Laura E. HallWelcome to my Friday cabinet of curiosities, a roundup of stuff I enjoyed this week! Today’s links include the world’s last internet cafes, a secret train ride, and yes, Barbie and Oppenheimer (—but not Barbenheimer) 🖥️🚆👠
1) The world’s first internet cafe opened in London, England in 1994. Nearly 30 years later, Rest of World visits the few that remain and explores the history of web connectivity in Uganda, Nepal, Nigeria, Argentina, Mexico, and Hong Kong
2) Today I learned: 70mm IMAX film projection uses Palm Pilots to operate. Why rely on a 20+ year old technology? Because there are only 30 theaters that can display that type of film, and—because it works
#Film #Cinema #FilmProjection #Projection #IMAX #Oppenheimer
Read more: https://www.theverge.com/23801118/imax-movie-palm-pilot-oppenheimer
3) Love artist natalie.3dblah’s Barbie Dream Sandworm (Dune), Shuttle (Star Trek: The Next Generation), Loader (Aliens), and Scooter (Akira)
More on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/natalie.3dblah/
4) Locate a labyrinth* anywhere in the world thanks to this database by the Labyrinth Society
(*Goblin Kings and minotaurs not included; these labyrinths are unicursal, featuring a singular path leading to the center, and are usually used for walking meditations)
5) Timelapse photographer Vincent Woo attached a camera to a BART train in the Bay Area, capturing footage to create “Tunnel Vision: An Unauthorized BART Ride.”
“A hidden world is revealed through intersecting passageways, flashes of graffiti, and sections of track only witnessed by BART operators.”
Watch the 1 hour 30 minute documentary here: https://youtu.be/3-Jrp6it9Ss
#Trains #Documentary #PublicTransportation #BART #BayArea #TunnelVision
Tunnel Vision: An Unauthorized BART Ride
Aaand that's all for this week!
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basskitten@lauraehall found this doc a few days ago and went looking to see if anyone was talking about it. it's fantastic!
Nazani@lauraehall
There are a bunch in Washington, DC, almost all associated with or inside churches.
There are a bunch in Washington, DC, almost all associated with or inside churches.
economística@lauraehall when you say unicursal, does that mean no forks?
@kurara_tequila Yes, generally the labyrinths included in that database have just the one path, vs. mazes or labyrinths of later design. The metaphor is that you follow it inward and then return along the same path to emerge again
Nick Stefanski 🐦🔥@lauraehall uh oh, I need to add my local labyrinth!
Sean Tilley@lauraehall God, I love these so much.
Thomas Alexander Kolbe@lauraehall wow ❤✨luv the dream shuttle and the dream scooter😊
Mr_N
John O'Kane@lauraehall it was such a weird, enjoyable throw back going into net cafes while passing through rural Bolivia in the mid 00s. Reminded me of exactly why I used to go to them in Ireland a decade earlier (people, games, access to fan fiction, sweet food).