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zegalba · 2 years
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Aaron Donner: ‘Pleasure Island’ Water Bed (1971)
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retropopcult · 1 year
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Peanuts
January 1975
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electronicsquid · 1 year
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Chilling on a water bed 
(Michael Rougier. 1971)
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scotianostra · 11 months
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The Scottish physician and inventor Neil Arnott was born on May 15th 1788.
Arnott, was born in the north-east Scottish town of Arbroath, he would become a very highly-regarded physician and show an inventiveness unusual for his era.
Having graduated with distinction at the University of Aberdeen’s famed Marischal College, Arnott then studied in London and at just 18 became full surgeon to an East Indiaman.
He made two visits to China as surgeon for the British East India Company and then settled in London where his reputation would grow and grow.
Arnott, in fact, looked after the French and Spanish embassies, and you wonder where he found the time to come up with his incredible inventions he became known for too.
It was in 1833 that he gave us the first form of waterbed. Dr Arnott’s Hydrostatic Bed, as it was known, had been created to help invalids avoid bedsores.
A bath of water covered with rubber-impregnated canvas, and a lighter bedding on top, it worked a treat. The modest Arnott, however, didn’t choose to patent the idea.
He wanted to let everyone else adapt it for their own uses, not the sort of generosity you would always expect in our day.
Waterbeds were soon being mentioned in all sorts of places.
North And South, Elizabeth Gaskell’s great novel of 1855, mentioned Mrs Hale using a waterbed to improve her health.
HG Wells’ The Sleeper Awakes saw the protagonist, Graham, put on a waterbed in a glass case during his 103-year coma. Nice and comfy, for that length of sleep.
Mark Twain even mentioned a waterbed in a New York Times article, describing how “In the infirmary will be kept one or two waterbeds for invalids whose pains will not allow them to be on a less yielding substance.”
With the patent option not taken up by Arnott, various people would attempt to make their own kind of waterbeds.
Such as science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein, who described waterbeds that were used for therapeutic purposes in several novels including the classic Stranger In A Strange Land.
It came out in 1961, just seven years before the first widely-available modern waterbeds, which were made by Charles Prior Hall.
Hall was granted a patent, having come up with his design while still at university in San Francisco. He first called his invention “Liquid support for human bodies.”
It reached an amazing peak in 1987, when 22 per cent of America’s domestic mattresses sold were waterbed ones.
In the Seventies, waterbeds had a reputation as being popular with passionate couples, and the whole image of them was a bit saucy.
It hadn’t changed, according to Hall, by ’87, when he admitted customers “Bought it for the sensual part of it.”
That side of it, of course, featured heavily in advertising campaigns, and you do wonder what Mr Arnott from the 1800s would have made of all this sordid stuff!
He would be glad, though, to know that the waterbed is still prized for helping those with back pains and other ailments and still helps avoid dreadful bedsores.
And for that, 185 years of great undisturbed, dreamy floating sleeps later, we should all be very grateful.
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bestoftweets · 1 year
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getting older can be so amazing? you get more familiar with yourself. learn tips & tricks for troubleshooting your own brain. trial & error helps you build routines that minimize discomfort, maximize reward. your preferences/interests don't get set in stone, but you do find out which ones are going to stay with you in the long-term, and which ones are fun but transient joys to appreciate in the moment.
you learn that the world is so much more complex than you were taught, and that that's okay, and that there's an endless supply of things you can learn or watch or experience or think about if you want to. if you're lucky, you loosen up, stop putting so much pressure on yourself. if you're lucky, you learn to recognize that negative inner voice, and whack it with a baseball bat until it hushes up. if you're lucky, you learn to treat yourself gently, not because you are fragile but because you are worthy of gentleness. (i hope you are lucky.)
and some things will change. some things will get better. some things will get good. and maybe you start to recover from the dehumanizing stress of childhood/education. maybe you learn the power of your own autonomy. maybe you learn how to walk away from bad situations (which is a superpower even if you don't realize it yet). and you get to choose your own clothes. and your own food. and which relationships to pursue! and what you do with your free time. and with your life (but don't worry you get to choose that gradually). and that's crazy! and sometimes scary. and extraordinarily, indescribably precious.
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kedreeva · 2 months
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There's some dude (derogatory) on FB who is PISSED people are pricing their farm fresh eggs at $2 and $3 a dozen instead of $4+, saying it's "disrespectful" and "undignified" and "I'm trying to feed my kids" like Sir, you are on a Facebook group page bitching about your neighbors egg prices because your pet chickens aren't earning you a living wage and you think it's your neighbors' fault, you do not have a leg to stand on here wrt dignity.
Also half the answers are like "I give them to friends and family free" or "I donate them to food banks" or "I'm making them affordable to folks who might not otherwise be able to get them now that they're so expensive in the store" and "if you think you're going to turn a profit keeping backyard chickens you have been wildly misled" and so on, and so forth, and I'm so living for it.
and I can tell you right now, he did NOT like my answer of "if you're trying to feed your kids, I hear eggs are edible."
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one-time-i-dreamt · 3 months
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I was drinking some really really tasty water.
When I woke up I was unsure whether or not it was a dream because it was some very good and delicious water.
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tango-but-everywhere · 2 months
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THE CROWD GOES WILD
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return of create mod??
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zegalba · 3 months
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Shiro Kuramata: Laputa Bed (1991) 7 meter long bed designed for sleep on each end.
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dwuerch-blog · 2 years
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God, My Husband and My Chiropractor
God, My Husband and My Chiropractor
I am by no means comparing my chiropractor to God, but I have noticed both have similarities. Years ago, I fell down a flight of stairs — 12 steps from top to bottom…..on MY bottom. The breath was knocked out of me and I felt like a compressed-together accordion. I had a serious back injury and lived in pain, even after many chiropractic and medical treatments. For years we prayed for my…
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electronicsquid · 1 year
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Bonus: water bed in a geodesic dome
(Michael Rougier. 1971)
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sensitivesiren · 6 months
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writing is crazy because you can sit there for hours, going through the entire human spectrum of emotion, all five stages of grief and then some, and literally nothing happened. it's all in your head. you made it up.
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obsob · 2 years
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a redraw of ‘lament for icarus’ by herbert james draper ✷
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why-the-heck-not · 3 months
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20.12.23, wednesday
My main hobby is just procrastinating in any way I can. The plan was to make a cup of coffee and then start working. What actually happened is that I watched a 3 part video series (by james hoffmann ofc) on Aeropress coffee and made a few cups with different variables. Still not sure if I found The Recipe for me, but it’s getting better (tho I don’t love the coffee beans I have)
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fluloa · 1 year
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when someone says they think jake was less attractive in the second movie, i show them this edit
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