August 13, 2022

On this rainy Saturday evening, I've found 8 TikToks for your delectation. Let me know what you like.

1. A nice time-lapse of mural painting.

2. And our flag was still there.

3. He embodies healthy habits.

4. When you need a prosthetic eye, do you get something that matches your working eye?

5. The cool kids may belong back in the office, but for this guy, it's an anxiety hellscape.

6. Dad talks about mountain properties.

7. The joy Dad feels when he gets to tell the same joke he always tells.

8. Dressing for the occasion.

21 comments:

Aught Severn said...

Another one of those 'working from home is better' weirdos. Learn to code!

Whiskeybum said...

I enjoyed:

#1 - the building looks completely rejuvenated with the mural. I think I counted 9 days that it took to complete. I wonder how mural artists establish the painted images in the correct perspective over such a large surface area.

#2 - the force of nature here is terrifying, yet so awesome to see. The ubiquitousness of video cameras is allowing us to see events that used to only be seen on rare occasions.

R C Belaire said...

That tornado was something! Yikes. I figured that white vehicle in the lower left was a goner for sure.

Lash LaRue said...

Although it doesn’t match her other eye, it matches her nose rings.

Readering said...

Can manatees see color?

The Vault Dweller said...

That tornado was impressive. I'm also assuming that was a relatively small tornado given it wasn't tearing up asphalt, tossing cars around, and demolishing buildings. Makes me not want to see a real big tornado.

Baceseras said...

6. This shit is genius level.

The Vault Dweller said...

Not to sound grim but was the prosthetic eye clip chosen because Salman Rushdie, who is apparently off the ventilator and speaking now, is suspected to lose one of his eyes?

john said...

Whiskeybum said...
I enjoyed:

#1 - the building looks completely rejuvenated with the mural. I think I counted 9 days that it took to complete. I wonder how mural artists establish the painted images in the correct perspective over such a large surface area.


If you look closely you will see that the lift is really one arm of an etch-a-sketch.

Saint Croix said...

flag, cool

Saint Croix said...

American flag in the tornado is an awesome metaphor for where our country is right now.

Awful tornado.

Flag makes it out okay.

Saint Croix said...

oh say does that star spangled banner
yet wave
over the land of the free
and the home of the brave

Deevs said...

He embodies healthy habits.

Are mid-2000's hipsters coming back already? Maybe I'll check out Bike Snob NYC's blog again for the first time in a decade. He should be on top of that.

Ann Althouse said...

"Not to sound grim but was the prosthetic eye clip chosen because Salman Rushdie, who is apparently off the ventilator and speaking now, is suspected to lose one of his eyes?"

Unless TikTok was serving it up because of SR, it was just by chance that I saw it and I picked it according to my usual method. I did think about SR's possible eye loss and considered whether I should reject it because of that.

This beautiful young woman lost an eye — to cancer — when she was a little girl. And after years of disguising it, she's doing something highly conspicuous. I love that. Plus it's beautiful work by the ocularist.

Nancy said...

I loved the joy of the girl with the prosthetic eye, the Dad-joker, and the woman in the swimming pool.

Mary Beth said...

The healthy habits guy got my attention, but it wasn't his song, it was that he played right-handed but did other stuff (writing, drawing, brushing his teeth) left-handed. It wasn't my favorite, but it was the one that most got my attention.

Leslie Graves said...

I don't think it would be possible to have a better TikTok than the Dad joke one.

Old and slow said...

I have always thought it would be cool to have multiple distinctive glass eyes (if I were missing an sye, that is...)

Bill R said...

Re: Eye

Cylon chicks are the hottest.

Bill R said...

Re: Eye

Cylon chicks are the hottest.

k said...

1 - but maybe I am inordinately fond of timelapse in general.
4 - Didn't Charles Dance do this in Last Action Hero?