“The mirror was often used as a symbol of the vanity of woman. The moralizing, however, was mostly hypocritical. You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, you put a mirror in […]
Month: May 2018
(Music) Why hit songs sound the same
The data visualists over at The Pudding have put together a fascinating analysis of pop music going back to the 1950s using an eight-point measure originally developed at MIT. From the article: In 2005, Tristan […]
(Music) Fine and Mellow
Lester Young (August 27, 1909 – March 15, 1959), nicknamed “Pres” or “Prez”, was an American jazz tenor saxophonist. After achieving prominence in Count Basie’s orchestra, Young became one of the most influential players on […]
(Art) The feral femininity of Charlotte Grimm [NSFW]
Charlotte Grimm (@espiritconfus on Instagram) is an art therapy student and fairy tale-esque photographer based out of Leipzig, Germany whose dark fantasy-inspired works explore, or perhaps expose, a sexually potent yet unapologetically self-assured femininity. But […]
(Art) Bugs from a galaxy far, far away
This art by illustrator Richard Wilkinson is out of this world! Click below for larger images, or check out the full collection on the artist’s instagram: http://www.instagram.com/arthropoda_iconicus/
(Fiction) Time for dreaming
“Is the stag waiting for something?” I stood in the doorway of the old garage. I was supposed to go to a hospital in a couple days. Or was it tomorrow? I could never keep […]
(Art) The Zombie Tarot
I can’t speak to how well this functions as a deck for divination, but the art is inspired commentary on contemporary culture through the skewering of our myths. The use of collage in particular is […]
(Art) The secretive illustration of Erin Kelso
All I could find about the artist is what she has on her DeviantArt profile and a defunct Blogger. She apparently lives somewhere here in Kansas and has a couple kids and doesn’t seem to […]
(Fiction) What’s the trick?
The next day was dark and rainy. But it never came down very hard. Not enough to put you to sleep. Not enough to bring earthworms from the ground or flowers from the trees. Just […]
