Sword aficionados have a wide selection of weapons to choose from. Today’s savvy collectors can find Japanese katanas, fantasy swords, Celtic swords, and even swords from movies to help them live out their nerdy hero daydreams.
One of the most interesting blade categories are cane swords, which are truly the ultimate in “concealed weapons”. A cane sword basically looks like a walking stick, but it is actually a scabbard hiding a fearsome blade within!
Gramps can now have it both ways: a snazzy accessory to add an air of sophistication, and a persuasive ally in case those meddlesome kids won’t get off his lawn. (more…)
Chris Jordan’s amazing photographic display provides much food for thought. Like Icaro Doria, Jordan is able to present mind numbing numbers in an accessible way.
In the piece Running the Numbers, viewers can zoom in on representational photos to understand the magnitude of common statistics, including children without health insurance, the US prison population, and the amount of money spent on the Iraq war… (more…)
It’s a good time for Indian writers who write in English. An exotic location (at least to people who don’t live there) mixed with philosophical/social/historical insights, mixed with some poetic substance and the obligatory magic-realism adds up to ching! ching! in the Western book market.
But Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi’s debut would be a little more stunning if you didn’t feel it had been done before by Arundhati Roy. Love it or hate it, The God of Small Things’s (TGOST) Booker win brought more attention to the genre and you get a feeling of deja vu. (Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children is on a level of genius so far removed from Roy or Shanghvi, I’m not including it.) (more…)
This blog is not really about absinthe. But because the drink was a favorite of a number of (mainly French) artists and visionaries of the Symbolist movement, it seemed a fitting emblem for an art blog.
Supposedly these old masters would down the brew, get visited by a green fairy or some other hallucination, and then create art– often distorted visions which conveyed truth more clearly than realism was able to… (more…)
This is Sand is a cool site that allows you to manipulate a stream of virtual sand and shape it as it falls into layers or patterns.
Users can choose different colors for shading techniques, resulting in some surprisingly beautiful creations.
The process is also very relaxing, like raking real sand in a Zen garden.
Why So Serious? by “Jason”
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