José Ortiz-Echagüe was born in Guadalajara in 1886, into a military family. At the tender of age of 12, he received his first camera and took to photography. His brother, a talented artist,...
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China, booming on the one hand, failing on the other. It’s been a meteoric rise to riches for the Chinese, and if you make a lot of changes in a small amount of time, you’re...
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D Most regularly, dogs don’t do anything sensibly. They dribble and shout and wee on everything. They are not renowned for being particularly thoughtful. The video below is in full defiance of this...
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This good looking creature is the patas monkey (Erythrocebus patas), also known as the wadi monkey, military monkey, or hussar monkey. She claims the prize as the fastest monkey on the ground. At top whack,...
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I must admit, I like to have a bit of wander. It helps clear the goop from between my ears and gives me an opportunity to work out the creases in my master...
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Jim, no last name given, makes skulls out of different things. Simple premise, complex art. He lives and works in Paris. This is an excerpt from his slightly confusing, but pleasurably mysterious biography:...
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Recently I posted up an article showcasing 20 Comedy Balconies. Without wanting to exaggerate, the article went down like a tropical storm on Halloween. People loved it, with a capital L-O-V-E-D-I-T. To date it has had...
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The Jolly Roger is probably the most famous, non-country-specific, flag in the Western world. I have to admit, though, I didn’t realise there was more than one design of the Jolly Roger. It...
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