Browse Album. Satellite images of Earth show roads, air traffic, cities at night and internet cables. First Light by *SoberDreamer on deviantART. Mozilla Firefox. When I began as a film critic, Jean-Luc Godard was widely thought to have reinvented the cinema with "Breathless" (1960).
Now he is almost 80 and has made what is said to be his last film, and he's still at the job, reinventing. If only he had stopped while he was ahead. That would have been sometime in the 1970s. Maybe the 1980s. For sure, the 1990s. The thousands of seats in the Auditorium Debussy were jammed, and many were turned away. Continue reading → An article reflecting on 25 years at the movies by Roger Ebert. Continue reading → I know it is coming, and I do not fear it, because I believe there is nothing on the other side of death to fear.
Continue reading → An essay about Rod Blagojevich by Roger Ebert. Continue reading → Roger Ebert's essay on film in the 1978 edition of the Britannica publication, "The Great Ideas Today. " Continue reading → Thank you. Continue reading → Continue reading → Continue reading → Continue reading → Continue reading → Flags of Forgotten Countries. "QUANTUM SHOT" #576Link - article by Simon Rose Don't just wave a black flag... consider your options "There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum" -- Arthur C.
Clarke In recent years, we have seen a number of countries disappear, along with their flags. The Soviet Union came to an end, to be replaced by a multitude of new or revived republics, all with their own flags. "Avenue of Flags" - 1933 Chicago World's Fair, images via 1, 2, 3 The Holy Roman Empire, which existed from 962 to 1806, was famously said by Voltaire to be neither holy, Roman nor an empire. In 1473, Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, was one of the wealthiest and most powerful nobles in Europe, rivaling many royal families. A state that lasted for over a millennium was the Most Serene Republic of Venice, one of the superpowers of its time. Imperial Russia wasn’t the only major casualty of the First World War. (image credit: Martin Grieve) Mexico wasn’t the only monarchy in the Americas. ... Unusual and Marvelous Maps. "QUANTUM SHOT" #585Link - article by Simon Rose and Avi Abrams Hideous monsters devouring ships?
Cryptic symbols, correctly showing storm fronts & dangerous currents We’ve always been fond of maps, from those antique ones showing sea serpents and hideous monsters devouring ships in the vast expanses of the ocean, to those showing what the world looked like in the distant, and not so distant, past. Maps have, of course, been with us in one form or another, for a long time. Jerusalem is in the center - from "Itinerarium Sacrae Scipturae", by Heinrich Bunting, 1545-1606 Here’s a world map according to Posidonius, from around 150-130 B.C Ptolemy's version of the world, printed ten years before Christopher Columbus' first voyage - image via The Cantino planisphere from 1502 is the earliest surviving map showing recent discoveries by Portuguese mariners in the east and west. Fragment: Europe and Jerusalem Fragment: Caribbean islands Fragments: Brazil's coastline (left), Persian Gulf (right)