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🔍 Puzzles, mysteries, adventures

📚 PLANNING YOUR ESCAPE @ Simon & Schuster, KATAMARI DAMACY @ Boss Fight Books

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I’ve been in a bit of a film-watching slump. I’ll give a movie about 20-30 mins before switching it off but nothing has been really grabbing me lately. Maybe time for some comfort watching? What are your fav movies that you could watch a hundred times?

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Welcome to my Friday cabinet of curiosities, a roundup of stuff I enjoyed this week! Today’s links feature rebel birds, touchable cartography, human-sized 3D printers and more

A dancer spins around in a flowing dress. When she faces the camera, the lights go out and she tosses handfuls of sparkling confetti into the air

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  1. A graduate student has been collecting info on unusual bird nests, including ones that incorporate plastic trash and anti-bird spikes

These magpies build nests from the anti-bird devices, resulting in a “brutalist sea urchin” of metal needles sprouting from plastic strips

https://defector.com/theres-no-such-thing-as-hostile-architecture-when-youre-a-bird

lauraehall,
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  1. Absurdist streamers roleplay as NPCs, performing exaggerated looping movements and repeating catchphrases

“They’re picking up on all the ‘uncanny valley’ things about how NPCs behave in video games" ... NPCs “don’t behave like ordinary people do, they’re not offended if you make them repeat themselves over and over. They don’t expect you to cooperate in conversation.”

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jul/19/tiktok-npc-streaming-live-stream-pinkydoll

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  1. In 1835, a school for blind students began printing embossed learning materials, including an atlas of the United States. There are only four surviving copies, and one can now be browsed online

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2023/06/atlas-for-blind-students/

lauraehall,
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  1. This man uses a massive custom 3D printer to print life-sized statues of himself in one go

Video: https://youtu.be/PxcP74W-PgE?t=850 (The printing starts at about 14:10)

https://hackaday.com/2023/07/20/giant-3d-printer-can-print-life-sized-human-statues/

lauraehall,
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  1. In the 1890s, A 19-year-old student used a concealed vest camera to take snapshots of people on the streets of Oslo
    https://www.openculture.com/2018/01/19-year-old-student-uses-early-spy-camera-to-take-candid-street-photos-circa-1895.html

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