Flares into Darkness

Once again, it is that most wonderful time of the year... May Day! Yes, that magic day when, as we stand in our bread lines, we can reflect...

Click any image to enlarge Wagons used to be ubiquitous, but with the onset of internal combustion engines they've been replaced by trai...

Get ready for a skirt-chaser's weekend with the Chocolate Factory.  

David sits astride the Pan-American highway in western Panama. It is primarily an agricultural hub, but other investment monies are streng...

Click image to enlarge The Turks have a proverb which says ...

Sunset in the mid-Atlantic I'm back from my vacation. Since, in my youth, I had crossed both the Pacific and Indian oceans I decided to ...

Get ready for a detached weekend with Mike Masse and Jeff Hall.  

To modern eyes the pyramids are evocative, but mysterious structures. Why were they built? This video discusses a theory about how the pyra...

Click image to enlarge I remember being 20 years old and I'm living by myself for the first time with my buddies and what you're w...

Get ready for a stompling weekend with Emilie-Claire Barlow.  

I had never considered the complexity of the problem engineers faced in designing a sewing machine. With hand stitching, you push down thro...

Click any image to enlarge These are images of old gas pumps. Being a new technology at the time, their design and methods of usage had yet ...

Get ready for a lonesome weekend with Corey and Stacey.  

We visit a small factory in SW Asia (I think it is in Pakistan, but it might be in India) where they are making shovels. As is always with ...

Click image to enlarge In this Victorian Easter card we have an old geezer getting knocked silly by rabbits tossing Easter eggs at him. I gu...

Corpse of a 1951 Lincoln Lido Coupe (click image to enlarge) The De...

Get ready for a navigational weekend with Waylon Jennings.  

Gone Fishing by Teresa Trotter (click image to enlarge) I'm hea...

Click any image to enlarge This is a small collection of paintings by Artem Rogowoi . He's a contemporary Ukrainian artist. He's pre...

Get ready for a corrupted weekend with the MonaLisa Twins.