One of the best beer campaigns ever.

In China.

Louise Amstrup

A hug machine—also known as hug box, squeeze machine, or squeeze box—is a deep pressure device designed to calm hypersensitive persons, usually individuals with autism spectrum disorders. The therapeutic, stress-relieving device was originally conceived and designed by Temple Grandin in 1965.

Chicken cooked inside of a pig’s bladder.

The Belle Poule was a French frigate of the Dédaigneuse class, designed and built by Léon-Michel Guignace, famous for her duel with the English frigate HMS Arethusa on 17 June 1778, which began the French involvement in the American War of Independence. One of the most fashionable hairstyles of the eighteenth century, À la Belle Poule, commemorated the victory of a French ship over an English ship in 1778. À la Belle Poule featured an enormous pile of curled and powdered hair stretched over a frame affixed to the top of a woman’s head. The hair was then decorated with an elegant model of the Belle Poule ship, including sails and flags.

The Vadoma are a tribe living in the west of Zimbabwe. A substantial majority of this tribe has a condition known as ectrodactyly in which the middle three toes are absent and the two outer ones are turned in, resulting in the tribe being known as the “two toed” or “ostrich footed” tribe.

Zouave was the title given to certain infantry regiments in the French Army, normally serving in French North Africa between 1831 and 1962.

A cat piano or Katzenklavier (German) is a musical instrument with polyphonic aftertouch described by Athanasius Kircher. It consists of a line of cats fixed in place with their tails stretched out underneath a keyboard. Tails would be placed under the keys, causing the cats to cry out in pain when a key was pressed. The cats would be arranged according to the natural tone of their voices.

Timothy Dexter was an American eccentric businessman who was peculiarly lucky and never bothered to learn to spell. Dexter bought a huge estate in Chester, New Hampshire. He also bought a new house in Newburyport and decorated it with minarets, a golden eagle on the top of the cupola, a mausoleum for himself and a garden of 40 wooden statues of famous men, including George Washington, William Pitt, Napoleon Bonaparte, Thomas Jefferson and of course, himself. It had an inscription I am the first in the East, the first in the West, and the greatest philosopher in the Western World. People flocked to gawk at this collection. Dexter also had his own way with household staff. He had a black and protective housekeeper called Lucy, whom he claimed to be a daughter of an African prince. Other servants included a large idiot, a fortune teller and his “poet laureate” Jonathan Plummer. At the age of 50 he decided to write a book about himself – A Pickle for the Knowing Ones or Plain Truth in a Homespun Dress. He wrote about himself and complained about politicians, clergy and his wife. The book contained 8,847 words and 33,864 letters, but absolutely no punctuation, and capital letters were sprinkled about at random. At first he handed his book out for free, but it rapidly became popular and ran into eight editions in total.^{[citation needed]} When people complained that it was hard to read, for the second edition he added an extra page – 13 lines of punctuation marks – asking readers to “peper and solt it as they plese”.

The most notable characteristic of bowerbirds is their extraordinarily complex courtship and mating behaviour, where males build a bower to attract mates. There are two main types of bowers. One clade of bowerbirds build so-called maypole bowers that are constructed by placing sticks around a sapling, in some species these bowers have a hut-like roof. The other major bowerbuilding clade builds an avenue type bower made of two walls of vertically placed sticks. In and around the bower the male places a variety of brightly colored objects he has collected. These objects — usually different among each species — may include hundreds of shells, leaves, flowers, feathers, stones, berries, and even discarded plastic items, coins, nails, rifle shells, or pieces of glass. The males spend hours arranging this collection.

Perfect taste. All from Ensuite.

Potted plants as decoration in the galleries. Old school.

Bone china is a type of porcelain that is composed of bone ash, feldspathic material and kaolin. Bone china is known for its high level of whiteness & translucency, and very high mechanical strength and chip resistance

Apicius is the title of a collection of Roman cookery recipes, usually thought to have been compiled in the late 4th or early 5th century AD. the recipes are geared for the wealthiest classes and a few contain what were exotic ingredients at that time, e.g. flamingo.

Phantasmagoria was a precinema projection ghost show invented in France in the late 18th century.

Bahariya Oasis is an oasis in Egypt. It is approximately 360 km away from Cairo. It has an art museum and the main agricultural products are guavas, mangos, dates, and olives. The people of the oasis, or the Wahati people ( meaning “of the oasis” in Arabic), are the descendants of the ancient people who inhabited the oasis, Bedouin tribes from Libya and the north coast, and other people from the Nile Valley who came to settle in the oasis.

Very BLESS aesthetic.

How a house should look.

So iconic.

Genius. Jay-Z, Tom Waits, Basquiat, Picasso, Warhol, Carax. Same level.

Alabaster

Freediving in Navy tank from Fredrik Naumann on Vimeo.

After mating, the female cuts slits into the bark of a twig, and into these she deposits her eggs. She may do so repeatedly, until she has laid several hundred eggs. When the eggs hatch, the newborn nymphs drop to the ground, where they burrow. Most cicadas go through a life cycle that lasts from two to five years. Some species have much longer life cycles, such as the North American genus, Magicicada, which has a number of distinct “broods” that go through either a 17-year or, in the South of the USA, a 13-year life cycle. These long life cycles both happen to be prime numbers, perhaps developed as a response to predators such as the cicada killer wasp and praying mantis.

Lovely little site from Swedish designer, Erik Schedin. His stuff also sells at Dover Street Market.

Staffa island.

The increment borer removes a small cylinder or core of wood from the tree trunk. By counting the thin bands (annual rings) on the wood cylinder, the approximate age of the tree can be determined.

Three wood cylinders (cores) extracted from the trunk of an old Sierra juniper.

These would make the best objects d’art, for a place like Partners & Spade or any self-respecting household.

Is basically how it would look like. That’s Partners & Spade, by the way.

The Seagaia Ocean Dome is the world’s largest indoor waterpark, located in Miyazaki, Miyazaki, Japan.

Sophie Fiennes documentary on Anselm Kiefer

Ortahisar in Turkey.

Lake Palace is a luxury hotel, of 83 rooms and suites featuring white marble walls, located on a natural foundation of 4 acres (16,000 m²) rock on the Jag Niwas island in Lake Pichola, Udaipur, India. The hotel operates a boat which transports guests to the hotel from a jetty at the City Palace.

Plitvice Lakes National Park in Croatia.

In Angola.

Recipe

Kohl is a cosmetic typically made by grinding galena (lead sulfide) and other ingredients. It is used predominantly by women, but also some men and children, in the Middle East, North Africa, the Horn of Africa and South Asia to darken the eyelids and as mascara for the eyelashes.