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Same ol’, New ol’

Knile — Sat, 08 Mar 2014 11:00:19 +0000

Los Angeles Free Music Society Pyramid Headphones, Welcome Inn Time Machine, Pacific Standard Time Performance and Public Art Festival
Bastards of the Bestiary: Eight Mythological Too Gross, Sad, Or Monstrous To Be Loved
Outdoor Giants
Fuck Yeah Brutalism
Mypotholes
NYC Crying Guide
Best Worst French Kiss
The Real World Consequences of the Manic Pixie Dream Girl
enigma variations
Guante: Smalltalk (Spoken-Word)
Samesies

I got deja vu making this post

Knile — Sat, 15 Jun 2013 10:00:49 +0000

Astute web-based readers of this site we’ll notice we’re using tags now on some posts. This is very exciting, no? No.

Super Soakers
Squirrel fishing
The Exotic Birds of Brussels
Name Three Germans
Portraits of Grandmas and Their Cuisine From Around the World
Luke Perry’s garlic-fried steak
Eventually you will be dead but today you are not
10 Creepy Video Game Urban Legends
What’s Dylan Grillin’?
Boards of Canada / Noam Chomsky
DJ Lobsterdust – Queen vs. Satan ft. pastor Gary G. “It’s fun to smoke…”
Top Ten Classical-Music Samples in Hip-Hop
“Yeah, no.”
The $20 Theory of the Universe
Cow Tools: Revisiting a Comic Masterpiece
Round Barns and Covered Bridges
Shed of the year 2013 finalists

More Microfiction, the International Space Station, and other stuff for your eyes

Knile — Sat, 08 Jun 2013 10:00:42 +0000

Well, eyes and ears. Faces, I guess?

Hal grades your bike locking
Crystal to Blotter
Ask A Bartender
Ugly Belgian Houses
The world’s shortest commercial airline flights
Spot the International Space Station
Lyrics to Biggie’s “Juicy” with illustrations
Ripovisuals, large
Elephantine’s Fiction Friday
OK Go – Say the same thing
SIGGRAPH Technical Papers Preview trailer
What can we learn from superhumans?
Warriors of Goja on an Indian talent show
Jim Rose Circus (NSFW)
80s Video Dating montage
70s fondue party mixtape
Little Julian’s Secret
Everything’s carved from a single piece of wood.

The 20 Most Beautiful Museums In The World + 2

thos — Sun, 29 Jul 2012 15:59:06 +0000

A couple of weeks ago Flavorwire did a piece on The 20 Most Beautiful Museums in the World. They completely failed and offended me by not including two of my completely unbiased, objective choices. Okay, “best of” lists are by nature never definite and are never all encompassing. They actually did do a great job but nonetheless i’m gonna throw my two cents in the ring. The Milwaukee Art Museum and the Museum of Abstract Art in Cuenca, Spain.

The Milwaukee Art Museum. The new edition designed by Santiago Calatrava is an amazing addition to the Milwaukee lakefront/skyline-

The Museo de Arte Abstracto Español en Cuenca is located in a “hanging house” embedded into the side of a cliff. The building, the space, and the layout are all sensational and beautiful-