While plumbing fixtures and water transportation methods may not spring to mind when thinking about major historic achievements, that doesn’t mean the field is without its interesting quirks and landmarks.
7 Unpopular But Effective Ways To Be More Creative
We don’t know what the formula for creativity is but we sure can take a stab at it. In this article we explore some of the known ways to being truly original.
Holographic Memories Visualised in Art
“I hear the pictures before I see them, then I smell them. I hear the picture in a continuous time loop”, says Sharmaine Thérèsa Pretorius, a South African artist based in Oman.
For Sharmaine, also known by her pen name Ilza, art is a representation of holographic memories downloaded from the spiritual realm into a tapestry of multi-layered drawings containing puzzles, musical composition and maps.
Are the Stories Found in Folklore, Legend & Mythology Still Relevant?
In this modern age, when technology pervades almost every moment of our waking lives, folklore seems like little more than a remnant of a past world, long forgotten.
Lailo: Apart From Concrete Realities
From parting with children and the effects of cold coffee, to giving birth and the up-side of napping in class, the conversation began to unfold as I delved deeper into the inner-workings of the artist known as Lailo.
Pol Pot: Southeast Asia’s Adolph Hitler
I am sitting next to Bou Meng, a lean man in his 70s, who had the unique, rare fate of escaping being murdered in the Khmer Rouge S-21 prison camp in Phnom Penh.
Comfortable Beds: A Brief History of Where We Sleep
Historically speaking we’re the lucky ones. Comfortable beds are a relatively new phenomenon. Here is a brief history of humankind’s development of the bed. After which you will be thanking your lucky stars that you have a bed at all!
Mental Illness and the Artistic Temperament
From the prehistoric cave paintings of our Palaeolithic ancestors to the provocative graffiti of contemporary artists like the UK’s elusive ‘Banksy’, art has given people a means by which to escape the often harsh, realities of their everyday lives since time in memoriam.
How Street Performers, Buskers and Acrobats Can Become Celebrities
For buskers to become celebrities they must create a unique attraction. The fastest way to the top is to have something special, a super-stunt or thrilling spectacle that will become your signature show.
Patricia Lyons – Whale Skeleton
The whale’s feeding grounds are at risk; firstly, due to the loss of krill, secondly because of the high salt content on the ice and thirdly due to global warming, their cold waters are warming on the way to the tropics and the whale interprets in this rise in temperature that they have reached the tropics for breeding.
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