https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ii6Ds-msPps
A short documentary made by Ronni Thomas for the Morbid Anatomy Museum featuring the history of the planchette and other arcane psychokinetic devices collected and curated by Brandon Hodge of Mysterious Planchette.
Images (featuring weapons assembled from the characters of Chinese words) from the opening animation of Words Can Be Weapons – a video series on verbal bullying and abuse by the Centre For Psychological Research, Shenyang.
Watch it here.
Behold: the 1967 Ferrari Thomassima II. One of three roadsters (two of which survive, the other is on display at the Ferrari Museum in Modena) made by Californian Thomas Meade.
It sold on eBay this month for $9 million.
MORE: Tom Meade’swild Ferrari Thomassima was the P4/5 of its day (Road and Track)
Famous landmarks recontextualised with forced perspective and paper cut-outs by Londoner Paperboyo (who’s since been commissioned by Lonely Planet).
Above: Trafalgar Square and Big Ben, London; Af Chapman, Stockholm; The Little Mermaid, Copenhagen; Montmartre and Arc de Triomphe, Paris; Martime Museum, Statue of Niels Juel and Copenhagen; Copenhagen and the Martime Museum, Amsterdam.
Fake Halloween costumes (that should be real Halloween costumes) by Jeff Wysasky.
Previously : Prankbait
A precision-made combined thermometer/hygrometer weather station from Best Made Co (€151 + shipping). To wit:
When the needles cross in the hatched region on the gauge, heat and humidity are perfectly balanced.
‘Galaxy Hair’ or, if you prefer, ‘Space Hair’ – where trendsetting young coiffsters recreate the cosmic ballet in hair colour – from the Aurora Borealis to deep space lightshows.
More at #galaxyhair and #spacehair.
Unlike regular hourglasses, which measure the passage of time by the fall of sand granules, the Awaglass by Norihiko Terayama does the opposite, ‘obscuring temporal awareness’ with a display of bubbles passing upwards, allowing the glazed-over viewer to appreciate the moment as opposed to focussing on what’s to be done a minute or an hour from now.
$38 (€33.70) here.
