Quote for Today: Antonio Machado
Wanderer, your footsteps are the road, and nothing more; wanderer, there is no road, the road is made by walking. By walking one makes the road, and upon glancing behind …
Quote for Today: Oscar Wilde
Spontaneity is a meticulously prepared art. ―Oscar Wilde
Quote for Today: William Least-Heat Moon
I’ve read that a naked eye can see six thousand stars in the hundred billion galaxies, but I couldn’t believe it, what with the sky white with starlight. I saw …
Walking the Edge: Grief and the Performing Persona
Creativity gives us insight into the subconscious, but it doesn’t necessarily tell us how to deal with what we find. If you’ve experienced raw tears while in front of a …
Quote for Today: Benjamin Franklin
Like a man travelling in foggy weather, those at some distance before him on the road he sees wrapped up in the fog, as well as those behind him, and …
Tricking the Eye: 40 Mind-Boggling Shadow Art Illusions
Shadow art is the art of casting light on prepared items to create a new image. A pile of garbage or a few disorderly tendrils of wire can produce a …
A City in Miniature: Little Big Berlin by Pilpop
Pilpop is the moniker of Philipp Beuter, a German video artist who makes short films. This particular piece is a tilt-shift movie of Berlin, showing everyday activity in this beautiful …
Fooling the Eye: Art Installations by Felice Varini
Anamorphic art makes a distorted projection of an image that can be viewed as a coherent image only from a particular vantage point. Artist Felice Varini is famous for his …
Illusions of War: The Value of the Ghost Army
Video via ghostarmy23 on YouTube. Their skills were so valuable and so instrumental in bringing down Hitler’s army that their existence was kept secret until 1996, when some of their …
Quote for Today: Henri Nouwen
Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared. —Henri Nouwen