Flares into Darkness

Get ready for an ogling weekend with Stan Taylor and Luke Strand.  

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

  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...

Get ready for a patient weekend with Louis Armstrong.  

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 ...

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...

Get ready for a figmental weekend with Midi Matilda.  

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

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

Get ready for a restorative weekend with John Spicer.  

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...

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...

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

Get ready for a twain meeting weekend with Hartyga.  

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...

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...

Get ready for an inexorable weekend with Pretty Gritty.   

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

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

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