April 12th 2016

If you are traveling, even backpacking at any age, it's handy to have backpacker's or traveler's insurance. InsureAndGo Travel Insurance, especially if you rent a moped, for example. 

New York Public Library Digital Collection

LADIES' DRESS SHOES OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

New York Public Library Digital Collection
THE TROUVELOT ASTRONOMICAL DRAWINGS: ATLAS

New York Public Library Digital Collection of vintage menus. 
WOLF DIETER ZANDER COLLECTION 

Learned this today, that our brains are extremely skilled at "gaze detection" and usually know when someone is staring at us.

William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy having lunch on the set of Star Trek.

My dear nieces, author, Phoebe Nicholson and artist/musician, Faith Eliott, have collaborated on a book of Phoebe's poems.

The headphones Faith made, on her website, FaithEliott.com

Wandering around the Tokyo National Museum website on a Tuesday night in early Spring 2014

Wandering around the Tokyo National Museum website. So many fun and interesting things to see. Treasures of all kinds. Some strange ones too. Here is a page of doll's heads from the last century, so realistic and exquisitely detailed.

How a doll of this kind looks fully clothed

Buddha image from the Tokyo National Museum

Antique embroidery from the Tokyo National Museum

Heian Period (12thC) sculpture in the Tokyo National Museum

A 19C musical instrument in the Tokyo National Museum

Some cool Edo Period shoes from the Tokyo National Museum

Sandy's CanCars

hotrod models out of beer cans

IT'S A GOOD TIME OF YEAR FOR SOME 

BIRDSONG RADIO. ALWAYS A SOURCE OF JOY.

Fortune teller stalls in Hong Kong. Huh. What an interesting way to make a living.

HONG KONG’S FORTUNE TELLER SHOPS PHOTOGRAPHED BY KRIS VERVAEKE

Folding Electric (3 wheeled) Car from 1920s

A Japanese website, The International Library Of Children's Literature, with an online selection of vintage children's picture books

A delicate Spring treat. Cherry Blossom marshmallows

Stewarts Law RCA Secret is an exhibition and sale of original postcard-sized artworks, by internationally acclaimed artists plus up-and coming graduates from the Royal College of Art. It's your chance to get your hands on original works of art for a tiny price.

THE CLEAREST PICTURE OF MERCURY EVER TAKEN