Linkdump #118

Extra-large murder mitten: https://tinyurl.com/y4ayd86d

Some interesting animations showing Earth’s ozone hole: https://tinyurl.com/2p9dt9aj

Sooooo basically this is how male dromedary camels flirt. SO HOT: https://tinyurl.com/2wmpz2ps

“Planktonium is a short film by Jan van Ijken about the unseen world of living microscopic plankton. It is a voyage into a secret universe, inhabited by alien-like creatures”: https://tinyurl.com/3c5rydj

A selection of experimental music featuring bagpipes: https://tinyurl.com/28sxrnyn

If you’re familiar with the classic Internet phenomenon known as “The Backrooms”, here’s a wonderfully creepy CGI “found footage” version: https://tinyurl.com/mryjxcsm

Dune, but with Elmo instead of Timothee Chalamet: https://tinyurl.com/2p9frxbk

Possibly THE shiniest fish in existence: https://tinyurl.com/yedrkb29

Gorgeous beading by Jan Huling: https://tinyurl.com/2p9frxbk

This video gives you the behind-the-scenes story of what it took to capture the first timelapse of a growing brinicle: https://tinyurl.com/h89hh6sn

A unique kind of camouflage company: https://tinyurl.com/yckkrycy

The beautiful color and patterning of an African ground beetle: https://tinyurl.com/yk6d2f6y

The fossilized coral reefs of the Nevada desert: https://tinyurl.com/2p8mhwam

A Twitter feed entirely devoted to diatoms: https://tinyurl.com/vk4xhkpu

An online atlas of dye colors you can get from various mushrooms: https://tinyurl.com/4at2b7dj

Take an exciting tour through the Digital Museum of Plugs & Sockets: https://tinyurl.com/4pt6jacz

How to grow perfect, cubic salt crystals: https://tinyurl.com/2whttsm5

Inside the MK-35D Soviet school calculator: https://tinyurl.com/9c6wspr5

“A movement within a painting, which begins with the savagery of a battle and comes to a halt in a rendition of a masterpiece of the 15th Century; The Battle of San Romano by Paolo Uccello”: https://tinyurl.com/ypyrckjy

Playing an electric bass with a bow sounds lovely: https://tinyurl.com/yprptsmw

Julius Klingebiel was a convicted murderer who was forcibly sterilized and condemned to live out his days in an asylum. His detailed artworks still adorn the walls of his room: https://tinyurl.com/yhapw45h

An interesting, interactive timeline of swearing in Oscar-winning films: https://tinyurl.com/ms6mv7p7

Explore the Gallery of Physical Visualizations: https://tinyurl.com/2p8m2mzw

I really enjoyed browsing through UNESCO’s Lists of Intangible Cultural Heritage: https://tinyurl.com/3e594w2m

Another amusing noisemaking website: https://tinyurl.com/zb869drm

Pretty cool 3D printed dragon: https://tinyurl.com/mrxb73x9

A wonderful Twitter thread of Inuit art: https://tinyurl.com/2p8zusax

A dress that “breathes” (Instagram link): https://tinyurl.com/4hkatz9f

In this animated short film a real British chimney sweep master describes his everyday routine of forcing young boys to become workers: https://tinyurl.com/2p8rzya9

Apparently this feature helps block some of the light from above, kind of like sunglasses, allowing the fish to see a bit better in deeper, darker water: https://tinyurl.com/yc587wja

Fascinating gif showing exactly how porcupines release their quills when touched: https://tinyurl.com/bdfjejkm

The clever design of the Assassin’s Teapot: https://tinyurl.com/2p5m7wtb

How to make holographic chocolate: https://tinyurl.com/2hpkuepp

Why do ski jumpers hold their skis in a V shape?: https://tinyurl.com/2p88xe63

The story of what some consider the greatest recipe comment of all time: https://tinyurl.com/mtksb4bf

Cool animation showing the lighthouses of Ireland: https://tinyurl.com/3a4m3b3c

A well-done animation about the scale of the Orion Nebula: https://tinyurl.com/ymr5h43n

Common themes and tropes in movie poster art: https://tinyurl.com/u38juw25

From 2005 to 2014, eyelevel10585 would find old cameras with undeveloped film, do his best to develop it, and post the pictures on the internet: https://tinyurl.com/2p8zw2tt

Don’t be a Sucker (1947) is an American video to protect and educate people against “divide and conquer” propaganda tactics used by the media: https://tinyurl.com/y2m36dw9

Linkdump #117

Hallways with threatening auras: https://tinyurl.com/333f5nzf

How to dress for hostile architecture: https://tinyurl.com/4vxbzhzc

The Dutch government makes GREAT safety videos: https://tinyurl.com/3mnrs7x9

Mechanical Masterpieces is a collection of paintings re-imagined for the 21st century. Optimized for short attention spans, it allows viewers to poke, switch, disco, inflate and water paintings to their heart’s content. The installation was created for The Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh as part of their Tough Art Residency: https://tinyurl.com/2p8db5c2

A most wonderful collection of piñatas: https://tinyurl.com/2p9546wp

Beautifully intricate dot paintings by Oxana Lazari: https://tinyurl.com/2p9chtfu

If you’ve ever seen animal skeletons in a museum and wondered how all those bones get put back together, Galileo Ramos demonstrates the tedious and exacting process of putting a chameleon skull back together (skull bones of small and/or immature animals often come apart during the cleaning process in many species): https://tinyurl.com/43fbv8rz

Vibrant and amazing felted murals by Zofia W-G: https://tinyurl.com/2p89ymf5

Investigating the infamous “Waterloo breastplate”: https://tinyurl.com/4e9vjyct

Templates that help you recycle paper bags into small accessories: https://tinyurl.com/2s3vwtwp

A visual guide to reconstructing dunkleosteus (an extinct genus of large, armored, jawed fishes that existed about 382–358 million years ago): https://tinyurl.com/yckp3e53

You’re probably familiar with Dueling Banjos, but have you heard……..DUELING TROMBONES?: https://tinyurl.com/2p8e53f6

Vínill vikunnar is a weekly radio program on Iceland’s state broadcaster RÚV. The idea is simple, the play a whole vinyl album from start to finish. Each album is introduced in Icelandic, before playing side A, and the presenter speaks in the middle while they turn the record around and play side B: https://tinyurl.com/2nw5svry

A charming song to remind people that archaeologists do NOT do dinosaurs (the dinosaur scientists are Paleontologists): https://tinyurl.com/yckjmcuf

A ginormous archive of drawings of the root systems of 1,180 different plants: https://tinyurl.com/2mxsmhb2

Extremely cool looking caterpillar: https://tinyurl.com/44rt34u5

A neat little video of paper engineering class projects: https://tinyurl.com/2p8u8426

Take the McSweeney’s one-question career test!: https://tinyurl.com/2c9v3h4z

Can’t make it to see the Redwoods in person? Maybe you’ll enjoy a relaxing, three hour drive through the Redwoods on video (the music is kind of terrible so you might want to play your own): https://tinyurl.com/msttwyhw

Did you know the FBI has an “Artifact of the Month” gallery?: https://tinyurl.com/5x9b6ttd

You may be familiar with the hot new word game Wordle, but you may not have seen the fun word game called Lewdle, where all the words are lewd and inappropriate: https://tinyurl.com/yzsynaud

Danny Huynh makes fantastic, Mad Max-ish RC cars: https://tinyurl.com/yhuv36mz

River Runner lets you click anywhere on a map of the world, and then calculates the likely route a drop of rain would take to the sea where it to fall where you clicked – and then generates a flythrough from Google Maps which takes you on an eagle’s eye trip along the raindrop’s route to the ocean: https://tinyurl.com/yc8zaz2d

“In the late 1950s, Dr. W. Randolph Lovelace II and Brigadier General Don D. Flickinger, the chair and vice chair of NASA’s Special Committee on Life Sciences and both experts in aerospace medicine, seriously discussed the possibility of sending women rather than men into space”: https://tinyurl.com/wk9vrkhh

The Soviet nuclear disaster that happened 30 years before Chernobyl: https://tinyurl.com/2p8zhj7s

Sylvie Fancon offers stunning gowns with a literary touch: https://tinyurl.com/2casuzam

The Museum of Contemporary Emotions is a project from Finland which sought to map the emotions of the country’s residents over the course of the pandemic: https://tinyurl.com/y6cnp8mr

A fascinating list of 2021’s best data visualizations: https://tinyurl.com/cpxspywk

A weird little website where you are shown an image from WikiHow and you have to decide what the image is teaching (On desktop there’s a tiny dropdown menu to the right of the “How to”, click that to reveal the multiple choices you can choose from): https://tinyurl.com/2p86uvy7

Innocent cat devoured by ravenous pink blob monster: https://tinyurl.com/76se2mmd

A Zimbabwean archaeologist re-imagines the story of a momentous African civilization: https://tinyurl.com/2p8ax3ja

A short film centered around Mallorca and it’s hidden living fossils that inhabit the island: https://tinyurl.com/ypmsd7p4

Another fun little online music-making toy: https://tinyurl.com/2p828swd

What would popular logos look like in the Middle Ages?: https://tinyurl.com/2p8pe453

Ian’s Shoelace Site has everything you ever wanted to know about shoelaces!: https://tinyurl.com/yspfxt3h

Type in the name of a musical artist/band and it’ll show you a map of similar artists: https://tinyurl.com/2p8ywz9w

Scroll down into the darkest depths of the oceans: https://tinyurl.com/2p9djduf

Dr Ken Libbrecht is the world expert on snowflakes, designer of custom snowflakes, snowflake consultant for the movie Frozen – his photos appear on postage stamps all over the world: https://tinyurl.com/26k55arz

A cocktail dress made from 2,652 pennies: https://tinyurl.com/m2xee6df

imagineRio is a searchable digital atlas that illustrates the social and urban evolution of Rio de Janeiro, as it existed and as it was imagined. Views of the city created by artists, maps by cartographers, and site plans by architects or urbanists are all located in both time and space: https://tinyurl.com/5e97hk44

Image source: https://tinyurl.com/3854afvb