Middle Earth from low orbit

I have a fondness for imaginary places. I even have the book. So I naturally have a weakness for maps of them. They add to the realism of the place. Now a company has created shots of Middle Earth from low orbit. Believe it. One of those entirely pointless pursuits I enjoy so much.

It took time to recognize land formations from the books.

Check them out. More at WIRED.

In pursuit of Bruegel

I never realized this, but the demons in Bruegel's Fall of the Rebel Angels are farting.

Great post with lots more information on Bruegel and his work over at That's How the Light Gets In. Check it out.

So Joseph Stalin, Molotov, and Voroshilov go into a bar...

Get Well, in Toronto, is a bar with personality. It has religious icons, video games, and most surprising of all, a large painting of Soviet glitterati. In addition to a grinning General Secretary, there's Molotov (between the young lady and Stalin), and Voroshilov (hidden mostly by The Green Blob of Reflected Light).

Kalinin, the ostensible head of state, is seated in front of Stalin. He just stamped papers all day and received the mail.

Not something you see every day in a Toronto bar. Freaky.

Found the painting online: An Unforgettable Meeting by Vasily Efanov. It depicts the All-Union Conference of Women Home-makers and Engineering and Technical Workers in Heavy Industry in the Kremlin.

He won a prize for the painting. A better quality image (of the original) from The Internets below:

Rebel Angels Issue 6 cover

Cover of issue 6. Balthazar races to confront his former mentor, and now nemesis, Baal. Goosebumps!

Mo' Bosch!

Because you cannot get enough.

Leviathan's Submersible Mobile City

Issue 4 cover by Paul Rivoche

 

Of Mr. X fame!