The island of Socotra is part of an archipelago in the Indian Ocean. It is so isolated that a third of its plant life is found nowhere else on the planet. Notable are the dragon’s blood trees that...

Please Love me.
Loosely inspired by the song Graceland by Paul Simon.
When You magazine commissioned me to illustrate a feature about grandparents who look after their grandchildren, I came up with a couple of ideas - both were liked and so both were worked up to...
The building of something.
Vintage photograph? Think again. The image above is a small, photo-realistic hand drawing by acclaimed Edinburgh based Scottish artist Paul Chiappet.
Gearing up for The Oscars? Every Best Picture Winner in four minutes. Also, hard to pass over from Dave White: You Know What Movies Deserve Oscar Nominations? Other Ones.
MP3s: Glorie, ‘Sunshine then Nightmares’. Frances Cone, ”Come Back’. School of Seven Bells, ‘Secret Days’. Haim, ‘Falling’.
Insightful poetry of Sheree Mack: Absent Voices 6/Every Memory. (via)
Comfortable Weather Guy presents your current weather - and will likely make you smile.
Can’t stop rummaging through A well traveled woman. You know how they say it’s not the grand events you remember most fondly in later life, but rather the little moments? Yeah, like that. (via)
The Kfar Shmaryahu House is truly an example of form follows function. Having become something of a packrat over the years, this minimalist home seems like a dream to me. Seriously need to simplify.
Zachary Canepari is a superb freelance editorial photographer based in New Delhi. Don’t miss his “motion” work. You’ll have to refresh the page to view each as there’s unfortunately no way to navigate from one to the next.
Revisits: Imogen (windows). Rocky Memphis (windows, mac). Retro-Furturismus. Boredom Pays. Rivertrout. Mattijn. Pixelated New Orleans Houses. Harmonia Macrocosmica of Andreas Cellarius.
“BREAKING: Cyber-terrorists have hacked Donald Trump’s Twitter account, cutting off the nation’s vital supply of stupid.” RexHuppke
Amen, Rex, amen.