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Matthew Harding, “Indivisible”, Marine Grade Stainless Steel, Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi, Australia, 2017
Matthew Harding is a diverse and innovative Australian artist and designer engaged in a practice spanning sculpture, public art and design.
Photographer Unknown, (Rooftop in the City)
Photographer Unknown, (The Painted Son/Sun)
Photographer Unknown, (The Hammock)
“A hammock is like a steady drip of morphine, without the danger of renal failure.”
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Redlight King, “Bullet in My Hand”
Mark Kasprzyk, better known by his stage name Redlight King, is a Canadian musician whose work ranges from rap to alternative rock. He is the lead vocalist and lyricist of the rock band Redlight King and best known for the song “Bullet in My Hand”.
Chas, “Ancient Greek Amphitheater, Lecce, Puglia, Italy”, October 2016
A. L. Crego, ‘Dog and Stick’, Computer Graphics, Illustration Gif
Reblogged with thanks to the artist’s site: http://alcrego.tumblr.com
King Sahure and a Nome God, Old Kingdom- Fifth Dynasty, ca. 2458-2446 BC, Gneis, Metropoitan Museum of Art
This is the only preserved three-dimensional representation that has been identified as Sahure, the second ruler of Dynasty 5. Seated on a throne, the king is accompanied by a smaller male figure personifying the local god of the Coptite nome, the fifth nome (province) of Upper Egypt. This deity offers the king an ankh with his left hand. The nome standard, with its double-falcon emblem, is carved above the god’s head. Sahure wears the nemes headcloth and straight false beard of a living pharaoh. The flaring hood of the uraeus, the cobra goddess who protected Egyptian kings, is visible on his brow. The nome god wears the archaic wig and curling beard of a deity.
The statue may have been intended to decorate the king’s pyramid complex at Abusir, about fifteen miles south of Giza. At the end of the previous dynasty, multiple statues of this type were placed in the temple of Menkaure (Mycerinus) to symbolize the gathering of nome gods from Upper and Lower Egypt around the king. However, since no other statues of this type are preserved from Sahure’s reign, it is possible that this statue was a royal dedication in one of the temples in Coptos (modern Qift).
This statue is on view in Gallery 103 of the Metropolitan Museum on Fifth Avenue in New York City.
Missio, “Animal” from the “Loner” Album
Just a really great song from a great band.
Photographer Unknown, (Face to Face), Computer Graphics, Gay Film Gifs
Photographer Unknown, (Mirrors in the Elevator)
Chas, “Almost Heaven”: Sumartin, on Brač Island, Croatia in October 2017
The Artwork of Douglas Malone
Douglas Malone specializes in figurative drawing and painting. His extensive background in classical drawing and anatomy enables him to craft the image of the human form with meticulous precision,, subtlety, and insight. He studied at the College of William and Mary, The Corcoran School of Art and the Academy of Art in San Francisco. He taught anatomy and drawing at the Academy from 1998 to 2007 and now teaches at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit, Michigan.
Photographer Unknown, (Neighbors), Computer Graphics, Gay Film Gifs
Photographer Unknown, (Subtle Impressions on the Mind)
“And then the sly arch-lover that he was, he said the subtlest thing of all: that the lover was nearer the divine than the beloved; for the god was in the one but not in the other – perhaps the tenderest, most mocking thought that ever was thought, and source of all the guile and secret bliss the lover knows.”
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