Art Scene China: Contemporary Chinese Art.




The Birth of Ginger.




All (Known) Bodies in the Solar System Larger than 200 Miles in Diameter.




Germinal Tenas: French Pop Music.

'Badly translated from the sleevenotes to "Wizzz! Volume 2":
Germinal Floreal Tenas, initiator of the 'Reverendus Chorus' project, is in retrospect one of the major record producers of the French 60's counter-culture. A disciple of mockery and the DIY sound, his productions during the Sixties thumbed their nose to the masquerade of yéyé.'




Monkey!




Songs of Innocence and of Experience.

'This is a fascimile reproduction, along with transcribed text, of William Blake's masterpiece of bookmaking, Songs of Innocence and of Experience. These poems are one of the treasures of world literature, simple enough to resonate with children, but with enough exoteric and esoteric meaning to keep a gnostic sage pondering for several lifetimes. Blake's vision of a universe alive on all scales of being is luminously represented in the hand-colored illustrations, which contain clues to the overtones of the text. The poems are also firmly rooted in the misery of 18th century London, and many of them are embued with a politically radical (but still bardic) outlook on the squalid everyday life which surrounded Blake. This is a text which needs to be experienced with both sides of the brain.'




Museum of Calculators: Rockwell (USA).




1983: The Brink of Apocalypse.

'1983: The Brink of Apocalypse -- In 1983 the NATO war exercise Able Archer almost started a nuclear war. Unknown to NATO, just a few months earlier a false alarm had already put the Soviet leadership on edge, and the exercise triggered preparations for a counter attack in the Soviet military. Only a few double agents on each side may have saved the world from nuclear armageddon. '




Bon, Tibet's Oldest Religion.

'Often described as the shamanistic and animistic tradition of the Himalayas prior to Buddhism's rise to prominence in the 7th century, more recent research and disclosures have demonstrated that both the religion and the Bönpo are significantly more rich and textured culturally than was initially thought by pioneering Western scholars.'




The Humphrey Winterton Collection of East African Photographs 1860-1960.




Classic Las Vegas Signs.




'The Wind in the Willows' Illustrations.

''The Wind in the Willows' by Kenneth Grahame was first published in 1908 but the masterful, scratchy drawings by EH Shepard, - illustrator of 'Winnie the Pooh' - that are most closely associated with the text, were not produced until 1931.'




We Met the Space People.

'This is a UFO contactee account by two sisters from the Midwest US in the late 1950s. The Mitchell sisters, Helen and Betty, are approached by space aliens, who can pass for human beings, in (of all places) a coffee shop in St. Louis, Missouri. On a second encounter (again in the coffee shop) they are given a schematic for a communicator, which they build, and through it they receive messages from the Space People from Mars and Venus. Unlike the more aggressive aliens of later decades, they wait until the third date to take Helen on a ride to the mothership. There she learns that the aliens have one-piece uniforms that 'feel like satin,' speak a Universal Language, and play a game like shuffleboard when off-duty. '




French Flying Machines.

[Collecting cards with pictures of events in ballooning history from 1795 to 1846]




Norman Rockwell's Illustrations to Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn.




Sex Quotes.

"Having sex is like playing bridge. If you don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good hand."



Astro Pics.


Dark River to Antares.


Auroral Corona over Norway.


Sarychev Peak Volcano in Stereo.