Flares into Darkness

Monday morning, start of the workweek blues by Blind Willie McTell.       

Click any image to enlarge You don't see them much anymore, but matchbooks used to be quite common and they were given away freely. ...

EnglishRussia's post Back to Monkey features a 1962 Soviet film is a lampoon of Western dancing, clothing style and jazz music. Whil...

This 1890 device built by Blaise Bontems uses bellows and mechanics to create a bird song. Blaise, his son and grandson ran a company that...

Left - Mesolithic cave painting of a woman harvesting honey Right - water color by F. Benitez Mellado showing the details of the original...

This Stratfor article by Omar Lamrani gives an overview of the current situation in Syria from a military perspective. It points out tha...

Click image to enlarge Recollections of Hickam Field during the attack on Pearl Harbor by Joseph A. Pesek, Technical Sergeant, United Sta...

Get ready for a weekend of summer vacation memories with Jehro.      

The iceberg that sank the Titanic (click to enlarge) Sorry for the brief post, but I'm a bit pressed for time and my broken shoulde...

This video shows Mostopher Dnouch, a Moroccan bow lathe turner, making a chess piece in the market of Marrakech. His lathe is foot powe...

There is an adage in art that you have to know when to stop working on a piece -- when one more brush stroke is one too many for a painti...

Our fight scene to get you over the hump in hump day starts with a villainous fellow chasing a girl into a martial arts academy. One wo...

This Stratfor article by George Friedman starts by going over the history of Egypt's relationship with the U.S. and Israel and then ex...

This 1867 Otto Langen atmospheric engine is the oldest still functioning internal combustion engine. It provide low RPM and power, bu...

Dreams Are Best -- Robert William Service I just think that dreams are best, Just to sit and fancy things; Give your gold no acid t...

Monday morning, start of the workweek blues by Robert Pete Williams.      

A series of pictures, starting with a crustacean, to a diatom and ending with bacteria, is assembled to create a microscopic zoom. The ri...

Above is a series of shots of cheetahs sprinting at 1200 frames per minute. What's amazing is how steady it holds its head as it runs....

Click any image to enlarge A shoe box held 178 plate glass negatives taken over 100 years ago in India during the British Raj. These pic...

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