July 2010
Accidental Deaths in Canada, 1886
ajourneyroundmyskull:
George Anning: Nervous shock
George Murickson (8 years old): Swallows a snake
August Langlois: Killed by a game cock
Elie Lalonde (55 years old) Tarred and feathered
Alf. Lavoie (45 years old): Devoured by bears
Robert Cox: Run over by a load of hay
Albert Tobin: Falls into a gutter
via jvasseur
jessb:
The Microminiatures of Hagop Sandaldjian. Above: on a strand of hair, twelve wild animals are seen in the presence of a crowd. Click to view: nine exotic colorful birds on a strand of hair from the artist’s three-month-old grandson.
Son doi anni e più che sta in una fossa posta sopra un’altra fossa d’acqua e le mura stillano acqua; e quando piove entra la pioggia; e non vede mai luce, e ha sempre notte e inverno, con li ferri a’ piedi, dormendo vestuto; è mezzo nudo, stracciato e smorto, con dolor di denti, di petto, di milza e di testa, che spesso cade morto; […] non si può spogliare per li ferri e...
Gavino Murgia, Chloris
(grazie a Antologia e...
June 2010
jessb:
Acoustic levitation is a method for suspending matter by using radiation pressure from intense sound waves - ex. an ultrasound emitter and reflector generate a sound pressure field. Some methods can levitate objects without creating sound heard by the human ear, others produce some audible sound. Apparently ants, spiders and ladybugs have endured this trick.
uncertaintimes:
The Residents - The Booker Tease
