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A few visuals to brighten your day:

Infinite Chinese landscape painting (via?)

Arctic Midnight Sun, a 24-hour timelapse of the sun not setting over Spitsbergen. (via)

Newton’s cradle dancing to “Gangnam Style”. (via)

---L.

Subject quote from Renascence, Edna St. V. Millay.

Three tangentially related links:

A Photo Visit to Mount Fanjing. (via)

Just how rich is Mr Darcy? (via)

An illustrated video for “Supper’s Ready” by Genesis. The artist is working on similar videos for all of The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway.

---L.

Subject quote from Supper’s Ready, Genesis.

Crossposts: https://lnhammer.livejournal.com/494288.html

“The Pomological Watercolor Collection comprises over 7,500 paintings, drawings, and wax models [of fruits] commissioned by the USDA between 1886 and 1942.” Wikimedia copy. (via)

Where Did the All-Too-Familiar Chinese Zodiac Placemat Come From? tk,dr: we don't know. (via)

The 2019 Lyttle Lytton Contest winners are overall a bit disappointing. *thumps cane*

---L.

Subject quote from Isaiah 38:14.

Crossposts: https://lnhammer.livejournal.com/491222.html

Senses of spaces:

Time-lapse of a rocket launch as seen from the ISS. (via)

An excellent explainer about the mole* that NASA just landed on Mars from The Oatmeal. (via)

A drone tour of China’s Mount Fanjingshan. (via)

* NB: It's a robot mole.

---L.

Subject quote from Hymn before Sunrise, Samuel Coleridge.

Crossposts: https://lnhammer.livejournal.com/468555.html

Informal poll: If you were reading a book of translations of Japanese poetry, would you find an index of first lines (in romanized Japanese) of any use? All poems would be clearly identified by its standard anthology reference regardless.

And in return, some links:

Learning to make beef noodles. (via)

Once upon a time in Sichuan, someone made short charming videos about Chinese folkways.

Happy endings for birds.

Subject quote from Nuremberg, Henry Longfellow.

Crossposts: https://lnhammer.livejournal.com/461935.html

Some lighter links:

Annals of the Naughty and Good penguins of the month. (via)

What do the 93 penises depicted on the Bayeux Tapestry tell us? (via)

An illustrated compendium of the different kinds of baozi, including where in China each can be found. Now I want a steamed pork bun for lunch. Or dim sum -- I'd settle for dim sum. (via)

---L.

Subject quote from Bleeker Street, Summer, Derek Walcott.

Crossposts: https://lnhammer.livejournal.com/451782.html

Uncanny links of mystery:

Photos of the Great Wall shrouded in fog and empty of people. (via)

How strategies for avoiding using the true name for something powerful created dagnabbit. (via?)

10 medieval riddles to test your wits. (via?)

---L.

Subject quote from Lullaby, W.H. Auden.

Crossposts: https://lnhammer.livejournal.com/440588.html

Links for a linking a linking a linking, links for a linking today:

A history of the very worst video game ever created, a real-time simulation of driving a bus with wonky steering across the desert from Tucson to Las Vegas. With no rest stops. And no pause. NB: There is now a VR version lol whut. (via)

Sheepdogs are smarter than humans at algorithm design. Or at least, at designing an algorithm for herding sheep. (via)

A photo journey along the Silk Road from Xi'an, China to Tyre, Lebanon. (via)

---L.

Subject quote from "Augustine, Vienna Teng, who describes it as a song for the religious experience she hasn't had yet.

Crossposts: https://lnhammer.livejournal.com/420748.html

A question in the All Knowledge Is Contained On The Internet Somewhere Department:

Is there an equivalent to Lafcadio Hearn for China?

(Bonus points if they are as good a writer as Hearn.)

---L.

Subject quote from "The Ash Grove," Edward Thomas.

Crossposts: http://lnhammer.livejournal.com/401178.html

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“The gossiping of friendly spheres, / The creaking of the tented sky, / The ticking of Eternity.”

“a distance falls around our bodies / out in the garden, the moon seems very bright”

“Like a crane or swallow, so did I chatter/I did mourn as a dove/mine eyes fail with looking upward”

“Around thee and above / Deep is the air and dark, substantial, black, / An ebon mass”

“But his house is now an alehouse, with a nicely sanded floor / And a garland in the window”

“When I press summer dusks together, it is / a month of street accordions and sprinklers”

“Noons of dryness find you fed / By the involuntary powers, / Nights of insult let you pass”

"bare as the day that I was born / bells in spires of china white / ring for an Augustine tonight"

"the moment unveiled something unwilling to die / And I had what I most desired"

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