prostheticknowledge:

Stanley Kubrick covered in party spray

Just posted by his daughter, Vivian Kubrick, on her Twitter account:

Xmas1983: Father’s need to remain composed after being ambushed by daughter with a luminous green spray-string can.

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Santa the Hutt (by betabrand

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design-is-fine:

Peter Fabris, Campi Phlegraei, Interior view and specimens of curious stones found on Mount Vesuvius, 1776. Engraving, hand-colored. Source

The Campi Phlegraei is a first-hand report which documents the late 18th century eruptions of the volcano. The work is named for the area around Naples known as the Campi Phlegraei or “flaming fields”. It was a popular destination for travelers undertaking the Grand Tour. Read more here. 

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Mollifying a future father-in-law

In his letter dated March 12, 1914, poet Ezra Pound wrote to the Consul General of the United States in London seeking information that would help him ease the reservations of his future father-in-law that Pound’s marriage to his daughter would be invalid if he returned to the United States. Pound is a well-known and influential poet, but at the time of this letter, he was a struggling artist.

National Archives, Records of the Foreign Service Posts of the Department of State

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thetypologist:

Typology of vintage potato mashers. Etsy.

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newyorker:

A sports drink manufacturer plans to deposit a time capsule, containing its product, on the moon. Joshua Hunt explores decreased government funding and interest in space technology, and how marketers are picking up the slack: http://nyr.kr/1iDO80i

Photograph: Pocari Sweat/Space Films.

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livelymorgue:

March 10, 1933: Finally, a “fool-proof hover plane,” which, the back of the photo explained, would revolutionize “air transport, since it can take off vertically from the ground and descend in like manner.” Its inventors added that it could “hover or fly backwards at will.” Whose will, it didn’t say, raising the specter of a very frightening giant mechanical dragonfly indeed. Photo: The New York Times

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