Last week I came across this image by Yarisal & Kublitz over on Today & Tomorrow and it definitely resonated with me. It’s called Just Like Starting Over, and for some reason I find this idea really romantic, that you could start things over and it could all be better. It’s a naive idea as [...]
Today is holiday here; a break from work or summer classes, because stateside, it is Memorial Day: a day to remember the folks who died serving under the American flag. So this week, I thought we start in the United States by looking at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. The memorial was designed by Maya Lin [...]
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Wow, I think I might have spent my whole weekend listening to Jape‘s Lying on a Deathbed. It’s the second single from a free double A-side which was released last Friday which is well worth getting your hands on. Jape is the band name of Dubliner Richie Egan, [...]
This week, I thought I’d share a few shorts featuring space suits or on some space-related theme. The first is Arrive by Elena Jil Osmann, the second is Starcrossed by Tactful-Cactus, and the final is The Lonely Astronaut by Benjamin Prichard. Each short has a different conception and distinct portrayal of space, but all have something to do [...]
I’m posting these purely because I’m obsessed with them. They’re both prints by Jakko Mattila, a Finnish artist who’s work is really geometric but abstract at the same time. He uses a lot of the same motifs and patterns, lots of dots and lines and random drips. It’s really impressive that so much of his [...]
Technically, the Salton Sea is a “saline, endorheic rift lake located directly on the San Andreas Fault predominantly in California’s Imperial Valley,” so says Wikipedia. It’s a haunted place that’s been mostly abandoned since the 60′s but still draws in the curious and the adventurous. Recently, a documentarian named Ransom Riggs made a short film [...]
