Before we were all introduced to the band Deee-lite, with it’s funky tune “Groove Is in the Heart”, DJ Dmitry created the band Shazork: https://tinyurl.com/y5kpzzqo
Tales from the Tour Bus is a series that turns true adventures of music stars into fun and freaky cartoon episodes. Today we have a story about George Clinton called “Parlia Funkadelic Ment Thang”: https://tinyurl.com/y6dqwot6
First coated in black, the anonymous subjects in Tim Tadder’s portraits are cloaked with hypnotic swirls and thick drips of bright paint: https://tinyurl.com/yyfsc3gt
The Pulp Librarian presents a thread about pulp cover nurses: https://tinyurl.com/yxwps6mn
“Dr. Catherine Wraithdale the Plague Demon of Winchester”: https://tinyurl.com/yxovm5qs
Fantastically creative pie art: https://tinyurl.com/yy2mbemw
For dinosaur fans, young and old: https://tinyurl.com/yxwf824b
Take a trip through the Northern Ireland Game of Thrones Tapestry, a giant, 77 meter long medieval wall hanging, which depicts the whole epic tale of George R. R. Martin’s fantasy novels in tapestry form: https://tinyurl.com/yafzopon
I grew up in a very cold place, but THIS is a whole other level: https://tinyurl.com/yxm9u8x3
The vibrant figurative sculptures of George Lafayette: https://tinyurl.com/y5l227pa
Digging at Armageddon: The tumultuous saga of doomed search for Solomon’s Lost City: https://tinyurl.com/y5m4ebvh
A fascinating fossilized trackway in New Mexico shows a long-ago human journey: https://tinyurl.com/yy9r6nsa
A short animated film about painfully awkward moments: https://tinyurl.com/yypml6l8
‘Boda boda Madness’ by Jan Hoek + Bobbin Case captures Nairobi’s eccentric and colorful motortaxi drivers: https://tinyurl.com/y2wpcomj
I couldn’t pick a favorite, so here is a collection of interesting galleries from photographer Uli Westphal: https://tinyurl.com/y3za8yez
This speculative ecology animation imagines what undiscovered deep sea creatures may look like: https://tinyurl.com/y4ld8ydc
Good Chance, the humanitarian theater company founded in 2015 in the unofficial refugee camp in Calais often called “The Jungle”, is behind an ambitious new public art project that will traverse continents and national borders. The Walk will see a 3.5-metre puppet of a nine-year-old girl called Little Amal travel over 8,000 kilometres across Turkey and Europe in search of her mother: https://tinyurl.com/y5ytsrpl
Did you know that ginkgo trees produce motile sperm? Yep: https://tinyurl.com/y5f2tgjz
Building a bridge in the 14th century: https://tinyurl.com/y57c867r
“Created in the 1920s under the shade of a castle in Italy’s Apulia region, burrata was born out of a need to minimise food waste and is a delicious example of human ingenuity”: https://tinyurl.com/y3xnawfl
A time lapse video from the Death Zone on Mt. Everest: https://tinyurl.com/y2xnxfma
The surreal beauty of fungi: https://tinyurl.com/y5hkx89d
“Sara” is a short film that tells the story of the fight against Iran’s oppressive and violent banning of women at sports events: https://tinyurl.com/y2bbucqc
This is how much top 7 music streaming services really pay artists: https://tinyurl.com/y6pxbut3
The remarkable life of a woman who revolutionized the science of airplane bird strikes: https://tinyurl.com/y3tyqg6n
Did you know that clowns have a way to protect and memorialize their personal makeup design? And that it involves eggs?: https://tinyurl.com/y9qrcp35
A creepy & fantastic sci-fi short. C/W contains body horror, torture, gore, bug-like aliens: https://tinyurl.com/y35w43cu
And let’s finish off with a short list of artists I’ve found while wandering the interwebs:
Khoa Le, illustrations: https://tinyurl.com/yxcxrdkw
Vunderkammer, sculptures: https://tinyurl.com/y24ovvvd
Charlie Immer, paintings: https://tinyurl.com/y2pw82md
Travis Louie, paintings, drawings: https://tinyurl.com/y4m4zejn
Antonio Segura aka Dulk, street art: https://tinyurl.com/y2zdtrjs
Zyabra Art, art dolls: https://tinyurl.com/y3hqx29f
Dean Stuart, illustration: https://tinyurl.com/y393hb8l
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