Category: Daily Links

‘To mark the start of the football season – or more honestly, to clear some space on my hard disk – some old football cards I scanned in, from a time when footballers were certainly uglier (Carlos Tevez notwithstanding)’

via enthusiasm, tarry art: ‘Biagi’s idea of the TAR collection was born during a visit to the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles.’

A common enough idea, but quite well done here: ‘these computer-generated modified maps – or cartograms – redraw the globe with each country’s size proportionate to statistics in a whole series of categories.’

birdy blogging: ‘The planets have aligned, the flood has come and gone, and the Birdfreak Team has been honored with hosting the 55th edition of I and the Bird.’

pictures by H C-B. Even in grainy scans these are truly beautiful.

…I thought it might be time to offer a more thorough guide.  And so, here we have “Clues that Victorian Characters Are Having Sex, Might Be Thinking About Sex, or Have Had Sex.”

eggcorns, and how they differ from other language errors

Cool videos (with really irritating music) of a robot that has a variety of ways of moving for different circumstances.

neat animation— stop motion using a mixture of Polaroid 600 film, illustration and emulsion manipulation, and digital photography. “There is no digital compositing or computer trickery … just what was in front of the lens. hope ya like it.”

via Super Colossal: Tara Donovan is an artist who makes art out of stuff.

Amusing family anecdotage.

people’s science tattoos.

via Sherry Chandler: ‘As — I believe — the only representative of the avant garde poetic community at the Yearly Kos, I did my best to promote your interests.’

a brief history of spam in the New Yorker

This extraordinary artist recreates classics with “… thousands of spools of colored thread arranged in seemingly abstract patterns that suddenly pull into focus when viewed through a circular device resembling a crystal ball,”

‘In the 1850s to 1860s ‘corner cards,’ with printing applied in the upper left-hand side of the front of the envelope, were common. By the onset of the Civil War, printed envelopes were already in use as a propaganda medium.’