Extraterrestrial tongues – Imagining how aliens might communicate prepares us for first contact and illuminates the nature of our own languages – The elements of language can reach out and be ‘about’ things other than themselves – Why must the structural elements of an alien language be the same as human languages? – An alien language may be less like English, Swahili or Cantonese, but more like maps –> https://aeon.co/essays/why-alien-languages-could-be-far-stranger-...

Luxury Resort on Dubai’s Coast Inspired by the Elegance of Superyachts – The hotel, created by architect Shaun Killa of Killa Design, is situated between the Jumeirah Burj Al Arab and Jumeirah Beach Hotel, which are shaped like a sail and a wave, respectively. Completing Jumeirah's trilogy of nautical hotels, Marsa Al Arab's fluid architecture creates the illusion of movement. –> https://mymodernmet.com/marsa-al-arab-resort-killa-design/

Occult, Leather, and Rock & Roll –> https://cvltnation.com/nsfw-sex-the-occult-leather-and-rock-roll/

Authorship of Famous ‘Napalm Girl’ Photo Called Into Question – A documentary film cast 50 years of photojournalism history into doubt. –> https://news.artnet.com/art-world/who-took-famous-napalm-girl-pho...

Sprawling “Organic House” is Discreetly Nestled Into the Ground Outside Mexico City – Nestled in the crowded slopes of Naucalpan, a suburb west of Mexico City, lies a house unlike anything you've ever seen. Designed by Mexican architect Javier Senosiain, the Casa Orgánica (“Organic House”) draws from the shapes of nature and the comfort of the womb to fulfill the environmental, physical, and psychological needs of a human. –> https://mymodernmet.com/casa-organica-javier-senosiain/

Harry Clarke’s illustrated Swinburne – You won’t find Harry Clarke’s illustration for Swinburne’s Aholibah in Selected Poems of Algernon Charles Swinburne even though it was intended for the book, and was the illustration that Clarke deemed his favourite of the series. The erotic nature of the drawing was too much for the publisher so Clarke had to content himself by pasting a reproduction in his own copy. – Selected Poems of Algernon Charles Swinburne was Clarke’s last illustrated book, published in 1928, three years before his untimely death. Of all the major Clarke books that appeared during the artist’s lifetime it’s always been the most difficult to find –> https://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2025/05/12/harry-clarkes...

Πέντε χρόνια από τότε που ήρθαν τα φορτηγά – Το Μπέργκαμο στη Λομβαρδία έγινε από νωρίς σύμβολο της πανδημικής φρίκης. Τώρα τα πράγματα βελτιώνονται για την πόλη – αλλά η διαχείριση της “πανδημίας” παραμένει ακόμα αμφιλεγόμενη στην Ιταλία. –> https://www.eyewideopen.org/?p=5141

Conan Comic Book Parodies –> https://gwthomas.org/conan-comic-book-parodies/

The Valley of the Worms – Giant worms in fantastic fiction long predate Frank Herbert’s Dune (1965), though Shai-Hulud is certainly the most famous. Robert E. Howard, H. P. Lovecraft and Clark Ashton Smith, the great triumvirate of Weird Tales, were using creepy worm monsters when Frank Herbert was dealing with pimples. –> https://gwthomas.org/the-valley-of-the-worms/

Check out these Polaroids of HR GIGER’s Alien Sex Fiends – Polaroids contains a selection of unpublished photographs from the personal archives of the Swiss artist and set designer H.R. Giger. Given the ephemeral nature of the Polaroid format, these are snapshots that the artist used as references for his own work as well as for process and work documentation. –> https://cvltnation.com/check-out-these-polaroids-of-hr-gigers-ali...

«Το Ταξίδι ενός USB» - Ένα φλασάκι. Πολλοί κάτοχοι. Ένα μυστικό. – Πολλοί λένε ότι τα αντικείμενα δεν έχουν μνήμη. Ότι είναι απλώς άψυχα εργαλεία. Μα τι γίνεται όταν ένα αντικείμενο, όσο μικρό κι αν είναι, περνάει από χέρια σε χέρια, κουβαλώντας στιγμές, φόβους και ιστορίες; –> https://www.dwrean.net/2025/05/to-taksidi-enos-usb.html

Life Lessons from David Cronenberg – In case you’ve been living under a rock for the past fifty years, David Cronenberg is the Mutant King of body horror; in stomach-churning, Manson Family date movies like Rabid (an extremely icky form of vampirism), The Brood (nasty little “rage monsters” popping right out of poor Samantha Eggar), Scanners (you want exploding heads — you’ve got exploding heads), and Videodrome (I… I can’t even talk about it, and to this day, neither can James Woods) he set new standards in shockingly gross special effects and in the number of times he forced audience members to barf in their popcorn buckets or make panicked rushes to the restroom. –> https://www.blackgate.com/2025/05/07/life-lessons-from-david-cron...

Is the Great Sphinx Actually a Portrait? – Archeologists believe the Great Sphinx of Giza does not represent a mythological creature but an ancient pharaoh. The only question is: which one? –> https://news.artnet.com/art-world/great-sphinx-origin-2631406

The Reptilian Encounters: Shapeshifting Entities, Lizardmen, and Supernatural Beings! –> https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2025/04/The-Reptilian-Encounters-S...

The Art of Illusion: Exploring the Paintings of Giuseppe Arcimboldo – Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1527–1593) was an Italian painter whose work stands at the crossroads of Renaissance artistry and proto-surrealism –> https://www.vintag.es/2025/04/giuseppe-arcimboldo.html

12 Murals That Hit You Right in the Heart (And You’ll Never Forget Them) –> https://streetartutopia.com/2025/05/03/murals-that-hit-you-right-...