There is some real talent here.
Sep 022022
Sep 012022
I’m not entirely convinced that this is *actually* from the Amazon series. But I’m not convinced that it’s not, either.
Sep 012022
The “Primitive Technology” channel shows how to process iron from river sand. The level of effort and the raw materials needed in order to produce a *tiny* amount of iron are impressive, but the results show that it can be done at a very low tech level. A bit of refinement and a useful amount of workable iron could be produced on a fairly regular basis by a small family, tribe or village. Why you’d want to go to the bother *today* I’m not so sure, but maybe this sort of thing would be useful for those of a prepper mindset, or planning on colonizing new worlds or time traveling. I’m not here to judge.
A couple months back the same guy showed how to make an iron knife – admitted a bad one, but an iron knife nonetheless – from bacteria. I was *certain* that I’d posted this video, but a concentrated, detailed search of the blog for more than ten seconds did not turn it up. Shrug.
Aug 312022
Huh.
Utica Sculpture Residency Vandals Are Under the Age of 11, Police Say
Five Mostly Peaceful Vandals aged 8 to 11 pretty effectively trashed an upstate New York art… place. Workship. Studio. Collective. Whatever. The photos in that and an earlier article make it clear these little monsters were on a mission of destruction. The artists have set up a “gofundme” type thing to help rebuild, with a goal of $75,000. Seems to me the kids families should be the immediate go-to for reimbursement. According to the funding campaign, damage includes:
- All windows, interior and exterior, have been smashed
- The entire office along with accompanying communication and computer equipment, important archival documents and information, and furniture have been severely damaged and destroyed
- The entire kitchen, kitchenware, and equipment were smashed and spread throughout the studio area
- The bathrooms and hallway were flooded and damaged
- Several donated art pieces for CHAIRity have been partially damaged or completely destroyed
- Furniture and storage units throughout were destroyed or rendered useless
- Camera and video technologies have been smashed and destroyed
- Lighting was busted or smashed
- Multiple bicycles for use by artists-in-residence were stolen
Kids these days. I look forward to the exciting and innovative excuses that will be made for them.
I know a lot of modern art sucks and often resembles actual garbage more than art, but come on.
Aug 292022
… are no match for nearly a million dollars:
‘Star Wars’ blaster sells for $900,000 at Rock Island Auction Company
I probably shoulda gone to look at it while it was on display a few miles from here. Well… one real good way to feel inadequate *real* fast is to realize just how far short you’d fall if you tried to buy something like this. It sold for two to three times the original estimate.
This link says that the blast sold for $1,057,500. I assume that factors in the fees and such.
Han Solo’s DL-44 Blaster from “Star Wars” smashes auction records
The budget for “Star Wars” was $11 million in 1977 money, or something like $52 million today. So about 2% of the movies budget could have been paid for by selling one prop… and sending that money back in time somehow.
Aug 272022
Sylvester Stallone made a career out of playing “action heroes” who tended to be all muscle and little brain… or at least that’s the stereotype. A lot of his characters and movies *seemed* like that on the surface, but were very different underneath. “Rocky” is often thought of as a boxing movie, but it’s really a love story with some boxing thrown in. “First Blood” is thought of as a simple shoot-em-up, but it’s really a story about how society threw away a whole generation of veterans… that monologue at the end *utterly* makes the movie. And “Demolition Man” seems another simple shoot-em-up with sci-fi trappings, but it’s a reasonably deep commentary on political correctness. And the man, when he had the right material, could *act.*
Stallone himself seems to be a pretty smart guy. This comes across *brilliantly* in this clip from a BBC interview from 1977:
A more complete version of the interview:
Aug 252022
This time, though, I’m not irritated. Commie art is good for one thing: recycling. Like fascist and SJW artwork, it’s at best soulless and devoted to the very worst things and people. So the Lativans took down the “Moscow Liberators” monument, in large part to protest the Moscow invasion of Ukraine.
Latvia Demolishes Soviet Memorial In Riga, Latest To Be Dismantled Across Eastern Europe
The fall of the obelisk in #Riga was greeted by the local residents with applause and shouts of joy. pic.twitter.com/MK99BCARtY
— NEXTA (@nexta_tv) August 25, 2022
An impressive video from #Riga, #Latvia. They finally demolished the #Soviet era monument that honored the "Moscow liberators." pic.twitter.com/hmSpFHvbY8
— Viktor Kovalenko (@MrKovalenko) August 26, 2022
Te redzams vēsturiskais mirklis no mūsu videonovērošanas skatpunkta. pic.twitter.com/ORykwT5BHL
— Rīgas pašvaldības policija (@RigasPP) August 25, 2022
Aug 252022
Having gone through the Commie Cough with subsequent fatigue issues (definite improvement on that front, but still not where things should be), this video speaks to me at a very deep level.
Aug 252022
Aug 232022
A video calling out Republican mid-term election commercials featuring guns:
Now, *nobody* should be under the delusion that Republicans in general or these in particular truly have the 2nd Amendment at heart. I accept that chances are *really* good that for at least some of these politicians, the guns they’re shown holding are simply props. But they are holding these props knowing full well that by doing so they will annoy the sort of horrible people who are offended at the idea of American civilians having anything like the sort of right to defend themselves that the IRS’s new army will have.