Flares into Darkness

Click any image to enlarge The Ottomans had a tradition of adding birdhouses to their public buildings. From Colossal Art's The Orna...

Get ready for a strangely relaxed weekend with P. Leslie and his Orchestra's cover of Helter Skelter.    

Click to enlarge Sea Fever - John Masefield I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky, And all I ask is a tall...

I would have been about 10 years old when the above film was shot. I grew up far from Kentucky, so dancing to a blue grass band in the li...

Click any image to enlarge In the early 19th Century John Russell Bartlett was a prominent scholar in New York circles. He belonged to t...

Get ready for a weekend, hopefully on this side of the Jordan River, with Johnny Cash's Wayfaring Stranger.  

Yeesh. Alternate post title: A Geek With Too Much Time On His Hands.  

Click any image to enlarge Deadly pandemics are a feature of living that the West, largely through vastly improved sanitation, have redu...

Click any image to enlarge While on vacation I stopped at the Stephen Foster Folk Culture Center in  White Springs, Florida. One of the...

It strikes me this video is actually a facsimile of a  Rube Goldberg Machine . The real machines are overly complicated pieces of nonsens...

Click image to enlarge I've been sick, so my posting has been non-existent.  I hope to bounce back soon. The above painting by Wassi...

Happy 4th of July  

Get ready for a weekend of odd breakfasts with Yapay Seleksiyon covering Wish You Were Here.  

This is from Wranglestar's YouTube channel  Modern Hoemsteading . He's got a lot of good videos so be prepared to spend a chunk of...

Click any image to enlarge These are paintings by the Chinese artist Cheuk Hiu Kwong. I've noticed that a fairly common technique in...

Click to enlarge Above is an illustration from a patent of a device that does something. Frankly, I'm not sure I want to know what t...

Get ready for a celestial weekend with Rocket Man by Iron Horse.  

You can rest assured that if I -- following the example of Lizzy Warren -- decide to claim Cherokee heritage so's I can open up the Fl...

Click any image to enlarge My previous post was videos of dancers. Throughout the years artists have tried to capture the experience of ...