The Absent Clock: Stephen King and Stanley Kubrick’s versions of The Shining
Danny Lloyd as Danny TorranceCCLI by quicheisinsane on Flickr The Shining contains themes of abuse, addiction, insanity and manipulative evil. What really makes this story tick in the imagination? I...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Bela Lugosi
CCLI by ~sk3tch on deviant art People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants. –Bela Lugosi
View ArticleQuote for the Day: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Night on the MoorsCCLI by *weegieschemie on deviant art To that Providence, my sons, I hereby commend you, and I counsel you by way of caution to forbear from crossing the moor in those dark hours when...
View ArticleFear and Music: Crossing the Border with Alfredo Rodriguez
CCLI by Rama on wikimedia commons When pianist Alfredo Rodriguez was invited to play for jazz legend Quincy Jones, he was excited and perhaps a little nervous. The journey would not do much for his...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Joseph Conrad
CCLI by dongga BS on Flickr Who knows what true loneliness is — not the conventional word, but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or...
View ArticleInto the Uncanny Valley: Hiroshi Ishiguro’s Geminoids and Telenoids
Hiroshi Ishiguro and the TelenoidCCLI by Ars Electronica on Fotopedia Why do we possess an instinctive fear of androids? Are we prepared for the questions and issues these robots inspire? You may or...
View ArticleThe Evolution of Myth: A Panoply of Dragons
Dragon myths are universal. Dragons themselves vary widely from one imagination to another. What do they show us about ourselves? Our myths tell much about what we hold dear, and in the case of the...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Thomas Pynchon
The City on Fire © Sargeraas with CCLicense “If the City Paranoiac dreams, it is not accessible to us. Perhaps the Ci-ty dreamed of an-other, en-emy city, float-ing across the sea to invade the...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Catherynne M. Valente
© Chrissy Wainwright with CCLicense She did not know yet how sometimes people keep parts of themselves hidden and secret, sometimes wicked and unkind parts, but often brave or wild or colorful parts,...
View ArticleQuote for Today: T.S. Eliot
© Prasad Kholkute with CCLicense What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow Out of this stony rubbish? Son of man, You cannot say, or guess, for you know only A heap of broken images, where the...
View ArticleThe Sound of Hands: Ruke by Croatia’s Darko Rundek
© Cradel with CCLicense Congratulations are due to Croatia, welcomed this week as the 28th member of the European Union after ten years of working and waiting. A sovereign nation for a little more than...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Justin Somper
© eschipul with CCLicense Well, if pirates are bad, And vampires are worse, Then I pray that as long as I be That though I sing of Vampirates I never one shall see. Yea, if pirates are danger And...
View ArticleGrab the Garlic: The Bloody Truth About Serbia’s (Modern) Vampire from...
© Heather Bauer with CCLicense I think we’re yearning for something beyond the every day. And I will tell you I don’t believe in the supernatural, I believe in the supernormal. To me there is nothing...
View ArticleQuote for Today: D.H. Lawrence
© pieceofmestock with CCLicense It is easy to see why each man kills the things he loves. To know a living thing is to kill it… To try to know a living being is to try to suck the life out of that...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Richard Matheson
artwork and image @ Merrick Brown with CCLicense And suddenly he thought, I’m the abnormal one now. Normalcy was a majority concept, the standard of many and not the standard of just one man. Abruptly...
View ArticleVampires vs Zombies: A Shift in Consciousness
Popular culture is an interesting barometer for shifts in thought. What do modern portrayals of vampires and zombies tell us? © Michael Blomberg Bentsen with CCLicense It is a truth universally...
View ArticleTo Listen or Not to Listen: Creativity and the Voices in Your Head
© Duster Amaranth with CCLicense Being creative requires listening to our thoughts. How do we find our own voice amongst voices internalized from our surroundings? Interest in yoga and meditation...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Oscar Wilde
© Pete Ford with CCLicense When they reached the end of the room he stopped, and muttered some words she could not understand. She opened her eyes, and saw the wall slowly fading away like a mist, and...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Viktor E. Frankl
Miami Holocaust Memorial by Kenneth Treister© ksaraf with CCLicense I shall never forget how I was roused one night by the groans of a fellow prisoner, who threw himself about in his sleep, obviously...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Christopher Isherwood
detail, Artist in the Bathroom Mirror, Pierre BonnardImage © Stephen L. Harlow with CCLicense Staring and staring into the mirror, it sees many faces within its face – the face of the child, the boy,...
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