Flares into Darkness

Get ready for a dissolving weekend with Harry Belafonte and Miriam Makeba.  

The Bridge On The River Kwai is an entertaining movie, but there was always something that seemed very off about it. Lt. Colonel Nicholson,...

Click any image to enlarge Henry Ossawa Tanner was a late 19t...

Get ready for a resolute weekend with Little Big Town.  

These are scenes from Gyimes, a small rural village in Transylvania. What I know about Transylvania comes from old Bela Lagosi Dracula mov...

Click any image to enlarge Waterfalls are engrossing, and frequently spectacular, features of nature. They are of course shown in paintings,...

Get ready for a traipsing weekend with Mil Pasos.  

I've posted about sound and vision before with a 19th century Welsh singer's attempt to visualize sound , as well as a method to re...

Click any image to enlarge Hiroshi Yoshida was a 20th century Japanese painter and print maker. He was trained in the Western style of oil ...

Get ready for a lingering weekend with The Running Mates.  

Get ready for a blanched weekend with Horst Gössl. Eeeks! I posted the TGIF music video a day early.  Senility sets in. I'm retired and ...

A good description of the workings of the automatic shutoff of a gas pump nozzle when the tank is full. In the comments weehoo4430 elaborat...

Bamiyan Buddha, before and after its destruction (click image to enlarge) ...

Get ready for an Apollorized weekend with Remember Entertainment.   

As you might image, Italy appears to have some very good street food offerings. Above we have sausages, beef, pork and other substantial di...

Click any image to enlarge Jules-Descartes Férat was a 19th Century French artist known for his etchings of factories and workers. He also i...

Get ready for an amiss weekend with Carol Kay.  

Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~  

Click any image to enlarge The visual arts are divided into two broad categories: fine art and commercial art . Fine art is what we generall...

Get ready for a reversed weekend with the Kumbiamerikan Rockers featuring 'El Macha' Chico Trujillo.