Potato Photographer of the Year

Here are some of the winners of the 2021 Potato Photographer of the Year.

Growth, by Nigel Summerton

My Potato Necklace, by Clair

Submerged, by Cashou

Thanks to Nag on the Lake.

Nanci Griffith on David Letterman

The great Nanci Griffith appeared on the David Letterman show 18 times from 1988 to 2005.

May she rest in glory.

xkcd Earth Temperature Timeline

From xkcd.

Bo Burnham: Welcome to the Internet

Bo Burnham spent the past year painstakingly making a “comedy” special alone in his room.

I particularly liked this Tom Lehrer homage. (It’s about the internet, so some parts are obscene.)

The show (on Netflix) is an hour and a half of touchingly relatable, melodramatic self-absorption. It feels like watching someone singing into their hairbrush, only with excellent sound and clever one-man-band lighting effects. The grinding ennui familiar to so many of us is combined with bursts of inventive physical and verbal energy that douse the whole sad story with splashes of joy.

Alexandra Kehayoglou’s Tapestries

Alexandra Kehayoglou creates lush, irresistible landscapes in tapestry.

 

 

 

 

See more amazing art at Alexandra Kehayoglou’s website

Found on Everlasting Blört

Student New Yorker Covers

Tomer Hanuka gave his third year illustration students an assignment to create a post-pandemic New Yorker cover. Here are some of their illustrations.

Katrina Catacutan

 

 

Amy Young

 

 

Dou Hong

 

 

Jane McIlvaine

 

 

More great illustrations here.

Beautiful Washington Places

Inspired by Reddit, I thought I would post some photos of beautiful places in our beloved Washington State.

 

Washington Coast

 

 

 

 

Seattle

 

 

 

 

Cascades

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mount Rainier

 

 

 

 

 

 

High Desert

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Palouse

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

IKEA Worker’s Fantasy Comebacks

A little vicarious catharsis for service workers.

Part 1 of all of them pic.twitter.com/xIj9uvccYc

— Scott Seiss (@ScottSeiss) April 20, 2021

more at The Poke

Loveliest of Trees, by A.E. Housman

Loveliest of Trees

by A. E. Housman

Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
Is hung with bloom along the bough,
And stands about the woodland ride
Wearing white for Eastertide.

Now, of my threescore years and ten,
Twenty will not come again,
And take from seventy springs a score,
It only leaves me fifty more.

And since to look at things in bloom
Fifty springs are little room,
About the woodlands I will go
To see the cherry hung with snow.

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Photos from the Washington Park Arboretum, Seattle.

Corner of a 19th-Century Hand-Sewn Sail

Thanks, Nag!