Dave Wachter, Transmetropolitan: All Around The World, 2011

Giovanni Boldini, Portrait Of Madame Gabrielle Rejane, 1886

Loving this new video series from the Guardian.

Radical Thinkers: A series of three minute video talks by modern philosophy academics on radical philosophers down the ages.

Caspar David Friedrich, The Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog, 1818

Poni Hoax, Budapest

Died this day

The Age Demanded by Ernest Hemingway

The age demanded that we sing
And cut away our tongue.

The age demanded that we flow
And hammered in the bung.

The age demanded that we dance
And jammed us into iron pants.

And in the end the age was handed
The sort of shit that it demanded.

Born this day.

"It never got weird enough for me." ~ Hunter S. Thompson

"No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party. So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin." ~ Aneurin "Nye" Bevan

Hey Self Defeater by Mark Mulcahy

Caspar David Friedrich, The Monk by the Sea, ~1809

"Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences." ~ Roy Ascott via Brian Eno.

Everything you'd rather not have known about Brian Eno, Chrissie Hynde, 1974

Tracey Emin, My Bed, 1998

Todd Schorr, A Pirate's Treasure Dream, 2006

"We can learn from the experience of the 1930’s. A rising tide lifts all boats; a receding one ignites a Hobbesian war of each against all." ~ Robert Skidelsky, Project Syndicate, Oct 2010

Pieter Bruegel the Elder , Avarice, 1556

""I want to be a living work of art." ~ Luisa Casati

Man Ray, La Marquise Casati, 1935

Giovanni Boldini, Luisa Casati With a Greyhound, 1908

L.S. Lowry, The Pond, 1950

Ivan Aivazovsky, The Shipwreck on Northern Sea, 1865

Died this day

"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places." ~ Ernest Hemingway

Memories of past adventures (July 1997).