Flares into Darkness

In the above video we follow Emi, a 24 year old Tokyo office worker, through her day at work. While I can understand the café, gym and co...

Image from Tacos A-Go-Go (click to enlarge) You can never control who you fall in love with, even when you're in the most sad, conf...

Get ready for obscure jokes this weekend with Santana.

Click any image to enlarge I'm sure that many of my regular readers will be heartbroken to hear that this is my final post on the Ru...

Five Way Portrait of Marcel Duchamp (click to enlarge) "Cubism -- highly influential visual arts style of the 20th century that wa...

The above video is the YouTube channel of som's fade . I believe he is Nigerian. His videos are obviously homemade and don't get a...

Get ready for a rueful weekend with Koop.

Click any image to enlarge These illustrations are from The Public Domain Review's article: Images from the First Colour Publicatio...

A while back a nice Russian lady took us on a tour of a Russian convenience store . Today's video features a Russian fellow and his co...

Get ready for a jovial weekend with Rosie Carney.

View the process of making Matryoshkas (Russian nesting dolls). The process is surprisingly labor intensive, with very little automation.

Click any image to enlarge Ogawa Kazumasa was a pioneer Japanese photographer, publisher and photomechanical reproduction. In his day he...

Get ready for a fragrant weekend with Sam Spiegel & Ape Drums featuring Assassin with Margaret Qualley as the dancer.

A tour of one of the battleship Iowa's 16 inch guns from the powder room deep in the bowels of the ship to the gun in the turret.

Click any image to enlarge Last week, in my post  Vyzhit Posle , I discussed the first season of a Russian TV show called  Vyzhit Posl...

To My Enemy - Lucy Maud Montgomery Let those who will of friendship sing, And to its guerdon grateful be, But I a lyric garland bring...

Get ready for a berserk weekend with Emancquea.

Click any image to enlarge From a blurb about the book In Her Kitchen: Stories and Recipes from Grandmas Around the World : "On t...

My operation recoveries always seem to involve popping painkillers, lounging in a lounge chair and watching goofy TV shows. For this opera...

Get ready for a recrudescent weekend with Acoustic Hits.