Magellan's Log
IMAGES INDEX

If you like what you read in Magellan's Log, share the experience: Click here for info about our books and CDs.

[Addendum to Magellan's Log 4: Nanjing University 2003. An update of a Library of Congress panoramic photo from 1920.]
After Edward Hopper. Jerden Purmort. Slideshow with midi (2:32).
A.I. and Great Moments in Shared Dreams. Hinko Livernoix.
Alphanumerics for Fun and Profit. Some of us continue to fiddle while Rome burns. Slideshow with midi (8:35).
American Landscape Engravings. Sixteen engravings ca. 1840 by W.H. Bartlett.
Animated Gif's. We sorted through 1000's to bring you the best of a generally sorry lot.
AUDACITIES. Cultural one-liner. Slideshow with music (1:12).
Bars. Six bars of colored light plus New-Age-ified Chopin.
Beautiful Dreamer. 189 random images. Slideshow with midi (3:21).
Beauty Break. Escape from all these words. 7 pictures with music.
Beauty Break 101. A Chopin scherzo plus 20 images. Slideshow with midi (7:29).
Beauty by the Dozen. Our first year's most beautiful graphics.
Beauty Spot: Adam's Peak (Sri Lanka), plus music by Corelli.
Beethoven and Barnett Newman.
Behind the Scenes. Tantalizing visual clues to how Magellan's Log gets made.
The Big Pictures. Nine panoramic photos from our wandering staff.
Blinded by the Night. Joey Ancaster. Animated gifs + 2.5 minutes of Chopin.
The Blooming Grove Bronze Tablet.
Bodies. Nine unusual photos for the epidermally inclined.
A Brief Visit to Death Valley. Cultural one-liner cum photo.
Brokeback Mountain: Notes Toward a Review. Scott McComb's contrarian take.
Bye-bye, Best Products. Diebold Essen on an iconic 20th century building. With panoramic photo.
Canons & Rounds. From "Row, Row, Row Your Boat" to Pachelbel.
Captain's Corner. The staff's pix picks, with music.
Cars & Crystal Balls. Pedkop Bumbera. Reading the future by looking at cars.
Cartography Revisited. Why maps matter.
Catskill Byway. One photo, one old hymn tune, and one informational sign.
China X 15. Wm. S. Pollard III. New photographs of China.
China Spring. Take a dharma break with 7 Chinese woodcuts and a peaceful midi (2:32).
Chinese Classical Landscape Paintings. With music.
The Chrome Series. Mixed media works by Kai Sonderling. Music by John Dowland.
CLARITY. Alkan's "Festival of Aesop" plus 70 montages. Slideshow with midi (9:05).
Clone, Sweet Clone. Architecture then and now. Twelve old buildings and their recent clones.
Clouds. Wonderful photos plus slightly tweaked Handel.
Cole paintings. Thomas Cole, with music.
Coming in on a Wing and a Prayer. 7 photos celebrating the Wright Brothers' centenary.
Contrastingly. Artist Joey Ancaster re-thinks the yin-yang symbol.
Curtains. Kai Sonderling. Images for the optically challenged, with Chopin midi's.
Dasein feiern! Graphic with midi (2:59).
A Day in Pennsylvania: Fallingwater/Shanksville. Nicholas Momurray's Frank Lloyd Wright pilgrimage has an unexpected ending. Commentary with 2 slide shows.
DIY Yin-yang. Nicholas Momurray. Slideshow withi midi (2:08).
Dualities. Images that are the opposite of Tylenol. Slideshow with midi (4:00).
Easy Choices/Hard Choices. Harriett Lobdell on Gregg Araki's "The Living End."
Every Day's Another Dawning. Hope for the hope-deprived, with a little midi (1:07).
EXCITABILITY. Slideshow with midi (4:51).
Eye Chart. Check your vision, um, metaphysically speaking.
EYEmageS. Isometrics for the retina.
Fenestration. Photo with midi (2:44).
50 Plus. Looking up at buildings of more than 50 stories in Houston. With midi.
Fleurs de Lea. Flowers from the Magellan's Log garden. Slideshow with midi.
Folly Folly. Our latest collection of images of human silliness.
Forgotten Masterpieces.
Four Corners. Boris Chao's lovely photos of part of the American West. Slideshow with midi (2:23).
Freudian Symbols for the 3rd Millennium. Harriet Lobdell's radical new take on dream images.
Galle(r)y. More staff pix, with music.
Gehry's Tattered Titanium. Carl Yadkin. Slideshow with music (1:34).
The Gentle Tree. Handel's "Ombra ma fui" (a.k.a. the "Largo"). Slideshow with midi (2:49).
Grand Canyon Breaks. Arthur Varrick Ticklaw says it all in two words.
Great Planes. Joey Ancaster. Imaginary visual and aural landscapes in which to play.
grün.***
Herky-jerky World: The Short Shelf-life of Movies. Scott McComb.
Les Heures du Mal. A book of hours for eras in distress.
The Hills of Herculaneum. Kai Sonderling's manipulation of his painting, with midi.
HOPE. A slideshow with some flowers and some Scott Joplin.
Houston Mausoleum.
Ingress.
Jumbelodeon. Random images plus Bach. Slideshow with midi (1:32).
Koi Paraga? An old question with some new images and one pretty insistent midi (2:26).
The Land of Eleven Seasons. Fractal landscapes (with midi).***
Ley Line.
Lightning Strikes 23 Times. Slideshow with midi (2:46).
Lost Worlds. Rean Rhyne and Angus Verspeeten. 9 planets for imaginary exploring, with midi's.
The Magellan's Log Ego Altar.
Magic Yard. A bit of black & white, a bit of color, a bit of Gibbons.***
Me and My Century. Single images representing the 20th century.
Meanwhile, Back at the Louvre... The current state of High Art. Slideshow with midi (1:59).
The Metaphysical Stereopticon. Pedro Bofecillos. Five pairs of pictures for you Zen delight.
Miserere. A midi of Allegri's setting of Psalm 51, with slide show.
Mnemonicae. 80 wee photos to help remember that which cannot be forgotten.
More Galaxies Than You Can Shake a Telescope At. Slideshow of Hubble Space Telescope photos, with midi (6:47).
Morning Becomes Ruth. An English village, a Texas spring, and a few words. Slideshow with midi (2:32).
Naked Jesus. Maurice Fitznuggly. Our art critic sets out to shock you.
Nature. Old, old Asian words, not quite so old European music.
Nekkid People. An unabashed looked at old Greeks without clothes on.
98-pound Weaklings, Whoopee Cushions, etc. Classic ads from the golden age of comic books. Slideshow with midi (2:05).
Oak Creek Canyon August 26, 2000. A panoramic photograph.
The Official Magellan's Log Guide to Perfection.
Optical Allusions. Pictures to cross your eyes by.
Our Trip to Santa Fe. A photographic report.
Pack Up Your Troubles. Kai Sonderling. Slideshow with midi (1:57).
Panoramic Photographs from the Library of Congress, with music. [Addendum to Magellan's Log 4: Nanjing University 2003. An update of a Library of Congress panoramic photo from 1920.]
PAX NOVUM. The peace symbol revised for the 21st century. Slideshow with midi (2:20).
p a x  v o b i s c u m. Twenty-six land- and waterscapes. Slideshow with midi (4:16).
Pedernales.
Petrophilia. Found stones as art- and meditation-objects.
Penises on Parade. The staff passes on its trove of tasteless "phallic-humor" photos from the Internet. Sigh.
Penises on Parade, Part the Second. 20 more photos of phallic humor.
Phalloi & Vulvae. Sophomoric images will out. Slideshow with midi (2:08).
Pixel de Light. Don Pfingston. Art on the net.
Poster. Your very own printable Magellan's Log poster.
The Price of Sin: Movie Posters Like They Don't Make Anymore.
Problems in Modern Living: Nos. 692,412-692,447. 36 photos from the Internet to help you keep up with the collapse of civilization as we know it.
Problems in Modern Living: The Non-utopian Evidence. 42 photos that suggest things are not going swimmingly, life-wise.
Problems in Modern Transportation: The Sequel. Photos.
Problems of Modern Sexuality. 24 photos indicating that erectile dysfunction may be the least of our sexual problems.
Problems in Modern Signage: Nos. 497,512-497,575. 64 pix.
Problems, Problems, Problems. 39 photos to induce laughter (or tears).
Quilts. Feast your eyes on handiwork that becomes art.
Quote Me This. Quotations, with pictures, and music by Josquin Desprez.
The Randys. Our annual awards for the best explicit sex photographs on the Internet.
Red.
Retinal R&R. Our choices for the best eye candy programs around.
Rosson's Rocks. Nine contemporary American scholar's stones.
Sacred Objects. Harriet Lobdell. A brief tribute to small, ancient tools.
St. Basil Chapel. A photographic visit to Philip Johnson's small religious masterpiece.
Satyr Alert! An anonymous reader's photographic proof of a mysterious encounter beside a Texas Hills Country lake.
Searching for a House Under $40K in the Texas Outback. Kai Sonderling looks for cheap studio space. Slideshow with midi (3:05).
Sept petits objets de méditation. Paintings by Jean-Marie Jonré, our most popular artist, with music by Handel (3:17).
Serious. Photos of Houston by the well-known cinematographer, Tom Richmond.
7 x 40. Forty photos from our archives to celebrate our 7th anniversary.
Speechless in the 3rd Millennium. A (mostly) humorous graphic oasis in the word-desert.
Squaring the Circle. Sylvia Thodhiss. Broken chords.
The Staff of Magellan's Log. Photos of the entire staff, over the Houston skyline.
Stained Pixels. Buxtehude organ music plus animated gifs (6:03).
The State of the World. Our desperate collection of weird photos to help us all figure out what's going on.
sun (slideshow with midi).
Super-insanities. The staff's latest pick of crazy (and possibly offensive) photos from the Internet.
Synesthesia. Eight tactilely visual, or maybe visually tactile, photos. With midi.
Tattoos. Skin art slide show, with music.
The Tennessee Waltz. Illustration & midi (2:33).
Ten Things We Wish We'd Thought of First.
Texas Bluebonnets.
A Thousand Hounds. Reppy Duart. An unlikely, all-stops-pulled review of an unlikely book.
3 x 3 x 50. 450 random images from our massive archives. NOT safe for work. Slideshow with midi (5:17).
Through a Doorway Darkly. Slideshow with Bach midi 3:44).
Times Square in the Round. Paul Hester's 270-degree panoramic night photo.
The Titanium Notebooks. Artifacts from the desert outside Roswell?
tomseyes. Still images captured by cinematographer Tom Richmond.
tom's world. A small portfolio of recent still pictures by cinematographer Tom Richmond.
Turner paintings. With music.
21st Century Mandala. A little graphic hint of global-warming things to come.
21st Century Sexuality: An Informal Update. 36 photos that show how things are hanging these days.
21 flowers. Sylvia Thodhiss. Slideshow with midi (2:04). Give the page (850K) time to load.
U-Buy-It. Match 1940s ad images with the product being sold.
Unseen Resonances. Slideshow with midi (4:45).
Up and At 'Em. Manic music (Chopin) and a restless, 500k animated gif.
An Urban Image for Jaded Eyes.
Vive l'afference / Vive l'efference. Go figure. Slideshow with midi.
Walkabout.
We Sit for Our Self-portrait (Sort of). A map of 1,000 pages of Magellan's Log, courtesy of WebTracer2.
WHEREZIT? 19 photos whose location you try to figure out (he-he).
Woodcuts. Old-timey pix with old-timey music.
Y2Kindness. Magellan's Log goes all soft and squishy.
YINYANGBANG. Animated gifs + music = a break from all those Internet words.
You gotta s-m-i-l-e. Watch us work a little jigsaw while listening to Dowland's "If My Complaints" (1:28).
Der Zaubergarten. Photograph by Joey Ancaster, music by Anna-Marie Quave. With midi (1:38).
Zen Centerfold No. 1. Never before in the history of the world...
Zen Centerfold No. 2. With midi by Angus Verspeeten.
Zen Centerfold No. 3. Another visual teaser for the metaphysically horny. With midi (4:01).
Zen Centerfold No. 4. Another picture for horny metaphysicians. Slideshow with midi (2:30).
Zen Centerfold 63. More eye candy for the metaphysically horny. Slideshow with midi (2:39).
Zen Centerfold 65. Slideshow with midi (2:26).
Zen Centerfold 66. Slideshow with midi (2:59).
Zen Centerfold 67. Another image for the metaphysically prurient. With midi (4:41).***
Zen Centerfold 80. Slideshow with music (1:30).
Zen Centerfold 86 (Slideshow with midi (3:52).
Zen Centerfold 87.
Zen Centerfold 94. Another titillating photograph for the metaphysically prurient. Slideshow with midi (1:33).
Zen Centerfold 98. Slideshow with midi (1:35).
Zen Centerfold 104. Schubert, "The Wanderer." Slideshow with midi (5:47).

Send this page to a friend. 

Magellan's Log front page