The album cover of Santana hides many “Spot The Object” illusions.
A mondegreen is the mishearing or misinterpretation of a phrase as a result of near homophony, in a way that gives it a new meaning. It most commonly is applied to a line in a poem or a lyric in a song.
THE MISHEARD: “Saving his life from his warm sausage tea”
Real Lyric: “Spare him his life from this monstrosity!”
Song: Bohemian Rhapsody
Artist: Queen
Trivia
Lead guitarist for Queen, Brian May, dropped out of a physics PhD at Imperial College London to follow the path to rock stardom. He finally completed his thesis in 2007, so that is ‘Dr’ to you and me.
MML Word/Phrase of the Day
Wizzukie
When you take a wizz and a dukey at the same time.
Guy A: “Wow i just filled the toilet with that wizzukie i just took”
Guy B: “That’s sick”
Today in History
Jun 1 1571
The “Triple Tree” gallows is installed at Tyburn, England in time for the execution of John Storey, who is hanged, drawn, and quartered for committing treason. The Triple Tree consists of an equilateral triangle nine feet long on each side, 18 feet off the ground. It can hang as many as 24 prisoners at once, and will remain in place for almost 200 years.
Jun 1 1660
After having received a last-minute reprieve seven months earlier, Mary Dyer is hanged for heresy after returning to Boston. Dyer was a member of the Quakers, a subversive religious sect which had been banned by the Puritan colony under “pain of death.”
Jun 1 1926
Gladys Baker gives birth to Norma Jeane Mortenson in Los Angeles.
Jun 1 1967
The Beatles officially release their new album, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, in both mono and stereo versions.
Jun 1 1968
Helen Keller — America’s all-time favorite deaf, dumb, and blind Socialist — finally dies in Westport, Connecticut at the age of 87.
Jun 1 2001
In just two minutes, Nepal’s royal family is nearly exterminated by one of its own. With a selection of machine guns, Crown Prince Dipendra massacres eight relatives, including King Birendra and Queen Aishwarya. He then turns the gun on himself. Even though Dipendra winds up comatose in a hospital bed, a government council crowns him king anyway. The new monarch dies three days later.
Jun 1 2006
The Department of Homeland Security decides that New York has “no national monuments or icons” and anti-terrorism funding is reduced by $83 million. Instead, the money is distributed to fly-over states like Nebraska and Kentucky.
Jun 1 2009
Airbus Flight 447 from Rio de Janiero to Paris crashes into the Atlantic Ocean, killing all 228 people on board. Robot submersibles are later dispatched to recover bodies from the sunken wreck, more than two miles underwater.
The Stunning Geography of Incarceration on Map
There are 5,393 carceral facilities in the United States, places where people are held in local jails, state prisons, federal corrections facilities, immigration detention centers – “anywhere where an individual can be sort of confined and locked up,” explains Josh Begley, “and, in some of the bigger instances, warehoused in one place.”
Begley is a master’s student in the Interactive Telecommunications program at New York University. He wanted to graphically represent what all of this means, to communicate not just the sheer quantity of prisons in America (a number that has been booming for decades), but their volume on our landscape. As part of a class project, he created the oddly beautiful websitePrison Map, which offers a mashed-up birds-eye view of all of these places, taken from Google Satellite images.
“A lot of times we’ll just use numbers to talk about this idea of mass incarceration,” Begley says, “and I thought that there maybe was something powerful about using no numbers, no words and just having the images.”
One group in particular, the Prison Policy Initiative, and its project Prisoners of the Census, has done much of the work of cataloging all of these facilities and their geographic locations. By translating that data into an almost artistic rendering, Begley’s project makes visible an element of our communities that’s seldom seen. Some of the most striking images are those of rural prisons, which project intricate patterns onto otherwise empty landscapes.
These rural prisons often house urban prisoners, in the process transforming both the communities where these facilities are located and the neighborhoods from which their inmates came. This population shift has serious consequences for urban, often minority communities, in part because the Census has long counted prisoners where they’re locked up, not where they’re from, costing inner-city communities resources and political capital (this practice, often called“prison-based gerrymandering,” began to gain greater attention during the 2010 Census).
Begley’s images capture the massive scale of this entire industry and the land that we devote to it (America has less than 5 percent of the world’s population but houses a quarter of the world’s prisoners). His website, in fact, includes only about 14 percent of all of the prisons he’s captured (each one is scaled to the same size).
“The takeaway, at least for me, is really about this notion of space,” he says. “The amount of sheer materials that have had to go into building these buildings for the purposes of essentially warehousing people is really impossible for me to wrap my head around. We’re used to aerial images of nation-states overseas, and we’ll see a diagram of some compound that is going to be bombed or something. But rarely do we look at these spaces in our backyard and think critically about them.”
Begley, who grew up in California near San Quentin, the state’s oldest prison, acknowledges that these forms appear to him as simultaneously beautiful and horrific.
“The first time I was really able to look at all of these images,” he says, “the thing that jumped out at me the most was that the one commonality among almost all of these prisons was that there was a baseball field there. And the baseball field mimicked the form about these buildings as well. There was something very American about it when I first saw it.”
Mark Mawson, Photographer, Creates “Aqueous Electreau” Photo Series
British photographer Mark Mawson has taken our breath away with another photo series made from the simple ingredients of paint and water.
Dubbed “Aqueous Electreau,” this is the photographer’s third series featuring kaleidoscopes of colors suspended in water.
The inspiration for Mawson’s creation came from the simple act of watching milk being poured into the numerous cups of coffee.
“After the success of Aqueous Fluoreau, I wanted to try and produce some work which was equally as bright and bold without it being repetitive” Mawson told the Huffington Post.
“I used colors that were very electro, hence the name and the images had a resemblance to ‘ectoplasm’, ghosts and spirit photography,” he adds.
Can’t get enough incredible colorful water images? Don’t miss Jim Kramer’s high-speed water droplet photography or Markus Reugels dramatic liquid art.
Check out photographer “Aqueous Electreau” above
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