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.

Run River North, “Run or Hide”

Run River North, “Run or Hide” from the Album “Drinking from a Salt Pond”

Run River North, formerly known as Monsters Calling Home, is a Korean-American indie folk-rock band. The band formed in 2011. Its early works were inspired by the band members’ Asian-American parents’ background. The band performed at venues across Southern California, including Super Concert, the DRIP coffeeshop in Los Angeles’ Koreatown, and the Kollaboration 11 competition at the Nokia Theatre on December 5, 2011.

The band released their self-titled, debut album, “Run River North” on February 25th, 2014. The second studio album is “Drinking from a Salt Pond”.

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Foals, “Mountain at My Gates”

Foals, “Mountain at My Gates”

The band’s musical influences are varied, with the band members citing minimal techno, Arthur Russell, the Irish-based math rock band The Redneck Manifesto, Krautrock bands such as Harmonia, Talking Heads, as well For London (previously known as The Jester People) as their main sources of inspiration.

Total Life Forever was nominated for the Mercury Prize in July 2010, losing to The xx’s xx on 7 September that year. The album was tested again the following year for Best Album in addition to a nomination for Best Cover Artwork at the NME Awards. The single “Spanish Sahara” was nominated by the same group for Best Track on top of being named all-around Best Band and Best Live Act. In July, the MOJO honour awards also nominated Foals alongside Canadian band Arcade Fire for the calibre of their live performances.

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Frank Earle Schoonover

Illustrations by Frank Earle Schoonover

Born in Oxford, New Jersey, Schoonover studied under Howard Pyle at the Drexel Institute in Philadelphia and became part of what would be known as the Brandywine School. A prolific contributor to books and magazines during the early twentieth century, the so-called “Golden Age of Illustration”, he illustrated stories as diverse as Clarence Mulford’s Hopalong Cassidy stories and Edgar Rice Burroughs’s A Princess of Mars.

In 1918 and 1919, he produced a series of paintings along with Gayle Porter Hoskins illustrating the American forces in the First World War for a series of souvenir prints published in the Ladies Home Journal. Schoonover helped to organize what is now the Delaware Art Museum and was chairman of the fundraising committee charged with acquiring works by Howard Pyle.

In his later years he restored paintings including some by Pyle and turned to easel paintings of the Brandywine and Delaware landscapes. He also gave art lessons, established a small art school in his studio, designed stain glass windows, and dabbled in science fiction art (illustrating Edgar Rice Burroughs’ A Princess of Mars).  He was known locally as the “Dean of Delaware Artists.” Schoonover died at 94, leaving behind more than two thousand illustrations.

Frederico Fellini and Martin Potter

Photographer Unknown, “Frederico Fellini and Martin Potter”, Movie Set of the 1969 “Satyricon”

“Satyricon” was a late first century Latinn work of fiction belelieved to have been written by Gaius Petronius, though tradition identifies the author as Titus Petronius. It is an example of menippean satire which attacks mental attitudes rather than specific individuals. The work contains a mixture ofprose and verse, serious and comic elements, and erotic and decadent passages.

The surviving sections of text detail the bizarre exploits of the narrator, Encolpius, and his slave and boyfriend Giton, a handsome sixteen year old. A friend of Encolpius, named Asctltus who is alos a rival for the ownership of the slave Giton, joins the duo on their travels and through their surreal and decadent adventures.

The movie “Fellini Satyricon” is a 1969 fantasy drama film written and directed by Fellini and is loosely based on the Roman era of Nero’s rule. The film is divided into nine sections following Encolpius, played by Martin Potter, and Ascyluts, played by Hiram Keller, as they try to win the heart of the young boy Giton. The film was released on September 7, 1999. First screened at the 30th Venice film Festival it received positive reviews by critics writing in”stunned bewilderment”. The press core gave the film a five-minute standing ovation; the price of tickets for the film at the festival increased thirty times. Fellini biographer Parker Tyler declared it “the most profoundly homosexual movie in alll history”. While I would not go to that extreme, I watched it many times in my youth, savoring the fantastic filming as well as the quite enticing stars.

 

Hermann Hesse: “In Their Highest Boughs, the World Rustles”

Photographers Unknown, (Men of the Forest), A Collection

“For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests and groves. And even more I revere them when they stand alone. They are like lonely persons. Not like hermits who have stolen away out of some weakness, but like great, solitary men, like Beethoven and Nietzsche. In their highest boughs the world rustles, their roots rest in infinity; but they do not lose themselves there, they struggle with all the force of their lives for one thing only: to fulfil themselves according to their own laws, to build up their own form, to represent themselves. Nothing is holier, nothing is more exemplary than a beautiful, strong tree. When a tree is cut down and reveals its naked death-wound to the sun, one can read its whole history in the luminous, inscribed disk of its trunk: in the rings of its years, its scars, all the struggle, all the suffering, all the sickness, all the happiness and prosperity stand truly written, the narrow years and the luxurious years, the attacks withstood, the storms endured. And every young farmboy knows that the hardest and noblest wood has the narrowest rings, that high on the mountains and in continuing danger the most indestructible, the strongest, the ideal trees grow.

-Herman Hesse, Bäume, Betrachtungen und Gedichte

 

Nancy Liang

Nancy Liang, “The Forgotten Sydney”, Computer Graphics, Endless Loop Gifs

Nancy Liang is a Sydney-based illustrator who focuses on the night tales of urban landscapes, city streets and the often forgotten places of suburbia. She represents these subject matters using drawing and kraft paper cutouts arranged in the visual form of a diorama. Her practice also extends off the page from print to animation, where she enjoys creating animated scenes and looping GIFs in her spare time on her blog ‘Over the Moon’. She is also an art tutor at the International Art Centre in Carlingford, NSW.

“The forgotten historic infrastructures of Sydney once held much significant value in the past, many posing as places for social, intellectual and cultural hubbub. Today they stand behind the backdrop of modern society, some reforged as commercial estates, others moth-eaten by nature and time.

The moths pictured draw loosely upon a Chinese belief. When a large butterfly or moth enters a house or a place it is the soul of a recently deceased visiting for the last time. In this case, it is spirit of the building bidding farewell to its physical form.” – Nancy Liang