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Strange Food Special

Strange Food Special

OK, this food could be aggressive, dangerous, over-designed and even alive – but is it eatable? People would eat the darnedest things, depending on their cultural background and love of unique experiences. The point of this article (the first in a series) is to find the food that is not necessarily disgusting (in most cases it’s only a matter of taste), but such food – and things made from food – that...
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Mesmerizing Kinetic Sculptures

Mesmerizing Kinetic Sculptures

If this page could move in tune with these sculptures, it would crawl out of your computer monitor There are mentions in the Bible about the whirling “wheels within wheels” (Ezekiel 1:16). Admittedly the examples listed below are no match for what Heaven and angels can put together, but some of the following “living, breathing” kinetic work are clearly bordering on genius. (images credit: Theo...
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Steampunk Art & Gear

Steampunk Art & Gear

Some hot steam can be unutterably cool … as well as some pipes, chrome, brass, gears and daughters of intrepid inventors. The grandiose, audacious visions stemming from Victorian style and Age of Scientific Wonders are often translated into very real modern gadgets and some wicked art. As long as this trend continues, we will be serving this steamy dish of clockwork goodness. Bon Appetit! This page will be constantly...
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Amazing Automatons: Ancient Robots & Victorian Androids

Amazing Automatons: Ancient Robots & Victoria...

Industrious Little Creatures, Full of Gears and Wonder When we say that today’s rapidly changing technology is set to transform the way we live in unimaginable ways, we should remember that people thought much the same thing in earlier centuries – whether in the time of the clockwork revolution in the eighteenth century or as a result of the scientific advances of the Industrial Revolution in the Victorian era. Here...
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The Machine-Animals of Nantes

The Machine-Animals of Nantes

Your Essential Steampunk Stable & Garage French city of Nantes recently became host to extremely strange and fascinating sculptural display: “Les Machines de l’Ile Nantes”, designed by François Delarozière and Pierre Orefice. Claude Joannis has a few photographs that’ll give you some idea about how extraordinary cool this exhibition is (the first on my list of museums to visit, if possible!) (all...
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Grand Scale Environmental & Land Art

Grand Scale Environmental & Land Art

an’s Reaction To His Earth” – The Grandest and the Most Sublime Land Art Go to a museum and look at the paintings, go to a concert and listen to the music… but look out the window – and see art? Often called “Earth Works”, or “Land Art” these not-too-subtle masterpieces use the landscape itself, sometimes on a scale that, to appreciate it, means stepping far away from it:...
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