Author: ultrawolvesunderthefullmoon

https://www.instagram.com/wolvesofgray This blog is a refugee and a survivor of the Great Tumblr Inquisition of December 17th, 2018. I am gay artist, who received training at the Rhode Island School of Design, and now, a retired high-end fine art framer living in Maryland, USA. My interests and studies in life run a wide gamut from art to history and from the scientific to the esoteric. I have been building this blog of images and texts for the last eight years. My wish is that my posts pique the interest of viewers and encourage them to experience more.

Alexander Nikolsky

Tuvan Shamans: Photography by Alexander Nikolsky, Siberian Times

Spiritual leaders from different corners of the globe gathered for the ‘Call of 13 Shamans’, a four-day festival held near the village of Khorum-Dag in the Tyva Republic.
It is the centre point of the Asian continent and an area that is said to have high spiritual ‘charge’. The timing of the event had been chosen to match natural cosmic cycles.
The group of shamans, who travelled from countries including Mexico, Mongolia, Greenland, Russia and Korea, began by trekking to isolated locations for three days of meditation before performing a number of ceremonies – many of which originated in prehistory.

The Kraken

The Fear of All Seamen: The Kraken

Kraken were also extensively described by Erik Pontoppidan, bishop of Bergen, in his Det første Forsøg paa Norges naturlige Historie “The First Attempt at [a] Natural History of Norway” (Copenhagen, 1752). Pontoppidan made several claims regarding kraken, including the notion that the creature was sometimes mistaken for an island and that the real danger to sailors was not the creature itself but rather the whirlpool left in its wake. However, Pontoppidan also described the destructive potential of the giant beast: “it is said that if [the creature’s arms] were to lay hold of the largest man-of-war, they would pull it down to the bottom.”

Fontana dell’ Amenano

Tito Angelini, Fontana dell’ Amenano, Detail, 1867

The Fontana dell’ Amenano is a carrara marble monument which seperates Piazza del Duomo on the north side from the rough and tumble La Pescheria marketplaceon the south side. It was built in 1867 by Tito Angelini and is a tribute to the River Amenano, which once ran overgroound and on whose banks the Greeks founded the city of Katáne. Behind the fountain is the stone staircase doorway that leads to the fish market, one of the major attractions of Catania.

Image reblogged with thanks to ganymedesrocks:

 

Mike McCormick

Mike McCormick, Candy Anatomy Series

The Candy Anatomy project by Scottish Mike McCormick, a medical student,  continues to learn the human anatomy with colorful candies. An amazing technique that works apparently, since Mike McCormick is now in second year, and continues to recreate his biology and anatomy diagrams with candy

Albert Einstein: “Science is Their Own Special Sport”

Artist Unknown, (Entry to the Temple)

“In the temple of science are many mansions, and various indeed are they that dwell therein and the motives that have led them thither. Many take to science out of a joyful sense of superior intellectual power; science is their own special sport to which they look for vivid experience and the satisfaction of ambition; many others are to be found in the temple who have offered the products of their brains on this altar for purely utilitarian purposes. Were someone to drive all the people belonging to these two categories out of the temple, the assemblage would be seriously depleted, but there would still be some men, of both present and past times, left inside..”

― Albert Einstein

 

George Redhawk

Animated Gifs by George Redhawk, DarkAngelOne

Before losing his sight, Native American George  Redhawk (aka DarkAngelOne) worked in various areas of medicine, teaching on subjects such as x-ray technology and phlebotomy. When his sight began to diminish, he turned to the world of animated GIFs because he thought that this was an accurate way of illustrating what was happening to his sense of vision.

Redhawk uses images from some of his favorite artists and animates them using visual aides and morphing software. He started creating GIFs as a way of communicating the surreal effects of vision loss but his GIF art makes us see the world through his eyes and inspires people to pursue their passions despite obstacles.

My thanks to http://art-tension.tumblr.com