Flares into Darkness

Get ready for a lackadaisical weekend with George Ezra.   

Click any image to enlarge David Roberts was a 19th century Scottish painter. After a successful career in the theater as a set painter he t...

A simple example, first done by Adelbert Ames Jr. , of how our minds can be fooled by reality. It is such a strong optical illusion that ev...

Get ready for an intransigent weekend with Lex Henrikson.  

These videos are from Aden Films a YouTube channel about gourmet and street food. There is no narration, and no real recipes given, althou...

Click any image to enlarge We're familiar with the influence Japanese prints had on Western artists, particularly the impressionists, bu...

Get ready for a amalgamated weekend with Andrew Belle.  

Click any image to enlarge In my last post, The immensity of time , I featured a painting by the 19th century artist David Roberts of the ru...

Abu Simbel Temple by David Roberts (click to enlarge) Let It Be Forgotten - Sara Teasdale Let it be forgotten, as a flower is forgotten, For...

Get ready to peregrinate this weekend with Barcelona Gipsy Klezmer Orchestra.  

This video is a bit longer than I usually post, but it is entertaining. It is a sort of Koran version of Cops , but with out all the traile...

We on this continent should never forget that men first crossed the Atlantic not to find soil for their ploughs but to secure liberty for th...

Below is an old post of mine, originally put up on July 4th of 2010. As I write in the end of the post: Americans forget how revolutionar...

Get ready for a hepcat's weekend with Gregory Porter.  

Click any image to enlarge Paul Landacre was an L.A. based American artist who specialized in wood block prints. He was self taught and act...

Two videos that look at a Korean War era F86 Sabre jet fighter. It is a much simpler machine than a modern fighter jet. The sound in the ab...

Get ready for a convivial weekend with Mayonnaise.  

Click any image to enlarge In the development of railroads aircraft engines and propellers, and eventually even jet engines, were explored a...

James N. Methven, a pilot of a cargo plane, recalls an encounter with Japanese troops early in the occupation of Japan. He was flying to Fu...

Return of the Prodigal Son Rembrandt van Rijn Rembrandt portrays the father as the man who has transcended the ways of his children. His own...