Free Range Designs, a furniture workshop in Wales, makes beds and storytelling chairs inspired by fairy tale images and fantasy art. But what caught the attention of the internet was this marvelous bed with images from the film The Nightmare Before Christmas. Like the company's other products, this bed is made of reclaimed wood using environmentally friendly methods.
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A hummingbird helmet is a helmet with a hummingbird feeder attached to attract hummingbirds to your face. Think of it as similar to a Bear Vest, which is a vest made of beefsteaks to attract bears.
Spencer Staley goes all-out with a total of seven feeders hanging from rods extending from a helmet.
I really don't see why, with proper supports, it wouldn't be possible to build a helmet with ten times as many supports. I mean, humans went to the Moon and invented Twitter. A hummingbird helmet with seventy feeders is within our potential.
-via Born in Space
Rainbow lightning, which is the name of my next Queensrÿche cover band, was spotted by the BBC's Weather Watchers over the past weekend. Why did these two meteorological phenomena appear together? The BBC explains:
Firstly, there was a lot of energy within the atmosphere so when the thunderstorms developed there was plenty of electrical charge which produced a lot of lightning. The storms were also quite localised so there were sunny spells between the showers. And lastly, the timing was spot on. As the sun was setting, the angle of the sun was just right with the thunderstorm to form rainbows.
So: sorcery.
-via Aaron Starmer | Photo: CREEZ1993
Because this is a family-friendly blog, I'm choosing images for this post very carefully. But once the kids are out of the room, check out Marie-Claude Marquis's entire portfolio of altered decorative plates.
To make sure nobody shares a photo of you, put a GettyImages® watermark on your face mask. pic.twitter.com/zSCkyic3LV
— Danielle Baskin (@djbaskin) June 14, 2020
Perhaps you can protect your privacy by informally copyrighting your face. Danielle Baskin made this face mask with iconic Getty Images stock photo logo on it. I wouldn't be surprised if it successfully tricked bots made to weed out copyrighted photos.
Father and son Richard and Steve Doner make custom electric guitars, such as this bass inspired by Back to the Future. Like Doc Brown's DeLorean, it comes equipped with a flux capacitor and switches for players select a destination date. When they sold it in May, the Doners donated all of the proceeds to the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research.
You can see more photos and videos of the time machine in action here.
-via Super Punch
The Bird Library is not strictly a public library, but it is open to the public--or at least everyone who can fly inside. This birdhouse project in Charlottesville, Virginia looks like a library service desk complete with books, accessible space, and a staff on duty when there is birdseed to be found behind the desk.
Kevin Cwalina and Rebecca Flowers built the Bird Library in 2015 and are livestreaming its patrons in action on YouTube. This is impressive, but the library needs to match this innovation by providing more electronic materials to keep up with changing patron demands.
-via Atlas Obscura
That's the adjective that I will use. Marchenko embroiders images on translucent tulle, which gives them the appearance of suspending in midair or, in the case of this mermaid, mid-water. She explains to Bored Panda that the effect of tulle is that "it makes embroidery visually more voluminous."
The enigmatic artist Ellen Sheidlin offers no clue as to the meaning of her sculpture aside from the words "This is my body." It immediately reminded me of the liturgy of the Eucharist, but an Instagram commenter suggests that it is an allusion to a famous horror manga about a person who lives inside a chair.
Zeltini, a design studio in Latvia, offers the Z-Triton. This tricycle camper can transport and sleep two people. Solar cells on the roof provide power for camping needs, such as lighting and a fan.
Scott Wiener is an expert on pizza. He operates Scott's Pizza Tours, which offers guided tours around New York City's finest pizzerias. As a connoisseur of the pie, he has tasted them all--and collected the boxes in which they are shipped.
His collection of 1,550 boxes from pizzerias as far away as McMurdo Station, Antarctica doesn't consist of used specimens. Wiener preserves unused ones for posterity. Atlas Obscura reports:
But the journey to the world’s largest pizza-box collection started in New Jersey, when Wiener spent much of 2009 rounding the state to choose its best pizzerias with Peter Genovese, food writer for Newark’s Star-Ledger. In Genovese’s Munchmobile, a van topped with a gigantic fake hot dog, Wiener and other readers visited 333 pizzerias. “Visiting so many places, you start to notice differences,” he says. He fixated on the pizza boxes. “Pizza boxes are not all the same, and that means they’re interesting,” he says.
Photo: Scott Wiener
Avast, me mateys! Board yon barge so that we may ply the Seven Bars this Friday night! This fine vessel is the Gypsy Rose, a 1998 Ford bus converted, at some point in its life, into a pirate-themed party bus. Until recently, it was on sale on Craigslist. MSN reports:
In its previous life, the bus was used by a tour company as a colorful transport for winery and brewery tours, corporate team building outings, and even weddings. Some of the experiences included costumed actors and actresses that played out skits in the aisles, capped off with an appearance from the lead character, the infamous Cap'n McKraken.
The 26-passenger Ford bus is powered by a 5.9-liter Cummins diesel engine with 104,835 miles on the clock. The seller says that the bus was hand built and has a custom sound system with USB and auxiliary inputs.
-via Dave Barry | Photo: Craigslist
10 years ago, Santa Fe, New Mexico personality Forrest Fenn buried a chest with $1 million worth of gold and jewels somewhere in the Rocky Mountains. As clues, he publicly offered a map and a poem. That was all that some 350,000 treasure hunters had to go on.
Now Fenn reports that one adventurer has found the treasure. The Santa Fe New Mexican reports:
“It’s true,” Fenn told The New Mexican in a phone call Sunday, adding that the finder of his chest located the valuable goods “a few days ago.”
Fenn wouldn’t say where the treasure was found or who found it.
“The guy who found it does not want his name mentioned. He’s from back East,” he said, adding that it was confirmed from a photograph the man sent him.
Saxophonist Armin Küpper does some jazz call and response with a pipeline in Mönchengladbach, Germany. The pipeline is as skilled as Küpper, keeping perfect time with him. I'd love to pair it with an alphorn and really get this jam session funky.
-via TYWKIWDBI
Hildegard von Blingin' (not Saint Hildegard of Bingen, 1098-1179) is a musician of the bardcore style. She takes modern songs back in time to the middle ages. Her discography includes "Pumped Up Kicks" by Foster the People and "What Is Love" by Haddaway.
-via Nag on the Lake
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