A Short Timeline Of Earth
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A lot has gone down on this small blue blob of ours since it was first cracked into existence. Our personal speck of grit in the Multiverse managed to throw out something pretty...
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Awesome Photos From Russia With Love: Weird Playground Edition
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In a way, these children’s playgrounds look really grim and sinister. You can’t deny it. But, on the other hand, there’s a lot of ingenuity. Sure, the toys made out of industrial equipment...
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VIDEO: Man Released From Prison After 44 Years
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It’s hard to imagine being outside of society for just 1 month, let alone 44 years. This is Otis Johnson who got locked up in his youth and now faces reintegration with a...
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“The Motherland Calls” – Huge Russian Statue
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The Motherland Calls, or Homeland-Mother is a whopper of a statue that stands proud in Mamayev Kurgan in Volgograd, Russia. The statue was built to commemorate the Battle of Stalingrad, a battle considered by many...
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Max Ernst: A Legend Of Dada
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Max Ernst (1891–1976) was a German-born artist and sculptor, and one of the prime movers and shakers of the Dada and Surrealist movements. His initial area of study was philosophy, but he gradually...
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Beautiful Mandalas And Their Meaning
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My introduction to the Mandala concept was after watching a film called Samsara, made by the same guy that made Baraka. There’s a scene where Tibetan monks are all kneeling around working on...
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Alva Noto And Ryuichui Sakamoto – A Bizarre Collaboration
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Alva Noto is a German visual and audio artist. He makes what he calls ‘error music’, a technique that involves recording electronic audio errors and splicing them together. Rather than sampling the sounds...
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Sebastian Pether: Moonlight & Poverty
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Sebastian Pether’s paintings sell easily these days. His impressive milky moon light and his watery water needs no sales patter. Unfortunately for Pether, that wasn’t the case whilst he was alive and kicking....
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Michael Sittow: An Estonian Grand Master
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Michael Sittow was born in Reval (now Tallinn) in Estonia in 1468 or 1469. He was the son of a wealthy artist and a Swedish-speaking Finn. His portraits, although very old indeed, have...
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The Mystery Of The Minoan Phaistos Disc
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The ancient Minoans were the first civilisation in Europe. They flourished from 2600 to 1400 BC. Hundreds of years before Greece took the reigns. Minoan society all but vanished from history, probably due...
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