Flares into Darkness

Above is a short documentary about the isolated Mascho Piro tribe in Peru's Amazon jungle region. The Mascho Piro are hunter gathers...

Finally, the truth is told. Sheds a whole new light on the election, don't it?  

David P. Goldman, who has long published under the name Spengler, has a very interesting read called Fertility, Faith, and the Decline of...

Jose Mujica, the leader of Urugauy, has been dubbed the poorest President in the world. As the BBC explains : Laundry is strung outs...

Click any image to enlarge For some reason the comic book charachter The Phantom has captured the imagination of Maori tribesman. The de...

This is a curious little video by somebody with the slightly spammy screen name paidworldtraveler. They've taken some 16mm footage...

A bit of random video with some music added gets turned into a nice little film of a conveyor belt sushi restaurant.   

Two bluegrass playing, redneck brothers drift down the Kentucky River on their shanty boat in a reminder of how many different forms th...

Click to enlarge Above is a picture from 1963 of Willard Scott as the first iteration of Ronald McDonald. I must say, that's one ins...

You probably won't understand a word of it, but the jokes are easy to follow none the less. Although, from what we hear and see of ...

It's not really fair of me to contrast Franky and Camille to the people in the Philippines who are happy to get light delivered...

From Vintage Everyday (click to enlarge) I'm a little pressed for time so I'll just post an odd, old picture and then give this...

Who knows what really proceeded the events in the above video, but the crowd in the video thinks that the foreign driver, after getting...

Click any image to enlarge These pictures come from the Vintage Everyday post Strange Soviet Bus Stops . There is no  commentary with th...

The above video is the Coffee Brewing Institute's 1961 panegyric to a cup of American style coffee. I haven't had a cup of p...

Click any image to enlarge Archeologists have excavated some of the Easter Island heads and have discovered that they have bodies as wel...

Scientists generally have held that culture is unique to humans. That said, there has been mounting evidence of differing behaviors...

Click any image to enlarge Asia Obscure has a post, Jesus and Mary in a little Indian boat , about a small concrete block building in In...

Click on any image to enlarge Summer is just over the horizon, and so our thoughts turn to the rhythms and icons of summer. The tinkling...

Click any image to enlarge The Indian artist Ramachandraiah hands draws and prints small movie posters. They are hung up on walls and st...