In medieval times when cool people would invent a new trend they’d have to think about “should I show it to the local lords and ladies?” because it wouldn’t get popular if you didn’t but also they might steal it and pretend that they had invented it and exile you to Frisia or Moravia or Lotharingia which is worse than it sounds because those countries all had terrible health care. Like, the treatment for a toothache was they just killed you.
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![Traditional Korean “Jajungeo namoo kore” art involves the artistic depiction and juxtaposition of a bicycle (jajungeo) a tree (namoo) and a whale (kore). It sounds strange, but at least they didn’t spend six centuries painting nothing but a naked guy who’s been nailed to a tree and then laid in his mom’s lap.
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[Update: I was asked when Jajungeo namoo kore art begain. Jajungeo namoo kore art dates to the Gojoseon period, when King Dangun was said to have ridden his bicycle into the Tree of Life and been concussed. When he came to, a whale appeared before him and prophesied that his kingdom would last as long as “bicycles roamed the earth, trees sprouted from it, and whales swam the seas.” It is said that at the end of time, the great whale Yong-Kore will arise from the deep and swallow the world, and that only the Koreans will survive, riding away on bicycles that will sprout from the last remaining tree.]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/f9d53a36d9f7831423de9d39298107d6/tumblr_mm73u7iEgU1rv2ixwo1_500.jpg)


