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“The truth of the matter is, this cat is extremely unfriendly for the most part. He shows very little interest unless you bribe him. The only time he seems to become friendly, or to spend time with people, is when they are about to die.”
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‘Catch of the season: Mark Wagh of Nottinghamshire uses some fancy footwork to take an incredible boundary catch in the Pro40 League match against Warwickshire at Edgbaston, 24th July 2007.’
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via Coudal, remarkable cut-paper art.
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June 1942. Construction work at the Tennessee Valley Authority’s Douglas Dam. 4×5 Kodachrome transparency by Alfred Palmer.
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via Pharyngula, this is deeply fabulous: ‘Dawn Chorus is the latest in a series of films by British artist Marcus Coates, in which he attempts to make the human voice mimic birdsong. ‘
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Scary, stereoview art from the 19th century…
The parakeets only reached this part of London about three years ago, but now we have flocks of them every day; there are often seven or eight on the feeders and more in the surrounding trees. They’re attractive and full of character, but as ever with foreign species you worry about their impact on the native birds; they must be competing for nest-sites if nothing else.
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via who killed bambi
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‘Musurgia Universalis is an exhaustive compendium of musical knowledge at the transition point between sacred renaissance polyphony and secular Baroque music.’ Gotta love the singing chickens.
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YouTube funnniness via cityofsound: ‘Hitler and his Sheffield United henchmen eagerly await the results from the final day of the league season.’
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via Coudal, the trailer for a documentary about Marla Olmstead, a 4-year old girl who has sold over $300,000 dollars worth of paintings.
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via Metafilter, a profile of Garry Trudeau, the cartoonist who writes Doonesbury.
I was having a go at photographing the juvenile Great Spotted Woodpecker that comes to the birdfeeder, but it’s kind of tricky. My success rate when digiscoping is never that high at the best of times; and as you can see, it’s not temperamentally inclined to stay still:
Still, the motion blur can be a fun effect:
And it makes it all the more gratifying when one of the pictures comes out just right.
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very old films: ‘This master-shot, single setup approach might seem hoplelessly restrictive. Today we expect films to have lots of cutting and camera movement. How does the filmmaker sculpt the action, moment by moment within a static frame?’
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Via Metafilter, a silly but amusing exercise in sound editing: David Attenborough narrates a typical night in a British town.






