Month: November 2017

Frederic Vayssouze-Faure

Frederic Vayssouze-Faure, “Tunnel” and “S Tunnel”

Frédéric Vayssouze-Faure is a French graphic artist who is fascinated by wave phenomenons and the vibrating quitar string harmonics theory, therefore inspired by periodic motions in general, and by the purest and smoothest of them in particular : those which are ruled by the sine function.

Images reblogged with thanks to the artist’s site: http://wavegrower.tumblr.com

Einar Selvik, “Ragnar’s Death Song”

Einar Selvik, “Ragnar’s Death Song” from “The Vikings”

The song Einar Selvik wrote is called: “Dikt Fra Ormegården (Om Ragnar Lothbrok)”. It came out on the Vikings OST in March but it was called: “The Snake Pit Poetry: Ragnar’s Death Song”.

The lyrics and his translation:

“Eigi hugðak orma  at aldrlagi mínu;
verðr mjök mörgu sinni,  þats minnst varir sjálfan.
Nú munk nár af bragði  ok nær dýrum deyja
Gnyðja mundu grísir,  ef galtar hag vissi,  mér er gnótt at grandi,  grafa inn rönum sínum  ok harðliga hváta,  hafa mik sogit, ormar;  nú munk nár af bragði  ok nær dýrum deyja.“

“I did not look to a snake to be my bane;
things happen very often to one that one thinks of the least.
Soon now will my body die among the beasts.
The young pigs would squeal if they knew the state of the boar; of the injury done to me. Snakes dig in my  esh, stab at me harshly, and have sucked on me; soon now will my body die among the beasts.”

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

Sal Mineo: Film History Series

Sal Mineo

Twice nominated for an Academy Award for “Rebel Without a Cause”, and “Exodus”, Sal Mineo was the youngest actor in history to be nominated for an Oscar up until that time for “Rebel.” He won the Golden Globe award for Best Supporting actor in, “Exodus’ and also won the Golden Laurel award for “Exodus.” Sal Mineo was also nominated for a Primetime Emmy for Best Single Performance by an actor in 1957, “Studio One in Hollywood: Dino.”

Sal Mineo also had a very prolific and acclaimed stage career on and off Broadway, including starring in and directing and producing the ground breaking off-Broadway production of “Fortune and Men’s eyes.” He also had a short stint as a pop singer, which spawned a huge hit solo album, and 3 major top 40 singles.

Sal Mineo was an artist and visionary. A cultural icon, and also a humanitarian that supported gay rights, but didn’t like to be confined to being labeled, he was open about his sexuality long before most mainstream celebrities chose to be.

Sal Mineo’s brilliant career spans three decades of magnificent work, cut short in 1976 by his tragic murder. Playing the role of a gay burglar in a San Francisco run of the stage comedy ‘P.S. Your Cat Is Dead,’ he received substantial publicity from many positive reviews and moved on to Los Angeles with the play. Arriving home after a rehearsal on February 12, 1976, Mineo was stabbed to death in the alley behind his West Hollywood apartment building. He was stabbed just once, but the blade struck his heart leading to immediate and massive internal bleeding. He died shortly thereafter at the age of 37.

Umberto Eco: “Imperceptible Dialogue”

“Until then I had thought each book spoke of the things, human or divine, that lie outside books. Now I realized that not infrequently books speak of books: it is as if they spoke among themselves. In the light of this reflection, the library seemed all the more disturbing to me. It was then the place of a long, centuries-old murmuring, an imperceptible dialogue between one parchment and another, a living thing, a receptacle of powers not to be ruled by a human mind, a treasure of secrets emanated by many minds, surviving the death of those who had produced them or had been their conveyors.” 

—Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose