Simon Stålenhag, a talented Swedish artist, paints images of a fading science fiction future. He digitally creates his masterpieces with a Wacom tablet and pen. They aren’t post-apocalyptic, they seem to be pre-apocalytpic, humanity...
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Mikhail Nesterov, in Russian – Михаи́л Не́стеров – was born in 1862 into humble circumstances. As the son of a merchant Nesterov struggled to find joy in his father’s line of work. The life of...
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I’ve decided to write a short article on an impressive monument, area or natural wonder from every country in the world. I’m starting with Afghanistan, because there’s nothing quite like an alphabetised list of...
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William Cheselden was born on October 19, 1688 at Somerby, near Burrow-on-the-Hill, Leicestershire. He worked as an apprentice surgeon at St. Thomas’s Hospital where he fell deeply in love with bones. By 1711, he was...
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Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) was an incredible Japanese artist, ukiyo-e painter (meaning “pictures of the floating world”) and printmaker of the Edo period. His most famous work is the The Great Wave off Kanagawa (above) which was...
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Here’s your ninth installment of the Global Selfie Project where we stare apologetically at people from across the earth. My premise is simple, I wanted to collect a selfie taken in every country, I’ve almost...
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The Physiologus is an ancient text, written somewhere between the 1st and 4th centuries AD. The book features drawings of animals, mythical and real, alongside short stories, explaining the animal’s general characteristics. The stories are designed...
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Haley Morris-Cafiero‘s Wait Watchers are a series of photos designed to punch a hole in those punching holes. She turns the attention away from the stairee and places it back on the starer. A few...
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Jean Bourdichon (1457 or 1459 – 1521) was a miniature painter and manuscript illuminator at the court of France between the end of the 15th century and the start of the 16th. He...
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