To Fly Like a Bird: USAF Thunderbirds and More
Humans have always longed to fly like birds. Here are two stunning videos of show airplanes: the first a very reverent and beautiful video from a performance by the United States …
Kisses from the Wild Side: Three Escape Machines
A large, ominous black cube stands before you, with a red button gleaming on its face. What happens if you walk up to the cube and push that button? Watch …
Quote for Today: Salvador Dalí
What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only …
Quote for Today: Sarah Kay
Because there’s nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline, no matter how many times it’s sent away. ― Sarah Kay
Quote for Today: Neil deGrasse Tyson
Robots are important also. If I don my pure-scientist hat, I would say just send robots; I’ll stay down here and get the data. But nobody’s ever given a parade …
Quote for Today: Herman Melville
And there is a Catskill eagle in some souls that can alike dive down into the blackest gorges, and soar out of them again and become invisible in the sunny …
Quote for Today: Orhan Pamuk
“I’m so fortunate to be red! I’m fiery. I’m strong. I know men take notice of me and that I cannot be resisted. I do not conceal myself: For me, …
Quote for Today: O. Henry
I wanted to paint a picture some day that people would stand before and forget that it was made of paint. I wanted it to creep into them like a …
Quote for Today: Wassily Kandinsky
Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the hammers, the soul is the piano with its many chords. The artist is the hand that, by touching this or that key, …
Cheer up: Masitéladi by Amadou and Mariam
Here is a video from the Malian duo Amadou and Mariam to cheer you up if you are feeling down. Beautiful song, terrific guitar playing, lovely sentiment and a great video …