Here’s a picture that I took at a warehouse in Singapore. It did about 20% of the world’s wholesale reptile leather tanning. This step is after the skin has been scraped and stretched. It is salted by hand, rolled into a bundle, then stored to dry it out before going into a chemical brining. The skins and workers are imported into Singapore. A common strategy is to keep the workers on short-term contracts and sourced from various remote parts of the world to keep too much knowledge collecting in one place to keep competition at bay. This warehouse did not smell very good. Meanwhile, I got to meet the buyers from Louis Vitton who happened to in town from Paris. There couldn’t be a bigger divide between the French drinking sparkling water upstairs looking at very expensive leathers and the Chinese contract workers grinding through animal parts below.
You can buy the love letters JFK wrote to Gunilla von Post. Gunilla claims she had an affair with him for 3 years, lasting one month before his marriage to Jackie.
The year was 2017. The Oscars had mixed up their winners. Kendall Jenner had made a problematic Pepsi ad. The Fyre Festival had crashed and burned, sad cheese sandwiches and all.
And then came Tom Holland's "Lip Sync Battle" mashup of Gene Kelly and Rihanna, or what is essentially two minutes and 10 seconds of perfection in every sense of the word. Ditching his initial top hat and suit to grind on a literal umbrella and perform a sensual routine in a pleather leotard, red lipstick, and chin-length wig, the British actor, then 20, obliterated gender constructs and defied the expectations of how a newly minted action star should market himself.
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This allows you to zoom/rotate Van Gogh's "The Starry Night Saint Rémy" to see the texture.
https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/the-starry-night-756b03a918544497b7a4ba644e37550b
Reptile leather
Perhaps Romania should declare war on Lichtenstein
https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/07/europe/romania-bear-shooting-investigation-scli-intl/index.html
You can buy the love letters JFK wrote to Gunilla von Post. Gunilla claims she had an affair with him for 3 years, lasting one month before his marriage to Jackie.
https://rrauction.com/bidtracker_detail.cfm?IN=32
Who is the "I hate that guy" from Stanfurd (besides their shitty band)?
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Reminder that this Sunday is Mother's Day! Glad tidings to those who are celebrating, and love to you if it's a rough day for you.
Fancy people with fancy fridges that make fancy ice! https://twitter.com/ProfKori/status/1390652993914167297
Winners of the Map the Bay contest: https://exhibits.lib.berkeley.edu/spotlight/mapthebay/feature/map-contest-2021
An oral history of Tom Holland's sensational 'Lip Sync Battle' performance
https://www.insider.com/tom-holland-zendaya-lip-sync-battle-umbrella-oral-history-2021-5
The year was 2017. The Oscars had mixed up their winners. Kendall Jenner had made a problematic Pepsi ad. The Fyre Festival had crashed and burned, sad cheese sandwiches and all.
And then came Tom Holland's "Lip Sync Battle" mashup of Gene Kelly and Rihanna, or what is essentially two minutes and 10 seconds of perfection in every sense of the word. Ditching his initial top hat and suit to grind on a literal umbrella and perform a sensual routine in a pleather leotard, red lipstick, and chin-length wig, the British actor, then 20, obliterated gender constructs and defied the expectations of how a newly minted action star should market himself.