Flares into Darkness

These are covers, mainly from the 19th century, of Scientific American. The magazine bills itself as a publication that covers art, scie...

These films are from Envisioning Chemistry , which is part of The Beauty of Science website. Much good stuff at both links.

Get ready for a goofily gothic Halloween weekend with HIM.   

Click any image to enlarge These are illustrations from the 19th century Persian book Anvār-i Suhaylī (Lights of Canopus). It is a trans...

Jaka Parker, an Indonesian variously described as a freelance photographer or embassy employee has a YouTube channel with numerous videos...

Click image to enlarge OK, I can understand a rake like Vincent being in this picture, but Mona? Tsk, tsk, tsk... if she's not caref...

Get ready for an avian weekend with Willie Nelson's cover of the Leonard Cohen classic.  

I guess you could say an organette (Rolmonica is a brand name) is the harmonica version of a player piano. They were first made in the 186...

Click any image to enlarge Ladies and gentlemen of the Victorian era naturally wanted to be physically fit, particularly if they rode tr...

Anonymous, Eyes on the Fly. Click image to enlarge “Everything made by human hands looks terrible under magnification--crude, rough,...

Get ready for a domestic weekend with Big Joe Turner and his band.  

Click any image to enlarge Sovetskoe Foto (Soviet Photography) was a magazine aimed at amateur Russian photographers. It features articl...

Click any image to enlarge One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. - André G...

Click any image to enlarge We have scary clowns popping up on roadsides, the Victorians were plagued with railroad lunatics. When railr...

Get ready for a weekend of gypsy hipsterism with the Barcelona Gipsy Klezmer Orchestra.  

In the above video a fellow by the name of Mike Paterson chats with his buddy Nephetia (sp). What sets this conversation apart is the fact...

Click any image to enlarge Ryan Weideman is a New York based taxi driver and photographers. For years he's taken pictures of the pas...

Sad news about Tom Petty. He suffered a heart attack and is now off life support with no brain activity. He is not expected to survive. RI...

Click any image to enlarge The book  China, in a series of views : displaying the scenery, architecture, and social habits of that ancie...