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Baby Evacuation Aprons

Today I learned about evacuation aprons, which places like maternity wards use to rescue infants and toddlers in case of emergency or fire. Or as this labor & delivery nurse on Threads put it: …the goal is to grab your vest and just stuff as many babies as humanly possible in its giant kangaroo pockets before running out the door. This particular company sells a few different models, like this apron for newborns and this one for larger infants and toddlers that can carry a total weight of 60 lbs. All the aprons are fire-resistant. There is also something called the Med Sled, which can carry up to 6 infants at a time. Tags: fashion · healthcare 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →

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Jon Baptiste Hears Green Day for the First Time

In this video from Pianote, the multi-talented Jon Baptiste hears Green Day’s Holiday for the first time (drum & vocals only) and is challenged to come up with a piano accompaniment for it — and he really really gets into it. (How do you find a song that a musical encyclopedia like Baptiste has never heard before though?)

These are always so fun to watch — see also Drummer Plays Metallica’s Enter Sandman After Hearing It Only Once. Oh and Green Day’s demastering of Dookie. (via @unlikelywords.bsky.social)

Tags: Green Day · Jon Baptiste · music · remix · video

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A New View of the Aftermath of JFK’s Assassination

This is a still frame of a film shot just a few moments after President John F. Kennedy was shot in Dallas, TX in 1963: From a NY Times story back in September: For decades Mr. Carpenter’s 8-millimeter snippets of what transpired in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963, have been a f...

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10,946: a Year-Long Post-It Note Animation

10,946 is a mesmerizing stop-motion film by Daren Jannace composed of drawings on Post-It notes. He created 30 drawings a day for an entire year and then animated them: “Set at 30 frames a second, each second represents 1 day.” The animation is accompanied by audio Jannace recorded on his phone during the year.

If you watch the whole thing, you get to experience what a year feels like if days were shrunk down into seconds. (via colossal)

Tags: animation · Daren Jannace · mesmerizing · stop motion · video

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Single Line Mazes

Wacław Szpakowski was a Polish architect and engineer who, over the course of his life and in secret, made a series of drawings of mazes from single continuous lines. From The Paris Review: The drawings, he explains, “were experiments with the straight line cond...

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The Anti-Wonka Candy Factory

In 2011, Magnum photographer Martin Parr visited the Teddy Grays candy factory near Birmingham, England that makes old-fashioned candy with Wonka-esque names — Mint Humbugs, Nutty Brittles, Spearminties. The result is this ultra-charming 20 minute film profile of the compa...

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200 of the Largest Earth Impact Craters Mapped

I am predisposed to like videos about meteorite craters but this was even more interesting than I anticipated.

A nice example of a crater 2-3 km wide is Rotor Kamm in southern Africa. I should mention that we’re easily into city killer impacts here, in case you’re wondering.

You can explore the Earth Impact Database on their website. (via @michaelhobbes.bsky.social)

Tags: geology · maps · science · video

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Surreal Glitch Pulls

Artist and “pixel pusher” Niall Staines creates these slightly surreal scenes by pulling a 1-px slices to the edge of his images. I’ve used this technique myself but Staines deploys it to great effect here. I love these. You can find more of his work on his website and Instagram. Tags: art · Niall Staines 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →