Anti-gas training with dogs, circa 1939: Continue reading
Category Archives: Art
The Great Car Chases
The best car chases, the greatest car chases, the best movie chases… Give it the title you want. I researched this matter exhaustively and below is a list of the greatest car chase scenes in movies that I could come up with. The best car chase sequence of all time is the climax of 1980’s … Continue reading
Quote Of The Day: Lord Byron
From Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage: There is the moral of all human tales; ‘Tis but the same rehearsal of the past, First Freedom, and then Glory — when that fails, Wealth, vice, corruption — barbarism at last. Continue reading
Venezuelan Gold by Barnaby Rogerson
We took coffee of a jaguar hunter who lives alone in his commodious hut in the jungle, the woven wattle walls of his three rooms decorated with cast-offs from the odd bits of the materialist civilization that he had need of out here, so that there were a line of worn out toothbrushes used as … Continue reading
Photo Of The Day: Artisanal Gold Miners In Sierra Leone
Subsistence miners at work in a creek in Sierra Leone… This is definitely one that is at its best when the image is clicked on and brought up to its full size: Continue reading
Photo Of The Day: Boys Will Be Boys
Photo Of The Day: Accordion Player In Rome
A shot from one of our Italian correspondents… Continue reading
The Velvet Rocket 