1. Summer restaurant goals
Chef Dean Baldwin Lew was looking to host a dinner of an invasive species. The Ministry of Natural Resources told him that it was illegal to carry the Rusty Crawfish over land as a single pregnant animal could extend the population to another watershed. His only option to cook & serve was to do the whole thing in the actual river where they are caught.
“We served riverbed watercress and apples from the adjacent parking lot, cheddar from the next town, washing it all down with county whites cooled to the same temperature as the water on our feet.”
Found here.
2. Marcel Duchamp with chess master Larry Evans
Also pictured, avant garde painter, Hans Richter.
Found on Cocosse Journal
3. Never seen anything like this before
By Dutch artist Frode Bolhuis
4. Marrakech taxi driver Ibrahim honors the vintage Mercedes taxi as an icon of Morocco, now in decline
5. This Vintage Diner for Sale in the Hudson Valley
Listed for $1.2m by Houlihan Lawrence, found on The Spaces.
6. A Beautiful Collection of French Sign Designs for Inspiration
Available to download from Gallica.
7. An Eye-opening short documentary: Did the Camera Ever Tell the Truth?
8. Fodder for a new A24 Horror Film: The Beast of Gévaudan, a French “bigfoot” that killed a hundred people between 1764-1767
The attacks, which covered an area spanning 90 by 80 kilometres (56 by 50 mi), were said to have been committed by one or more beasts of a tawny/russet colour with dark streaks/stripes and a dark stripe down its back, a tail “longer than a wolf’s” ending in a tuft according to contemporary eyewitnesses. It was said to attack with formidable teeth and claws, and appeared to be the size of a calf or cow and seemed to fly or bound across fields towards its victims. These descriptions from the period could identify the beast as a young lion, a striped hyena, a large wolf, a large dog, or a wolfdog, though its identity is still the subject of debate and remains unsolved to this day.
More found on Wikipedia.
9. The only painting Van Gogh ever sold during his lifetime. The price was 400 francs ($2.000 in today’s money).
See it close up here.
10. “American Glitch”
Amassing an archive of ‘glitches,’ the artist duo Andrea Orejarena and Caleb Stein investigate photography’s dance between truth and fiction through found Internet images and photographs they have taken of the American landscape.
The astronaut John Glenn is credited for popularizing the term in the 1960s during the years of the space race to describe on-board technical problems. Glitch found its way into the English language from the Yiddish word ‘glitsh,’ meaning a slippery place. And so it is fitting that the artist duo Andrea Orejarena and Caleb Stein have named their most recent body of work American Glitch.
Found on Lens Culture.
11. This 1969 Music Festival Has Been Called ‘Black Woodstock’ but quickly faded into obscurity
The Harlem Cultural Festival attracted everyone from Stevie Wonder and Nina Simone to Jesse Jackson and Marcus Garvey Jr., but why doesn’t anyone remember? Fifty years later, a rediscovery is finally underway…
Read the article on The Rolling Stones.
12. Pre-Botox
Prof. Mack’s Chin Reducer and Beautifier found on Live Journal.
13. Gandria
This is more of a follow up from an old article of mine I stumbled upon again last week about Autochromes – there was one scene from the photographs that I was particularly taken with and wanted to share the location of. This lovely little corner is Gandria, a village on the northern shore of Lake Lugano, Switzerland.
It’s been on my travel bucket list for far too long.