Flares into Darkness

Oh my, Halloween is so fraught with landmines in these politically correct neo-puritan days that even picking out a card can be a chore. ...

The Hong Kong situation is revealing fractures in the Sinosphere (Mainland, Hong Kong, Taiwan and the Chinese diaspora) that were previous...

Click any image to enlarge Opium dens, which started out as an Asian thing, became popular, or at least somewhat trendy, during the 19th...

Get ready for a retrospective weekend with Imaginary Future.

The video labels it as a high school, but in the commentary it is for grades 1 through 9. Vic Stefanu, who filmed it, has a large number o...

A Eunuch’s Dream (1874), Jean Lecomte du Nouÿ He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven - W. B. Yeats Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths,...

Get ready to ask for a second chance this weekend with Scary Pockets featuring Joshua Radin and Hunter Elizabeth. 

The above video shows a 1944 T-34-85 being started after it sat in a barn for a while. It is powered by a 38 litre V-12 diesel. Below is m...

Click any image to enlarge Naoki Tomita is a Japanese painter who paints striking urban and suburban landscapes. He applies hiss oil pa...

Get ready for a constrained weekend with Melody Angel.

Click any image to enlarge Genesis 11:1-9 King James Version: And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. And it ca...

Get ready for a collaborative weekend with Walk off the Earth.

Patent for the windowed envelope (click to enlarge) I feel today, with all the possibilities we have in our hands, all the new technolo...

This video is a demonstration of the working model of a Gutenberg printing press located at the Crandall Historical Printing Museum .

Click any image to enlarge These are examples of Fayuum Mummy portraits . They're paintings, from the Hellenistic era Egypt, that we...

Get ready for the other endless season with OptycNerd.

This video shows some food from a night market in Kaohsiung Taiwan. I love Taiwanese night markets, they feature a lot of stalls and stor...

Images from Spoon & Tamago (click images to enlarge) At last he looked over at his host, contemplating the dead civil servant...

In the above clip Ranbalac , the videographer, visits the popular Golden Temple in Kyoto on a rainy day. In 1950 the actual Golden Temple...