David Pescovitz

Our dear friend Richard Metzger of Dangerous Minds and Disinformation fame is creating a new video series about the occult called Magick Show. Richard is raising funds on Kickstarter and one of the rewards is that occultist and comix legend Grant Morrison (The Invisibles, Batman, etc.) will cast a personalized spell for backers of a certain level!

Pioneering creative technologist and designer Ammon Haggerty, whose roots are in San Francisco’s cyberdelic culture of the early 1990s, wrote a fascinating essay urging us to “Keep AI Weird!”

What is a cat? This 1972 film below provides a lovely explanation.

A brawl broke out in front of El Inferno restaurant in Morelia, Mexico last weekend. A fire breathing street performer was allegedly attacked by a busking mariachi band. The fire breather fought back with flames.

In Williamsburg, Virginia, construction of a new archaeology lab revealed a new archaeological discovery at the building site. The researchers discovered a house dating back to 1660, before the founding of the city of Williamsburg.

Earlier this week, eerie pillars of light were photographed in the sky above the Sea of Japan off the coast of the Tottori Prefecture.

Andreas Pernerstorfer of Gobelsburg, Austria was renovating his wine cellar when he found something extraordinary: a pile of Stone Age mammoth bones.

On April 14, 1912, the RMS Titanic hit an iceberg and started sinking. Merchant seaman Frank Winnold Prentice was the assistant storekeeper on the ship. Here’s video of him telling the story of that night.

“Reckless” Ben Schneider took a walk across a tightrope between two skyscrapers in downtown Los Angeles earlier this month.

Utility workers in Mozimba, Acapulco were excavating deep into a roadway when the uncovered what appeared to be a significant archaeological find. They had unearthed a bizarre-looking statue that quickly captured the public imagination.