Flares into Darkness

My Shelter at Home recapping chore brings us to Episode 4 of the Thai TV show O-Negative ( Episode 3 ). I picked the above promotional p...

Get  ready for an out of sync weekend with Boyce Avenue featuring Megan and Jaclyn Davies.   

These are videos from the YouTube channel De mi Rancho a Tu Cocina . A Mexican woman, I couldn't find her name, cooks some tasty looki...

Foon reinforces the stereotype of Asian women being bad drivers Episode 3 of the Thai TV show O-Negative ( Episode 2 ) starts with the...

Iron Ian does a touching cover of the Takeo Ischi masterpiece Chicken Attack . 

Copying propaganda posters (click to enlarge) We are all lost, so lost, vulnerable and insecure. We are separated from love at birth, w...

I'm a cool cat. Do you dig me daddy-O? Episode 2 of O-Negative ( E pisode 1 ) gets the kids to the second day at the School From He...

Click any image to enlarge Max Zorn is a Dutch street artist who uses packing tape as his medium. He also creates works on plexiglass th...

Get ready for a subversive shelter in place weekend with Shane & Emily.

The main characters of O-Negative (L-R: Chompoo, Art, Prim, Peun and Foon) A while back I reviewed a couple of Russian TV shows: Vyzh...

Click any image to enlarge Naturally, in these days of the 'sheltering at home' panic, the staff at Flares is concerned for our ...

This seems out of date even for 1945. I mean, the advice not to use your corn field as a latrine. Seriously, did that many farms not have...

Get ready for a hoodoo weekend with Elise LeGrow.

Click any image to enlarge The Murmansk was a Soviet light cruiser. In 1994 she was sold to India for scrapping. Enroute to India she ra...

From First Miss Soviet Union beauty pageant, 1988 The Fountain - Sara Teasdale Oh in the deep blue night The fountain sang alone; I...

Get ready for a pyrexic weekend with The Kabosy Brothers.

Illustration by M asashi S himakawa In my earlier post Plague Art I posted some old artwork from the Black Death and other historical ...

The above video starts with its maker Harald Baldr buying a smoothie from a little shop in Saigon. He then goes on a short walk through so...

Click any image to enlarge Whelp, with the Wuhan virus upon us it is time to visit older pandemics via art. These images, and those afte...

Get ready for fantasy this weekend with Street Corner Renaissance.