Flares into Darkness

Friday, April 30, 2021

Can't Take My Eyes Off You

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Get ready for an ogling weekend with Stan Taylor and Luke Strand.  
Wednesday, April 28, 2021

The well dressed Turk, circa 1865

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Click any image to enlarge These watercolors from the 19th century show clothes that were current fashions in the Ottoman empire. The works,...
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Monday, April 26, 2021

16 Tons

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  I used to do a regular series of posts called Monday morning, start of the work week blues . This post is not a return to that, but when I...
Friday, April 23, 2021

I Will Wait for You

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Get ready for a patient weekend with Louis Armstrong.  
Wednesday, April 21, 2021

Night ride on a tram in Lisbon

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There are a number of YouTube videos about the trams in Lisbon . I like this night ride. However, the videos shot during the give a better ...
Monday, April 19, 2021

That empty space

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Getsuya Sansui by Hashimoto Gahō Now’s the time to close the outer door to yearning - Ryu Shiva In order to forget the world, I went up to t...
Friday, April 16, 2021

Just My Imagination

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Get ready for a figmental weekend with Midi Matilda.  
Wednesday, April 14, 2021

Printing Kalamkari patterns on fabric

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Kalamkari is a method of dying patterns onto fabrics. In its original form the patterns were hand painted on using natural dyes. However, t...
Sunday, April 11, 2021

The nocturnal paintings of John Atkinson Grimshaw

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Click any image to enlarge John Atkinson Grimshaw was a Victorian painter who is best known for his atmospheric landscape paintings lit onl...
Friday, April 09, 2021

Mama, I'm Coming Home

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Get ready for a restorative weekend with John Spicer.  
Wednesday, April 07, 2021

Walking in Buenos Aires

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The video starts out in the  Librería Grand Splendid , an amazing looking bookstore in an old theater. After a brief tour of it, the walker...
Monday, April 05, 2021

The awakening

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Click to enlarge The Barbarian hopes — and that is the mark of him, that he can have his cake and eat it too. He will consume what civilizat...
Sunday, April 04, 2021

Happy Easter

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  Above is an old-timey Victorian Easter card. I'm not sure what the connection between Easter and gentlemen rabbits dueling while mount...
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Friday, April 02, 2021

Run Through The Jungle

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Get ready for a twain meeting weekend with Hartyga.  
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Tuesday, March 30, 2021

An encounter in the Kuiper belt

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Arrokoth is a small object, measuring 22 miles long by 12 miles wide and 6 miles thick, which orbits in the Kuiper belt beyond the orbit o...
Sunday, March 28, 2021

Kitchen designs from the late 1940s

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Click any image to enlarge In the U.S., at the end of WWII, there was fear that with the winding down of war production the economy might re...
Friday, March 26, 2021

Something's Gotta Give

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Get ready for an inexorable weekend with Pretty Gritty.   
Wednesday, March 24, 2021

Local Japanese restaurants

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These are videos of small, neighborhood udon/soba (noodle) restaurants in Japan. The captions have been translated into English, turn them ...
Saturday, March 20, 2021

Worlds within worlds

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Vivian Maier self portrait Mirror - Sylvia Plath I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions. Whatever I see I swallow immediately...
Friday, March 19, 2021

Taxman

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Get ready for a pocket picked weekend with Vocaloid Girls/The Strawberry Feel.  
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