In the early morning hours of August 6, 1945, a B-29 bomber named Enola Gay took off from the island of Tinian and headed north by northwest toward Japan. The bomber’s primary target was the city of Hiroshima, located on the deltas of southwestern Honshu Island facing the Inland Sea. Hiroshima had a [...]

Charley Fox was born February 1920, in Guelph, Ontario. His career with the R.C.A.F. commenced in the spring of 1940. He soon became a flight instructor at Dunnville, Ontario where he taught from October 1941 to May 1943. After instructing he went to an Operational Training Unit at Bagotville, Quebec. While there, on June 1st, [...]

Heinz Edelmann is the graphic designer who designed the album sleeve for The Beatles’ ‘Yellow Submarine’ album. He passed away today, leaving behind a legacy so closely related and iconic of one of the most influential musical acts in contemporary times.

Was there ever anything that you considered so important that you decided to use your [...]

Today, we lost a legendary photographer - a photographer whose work the architectural photography world is greatly indebted to. His name: Julius Schulman. Here he is, photographing Pierre Koenig’s Stahl House, and the fruit of his labour further below.

Shulman began his career in 1936 when he photographed a Richard Neutra house with a vest-pocket camera. [...]

Igor Stravinsky was born on this day, in 1882.

One of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people of the century, he was a composer of great stylistic diversity, first gaining international acclaim with his three ballet commissions (The Firebird, Petrushka and The Rite of Spring). He also published a number of books throughout his career, almost [...]

Niccolò Paganini died on this day in 1840.
I do not play the violin, yet Paganini has, without a doubt, shaped my musical education. His most important work - Caprice in A Minor, Op. 1 No. 24 - has served as inspiration for other prominent composers, from Lizst to Brahms to Rachmaninoff, resulting in numerous transcriptions [...]

My parents are advancing in age. Just a few years ago, they looked to be in their 50’s, but it is amazing what tiny lines can do collectively to age a person, with the aid of gravity - they look their age now. And in a few years’ time, they will have entered their 70’s. [...]

“Maj. Harry Pike and his Flyin’ Fish was attached to the 16th Fighter Squadron when this picture was taken October 22, 1942 at Peishiyi. The following year he was shot down by flak over Hankow and survived a flaming crash although badly burned on his hands and face. A Japanese doctor in Hankow saved him [...]

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Author of the highly provocative and controversial novels ‘Crash’ and ‘Empire of the Sun’, JG Ballard succumbed to prostate cancer this past Sunday. Although he will most likely be remembered as a science fiction author with a passion for dystopic modernity, self-destruction and apocalyptic imagery, he is a true visionary. His influence was pervasive throughout [...]