I guess this makes me the three billionth person to link to Amateur by Lasse Gjertsen.

And if you haven't seen it already - Dirty Car Art.

In the interests of posterity:



Photo from here.



Cheer up, you little bastard!

That's Tai Shan, by the way.

Jewels of the Sea
Undersea photographs and related jewelry.

Via Icequeen commenting at Prof Myers.

The Great WKRP Thanksgiving Turkey Give-away Bit.

Via TBogg.

Stop-motion animation using white board.

Via Drawn!.

Ok, that Brian Atene guy? Maybe not kidding after all. Maybe. OK, almost certainly. But maybe! Anyway - what is clear is he's an extremely decent man, using his internet fame to encourage devotees of his self-described "cheesy" acting to make a donation to the Christopher Reeve Foundation. How's that for class?

The return of Brian Atene video here, via the boings via The Panopticist.

If I'm going to try this embedded Youtube thang it's best I do it with this - Steve Allen interviews Jack Kerouac, and improvises piano while the author reads an extract from On the Road. So cool you could use it freeze off a wart. Just a pity it's not the whole thing. Care of the boings and the intriguing PCL Linkdump.

Extra: Eyeteeth pairs this with Woody Allen interviewing Billy Graham.

Animal Reviews
Droller than it sounds. Or perhaps as droll. You be the judge.

A tad irritatingly, also via the squid-lovin' professor.

Where would you be if you dug a hole through the Earth? Find out here.

Via Pharyngula, although other amusing uses of Google maps can be found at Google Maps Mania.

hotchickswithdouchebags.com
This site pretty much sells itself.

Via Chase me ladies, I'm in the cavalry.

The Strange Maps Weblog

Via Millard Fillmore's Bathtub.

From the Cloud Appreciation Society webpage, the Clouds That Look Like Things Gallery.

John Hyde's Wildlife Photography

Via Pihus.

Bonfire Night In Lewes
As this is the fifth or so "via" I've got from Barista, a blogrolling seems in order.

Mountain Photography

The Endangered Ugly Things blog.

Via, yet again, Barista.

Haven't driven y'all insane lately, so here's Stackopolis.

Tube Hotel

Via BLDGBLOG.

The Monty Python cast (sans John Cleese) "co-host" AM America to promote Monty Python and the Holy Grail, April 25 1975. Hat-tip, as I believe is the correct blogging term, to Dennis Perrin at Red State Son.

Then there's these PBS fundraising spots the Pythons did the same year. I recall seeing one of these at the time, aged eleven. Well, actually, it wasn't one of these, it was the one where Michael Palin is tied to a chair. (This was because my family spent eight months in the US at that time, which is also why I'm one of the few Australians who understood what the "Amendment to Be" cartoon on The Simpsons was sending up - and very smug I am about it, too.

(It was, of course, this.)

Oh, look, another Python gem, the very first Monty Python sketch ever broadcast, subsequently deleted from repeats of the show in order not to clash with a general election, then lost, then discovered here in footage from a PBS pledge. Score!

The Whitney Music Box

Via Crooked Timber

Imperial History of the Middle East in 90 Seconds
Flash Animation from Maps of War

Rube Goldberg in the office

George W. Bush Speechwriter

Spherical Panoramas

Good Day, Mr Kubrick
Fake audition tape for Full Metal Jacket. Note many commenters seem to think it's real - the Internet: where irony goes to die.

I think the number you're looking for is 30,000

Let's check back with Julian Beever's Pavement Art

The Grinder
Shockwaved video of industrial grinder demonstration. It, er, grinds stuff.

Even worse than having an earworm of "My Sharona" is having an earworm of "My Sharona" as the disturbing result of having just read the drummer's obituary.

Street Art

A gallery of painted cardboard shelters from Shinjuku Station.

Crying While Eating