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Jacques de l’Ange, “Chained Prometheus”, c. 1640-1650, Oil on Canvas 52 x 62 cm, Private Collection
Jacques de l’Ange or the Monogrammist JAD (fl. 1630 – 1650) was a Flemish painter and draughtsman known for his genre scenes and history paintings executed in a Caravaggesque style. The artist was only rediscovered in the mid-1990s as his work was previously attributed to other Northern Caravaggists and in particular those of the Utrecht School.
Photographer Unknown, (Gazing Out the Windows)
Often a star
was waiting for you to notice it. A wave rolled toward you
out of the distant path, or as you walked
under an open window, a violin
yielded itself to your hearing. All this was mission.
― Rainer Maria Rilke
Gregorian, “Brothers in Arms” (Scenes from the movie “Vaya Con Dios”
“Brothers in Arms” is a 1985 song by Dire Straits, appearing as the closing track on the album of the same name. It is in G# minor. It was originally written in 1982, the year of the Falklands War. It was re-released in 2007 as a special edition to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the conflict and raise funds for veterans of it with posttraumatic stress disorder.
Through these fields of destruction
Baptisms of fire
I’ve witnessed your suffering
As the battle raged higher
And though they did hurt me so bad
In the fear and alarm
You did not desert me
My brothers in arms
Taha Alkan, “David’s Bow”, Computer Graphics
Born in Sivas, Turkey in 1984, Taha Alkan is a graphic artist, digital painter and art director. He studied architecture at Uludag University in Bursa, Turkey, from 2004 to 2009. Alkan worked as a professional CG artist in the United States and as an art director with EAA-Emre Arofat in Turkey. He founded the Volumetrik Creative Workshop.
Alkan uses a multi-discipline design approach to provide creative digital artworks and 3-D visuals, as well as architectural designs. He has taken part in multiple exhibitions in New York, the Netherland, and Turkey.
Jose Daniel Cabrera Peña, Two Illustrations for Jason and the Argonauts
Osprey Adventures, a new division of Osprey Publishing, has just released a new edition of Jason and the Argonauts with illustrations done by Jose Daniel Cabrera Pena.
Jose Daniel Cabrera Peña is a Spanish born, self taught traditional and CG 2D artist. His work is focused on historical and fantasy editorial illustrations, concept art for computer games and mattepainting in animation movies.
Some of the projects Jose has been involved with include the Sony CEA God of War game series, Ubisoft/Redstorm Ghost Recon game series, Wizards of the Coast Magic the Gathering, George R.R. Martin’s World of Ice and Fire illustrated book, Games Workshop codex books, and Osprey Publishing books.
Photographer Unknown, (Splendor of the Inmost Nature)
One class lives to the utility of the symbol, as the majority of men do, regarding health and wealth as the chief good. Another class live about this mark to the beauty of the symbol; as the poet and artist and the sensual school in philosophy. A third class live above the beauty of the symbol to the beauty of the thing signified and these are wise men. The first class have common sense; the second, taste; and the third spiritual perception.
I see in society the neophytes of all these classes, the class especially of young men who in their best knowledge of the sign have a misgiving that there is yet an unattained substance and they grope and sigh and aspire long in dissatisfaction, the sand-blind adorers of the symbol meantime chirping and scoffing and trampling them down. I see moreover that the perfect man – one to a millennium – if so many, traverses the whole scale and sees and enjoys the symbol solidly; then also has a clear eye for its beauty; and lastly wears it lightly as a robe which he can easily throw off, for he sees the reality and divine splendor of the inmost nature bursting through each chink and cranny.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson, Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1836-1838
Photographer Unknown, (The Six Gun in the Waistband and the Weapon Beneath), Photo Shoot
“A man lives till he dies, and there is no age in between.”
―
Photographers Unknown, (Clarity in Ambiguity)
“Isn’t it grand, isn’t it good, that language has only one word for everything we associate with love – from utter sanctity to the most fleshly lust? The result is perfect clarity in ambiguity, for love cannot be disembodied even in its most sanctified forms, nor is it without sanctity even at its most fleshly. Love is always simply itself, both as a subtle affirmation of life and as the highest passion; love is our sympathy with organic life.”
― Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
Hans Zimmer, “A Way of Life” from his soundtrack of The Last Samurai
Artist Unknown, (Level Four, North Stairwell), Computer Graphics, Gay Film Gifs
Photographers Unknown, A Collection of Grins
“All right,” said the Cat; and this time it vanished quite slowly, beginning with the end of the tail, and ending with the grin, which remained some time after the rest of it had gone.”
―
Artist Unknown, (Orbiting), Computer Graphics, Animation Gifs
Thanks to http://mybelobru.tumblr.com for the orbiting sphere.
Artist Unknown, (Interslice), Computer Graphics, Animation Gifs
“Heat flanks passageways down the Interstices. Wildfires cluster—spread down the base trunk Axon in a definitive roar: hitting branches, flaring out to Dendrites to give rise to this release of the very chemical seeds through which sentience is begotten.
Float about the ether, gliding a gentle current, before skimming down, to a skip over the surface of a sea of deep black with glimmering waves. And then, come to a stop, still inanimate and naked before any trespass into the Field, with all its layers that serve to veil. Plunge downward into the trenches. Swim backwards, upstream, and down through these spiraling jets of bubbles.”
– Ahim Shanker, Sinew of the Social Species
Photographer Unknown, (Spiral to the Heavens)
Artist Unknown, Greek Marble Statue of Male Nude, Louvre Museum, France