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While i suffer through an eastern european winter of epic proportions that has folks in villages around mine dropping like flies and almost all of us trapped up here in the mountains under a mound of snow and in record […]
Yes i should be shot for the title. I know this. Let’s just move on. Seasteading, kids!!! It’s the city of the future! It’s a movement to build self reliant livable communities in the sea. It is quite popular with certain libertarian […]
Hey, remember when we used to occasionally post on things that are actually…. steampunky? Yeah, good times those were. Ah hell, let’s be steampunky. Awesome steampunky Zeppelins it is:
Sounds like a sequel to the Temples of Syrinx, but the temples of Damanhur are instead a very real, underground complex of… temples, built for about 16 years in utter secrecy by a small group of artsy, new agey folks […]
I know some of you will be familiar with this, but for those who are not here’s a great story for you: Once upon a time there was woman named Sarah Winchester. Winichester was her married name, for in 1862 she […]
Fiona Apple meets The Dresden Dolls. That is what this first track from the Dark Cabaret band Harlequin Jones sounds like. Which is a good thing. Check it out: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hPi1490lvE] Pretty sweet, right? Harlequin Jones are the duo of singer/pianist Amanda […]
Totally true story. 1817. Almondsbury in +. On the evening of Thursday, April 3rd a bizarre young woman with black hair, black eyes and a black turban showed up at the house of a cobbler. The woman spoke an indecipherable language, […]
We must stop all posts immediately and play 3 David Bowie videos. Why? Because he made ******** Life On Mars. Do you NOT like Life On Mars? Whatta you, some kind of douchebag? It’s ******* Life On Mars. We need […]
So we’re going have one more paintings/art movement day. From 1885 to 1910, while the Aesthetics and the Decadents were bursting with life, Symbolism was also in full swing. In fact, there isn’t much of a line between these genres. […]
Following what occured after the PreRaphaelites leads us to Aestheticism, which i have already covered. So let us delve into a subsection of the aesthetic movement, the Decadents. Like Aestheticism’s battle cry: ‘Art for art’s sake!’ the Decadents, as an […]