Real photographs by the artist known as Space Cowboy, not AI-generated images

All these works are real photographs, taken by an artist under the pseudonym Space Cowboy on planet Earth in our own day. Not AI generations, not drawings, but real photographs.

I understand that most people are obliged to live cut off from beauty, but a single glance at these frames is enough to see that humanity is being led in a startlingly wrong direction.

How could anyone have willingly exchanged this for multi-storey reinforced-concrete slums, which we call modern cities?

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September digest: archaeological finds, exhibitions, museums, theatre and the Church

In the finale of the Strugatskys' Roadside Picnic, the Golden Ball is told: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to offend nobody, but the digest really does come free of charge. So, here is the main business of the

Frederic Leighton

Frederic Leighton. “Daedalus and Icarus”, 1869 Daedalus warns his son not to climb too high: the heat of the sun may melt the wax, but Icarus is already gazing into the distance, and the lamentations of a foolish old man interest him not in the least

Real photographs by the artist known as Space Cowboy, not AI-generated images

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September digest: archaeological finds, exhibitions, museums, theatre and the Church

Frederic Leighton

Attempts to resolve the problems of many years of uncontrolled mass migration

Characters from Gogol's "Petersburg Tales" on the pedestal of the monument to Nikolai Gogol on Nikitsky Boulevard, photograph of the 1960s