There are thousands of movies that are based on plays – earning its own Wikipedia page. Shakespeare is the line leader here…. Shakespeare plays The Guinness Book of Records lists 410 feature-length film and TV versions of William Shakespeare’s plays as having been produced, which makes him the most filmed author ever in any language. […]
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Big news at OpenAI – shakeup in the management team yesterday. But I think mainstream media is missing the real lead – what about the calamitous coiffure crisis at OpenAI? Calamitous Coiffures, Part I This showed up for the Google Image search of “Coiffure Crisis”. WLBOTT Wonders: Why is Macron wrapped in bacon? Calamitous Coiffures, […]
[Thanks to UC#1-SU for today’s topic!] That video was really fun! I loved how he started out by dumping out 1000s of grains of rice on the table. What was he thinking??? And using a felt-tipped pen probably was both an advantage (since he might be used to such writing implements) and a disadvantage, because […]
[Thanks to UC#1-SU for pointing us towards today’s topic!] Rice Writing is a thing…. Rice writing is the art and skill of being able to write small enough to write on a grain of rice. HistoryRice writing originated in ancient Anatolia in Turkey and India. Many rituals and rites use rice as a medium, but […]
WLBOTT proudly announces our first corporate art piece: Purple Pixel #5c0881 (electron beam on cathode ray tube) Purple Pixel #5c0881 is available in a variety of frames: Plein Air Art Purple Pixel #5c0881 can also be considered an example of Plein Air Art: Purple Pixel #5c0881 on Tour Purple Pixel #5c0881‘s recent European tour was […]
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Tiny Art
There’s beauty in the silver, singin’ riverThere’s beauty in the sunrise in the sky– Bob Dylan, Tomorrow is a Long Time Yesterday we looked at some Big Art (by volume, not weight). Today, let’s head to the other end of the spectrum. Willard Wigan’s 2015 Microscopic Artwork exhibit at the California African American Museum When […]
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Wind Chimes
[Thanks to UC#1-SU for today’s topic!] World’s Largest Wind Chime The world’s largest windchime was made by Jim Bolin and is located at 109 East Main Street, Casey, Illinois. The windchime was entered into the Guinness World Records as the Largest Windchime on June 22, 2012. The windchime measures 12.80 m (42 ft) long and […]
The book Ministry of the Future is still rattling around in our collective WLBOTT heads. How can people not see the undeniable? Author Kim Stanley had to place himself in a very dark place to understand the “burn it all down” attitude. He understands Our Republican Friends’ response to climate change: “The Götterdämmerung Syndrome, as […]
Today WLBOTT explores the topic “What is Language?” This came to our attention through the interpretive armadillo mascot dance routine from Christopher Guest Movie “Mascots”. Just how popular is Mascots? Pretty popular! Mascots is 52,411 on the JustWatch Daily Streaming Charts today. The movie has moved down the charts by -1,146 places since yesterday. – […]
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