Month: June 2015

A Steady Breeze

 

Artist Unknown, (A Steady Breeze Moves the Air), Computer Graphics, Gay Film Gifs

sometimes i don’t know, which moment
which cool gust of wind will come,
and enchant me
tousling my hair
and my heart,

stirring…that familiar ache of poetry,

which drop will kiss
the old wrench in my soul
reminding me, all over again

i miss you better in the rain.

― Sanober Khan, A Thousand Flamingos

 

The Temple of Dendur

The Temple of Dendur, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City

The Temple of Dendur) is an Egyptian temple that was built by the Roman governor of Egypt, Petronius, around 15 BC and dedicated to Isis, Osiris, as well as two deified sons of a local Nubian chieftain, Pediese (“he whom Isis has given”) and Pihor (“he who belongs to Horus”). The temple was commissioned by Emperor Augustus of Rome.

The temple was dismantled and removed from its original location south of the town of Aswan) in 1963. This was accomplished as part of a wider UNESCO project, in order to save significant sites from being submerged by Lake Nasser, following construction of the Aswan High Dam. In recognition of the American assistance in saving various other monuments threatened by the dam’s construction, Egypt presented the temple and its gate as a gift to the United States of America.

The Shelley Memorial

The Shelley Memorial, University College, Oxford, England

Percy Bysshe Shelley was one of the most important poets of the Romantic period and is widely regarded as one of the preeminent lyric poets of the English language. Shelley had a short stint at University College at Oxford University before he was unceremoniously expelled for penning a pamphlet titled, “The Necessity of Atheism.” It is rumored that he only attended one lecture in his time at Oxford. Though he died under auspicious circumstances in a boating accident at the age of 29, Shelley’s influence reached into the next several generations of Victorian poets and he was a considerable figure to members of the pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.

The monument is the work of Edward Onslow Ford, a prominent member of the so-called “New Sculpture”, and the enclosure was designed by Basil Champneys. Recent restoration work has attempted to recreate the original colour scheme of the memorial, so that it can be seen as its sculptor intended.

Solomon J Solomon

Solomon J Solomon, “Samson” 1887, Oil on Canvas, 3658 x 2438 cm

Solomon J Solomon was born in London and lived there initially. He studied at the Royal Academy Schools, at the Heatherley School of Art, and later in Munich and Paris in the early 1880s with other British art students. From their French training they acquired academic skills in representing the nude – even when contorted in difficult poses – and in organising complicated, multi-figure compositions.A very few of them, notably Solomon, also gained a taste for the sensational and violent scenes then popular in the major Parisian exhibitions.

“Samson” was painted when Solomon was only 27 years old, in his new studio in London’s Holland Park. At that time he was starting to gain a reputation, especially as a portrait painter. Millais visited the artist in his studio whilst Solomon was painting “Samson’” and was surprised that such a large picture could be painted in a small studio. This painting caused a stir when exhibited at the Royal Academy and became Solomon’s best known painting.

Ladislav Hodný

Ladislav Hodný, “Abstract Composition II”, 2012, Oil, Acrylic and Lacquer on Canvas, 130 x 105 cm.

In 1943, Ladislav Hodný was born in the city of Týn nad Vltavou in the Czech Republic. He  graduated in 1961 from Vocational School of Bookbinding in Nový Jičín and, in 1965, from Secondary School of Arts and Crafts located in Brno. Hodný began his artistic career in the studio of his father, Ladislav Hodný Sr, where he continues the family tradition.

 

Echo and the Bunnymen, “The Killing Moon”

“The Killing Moon” is a song by the band Echo & the Bunnymen. It was released on 20 January 1984 as the lead single from their 1984 album, Ocean Rain. It is one of the band’s highest-charting hits, reaching number nine in the UK Singles Chart, and often cited as the band’s greatest song.

“The Killing Moon” was featured in the original theatrical version of the opening sequence of the cult film “Donnie Darko” and it was on the “Blood & Chocolate” werewolf film soundtrack covered by The Distants. However, in the director’s cut version of the film, the song is replaced by INXS’s “Never Tear Us Apart”.[6]

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