“He knew what those jubilant crowds did not know but could have learned from books: that the plague bacillus never dies or disappears..."

Jan 1889, Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900) is said to have witnessed a cab driver viciously whipping a horse.

"I created a series of advertisements which I placed in various publications..Of course I was advertising my own conceptual ideas,

Interview with Sergei Parajanov here he discusses how making Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (1965) led to his imprisonment

Four Text Collages (Project for a New Novel), by J. G. Ballard. Experimental text collages by Ballard intended as a condensed novel.

The lifework of James Hampton a janitor who secretly built a large assemblage of religious art.

Georgia O'Keeffe's fascination with Synesthesia led her to create these paintings.

Eadweard Muybridge (1830 – 1904) pioneering work on locomotion included many male and female nudes of himself and others

Eugene Von Bruenchenhein (1910–1983) was a self-taught artist from Milwaukee, Wisconsin who created thousands of paintings...

Titanic survivor Frank Prentice worked in the pursers office on the Titanic, he was 18.

While recovering from drugs administered due to an impacted wisdom tooth, Philip K Dick began to have bizarre delusions.

Philip K. Dick interview (1977). Here he discusses how science fiction is viewed on a bottom rung of genres.

An influential series of prints started in 1745. 16 imaginary subterranean prisons with winding stairs strange architecture.

In the 1960s architect Ron Herron (1930 - 1994) designed collages of his concept of Walking Cities.

Wonderful trick film from Georges Méliès where he balances copies of himself on his head and hands.

Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904) photography. Most famous for his studies in locomotion and it's influence on the invention of cinema

Motopia was a proposed 'City of the Future' designed by architect Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe.

Footage of the devastation caused by World War 1 filmed (1919) by Lucien Le Saint with French balloon pilot Jacques Trolley de Prévaux.

Portraits of Georgia O'Keeffe by Alfred Stieglitz. Stieglitz photographed O'Keeffe obsessively

Incredibly beautiful stained glass windows by Harry Clarke (1889 – 1931)

Etienne-Jules Marey (1830-1904) physiologist, doctor, biomechanics engineer and inventor of chronophotography.

Infernal Dictionary (1818) by Jacques Collin de Plancy is a book of demonology it describes demons and organises them into hierarchies.

Wilson Alwyn Bentley frustrated with being unable to view snowflakes under his microscope devised his own methods.

In 1991 JG Ballard returned to Shanghai to his childhood home and to Lunghua Interment camp.