New cave paintings in Spain with designs that have "no precedent" may have been created by Neanderthals, researchers say.

Hitherto, all prehistoric art discovered is thought to be created by homo sapiens sapiens (modern humans).  If the new art is the work of Neanderthals, it would suggest they had the same capacities for symbolic representation ( Read more... )

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I'm at the University of Minnesota's architecture building, and I just discovered this odd table sitting in a common area.  The center of it is inset with a copper tray in which dried green leaves and seeds and pods have been placed.  As you sit you can stare at the green and feel comforted and at ease.  There is also a glass vessel on the side of ( Read more... )

Synesketch is a surprising innovation in visualization technologies.  It takes text and measures its emotion words to produce a visualization.  This link demonstrates it with an everyday conversation, and then with William Blake's Auguries of Innocence.

Below are the 6 basic emotion patterns.  From left to right and top to bottom: happiness, anger, ( Read more... )

Haunting, sensitive, bleeding, elegant.  This artist manages to evoke both the peace and passion I've often tried to express in words.  Juxtaposed below are her encaustic works and a few of my poems.

Be sure to check out her web site and blog.


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It is bizarre and all-too-human that art can sometimes release more compassion than death tolls.  Looking at these sculptures, which have been lost in the fires, I felt a poignant sense of loss.  The loss of lives seems more real through the loss of this beauty.

It reminds me of a much greater disaster, the tidal wave that hit the coasts of the ( Read more... )

See a gallery of photography illustrating human consumption, like this one:


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A thousand life-size people made from trash, arranged at various world landmarks: the Cologne Cathedral, Rome, the Pyramids, the Great Wall.  This is amusing... and amazing.

Trash Art Litters Cologne   EeWasteInsight article

Here are a few online comics with pagan/heathen themes.

Brat-halla  -  the Norse deities as children

Muse Academy  -  the Muses open an academy, and decided to admit mortals in honor of Sappho

And this last one I've mentioned before, but it's the one I like the best:

Prometheus -  his miserable, miserable life.