Month: October 2015

“Le Temps Qui Reste (Time to Leave)”

“Le Temps Qui Reste (Time to Leave)” : Directed by Francois Ozon, 2005

‘Le Temps Qui Reste” is a French film directed by François Ozon, released in 2005. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival. It stars Melvi Poupaud as Romain, Daniel Duval as Romain’s father, Marie Riviera as Romain’s mother, Jeanne Moreau as Laura, and Christian Sengewald as Romain’s lover.

Romain, a gay 31-year-old fashion photographer, finds out he is terminally ill and has only three months to live. He rejects the treatment for his metastasized tumor that might offer him a slim (less than 5%) chance of survival. Romain stops working as his illness progresses, chases away his lover Sasha, and only confides about his illness to his grandmother Laura.

A great, simple yet capturing, film by Francois Ozone, director of “Swimming Pool” and “Jeune and Jolie”, whose films include many gay characters. Seek it out on dvd. If you have Netflix Streaming, you are in luck.

The Six Cores of the  Enuma Elish

Artist Unknown, (The Six Cores of the  Enuma Elish), Computer Graphics, Animation Gifs

The Enuma Elish, also known asThe Seven Tablets of Creation, is the Mesopotamian creation myth whose title is derived from the opening lines of the piece, “When on High”. All of the tablets containing the myth, found at Ashurbanipal’s library at Nineveh, Sultantepe, and other excavated sites, date to c. 1200 BCE but their colophons indicate that these are all copies of a much older version of the myth dating from long before the fall of Sumer in c. 1750 BCE.

The full translated text can be found at this site: https://www.ancient.eu/article/225/enuma-elish—the-babylonian-epic-of-creation—fu/

Thanks to http://mrdiv.tumblr.com

Patrick Wolf, “Penzance”

Patrick Wolf, “Penzance”

Patrick Wolf is an English singer-songwriter from South London. Patrick utilises a wide variety of instruments in his music, most commonly the ukulele, piano and viola. He is known for combining electronic sampling with classical instruments. Wolf’s styles range from electronic pop to Baroque chamber music.

On 27 February 2007, in an interview with thelondonpaper, Wolf raised questions about his sexuality: “In the same way I don’t know if my sixth album is going to be a death-metal record or children’s pop, I don’t know whether I’m destined to live my life with a horse, a woman or a man. It makes life easier.” In a 5 July 2007 interview with the Sydney Star Observer, he confirmed his sexuality: “My sexuality is kind of liberal. I fall in love with men and women. I guess you would call me bisexual. I like to have sex and fall in love—I don’t like giving terminology for my sexuality.” Later, in 2009, Wolf told The Guardian that though in the past he has had relationships with women, he currently identifies himself as gay. As an artist, Wolf reflects that he doesn’t like to worry about whether he makes a record “too gay or too straight or too this or too that.”

In September 2008, Wolf claimed that he was beaten up by security guards for kissing his boyfriend at a Madonna concert in London. Wolf told Electroqueer: “We were beaten up outside Wembley [Stadium], handcuffed. […] The police came and it just went on and on and on. My man’s face covered in blood. […] They totally twisted my arm and my legs – it was just mad. They are currently researching the CCTV – it just really nuts. [— sic] We basically got beaten up by the police.”

On 31 December 2010, Patrick Wolf announced via Twitter that he was set to enter a civil partnership with his boyfriend William Pollock.

This is one of my favorite songs by Patrick Wolf. Enjoy.

(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

Marco Stefanelli

Lighting by Marco Stefanelli

Italian designer Marco Stefanelli‘s handsome collection of Brecce lamps combine high-tech LED lights and scraps of wood to make a beautiful way to accent a space. The pieces are made from salvaged wood scraps sourced from a lumber mill, a local river, and even the firewood pile. The magic comes with the addition of low-energy LEDs embedded behind a layer of resin.

Pablo Valbuena: Lighting Projects

Pablo Valbuena: Lighting Projects

Born in 1978 in Spain and currently based in the south of France, Pablo Valbuena is known for art installations focused on space, time and perception.

His art explores the overlap of the ‘actual’ and the ‘virtual’, the creation of intellectual spaces by the observer, and the dissolution of boundaries between real and perceived. Pablo’s research examines the bonds connecting space and time and the use of light and sound as prime matter.The strobing light installations creates a harsh contrast of their physical space and provides an illusion of infinity depth. Created by Pablo Valbuena.

The Artist’s site: http://www.pablovalbuena.com/index/

Elliptical Flight of the Qliphoth

Artist Unknown, (Elliptical Flight of the Qliphoth), Computer Graphics, Animation Gifs

The Qliphoth, Qelippot or Klippot (Heb. קליפות) literally “peels”, “shells” or “husks”, from singular: קליפה qliphah “husk”) are the representation of evil or impure spiritual forces in Jewish mysticism.

Thanks to http://dave-strick.tumblr.com

Carl Dobsky

Carl Dobsky, “Ship of Fools”, 2014-2015, Oil on Canvas, 72 x 108 Inches

Carl Dobsky, a realist artist who is also the proprietor of the Los Angeles based Safehouse Atelier, showed his recent six-by-nine-foot canvas “Ship of Fools” at John Pence Gallery in June 2015.

“The theme for the work has been around for a long time, but kind of comes into it’s own in the 15th and 16th centuries with works by the likes of Hieronymous Bosch and others. It usually depicts a boat without a pilot filled with deranged or people who are kind of oblivious to their situation. In some cases, it has been used as social commentary.                                                  To

I wanted to show them in a situation where they were caught between an ideal vision and a practical situation. In this case, the practical situation is obvious enough; they’re about to wash up into the rocks if they can’t take care of matters at hand. To show the vision of the ideal, I chose the symbol of the butterfly for it’s delicate and fragile beauty. The thought to use butterflies came to me after reading about Chuang Tzu’s dream where his identity becomes interchangeable with the butterfly.” – Carl Dobsky

Jeremy Geddes

Paintings by Jeremy Geddes

Jeremy Geddes is a photo-realistic painter from Melbourne, Australia. He is widely known for the Cosmonaut series of paintings, and has illustrated for comic book covers, in collaboration with friend Ashley Wood. Geddess won the Spectrum Gold Award for his cover art for the comic, “Doomed”. His children’s picture book, “The Mystery of Eilean Mor”, was shortlisted for The Aurealis Awards, won The Crichton Award, and was named as one of CBC Notable Books in 2006.