Flares into Darkness

This is a video taken in what I assume -- although I am just guessing here -- is an extended family compound in a village in Bangladesh. T...

Newton's Apple Tree (click to enlarge) The apple tree that dropped the apple that so enlightened Isaac Newton is still alive. That...

Get ready for a heart broken weekend with Carlos Santana and Mana.  

Click any image to enlarge When my brother, wife and myself watched the movie Dunkirk one thing that amused us was the owner of the civi...

Get ready for a Gooberment Shutdown weekend with Semisonic.

Click any image to enlarge These are covers from a magazine called Travel. It was published in the early part of the 20th century. The c...

Time to go walking again. Considering the 'shit-hole- kerfuffle I almost used a Haitian location, but making some sort of a statement ...

Get ready for a love struck weekend with Johnny Cash's version of the well known song.

Click any image to enlarge Much of our image of the ancient world comes through stone. This is of course a distorted view, with much of ...

A Broadway Pageant by Walt Whitman (on the arrival of the first Japanese envoys to the city) OVER the western sea, hither from Niphon ...

Get ready for a smooth weekend with a Lemon's slow jamzz of the Tracy Chapman classic.  

Sooner or later even things that are modern and daring look quaint. These costumes were made by the German expressionistic artist and dan...

This is a video made by the artist  Bartholomäus Traubeck . He's cut a disk from a tree trunk and mounted it to a turntable where, as ...

Here's hoping you all have a Happy New Year, and may your New Year's Eve celebrations be free of giant bee attacks and other such...

How Fear Came by Rudyard Kipling The stream is shrunk--the pool is dry, And we be comrades, thou and I; With fevered jowl and dusty fla...

Get ready for a seductive weekend with Toco.  

Click any image to enlarge Tatsuya Tanaka, a photographer and art director, has an ongoing project called The Calendar Project . In it h...

With the holiday feasts over, it is time to wash dishes. Above is a video somebody made by putting a GoPro into a dishwasher. There are a ...

Santa's sleigh seems short on reindeers, but the old guy is magical so's I guess it is OK. Anyhoo ... have a good one all.  

The Mistletoe Bough by Francis Wheatley (click to enlarge) Above is Francis Wheatley's painting The Mistletoe Bough. It depicts the...