The Stilt Walking Shepherds of Landes

A 1938 postcard showing shepherds from the marshy region of Landes, France, getting around on stilts.

The Landes region of southwestern France, bordering the Bay of Biscay, is covered by a large pine forest.

Vibrant Mushroom Arrangements Photographed

Artist and educator Jill Bliss lives on a small island in the Salish Sea, an intricate network of coastal waterways that stretches from British Columbia to the Pacific Northwest.

Touchy World of Love

Light touches, dreamy gazes and longing sighs… That’s what you’ll find in these intimate illustrations by Zipcy.

How to Make Time for Creativity

There’s a creative person buzzing around in each of us. But they can’t come to the phone right now, because they’re buried in admin and paperwork.

Semaphore: The World’s First Telegraph

A Chappe semaphore tower near Saverne, France. Photo credit: Hans-Peter Scholz/Wikimedia

Smoke signals and beacons have been used to relay messages over short distances since ancient times, but the only reliable way to send messages over long distances

Illustrations of Cityscapes on Several Continents

Illustrator and graphic designer Romain Trystram shares with us his series of illustrations titled Neighbourhoods. A colorful journey through the architecture of cities such as New York, Tokyo, Shanghai and Paris.

Gifts for Gifted Children

Alfred Eisenstaedt, Children at a Puppet Theatre, Paris, 1963

Each summer I teach creative writing classes at the Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth. It’s a wonderful job for many reasons: my colleagues are uniformly, eccentrically brilliant, I’ve taught at campuses all over the country, from Los Angeles to the U.S. Virgin Islands

A Separate Reality

Conceptual digital artist Alex Andreyev calls his works “hermetic art” depicting surreal and mythic situation somebody can call sci-fi illustration. His works from “Separate Reality” series definitely call to everything untold and occult we have in a course of our lives.

Elegant Drawings of Girls Wearing Dresses Made of Real Flower Petals

Malaysian artist Lim Zhi Wei creates cute illustrations of dresses and girls she posts daily on her Instagram. Her series Flower Girls gathers sketches where the dresses are completed with real petals of flowers : orchids, leaves, roses…