Architects may have felt creatively stifled in the old Soviet empire – but there was one place where their imaginations were encouraged to run riot: the bus stop. https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/sep/02/soviet-superpower-why-russia-has-the-worlds-most-beautiful-bus-stops (discussion on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10186954 praising the subway stations

Surrealism and somnambulism are the themes behind a new video game  inspired, in part, by the topsy-turvy aesthetics of Dutch artist M.C.  Escher, and the unique stylings of modern masters Salvador Dalí and  René Magritte. A major hallmark of surrealism has always been the  blurring of the lines between

I spend a lot of time thinking about how narrowly we see the Universe. Our eyes perceive the narrowest slice of the electromagnetic spectrum, the huge range of flavor lights comes in. Radio waves, infrared, ultraviolet, X-rays, gamma rays—they make visible light, from blue to red, seem hopelessly parochial.