Eyewitness compares IRA lynching to Passion of Jesus
The cover of the Mail, 25 years ago Published in The Mail today, this astonishing and desperately sad open letter – if true – compares the lynching of two soldiers to the Passion of Jesus. Warning –...
View ArticleIncrease the peace: mindfulness training for kids and families
‘Planting Seeds’ will combine animation and documentary footage Many people come to learn their first meditation techniques through the work of Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh. But most don’t...
View ArticleSalem or Sodom? New survey maps USA’s most religious cities
Mt. Timpanogos LDS Temple,in the Provo–Orem, Utah Metropolitan Statistical Area. Photo Ken Lund via Flickr (http://flic.kr/p/7aMyNs) According to Gallup, Utah’s Provo-Orem was the most devout of 189...
View ArticleShoot now, focus later with the new Lytro camera
Lomo > Instagram > Lytro? The Lytro is – or looks to be – the biggest upsetter in personal photography since the mobile phone camera. The Lytro reminds me of the funkier Lomo cameras – it looks...
View ArticleBeauty contest blow-up as twenty different women ‘have the same face’
Miss Korea pic slideshow by NinjaFridge A storm involving feminism, racism and plastic surgery broke today over the Miss Korea 2013 beauty pageant, when a Japanese blogger pointed out the eerie...
View ArticleJohnny Cash “… and God”
I love songs about horses, railroads, land, Judgment Day, family, hard times, whiskey, courtship, marriage, adultery, separation, murder, war, prison, rambling, damnation, home, salvation, death,...
View ArticleYage and Chips – William Burroughs in London
William Burroughs and Jimmy Page hanging out, circa 1975. Photo by Charles Gatewood Burroughs 23 is a powerful photographic record of writer, artist and cultural iconclast William Burroughs, taken in...
View ArticleThe necessary may speak
The ability to simplify means; to eliminate the unnecessary, so that the necessary may speak.” — Hans Hofmann
View ArticleTampon Crafts
Step-by-step instructions to help you make a range of beautiful and useful items out of tampons. Including cuff-links, a working gun (fires tampons), a floral bouquet and an amazing multi-coloured...
View ArticleBirdman over Nazca
On May 4th, BASE jumpers Cedric Dumont and Jhonathan Florez made the first wingsuit flight over the enigmatic Nazca lines in Peru. The best images I’ve found are these photographs taken by their...
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