Zin and Zoot are our friends from Planet Zoom. Or put another way, visual metaphors with anthropomorphic features that represent…
Happy Easter
Happy Easter from the Zoom-Out team! We hope you and your family have a wonderful break! It doesn’t look like we will…
Martian Postcard
A writer friend of mine recently gave me a sheet of A4 paper and said, “Here, read this martian poem”. …
BLAKE AS ZOOMOLOGIST
To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the…
Cosmic Soup
Cosmic Soup Cosmic soup did come from a tin, A tiny, teeny, tiny tin. And before that tin, there was…
Art as Zoom-Out
Maria Popova (Brain Pickings) on art as Zoom-Out: “[Art] unsettles us awake, disrupts our deadening routines, enlarges our reservoir of…
Sandsend
Sandsend Oceans new beat oceans past. Across the seas of moments lost. Walk with me in the here and now.…
HENDRIX AS ZOOMOLOGIST
The story of life is quicker Than the wink of an eye The story of love is hello and goodbye…
Peering at the inner workings of the universe
This is a modification of the Flammarion wood engraving by an unknown artist. It is referred to as the Flammarion…
Art of the Underground
The London Underground (rail network, aka Tube) is a source of dread and daily misery. However, it’s full of beauty…
Not Waving but Drowning
Not Waving but Drowning Nobody heard him, the dead man, But still he lay moaning: I was much further out…
OMENS
This was the sight that greeted me each morning as I emerged from Waterloo Station, London, during 2016 when I was…
SELF PITY
Self-Pity I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough…
Escher stairs
Relativity MC Escher July 1953 Lithograph 27.7×29.2cm
Solomon Grundy
Solomon Grundy Solomon Grundy, Born on a Monday, Christened on Tuesday, Married on Wednesday, Took ill on Thursday, Grew worse…
WISHES OF AN ELDERLY MAN
Wishes of an Elderly Man I wish I loved the Human Race; I wish I loved its silly face; I…
