Suiseki (水石) are small naturally occurring or shaped rocks which are appreciated for their aesthetic or decorative value.
It's also the name of the art of arranging them into meaningful forms.
[📸 Szilajka Erzsébet]
You assholes better wake the fuck up! Mamdani didn't run for Mayor of NY because he cares about poor people. He conned you fucking dummies into making him the mayor of the most influential city in the country so he would have a platform large enough to promote his ideology & advance his communist Islamic agenda nationwide & destroy the whole country.
And you fucking morons are so stupid you're buying into his bullshit and taking the bait, hook, line, and sinker!
Dumbest fucking people on earth!!
36 years ago today, Grateful Dead keyboardist's Brent Mydland's last show.
I'll post more on this three show run & what Brent meant to me, later.
"I gotta go, but my friends can stick around," was the final lyric he sang from The Weight by The Band.
#DeadHeadLife
In Switzerland, autumn brings a charming tradition — cows adorned with vibrant flowers and clanging bells are led down from alpine pastures to the valleys, marking their return for winter.
In the weeks leading up to Woodstock, #JimiHendrix rented a home in the tiny upstate #NewYork town of Boiceville for a #Summer retreat. Joined by Billy Cox, Larry Lee and others the group used this time to relax and prepare for the upcoming #Woodstock appearance in August 1969.
Wall of Voodoo was a Los Angeles new wave band that reached international fame with their 1982 hit "Mexican Radio." Inspired by high-wattage border blaster radio stations in Tijuana. Became an early MTV staple featuring the lead singer's head in a pot of beans.
So, I’m assuming many don’t know this either, but Slater Mill was born from an act of industrial espionage.
Britain prohibited skilled textile workers from emigrating, so Samuel Slater passed himself off as a farmer and sailed to America with the Arkwright spinning system memorized. With Rhode Island mechanics, he rebuilt the machinery from memory on the Blackstone River.
America’s Industrial Revolution was effectively smuggled into Pawtucket inside one man’s head.
Louis Reard - the inventor of the bikini, shown here with a model in 1946.
He named his creation after the Bikini Atoll, which was the sight of nuclear weapons tests.
But why? He felt his new bikini swimsuit design would create an “explosive commercial and cultural reaction”.
At the time no fashion model in Paris would wear his invention for many reasons so the first models were stripers from a local club he hired. And they would only do it for a month salary.
But Reard knew that if he got a few women to model it at the beach, the competitive nature of some women would start a trend to out do each other. Few thought it would work.
Jerry Garcia, four months before his death, on the mid-1960s in California: "When LSD hit the streets, I was like, yeah, you were looking for more? Here it is. This is more than you can imagine. That magic hole lasted a year and a half."
Two paddleboarders came to the rescue after spotting a raccoon stranded during heavy rain in Austin, Texas, helping the soaked critter safely back to shore. 🦝