10 Interesting Things I Found on the Internet #40

Yo-ho-ho and a mug of (forest-destroying) NesQuick. Come one, come all to another kooky edition of 10 interesting contraptions that can barely be defined as real. These things were collected on the rear hub-cap of my car as I drove from one side of the country to the other – I hope you like them!

Hair clip animals by Tatsuya Tanaka

Via Twitter

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Björk as extravagant fungi

Via Twitter

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80’s Aesthetic

Sculptural hair, big blouses, animal prints, flouncy hats and a great INXS soundtrack….it is so great!

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How to make tiny Turkish delights for tiny visitors

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An epic list by William from A 1000 Mistakes of his top 100 Australian artists

He links to a mystery song on Youtube for you to sample some of the music below. Some really great and timeless music here. Read more

1. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
2. The Drones
3. HTRK
4. The Triffids
5. Ed Kuepper
6. Dirty Three
7. The Necks
8. Augie March
9. Magic Dirt
10. Kev Carmody
11. The Paradise Motel
12. Lost Animal
13. Eddy Current Suppression Ring
14. Beasts Of Bourbon
15. Laughing Clowns
16. Primitive Calculators
17. Scientists
18. My Disco
19. Sarah Blasko
20. Archie Roach
21. Paul Kelly
22. You Am I
23. The Birthday Party
24. The Go-Betweens
25. The Saints
26. King Gizzard & The Wizard Lizard
27. Regurgitator
28. Seekae
29. Jen Cloher
30. Jimmy Little
31. Dave Graney ‘N’ The Coral Snakes
32. Died Pretty
33. Hard-Ons
34. The Cruel Sea
35. Rowland S. Howard
36. Severed Heads
37. The Avalanches
38. X
39. The Blackeyed Susans
40. Warumpi Band
41. Don Walker
42. Holly Throsby
43. Tumbleweed
44. The Mark Of Cain
45. Cosmic Psychos
46. GOD
47. Courtney Barnett
48. Not From There
49. theredsunband
50. Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu
51. Alex Cameron
52. Kim Salmon & The Surrealists
53. Venom P. Stinger
54. Crime & The City Solution
55. Divinyls
56. Hoodoo Gurus
57. The Church
58. The Reels
59. The Meanies
60. Essendon Airport
61. Pel Mel
62. Use No Hooks
63. Bluetile Lounge
64. Ricaine
65. Palm Springs
66. Witch Hats
67. PVT
68. Gerling
69. Lubricated Goat
70. Little Ugly Girls
71. The Lighthouse Keepers
72. Australian Crawl
73. Custard
74. Abbe May
75. Spencer P. Jones
76. Ben Salter
77. Vic Simms
78. Stephen Cummings/The Sports
79. Charlie Marshall & The Body Electric
80. UV Race
81. Tendrils
82. The Victims
83. Manikins
84. Bird Blobs
85. The Fauves
86. TISM
87. High Tension
88. The Nation Blue
89. Kirin J. Callinan
90. The Peep Tempel
91. Deaf Wish
92. Snowman
93. Beaches
94. Standish/Carlyon
95. The Clouds
96. Falling Joys
97. The Celibate Rifles
98. Daddy Cool
99. Kylie Minogue
100. AC/DC

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The smallest (and cutest) bird in the world is the Bee Hummingbird

The bee hummingbird is tiny – about the same size as the eyeball of the world’s largest bird, the ostrich. It is, however, considerably lighter than an ostrich’s eyeball, which weighs around 47 g. As its name suggests it is scarcely bigger than a large bee or butterfly.

With thanks for Nature Nook

Nature Nook have a great blog about British wildlife, endangered species from around the world and extinct animals that we have tragically lost. Read more on Nature Nook.

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Jane Dougherty (writer) and Jane Cornwell (artist)’s thought-provoking collaboration

This is an Ekphrastic challenge for National Poetry Month (the Ancient Greek practice of using words to comment on a piece of visual art). An artistic collaboration between two very talented creatives Jane Cornwell (artist)and Jane Dougherty (writer), the result is very moving and powerful.

See more of these creative collaborations and art on Jane Cornwell’s website, and more writing from Jane Dougherty on her website.

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How the ancient Celts saw the world as energy by Zsteven T Evans

Zteven has a fascinating blog about all aspects of ancient cultures, folklore, legends and alternative history you may not have heard of…

The Celts were a varied collection of ethnic groups inhabiting a wide swathe of continental Europe from the west coast of Ireland to the Black Sea and other scattered areas. As a group they appear to have been bound together by common aspects of language, culture and religion rather than ethnicity. They worshiped a wide variety of gods and goddesses which varied from region to region as could the importance and attributes of those divinities. Animism is seen as the one of the threads that connected the beliefs of this vast and diverse group of people together.

Zteve T evans

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Cocorrina’s a whimsical moon art

Inspired by the mystery of the unknown and the unseen magic of the moonlight.

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What your email sign-off really says about you

I don’t know about you, but I have always found the sign-off of ‘Best’ in emails to be a bit passive aggressive. Perhaps this is a cultural thing. I have gottn emails from people in Europe and America saying ‘Best’ and so it must be OK over there, but it sounds weird to me.

Cheers is seen as ‘chaotic good’ here, but in Australia and NZ signing off with ‘Cheers’ either in person, phone or over email is totally fine. What protocols do you use?

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Join the #Boycott4Wildlife

Until big brands cease deforestation completely I am going #palmoilfree and boycotting the big supermarket brands destroying forests and jungles with #palmoil all over the world #Boycott4Wildlife https://palmoildetectives.com/2021/02/11/palm-oil-free-brands/ via @PalmOilDetect

Originally tweeted by Palm Oil Detectives (@PalmOilDetect) on April 1, 2021.

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Am I the only one who can’t unsee these two rolling a joint?

Perhaps there is something wrong with me LOL. In any case, magic is happening here and this interspecies friendship is absolutely amazing. Via Twitter

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Five minute meditation with wombats and kangaroos

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A cardboard horse named Rustle and his cardboard-clad owner ponder their existence in hotel quarantine in Sydney

A whole lot of papery suspense and intrigue ensues…

The horse is called Russell*

*Rustle for those who are playing along w the paper bag theme pic.twitter.com/JsBmzYfdD8

— Ruth Wynn-Williams (@RuthWW) April 3, 2021

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Moroccan chickpea stew by Will Yeung

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Hope you liked these things and found them entertaining. Let me know what you think below.

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