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Tableau at the First International Surrealist Exhibition in London 1936.
In image: Diana Brinton-Lee, Salvador Dalí (in diving suit), Rupert Lee, Paul Éluard, Nusch Éluard, ELT Mesens
Dalí had attempted to deliver his lecture Fantomes paranoiaques authentiques, wearing the diving suit but after a few minutes was near asphyxiation and had to be rescued by poet David Gascoyne: “The eminent surrealist caused a furore when he stepped on stage and began to deliver his lecture in a full deep-sea diving suit. Only minutes later, a shocked audience watched with a mixture of horror and disbelief, as he began to suffocate and had to be prised out of the helmet with pliers.” (Source)
”I just wanted to show that I was plunging deeply into the human mind,” Dalí said…
Image by unknown photographer, via The Home of the Surrealists: Lee Miller, Roland Penrose and their Circle at Farley Farm in Google Books
![“There are implants which are purely aesthetic, and then there’s the Digital Tattoo Interface concept. It’s a blood-powered electronic interface which is embedded under skin to mimic a tattoo, display videos, or act as a phone or computer.
As great as it seems, this concept is seriously creepy because it powers itself by converting the glucose and oxygen found in blood into electricity. Though somehow getting your blood sucked by a gadget is worth it for the endless potential applications. I’d probably just end up using it to moderate comments, but what would you do first with your implant?”
[via Geekologie]](http://6.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ksxhfdEkKZ1qznygqo1_500.jpg)
“There are implants which are purely aesthetic, and then there’s the Digital Tattoo Interface concept. It’s a blood-powered electronic interface which is embedded under skin to mimic a tattoo, display videos, or act as a phone or computer.
As great as it seems, this concept is seriously creepy because it powers itself by converting the glucose and oxygen found in blood into electricity. Though somehow getting your blood sucked by a gadget is worth it for the endless potential applications. I’d probably just end up using it to moderate comments, but what would you do first with your implant?”
[via Geekologie]
From McSweeney's
Peanuts by Jane Austen
Miss Lucy van Pelt, young, witty, and handsome, found it unavoidable that she play a game of foot-ball with Mr. Charles Brown, the dreadfully wishy-washy companion of her otherwise commendable brother Mr. Linus van Pelt. Wishing to be rid of this bothersome neighbor, she lifted the foot-ball just as Mr. Brown ventured to kick it, leaving him out of sorts as she tittered with laughter and went to hear Mr. Schroeder play at the pianoforte.
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Dennis the Menace by Marcel Proust
Upon accidentally dropping a glass onto my kitchen floor, a most regrettable and yet unavoidable occurrence over the course of one’s lifetime of glassware use, I chanced to hear a sound that was just the same as the clatter of glass when, as a boy, I threw a leather ball through the window of our neighbor Monsieur Wilson, who responded with a thundering yell of the Christian name of I, your narrator.
- Famous Authors Narrate the Funny Pages
(via sometimesagreatnotion)
“Capturing the lives of the mini and unknown, Jason Barnhart uses his amazing talent to create diminutive life-like replications in their own weird and unique world.”
(via louddreams)
Lights Out: The ladies of Australian all-girl quartet Kaya perform, while a fiberscope snaked down their throats spies on their vocal chords.
Sweet dreams.
[via. thedailywhat]
I’d like a beer and a smoky corner to slouch in at my favourite pub in Bangalore. A plate of chilli beef, some stale popcorn, music blaring out so loud I can’t talk and won’t be able to hear properly for hours after.
I’d like some Nirvana, pumped up till I can feel the thump in my chest. I’d like to get fuzzy around the edges and holler entire songs out to a bar full of strangers singing. But most of all, I’d like this to end like that other night, so long ago, when we staggered down the centre of an empty road, leaning on each other, laughing like loons in the clear moonlight.
(they still play tapes at Pecos)
![Photo of the Day: Carrie Fisher and her stunt double, decked out in matching Slave Leia bikini costumes, taking a nap on the set of Return of the Jedi.
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Photo of the Day: Carrie Fisher and her stunt double, decked out in matching Slave Leia bikini costumes, taking a nap on the set of Return of the Jedi.
[via.thedailywhat:]
