OK GO’s ‘This Too Shall Pass” was, I think, made for me. Thanks again to Jessica, via booooooom. See previous posts about marble runs on this blog here and here. I think the cocktail one may actually have influenced OK GO’s marble run.

70 Million by Hold Your Horses ! from L’Ogre on Vimeo.

Can you identify the unidentified paintings in this video? It’s a music video for the song 70 Million by Hold Your Horses, directed by L’Ogre. Via Jessica via boooom. It was a fun art history test. I had to dig far back into art history class memories and managed to get:
The Last Supper
Botticelli’s Venus
Rembrandt’s Anatomy Lesson
a Vermeer?
Raft of the Medusa by Gericault
Death of Marat by David
Michaelangelo’s Creation of Adam
(cont’d)

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There are more tunnels and round things where this came from: see  y o u h a v e b e e n h e r e s o m e t i m e. This photo originally via OWI.

The Göbekli Tepe temple near Sanliurfa, Turkey, about 20 miles from the Syrian border and not far from Mesopotamia, was found by a Kurdish shepherd. It turns out to be 11,500 years old, thousands of years older than any other known human temple building, and apparently it is radically altering archeology’s understanding of the origins of human civilization. Via here. They say many more temples in the complex have been detected using radar but have not yet been excavated. What is the function or meaning of that simple, interesting diagonal, and what is that lizard dog?

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Superb. A rival to both Montreal and Munich. Thanks to the Canadian Design Resource for pointing this out.

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Logo and graphics from the 1972 Munich Summer Olympics, by Otl Aicher. Via. Unfortunately the excellent design produced by Munich was eclipsed by the gruesome tragedy that unfolded at the Games.

It’s a little-known fact that the graphic icons for each sport – now so familiar to everyone - originated with the Munich ‘72 Olympics. Above, ceramic vases and shot glasses, official souvenirs, and below, matchboxes. Beautiful.

Below, poster from the torch relay, and Waldi, the Munich dachsund mascot and the first mascot of the Olympic Games. Thanks to Christina for the mascot image and information (see comment). There’s a photo of a Waldi toy here.