Near and dear to my heart, this is. Bill got his start here in the Pacific NW, just outside my backdoor in the Emerald City (Seattle). On that fine old show, Almost Live, as “Speedwalker,” among other things.
The following Speedwalker segment was filmed in that monstrosity of a bygone day, the Kingdome (it was razed in 2000, to be replaced by Qwest Field).
A massive prehistoric sea reptile that was longer than a humpback whale and had teeth the size of cucumbers has been found by fossil hunters on a remote Arctic island…
Read the full article at nationalgeographic.com
Prepare to get very, very, very small.
This is the “Helix Nebula,” 700 light-years distant from the Earth. Our sun will enter its old age in similar fashion, some five-billion years hence.
View a larger image at nasa.gov, and read more about it.
By Willard Wigan, “microsculptor.” The Wizard of Oz in the eye of a needle, below. More here.
Or simply “FSM Treats.” With working, 100% edible Googly eyes, the production of which is explicitly detailed at Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories.
…Sixty winters ere that Christ was born, Caius Julius, emperor of
the Romans, with eighty ships sought Britain. There he was first
beaten in a dreadful fight, and lost a great part of his army.
Then he let his army abide with the Scots (6), and went south
into Gaul. There he gathered six hundred ships, with which he
went back into Britain. When they first rushed together,
Caesar’s tribune, whose name was Labienus (7), was slain. Then
took the Welsh sharp piles, and drove them with great clubs into
the water, at a certain ford of the river called Thames….
Man, I love stuff like this. All the intricate, impossible, comedic elements, soaring into that static-filled cybersky.
See the mammoth construct in its entirety over at MrWong.de
It’s pretty strange, alright. Definite Python influences in there. Also some imagery that certain individuals might find disturbing/distasteful.
The music is grating, so you might want to turn your sound down/off.
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