1. Fellini’s Forgotten Masterpiece
Fellini Satyricon, or simply Satyricon, is a 1969 Italian film written and directed by Federico Fellini and loosely based on Petronius’s work Satyricon, written during the reign of Emperor Nero and set in Imperial Rome. Fellini Satyricon was entered into the 30th Venice International Film Festival, where it won the Pasinetti Award for Best Italian Film. It received acclaim from international critics, with particular praise toward Fellini’s direction and Danilo Donati’s vivid production design. The film earned Fellini his third Oscar nomination for Best Director, and the film was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
“Fellini Satyricon follows the exploits of two pansexual young men—the handsome scholar Encolpius and his vulgar, insatiably lusty friend Ascyltus—as they move through a landscape of free-form pagan excess. Creating apparent chaos with exquisite control, Fellini constructs a weird old world that feels like science fiction.” – Critireon Collection
Images found on Tumblr. More info on Wikipedia.
2. Marble front row seats at the Ancient Greek theater of Oropos
Also known as Prohedra: (Greek; pl. prohedrai: literally chair in front; an ornate seat of honor in the Greek theatre for dignitaries, officials, and priests).
Found on Reddit.
3. Cave Pearls
Most cave formations are created when rain water picks up carbonic acid from decaying leaves and eats away at limestone. The water picks up dissolved calcite as it flows through rock. When the water is exposed to air, carbon dioxide evaporates out of it and leaves calcite behind. This is the basic process that creates most cave formations. Cave pearls are formed when calcite is deposited in thin layers around grains of sand. Dripping water keeps them moving and keeps them from sticking to each other, at least until they get too big.
Found on Weird Katharine.
4. Here’s what a 2000-Year-Old Bottle of Roman White Wine Looks like:
5. Diaolou — multi-storey defensive watchtowers of China
Found in rural Guangdong, generally made of reinforced concrete, diaolou structures are one of the most spectacular and eclectic examples of fusion between Chinese and Western architecture.
Found on Urban Foxxxx via This isn’t Happiness.
6. This colourful Boathouse For Sale in Paris
Asking price: 253K euros, found on Espaces Atypiques.
7. This 1989 Documentary about Greyhound Buses
8. The Bavarian town of Nordlingen built in a 14 million year old meteor impact crater
Scientists estimate that Nördlingen and the surrounding area contain approximately 72,000 tons of the gemstone. The diamonds are the result of an asteroid, which struck this area of Bavaria, a federal state in southern Germany, some 15 million years ago.
Found on The Smithsonian.
9. “The Starlight Barking”, the unadapted book sequel to the original “101 Dalmatians”
The dogs gain superpowers like telepathy and flight, and the Lord of the Dog Star gathers Pongo and others to escape Earth and prevent nuclear war. Also, Cruella de Vil is now obsessed with metallic plastics.
Further reading found on The Guardian: I wish more people would read … The Hundred and One Dalmatians by Dodie Smith
10. A lesser-known Van Gogh painting called Prisoners’ Round which inspired the Yard scene in Kubrik’s Clockwork Orange
Found on Wikipedia.
11. The Forgotten Black Explorers Who Transformed Americans’ Understanding of the Wilderness
Esteban, York and James Beckwourth charted the American frontier between the 16th and 19th centuries.
Read the article on The Smithsonian.
12. The World Map of the Internet
Find the High-res of the map HERE, designed by Slovakian designer Martin Vargic, found via Trendland.
