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!

OK Go: This Too Shall Pass

OK Go.

Deja Coup

Helsingin Sanomat, Finland’s largest newspaper, has a new article interviewing two German neo-Nazis about the inner workings of Germany’s far fight. I was really struck by the accompanying video. It’s footage of Neo-Nazis attempting to storm the Reichstag last August.

There’s an article about the incident in the English-language Deutsche Welle.

Psychedelic Pro-drug Ad from 1968

An uncredited promotional film from 1968 praises the virtues of good, strong coffee.

Part of the British Film Institute’s Orphan Works archive.

h/t to Nag on the Lake

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