Daria Endresen - an interesting photographer/artist

Frida Und Die Schmetterlinge

Dans Les Tenebres (2009)

Eva (2010)
Closing In (2008)

(Copyright: Daria Endresen)

I found these pictures on FB if I remember right.
They are - I think - very beautiful, dreamlike photos, combining an almost chirurgical approach with a very innocent and austere and at the same time, sensual depiction of the body, combined with a surrealistic execution.
Somewhat reminding me of renaissance paintings with a 'medieval frankness'.

Nuclear tests 1945-1998

Japanese artist Isao Hashimoto has created a beautiful, undeniably scary time-lapse map of the 2053 nuclear explosions which have taken place between 1945 and 1998, beginning with the Manhattan Project's "Trinity" test near Los Alamos and concluding with Pakistan's nuclear tests in May of 1998. This leaves out North Korea's two alleged nuclear tests in this past decade (the legitimacy of both of which is not 100% clear).

Each nation gets a blip and a flashing dot on the map whenever they detonate a nuclear weapon, with a running tally kept on the top and bottom bars of the screen.
Hashimoto, who began the project in 2003, says that he created it with the goal of showing"the fear and folly of nuclear weapons." It starts really slow — if you want to see real action, skip ahead to 1962 or so — but the buildup becomes overwhelming.

Rock-Ragge död

For most of you, not being Swedes or having lived in Sweden, 'Rock-Ragge' might be a name that sounds somewhat strange and I fully understand.

He was actually one of our first 'rock icons' in Sweden becoming nationally known in 1957 when he played with his first band 'Rock-Ragge and his Four Comets'.

He died from cancer.