Cover Your Eyes, Children! Here Comes Lange Wapper

If you happen to pass by the historic medieval fortress of Het Steen in Antwerp, Belgium the chances are very likely you will come across a statue.  A real double-take statue. Or even a triple-take statue.  However many times you eyes are drawn to it, this is one statue that demands your attention. Created in 1963 by Belgium sculptor Alber Poets, the sculpture represents a legendary figure in Flemish folklore, the crafty and mischievous giant called Long Whopper.  Sorry, Lange Wapper.  Dubious translations aside, he is certainly a big boy.

1914 - 2014: One Hundred Years Time Lapse

Not the usual time lapse that we have on Kuriositas which normally cover a day or two at most This one, by Stijn Bollaert show the Belgian city of Antwerp in 1914 followed by images of exactly the same places from this year.  It just goes to show how much (or conversely how little) some places change in a hundred years.  It also demonstrates, I think, just how resilient a species we are that we can recover from so much devastation.