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‘Playing With Pictures’ - The New York Times > Arts > Slide Show > Slide 1 of 13

Above: an untitled page from the “Madame B” album (1870s), by Marie-Blanche-Hennelle Fournier, as part of the “Playing With Pictures” Victorian collage show at the Met.

February 4

How To Put The Spark Back Into Your Relationship With Your Cat | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

February 3

Sure, it seems like just another ominous political attack ad, paid for by California Senate hopeful Carly Fiorina and lancing her primary opponent for the Republican nomination, Tom Campbell.

Except THIS political attack ad has DEMON SHEEP. Top that!

(Via Metafilter.)

February 2

via the excellent newwavetimewarp:

The Feelies’ second single, a cover of “Everybody’s Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey,” came out February 2, 1980.

February 1

From The Daily Mail: Three cheetahs spare tiny antelope’s life… and play with him instead..

January 31

“ The curious constantly descended on Cornish and the surrounding area, asking residents for directions to Mr. Salinger’s house. Instead of finding the home, interlopers would end up on a wild goose chase. How far afield the directions went “depended on how arrogant they were,” said Mike Ackerman, owner of the Cornish General Store. Mr. Salinger, he said, “was like the Batman icon. Everyone knew Batman existed, and everyone knows there’s a Batcave, but no one will tell you where it is. Cornish Journal - A Recluse? Well, Not to J.D. Salinger’s Neighbors - NYTimes.com

January 30

via loveallthis & bauldoff:

Designer Beverly Hsu has made these delicious Helvetica Cookie Cutters for those of us who lick the type specimen sheets when no one else is looking. Come on. I know you do it, too. I’ve seen you at our support group. (via swissmiss)

Mmm. Apparently these aren’t being mass-produced yet, but give it time.

January 29

Just a Japanese salarycat, taking care of business.

January 27

via elvira & toosweet4rnr:

The Brooklyn Bridge

Artist: Joseph Stella, 1939

January 26

[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]

via sixbucks & jasontheexploder:

Jonathan Richman - “I Was Dancing in the Lesbian Bar”

via yaldabaoth

Love Jonathan Richman!

January 25

Lenka Clayton and James Price: “People In Order” (2008).

A short video presenting drum-tapping British people from age 1 to 100.

January 24

Céleste Boursier-Mougenot: The Finches (2010).

A new commission for The Curve, Barbican, London. French artist Céleste Boursier-Mougenot creates works by drawing on the rhythms of daily life to produce sound in unexpected ways.
For his installation in The Curve, Boursier-Mougenot creates a walk-though aviary for a flock of zebra finches, furnished with electric guitars and other musical instruments. As the birds go about their routine activities, perching on or feeding from the various pieces of equipment, they create a captivating, live soundscape.

These birds are awesome. Somewhere, Glenn Branca is hitting his forehead.

January 23

Holiday Inn location in London offers 'human bed warmer' service - a staffer to warm up your sheets

January 22

Are employees at some retail stores (e.g., Abercrombie, American Apparel) told to be standoffish as a selling strategy? | Ask MetaFilter

January 20

Jackie Lomax: “Sour Milk Sea” (1968).

Written by his friend George Harrison, and one of the first Apple singles. Featuring Harrison and Eric Clapton on guitars, Paul McCartney on bass, Ringo Starr on drums, and Nicky Hopkins on piano. Inexplicably a flop.