chunks of their days to sticking thousands of pink, yellow, orange and green notes on their windows to recreate pixelated images.
Dude!
"The more you watch this video, the more you'll get out of it!'
Bold and fresh with a dash of 1960's Beverly Hills.
