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.

Leo Herrera

Leo Herrera, “Magnum”

Leo Herrera is a Mexican NYC-based visual artist, filmmaker and GLBT advocate. His viral clips, art films and music videos have gathered over half a million views  and his advocacy work has focused on PrEP, HIV criminalization, stigma and the preservation of gay history.

“Filmmaker, writer, advocate, and all-around virtuoso of queer culture, Leo Herrera is documenting and preserving the richness of a community’s history that is, more times than not, overlooked by the generation that’s achieved the ability to convey the most complex, equivocal human emotions in three emojis or less.

The New York City-based visual artist has garnered over a half million hits from his art films and music videos, and has appeared in a slew of publications like The Huffington Post, Out, and i-D Fashion. His collaborations range over a global spectrum, all culminating in his effort to educate and tell the story of a bright future that we’re working so hard to create in the present, and honor those who paved the way for us in the past” .-Greg Mania, Posture

Visit Leo Herrera’s site for images and short films: http://www.homochic.com

Beth Moon

Beth Moon, “Diamond Nights”, Series of Balboa Tree in the Makgadikgadi Pan

The Makgadikgadi Pan is a salt pan situated in the middle of the dry savanna of north-eastern Botswana, is one of the largest salt flats in the world. The pan is all that remains of the formerly enormous Lake Makgadikgadi, which once covered an area larger than Switzerland, but dried up several thousand years ago.

http://www.bethmoon.com/index.html

Smith and Wesson Revolver

Tiffany and Company, Ornate Smith and Wesson New Model No. 3 Revolver, late 19th century

In 1885, the Smith & Wesson Company expanded their production program with the New Model No, 3, which introduced a variation of this revolver with a long cylinder capable of firing a .44 Winchester cartridge. Previously Colt had produced a revolver of this caliber which could be paired with the Winchester Lever Action Rifle. Smith & Wesson liked this idea; their factory eventually produced 2072 revolvers of this style.  

The sales of this revolver, however, did not meet expectations. In March of 1895, when the factory still had over half of the production unsold, Smith & Wesson transformed this model from the .44 caliber Winchester to the .44 caliber Smith & Wesson Russian. Retooling of the firearm was accomplished with a replacement cylinder. By 1896, forty percent of the inventory was retooled and sold to Takata & Company in Japan. In this way, the total number of New Model No. 3 was reduced to circa 1286 pieces.The company offered this model until 1908 when the revolver was replaced with the new Smith & Wesson Hand Ejector .44.

The Tiffany-crafted New Model No. 3 shown above is currently on display in New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Olly Moss

Olly Moss, Art Deco Style Batman Poster: The Dark Knight Rises

Olly Moss is an English artist, graphic designer and illustrator, best known for his reimagining of movie posters. His work is regularly featured in Empire magazine.

Moss was commissioned by Marvel Entertainment executives Craig Kyle and Kevin Feige to create a poster for the cast of Thor. Other notable works include the cover artwork for the Resistance 3 video game, which prompted a trailer to be created in similar style.

Jose Maria Sert

Jose Maria Sert: Details of Lobby Murals of Rockefeller Center, 30 Rockefeller Plaza, New York City

Like the surrounding complex, the art at 30 Rockefeller Plaza has a rich history. A committee set up by John D. Rockefeller and his son, John D. Rockefeller Jr., decided that the artworks there should have a unifying theme, New Frontiers, encompassing aspects of a modern society: science, labor, education, travel, communication, humanitarianism, finance and spirituality. Because 30 Rockefeller Plaza, near the Channel Gardens, where the Christmas tree stands every year, was considered the center’s flagship, it was to be the most elaborately decorated.

The dramatic ceiling mural depicts heroic-sized, Titans who symbolize the three aspects of time: Past, Present and Future. By exposing their bodies and making them muscular, Jose Maria Sert implies that time is both part of nature and is powerful. The Titans are portrayed evaluating man’s achievements, with the mural integrating the architecture into the subject matter—both the scales and the Titans’ feet are shown resting on actual marble columns that support the lobby ceiling, creating a panoramic vision of the weighing of man’s deeds.

If you are in New York City, this should be on your list to see.

Jai Courtney

Photographers Unknown, ‘Jai Courtney”, Photo Shoots

Jai Stephen Courtney is an Australian actor and former model. He started his career with small roles in films and television series before being cast as Charlie in the action film Jack Reacher (2012). He then went on to star in A Good Day to Die Hard (2013) and I, Frankenstein (2014).

Courtney had a recurring role as Varro in the television series Spartacus: Blood and Sand (2010). He played Eric Coulter in the science fiction action film Divergent (2014), and in 2015, he reprised the role in the sequel, Insurgent, and also played Kyle Reese in Terminator Genisys. Courtney is also set to play DC Comics villain Digger Harkness, AKA Captain Boomerang, in the 2016 supervillain film Suicide Squad.

Dimitris Theocharis, “Chris Perceval”

Dimitris Theocharis, “Chris Perceval”

Dimitris Theocharis is currently based in Covent Garden, London. Born in San Jose, California to Greek parents, Theocharis is both a photographer and video director who works inthe fields of fashion, advertising, and fine art photography. His approach to his work tends to be poetically narrative often with a sense of nostalgia.

Entry into Desire

Artist Unknown, (Entry into Desire), Computer Graphics, Animation Gifs

“My desire and wish is that the things I start with should be so obvious that you wonder why I spend my time stating them. This is what I aim at because the point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.”
― Bertrand Russell, The Philosophy of Logical Atomism