Roadside Scholar always finds the most beautiful things. This time she featured in her blog the amazing dioramas of Laura Plankser, A Los Angeles based photographer.
From her website:
Laura continues trying to create a photo-diorama that one day she might crawl into and never return.
(My favorite is the unlucky bunny)
I love these dioramas!!!! Thanks, Gigi!
I don’t celebrate Christmas, but the results were just too cute!
Look how pretty he is! His name is Yoda, because of his pointy ears, but I don’t think he looks anything like Yoda.
Valerie, his owner, says his hearing is normal. In fact, She says he’s completely normal in every way, except for the strange obsession he has with bread.
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WFMU’s Radio Freetown with DJ Franc O from 11/10/2008
I really enjoyed this podcast!
Photo: Smiling Sisters, Pendembu, Sierra Leone (West Africa) by gbaku
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It’s been a long time since I’ve heard or written about severed feet popping up on British Columbia shore, so I was very exited to read a Boing Boing tweet about it today.
The shoe is a left New Balance running shoe.
CNN posted a timeline of the discoveries in British Columbia. I find it interesting enough to leave as is:
August 20, 2007
The first foot is found by an American man and his 12-year-old daughter boating near Jedidiah Island. The shoe is later identified as a Campus brand running shoe, primarily white with blue mesh, and is believed to be a size 12. It is determined that it was produced in 2003 and distributed primarily in India.
August 26, 2007
The second foot is found on Gabriola Island by a resident walking on a trail. The shoe is a size 12 men’s Reebok running shoe, primarily white in color. It was produced in 2004 and was distributed globally, though mostly in North America. It was first available March 1, 2004, but is no longer available.
February 2
A third foot is found by two forest workers on Valdez Island. The shoe is a size 11 blue and white Nike running shoe, made in 2003 and sold in Canada and the United States from February 1 to June 30, 2003.
May 22
The fourth foot is found on Kirkland Island by a man walking along the shoreline. The size 7 blue and white New Balance running shoe was made in 1999 and distributed in major retail stores. DNA tests later determine that the remains belonged to a female.
June 16
A fifth foot is found on Westham Island, in the same type of Nike shoe as the foot found February 2. DNA tests later determine that both feet belonged to the same male.
You’re probably thinking what I’m thinking: Does the new foot in a left NB shoe match the right NB shoe discovered May 22?
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Photo by Casey at the Bat
Generatus is a social networking status generator ideal for the imaginatively challenged.
I had to look up malapropism in the dictionary.
n.
[From MALAPROP.]
malapropian mal‘a·prop‘i·an adj.
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The National Association of Watch & Clock Collectors is hosting a small gallery of motorcycles fashioned from timepieces.
Via Gizmodo: Motorcycles that Go ‘Tick Tock’ Not ‘Vroom Vroom’
