La casa della paura (The Girl in Room 2A), dir. William Rose, 1974.
“Baikal Zen”: Rocks that have fallen on the ice of Lake Baikal are heated by sunlight and emit infrared rays that melt the ice below. Once the sun is gone, the ice becomes solid again, creating a small support for the rock above.
scrolling down I was like “oh what a cool idea! someone skipped stones on a lake and took high speed photographs to get these pictures where it looks like the water is holding up the stone which is kinda was does happen a-oh, no. nope. it’s just Fucking Lake Baikal up to its god defying nonsense again”
“All human errors are impatience, a premature breaking off of methodical procedure, an apparent fencing-in of what is apparently at issue.” – Franz Kafka, The Zürau Aphorisms
On this day, 31 March 1968, Zengakuren - Japanese radical students - clashed with police in riots against the new Narita airport. It was part of an extended campaign for years against the airport which was going to displace hundreds of farmers. This is a history of the Zengakuren: https://libcom.org/history/zengakuren-japans-revolutionary-students https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1684398908411919/?type=3
