The blades atop the iconic Moulin Rouge windmill in Paris fell to the ground in the early hours Thursday.
Saturday, April 27, 2024
Botticelli's Primavera
Looking at Sandro Botticelli’s iconic Renaissance masterpiece (late 1470s or early 1480s).
Yo-Yo Ma performing in Alaska on earth day
Yo-Yo Ma performed Bach's Prélude from Suite No. 2, amidst the birch trees on Lower Tanana Dene lands in Fairbanks, Alaska.
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Friday, April 26, 2024
Simulation of a Nuclear Blast in a Major City
This collaboration between documentary filmmaker Neil Halloran and Nobel Peace Prize - Research and Information simulates a nuclear blast in a major city in order to demonstrate the estimated deaths that would result.
Read more: Open Culture
Thursday, April 25, 2024
Technical Difficulties
When I opened my blog yesterday the formatting was wonky. I managed to fix it but decided that I didn’t really like the layout anymore and switched back to the previous template which has a less cluttered look. I originally changed it a few years ago so that the blog would work better with mobile devices. Let me know if you are having difficulty viewing the new/old format.
Cosmati pavement
The seven century old tiled floor at the crossing of the shrine of Edward the Confessor and the main altar of the Royal Peculiar, Westminster Abbey, is composed of nearly ninety thousand individual pieces of coloured glass and stones. Ever since the pavement was laid, every coronation has taken place upon it.
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The drama of home buying - Let The Journey Begin
An ad campaign for StreetEasy depicts each stage of the process of buying a home in the style of epic Renaissance paintings.
A Day in TOKYO in 1968
This film by Japan’s National Tourism Organization was produced to introduce Tokyo to foreign tourists.
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