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Photographer Unknown, (Pilus)
The pil-based words for “hair”, are all derived from the Latin word “pilus” (“hair”). A fairly common adjective, pilose, means “covered with fine soft hair.” Deceptively similar-looking is the word ‘pilous’, which is a more hardcore-science adjective defined as “characterized by or abounding in hair, hairy”. An example of the use of that word is the following sentence: ‘He is covered with a rough pilous epidermis’.
Anthony Cudahy, “Male Nude”
Anthony Cudahy is an artist living in Brooklyn, New York, and had received his BFA from the Pratt Institute. Cudahy’s approach is both figurative and abstract and takes inspiration from a breadth of source material ranging from personal photographs, movie stills, queer archival images and ephemera, and art history.
Artist Unknown, (Hands by His Face), Photo with Drawing
Photographer Unknown, (Snake on Tree)
Photographer Unknown, (Two Men and Sofa)
Photographer Unknown, (Kneeling on the Bed)
Francisco Soria Aedo, “Primitive Hunters”, 1953, Oil on Canvas, Private Collection
Francisco Soria Aedo, born in 1898, was a Spanish figurative painter who began his art in Granada under the guidance of painter and portraitist López Mezquita. Aedo won major awards, including the second medal in the National Exhibition of 1924 for his work “Types Arabs” and the first medal in the International Exposition in Barcelona in 1929 for a painting titled “Christmas Eve in the Village”. Aedo became a professor of color in the School of Fine Arts of San Fernando in Madrid.
Aedo’s work pays special attention to the representation of the popular culture of the Andalusian, Castilian and Moroccan areas. His paintings with their rich chromatic colors and achieved light effects can be found in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts of Seville and the Museum of Fine Arts of Granada, among others.
Photographer Unknown, (The White Hammock)
Photographer Unknown, (Checking His Foot)
“They can romanticize us so, mirrors, and that is their secret: what a subtle torture it would be to destroy all the mirrors in the world: where then could we look for reassurerance of our identities? I tell you, my dear, Narcissus was so egotist…he was merely another of us who, in our unshatterable isolation, recognized, on seeing his reflection, the beautiful comrade, the only inseparatable love…poor Narcissus, possibly the only human who was ever honest on this point.”
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Photographer Unknown, (Lit by Sunlight), Selfie
“The signifier of myth presents itself in an ambiguous way: it is at the same time meaning and form, full on one side and empty on the other. […] The meaning will be for the form like an instantaneous reserve of history, a tamed richness, which it is possible to call and dismiss in a sort of rapid alternation: the form must constantly be able to be rooted again in the meaning and to get there what nature it needs for its nutriment; above all, it must be able to hide there. It is this constant game of hide-and-seek between the meaning and the form which defines myth.”
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Despite the relationship between meaning and form, for some reason, my immediate reaction to the image is dessert- sweet; sugary; delicious; making you think, after you enjoyed it, that you really want another.
Kings of Leon, “Use Somebody”
Kings of Leon is an American rock band that formed in Nashville, Tennessee, in 2000. The band is composed of brothers Caleb Followill, lead vocals, rhythm guitar; Nathan Followill, drums, percussion, backing vocals; and Jared Followill, bass guitar, backing vocals; with their cousin Matthew Followill, lead guitar, backing vocals.
The band’s early music was blend of Southern rock and blues influences, but it has gradually expanded throughout the years to include a variety of genres and a more alternative, arena rock sound. Kings of Leon achieved initial success in the United Kingdom with nine Top 40 singles, two BRIT Awards in 2008, and all three of the band’s albums at the time peaked in the top five of the UK Albums Chart.
Tattoos on Guys: Arrows
Rudra (Sanskrit: रुद्र) is a Rigvedic Deity, associated with wind or storm, and the hunt. The name has been translated as “The Roarer”. In the Rigveda, Rudra has been praised as the “mightiest of the mighty”. The Shri Rudram hymn from the Yajurveda is dedicated to Rudra, and is important in the Saivism sect. In RigVeda 7.46, Rudra is described as armed with a bow and fast-flying arrows. As quoted by R. G. Bhandarkar, the hymn says Rudra discharges “brilliant shafts which run about the heaven and the earth” (RigVeda 7.46.3), which may be a reference to the destructive power of lightning. The arrow as a symbol is used to signify Rudra.
Photographer Unknown, (Embrace)
Photographer Unknown, Model Unknown, (Rings on His Fingers)
Photographer Unknown, (Straight Edge)