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- Toon Town Mysteries: Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
- The Most Common Birthdays in the US
- West African Masks in Cast Iron Skillets
- The Last Blockbuster Video Store Is Now an AirBnB
- Disney Debuts Wheelchair Covers and Adaptive Costumes
- Vampire Disco
- Get A Taste of European Culture In These American Towns
- The Other Half Is Purple!
| Toon Town Mysteries: Who Framed Roger Rabbit? Posted: 12 Aug 2020 10:34 PM PDT
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| The Most Common Birthdays in the US Posted: 12 Aug 2020 10:33 PM PDT
BoMcCready crunched the numbers and found out how common each day of the year is for birthdays. It appears that September is the time more people are born, which leads us to believe the cold of the winter solstice and the cheer of holiday parties may have an effect. The interactive version is here, in case you want to click on your birthday and see how far it diverges from the average. My birthday, September 27, is the 27th most common birthday on the calendar. You would think that February 29th is the least common, but it was apparently weighted for how often that date appears on the calendar. We can see that December 25 and 24, January 1, and July 4 are relatively rare ...possibly because inductions and non-emergency cesarians aren't scheduled on those days. -via Digg |
| West African Masks in Cast Iron Skillets Posted: 12 Aug 2020 10:32 PM PDT
The marvelously surreal world of artist Hugh Hayden now includes cast iron skillets and pots that are cast to resemble masks. Hayden explains that in his exhibition titled "American Food," the masks speak of the African diaspora offering a hazy look into the past: The function and form of both the skillets as early African cookware and the masks' ancestral and ceremonial origins are merged in a technique called sand-casting; Hayden adopts this rudimentary means of manufacture to celebrate the imperfectness of the materials, their colonial histories, and the inherent loss of detail in the reproduction process. Hayden likens the abstraction of the original objects that occurs in the sand-casting process as a form of diaspora that transforms the skillets into something layered and culturally syncretic. -via Colossal | Photo: Lisson Gallery |
| The Last Blockbuster Video Store Is Now an AirBnB Posted: 12 Aug 2020 05:22 PM PDT
Are you looking for a good place to Netflix and chill? Or would you like to have a movie night with friends? The last standing Blockbuster Video rental store, which is located in Bend, Oregon, is open for business as an AirBnB rental property. There's a living room and an air mattress set up in front of a big screen TV among the rows of VHS cases on shelves. According to the hosts, the experience is authentic to its origins: Whether you want to stay up until sunrise or pass out on the couch, we've created the perfect space complete with a pull-out couch, bean bags and pillows for you to cozy up with "new releases" from the '90s. Crack open a two-liter of Pepsi before locking into a video game, charting your future in a game of MASH, or watching movie after movie. But be wary of reciting "Bloody Mary" in the staff bathroom off of the break room, as you just may summon the ghost rumored to haunt the store. And help yourself to some NERDS, Raisinets and popcorn (heavy on the butter), but make sure you save room for a couple slices. -via The Mary Sue | Photo: AirBnB |
| Disney Debuts Wheelchair Covers and Adaptive Costumes Posted: 12 Aug 2020 03:23 PM PDT
We've seen some amazing homemade and custom-made Halloween costumes for kids who use wheelchairs over the years. Now Disney is getting into the act with wheelchair covers to turn the conveyance into the Incredimobile from the movie Incredibles 2 or Cinderella's magical coach.
Disney is also offering three adaptive costumes with features that make them easier for special needs children to wear. Read more about them at io9. |
| Posted: 12 Aug 2020 03:22 PM PDT
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| Get A Taste of European Culture In These American Towns Posted: 12 Aug 2020 12:19 PM PDT
If you badly wanted to go to Europe but weren't able to because of the current global situation, then you might consider going to these towns in the United States, which will make you feel like you're in Europe! Smithsonian Magazine lists ten of these places. Check them out over at the site. (Image Credit: BazookaJoe/ Wikimedia Commons) |
| Posted: 12 Aug 2020 12:19 PM PDT
One side of the divided Cerro Lagoon turned purple and began emitting a foul odor. The other side has remained its natural blue. When one side of the lagoon turned purple, residents noticed that fish began dying. Experts believe that the cause of this phenomenon is pollution, not someone throwing purple ink on the river, no! Fox News has more details: "Three months ago, all the fish died in the lagoon, thousands and thousands of them," resident Herminia Meza told the Associated Press. "The smell was unbearable, and we were overwhelmed by flies. About a month ago the herons died, and it turned a reddish color." Experts suspect pollution from the Waltrading SA tannery on the banks of the lagoon to be the cause. Image via Fox News |
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