Marvels & Marbles

MaskedMarauder's blog about amazing, outrageous, beautiful, hilarious, unbelievable, entertaining or noteworthy things and about everything else. Mostly about everything else.

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Library Cake - by Kathy Knaus (via bOINGbOING)

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Goodbyes in 2015 - Fantasy & SF

16.12. - Peter Dickinson (88) British (F&SF-) author 31.10. - T.M. Wright (68) American SF-author 10.06. - Wolfgang Jeschke (79) German SF-author and editor 24.05. - Tanith Lee (67) British F&SF-author 12.03. - Sir Terry Pratchett (66) British F&SF-author 27.02. - Leonard "Spock" Nimoy (83) American Star Trek-actor 09.02. - Melanie Tem (65) American F&SF-author 27.01. - Suzette Haden Elgin (79) American F&SF- and author

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Goodbyes in 2015 - Folk Music & Co.

19.11. - Ron Hynes (64) Canadian folk musician

16.10. - John Jennings (61) American musician and multi-instrumentalist (Mary Chapin Carpenter)

29.07. - Buddie Emmons (78) American steel guitarist

22.07. - Eddie Hardin (66) British Rock musician (Spencer Davis Group, Hardin & York)

21.07. - Theo Bikel (91) American Folk musician and actor

06.06. - Ronnie [Ruth Alice] Gilbert (88) American folk singer (The Weavers)

01.06. - Jean Ritchie (92) American folk musician and historian

14.05. - B.B. King (89) American blues musician

02.05. - Guy Carawan (87) American folk musician and historian

26.03. - John Renbourn (70) British folk musician (Pentangle)

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16th Century Superheroes and such Created and © by photographer Sacha Goldberger and costume designer Jackie Tadeonie using lightning influenced by Flemish paintings.

Source: <http://www.thephoblographer.com/2015/07/27/super-flemish-puts-superheroes-in-the-16th-century/>

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Star Wars theme medley played bluegrass style by the samuraiguitarist

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The phenakistoscope was an early animation device that used the persistence of vision principle to create an illusion of motion. This English example from 1833 reblogged from the Richard Balzer-collection.

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Famous movie posters without any text (from top):

Alien  |  Pulp Fiction  |  The Exorcist  |  Inherent Vice  |  Interstellar  |  Star Wars

sorry, no idea where these can be bought (if anyone knows, please let me know)

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Proof that Donald Trump is no other than Alf’s evil twin brother.

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Joachim Müllner aka ‘The Wikisinger’ sings the same song in 15 different environments—including an anechoic chamber without any sound reflections—to experiment with natural reverb, early reflections and short delays.

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Good Morning by the always wonderful Grant Snider

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Scarfolk Ice-Cream range, 1979

In Scarfolk the ice-cream van man comes between 3 & 4am. You can hear him blaring the haunting Swedish Rhapsody numbers station (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUQUD3IMbb4) from over a mile away. The ice-cream van man wears a clown mask to disguise the horrific burns on his face because he doesn't want to frighten the children. He uses clothes pegs to hold the mask on because he is missing an ear.

Source: http://scarfolk.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/scarfolk-ice-cream-range-1974.html

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Q: Do you believe in happy endings? A: Only in the way I believe in New Guinea; it exists, but it does not affect me much.

KJ Parker AKA Tom Holt (interviewed in 2001)

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The Coolest Ice Cubes Ever

In an award-winning campaign for Suntory Whisky, creative agency TBWA\Hakuhodo used a CNC (computer numerical control) milling machine or router, to carve and whittle ice cubes into these amazing sculptures.

To prevent the cubes from melting, the CNC router was kept chilled to a temperature of -7 degrees Celsius (about 19 Fahrenheit), and each cube took between 1-6 hours to complete. For more information you can visit the official microsite at 3drocks.jp.

[Sources: AdWeek, CNET, TBWA\Hakuhodo] via Twisted Sifter

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The Lancre army consists of just one man, Shaun Ogg. He has other jobs in Lancre and we catch him having just finished cleaning out the cess pits and doing a little heralding for the King before going on to be a footman. To keep him company there is Big Jim Beef the border guard at the river bridge on the only road into Lancre. It looks as if he's had a bit of bother with a Billy Goat. (Hope Moriar doesn't mind what I've done to his pleasant surprise) Finally the only other person who wears armour in Lancre is the King's falconer, Hodgesaargh, although he normally only wears it to protect himself from the birds.

Source for all photos Warhammer Empire. In the forum follow this trail:

Empire Discussion Forums »

The Brush and Palette »

Topic: Discworld – SAS

None of these miniatures are official releases (in case this matters to anyone ...), for details see link.