Kat’s Kable Images Special #139

Hello! Midweek special yet again, and this is totally different from what is the norm with Kat’s Kable. Instead of being hundreds of words long, this issue is a series of fun and interesting photo galleries. I hope it’s a nice refresh and adds some variety to your week.

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1. An Iceberg Flipped Over and Its Underside Is Breathtaking

2. From Archives and Dusty Cabinets, a Trove of Fruits, Flowers, and Leaves of Grass

3. Bird Paintings

Come for the beautiful paintings, stay for the better captions. For example,

The Dreadfully Delightful Existence of Semi-Spectral Things

4. The Dizzying Patterns of Movement at Athletic Events Captured in Composite Photographs

5. The Unexpected Beauty of China’s Bicycle Graveyards

6. How Two Photographers Unknowingly Shot the Same Millisecond in Time

My jaw is still dropped.

7. Little Ambassadors of the Country

“How a land where so much is governed by tradition became known (at least to stamp collectors) as a country of wildly groundbreaking innovation.”

Perhaps no other Bhutanese postage stamp has received as much attention as the so-called talking stamps. Issued in 1972 as a set of seven in red, yellow, green, blue, purple, white and black, and in two sizes, the talking stamps were miniature one-sided vinyl records with adhesive backs so that they could be affixed to letters, but also played on a standard turntable. The stamps featured audio recordings of folk songs, the national anthem, the history of Bhutan in Bhutanese and the history of Bhutan as narrated in English by Burt Kerr Todd himself.