Étienne-Louis Boullée is the master of monumental cenotaphs.
Boullée’s most emblematic project is his cenotaph designed for Isaac Newton. It’s the first of the pictures below and you can find a short text about it here.
Seasons of Mars
Wind, dunes and dry ice
The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter circles the red planet since 2006. The little spacecraft sends high-res pictures of Mars’ surface ever since.
The Cloud Appreciation Society
Indulging in the aimless activity of watching the ephemeral beauty of clouds can enrich your life. Realize we don’t live beneath the sky, we live within it.
Caio Reisewitz
The Changing Brazilian Landscape
Reisewitz’ photographs, most of all large formats, explore the changing relation of the city and the countryside in a period of feverish economic development.
Irving Penn
Worlds in a Small Room
Best known for his fashion photography, Irving Penn’s repertoire also includes portraits of creative greats, still lifes and ethnographic photographs…
Alexandra Duprez
The eternal metamorphosis
French artist Alexandra Duprez mentions Australian Aboriginal art as her main inspiration to take up painting.
Roger Dean
Floating Dreamlands
Roger Dean is best known for his work on posters and album covers for musicians, which he began painting in…
Pedro Friedeberg
Architect of patterns
Pedro Friedeberg and Frida Kahlo were the only two Mexican artists recognized by Andre Breton as part of the Surrealist movement.
Franciszek Starowieyski
The Opulence of Demise
Franciszek Starowieyski liked to think of himself as a draftsman from the 17th century. The lushness of form and erotic exuberance is truly Baroque.
Painted Land
Australian Aboriginal Art
The art of the Australian Aborigines is one of the oldest artistic traditions alive. This selection shows paintings from the mid-fifties until now by artists from the Arnhem Land region in Northern Australia.
Jean Delville
The Age Of Splendor
Jean Delville was a Belgian painter who painted heavily symbolic scenes with a occult oriented spiritual perspective.
Marjorie Cameron
Songs for the Witch Woman
Cameron was an American artist, poet, actress, and occultist who emerged as a key figure in the California counterculture movement in the 1950s and 60s.
Ama
Women of the Sea
The term Ama literally means ‘women of the sea’, as women were always the preferred divers in Japan.
Nine Eyes
Stranger Than Fiction
The neutral gaze of the machine is becoming an ever-present reality, recording all those moments previously lost in time.
Jacque Fresco
The Venus Project
Today I picked up one of my favorite books, Island by Aldous Huxley, his radical blueprint for a better world.…
Jantar Mantar
The observatories of Jai Singh
In the early 18th century Maharajah Sawaii Jai Singh II of Jaipur constructed five astronomical observatories in North India, known as Jantar Mantar.
The Media-Shaman Manifesto
The following manifesto is a testimony of an awakened youth movement realizing its power. Born from the European rave culture…
Toshio Saeki
Nothing is true
Everything is permitted
Toshio Saeki is a psychosexual dream weaver, a grand master of mixing myth, that dream quality and pure libido.
Alex Grey
How Art Evolves Consciousness
Alex Grey is best known for his paintings of see-through humans interwoven in the realm of energy. Until I experienced…
Moebius
Color work
It’s been a long time since the last post on Moebius. Back then I presented a selection of his black and white work…
Arthur Schopenhauer
On death and life as dying
For any culture which is primarily concerned with meaning, the study of death – the only certainty that life holds…
