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The Obsession of Oskar Kokoschka: Alma Mahler, Love Letters, and the Life-Size Doll
When Alma Mahler ended her passionate affair with artist Oskar Kokoschka, he struggled to let go. In his grief, Kokoschka commissioned a life-sized doll in her likeness—an eerie creation he wined, dined, and paraded through Vienna, before destroying it in a dramatic finale.
A Supercut of Buster Keaton’s Daring DIY Stunts–and Keaton’s 5 Rules of Comic Storytelling
Long before CGI explosions and green screens, Buster Keaton was flinging himself off buildings, leaping onto moving trains, and surviving...
Bad Luck, Starvation and Cannibalism. The Story Of The Donner Party And Their Doomed Journey.
The Donner Party set out for California in 1846 full of hope. By winter, they were trapped in the Sierra Nevada with little food, early snow, and no way out. Their ordeal became one of the darkest survival stories in American history, one of starvation, choices, and the desperate struggle to live.
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