Flares into Darkness

It used to be used to fight fires in Canada, but it is now retired. It is the World's largest flying boat.

Click any image to enlarge Not exactly self-portraits, but close enough. These pictures, and those after the jump, are a series of photo...

Get ready for an unrequited weekend with Brian Justin Crum.

Usually the walking videos I post are in cities, this one is a tour of a small market in rural Laos. It occupies a short stretch of a dir...

Click any image to enlarge The Jet Propulsion Laboratory has posted  Visions of the Future , which contains a number of hypothetical pos...

The above video is from Li ZiQi , an extremely popular Chinese 'Oriental Lifestyle Foodie', making wheat beer and eventually cooki...

Get ready to cut a rug this weekend with Los Colorados.

Click any image to enlarge In 1903 Tsar Nicholas II, to celebrate the 290 anniversary of the Romanov dynasty, hosted a costume dress bal...

Above is a video of the Coast Guard cutter Munro boarding and seizing a semi-submersible drug carrying submarine in the Pacific. I origina...

Click to enlarge This is a post that adds a couple of new links to Flares. When looking for a graphic to illustrate it I searched on ...

Get ready to throw in the towel this weekend with A Great Big World featuring Veronica Ballestrini.

Viewing Rembrandt's The Night Watch (click image to enlarge) The Rijksmuseum has started Operation Night Watch , a project  to...

Click any image to enlarge These pictures are from the site Photogrammar which is an archive of photos taken between 1935 to 1945 by th...

This video is from the YouTube channel Rural Life . She's grilling chicken in this video, in her other videos the young lady demonstra...

Get ready for an emancipated weekend with The Big Push.

Click image to enlarge We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator ...

The 4th of July brings BBQ grilling to mind. The above video is a review of a robot that cleans the grate of a BBQ grill. The brushes that...

Click any image to enlarge The 4th of July is nearly upon us and of course that means fireworks. These images are from CR Brock and Comp...

Get ready for a weekend of groveling with Vazquez Sounds.

Two Poor Men Sleeping by Isidre-Nonell   Monna Innominata [I dream of you, to wake] - Christina Rossetti I dream of you, to wake: woul...