@sharifkouddous (journalist with Democracy Now!) - about 6 hours ago
Still growing 2 hours later:
Also:
and it’s still going strong with “nobody leaving”.
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verbalresistance: samuelfromtheshire: @sharifkouddous...
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New Wonder Woman of the New 52
New Wonder Woman of the New 52
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Francesco Botticini (1470) - Tobias and the archangel...
Francesco Botticini (1470) - Tobias and the archangel Raphael
Relationship to Botticelli?
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23silence: Luis Ricardo Falero (1851-1896) - Nympha
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23silence: James Tissot (1836-1902) - La aparición, 1885
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Bruce Davidson from Outside Inside
Bruce Davidson from Outside Inside
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Gerog Raphael Donner The statue was commissioned by Primate...
Gerog Raphael Donner
The statue was commissioned by Primate Count Imre Esterházy, Archbishop of Esztergom for the new Baroque High Altar of the Pozsony (Bratislava) Cathedral which was erected instead of the old Gothic altar. The statue was removed during the neo-Gothic restoration of the Cathedral in 1865, but since 1912 it was placed in the south nave of the Cathedral. Two statues of the Baroque altar representing angels, also by Donner, are in the Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest.
The young Saint Martin on the rearing horse is depicted in Hungarian national ceremonial dress, and he bears the features of the young Imre Esterházy.
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Dark Silence in Suburbia (with compliments to one of my favorite...
Dark Silence in Suburbia (with compliments to one of my favorite bloggers :))
Jason Shawn Alexander or J. Alexander (born c. 1975) is a painter, illustrator and draftsman from Portland, Tennessee.
Alexander has produced illustrations for Dark Horse Comics, Warner Brothers, DC Comics, Hasbro, White Wolf, Inc, and Dalmatian Press.
A self-starter, his creator-owned Empty Zone was published for years by Sirius Entertainment. He also contributed to Poison Elves: Lusiphur and Linlith, also for Sirius Entertainment.
Brad Martin, a contributing writer with Juxtapoz magazine, describes his fine art pieces thus: “His gritty, drippy, and dark style lends an ominous air, like a fresh grave, and the subject’s poses humanize the whole thing.”
Jason’s work can be seen at Corey Helford Gallery in Los Angeles and 101/exhibit in Miami and New York.
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2headedsnake: bigactive.com vania zouravliov Russian-born...
vania zouravliov
Russian-born Vania Zouravliov was inspired from an early age by influences as diverse as The Bible, Dante’s Divine Comedy, early Disney animation and North American Indians. Something of a child prodigy in his homeland, he was championed by many influential classical musicians including Ashkenazi, Spivakov and Menuhin. He even had television programs made about him and was introduced to famous communist artists, godfathers of social realism, who told him that his work was from the Devil.
By the age of 13, Vania Zouravliov was exhibiting internationally, visited Canterbury several times as well as Paris, Colmar and Berlin. He subsequently studied in the UK, and during this time began creating illustrations for The Scotsman and comics for Fantagraphics and Dark Horse in the US. His most recent projects have been for Beck’s The Informationand National Geographic.
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regardintemporel: Gaudenzio Marconi - Etude de Nu, vers...
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The Machine in the Garden is a music duo featuring Roger Fracé...
The Machine in the Garden is a music duo featuring Roger Fracé and Summer Bowman. They have released six full-length albums and one EP. Their music is a blend of different genres, such as synthpop, trip hop, electronica and gothic rock.
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2headedsnake: sophieelliottart.blogspot.com Jesse Treece
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"My definition of a devil is a god who has not been recognized. That is to say, it is a power in you..."
““My definition of a devil is a god who has not been recognized. That is to say, it is a power in you to which you have not given expression, and you push it back. And then, like all repressed energy, it builds up and becomes completely dangerous to the position you’re trying to hold.””
- Joseph Campbell, An Open Life, p.28-29 (via wine-loving-vagabond)
- Joseph Campbell, An Open Life, p.28-29 (via wine-loving-vagabond)
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a-l-ancien-regime: Corrado Giaquinto - The Birth of the Sun and...
Corrado Giaquinto - The Birth of the Sun and the Triumph of Bacchus, between 1762 and 1763, fresco Palacio Real, Madrid
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Ay Kless. Baisé Fumant (2011)
Ay Kless.
Baisé Fumant (2011)
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welovepaintings: Paul Delvaux The girls from the...
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Poland appeals to Germany to save Europe
Poland appeals to Germany to save Europe:
Europe stands on the brink of disaster and only Germany, its biggest economy, can avert an “apocalyptic” breakup of the euro zone and the EU’s single market, Poland’s foreign minister said in a dramatic appeal to Berlin.
“There is nothing inevitable about Europe’s decline. But we are standing on the edge of a precipice. This is the scariest moment of my ministerial life but therefore also the most sublime,” Radoslaw Sikorski said in Berlin on Monday evening.
“I demand of Germany that, for your own sake and for ours, you help it (the euro zone) survive and prosper. You know full well that nobody else can do it.”
Alluding to his country’s troubled past ties with its bigger, richer western neighbour, Sikorski said: “I will probably be the first Polish foreign minister in history to say so but here it is: I fear German power less than I am beginning to fear German inactivity.”
Sikorski said the euro zone’s sovereign debt crisis posed the biggest threat to the prosperity and stability of Poland, the EU’s largest post-communist member state which is outside the common currency but still hopes one day to join.
In an opinion piece in the Financial Times echoing aspects of his Berlin speech, Sikorski wrote: “The break up of the eurozone would be a crisis of apocalyptic proportions, going beyond our financial system.”
The EU’s single market would be unlikely to survive such a trauma, he said.
GERMAN CONCERNS
Sikorski did not spell out what Poland wanted Germany to do, but Polish officials have in the past expressed support for euro bonds jointly guaranteed by euro zone nations.
Berlin has also come under heavy international pressure to allow the European Central Bank to embark on unrestricted purchases of stricken euro zone countries’ sovereign debt through quantitative easing.
Germany has so far strongly opposed both eurobonds and a more active role for the ECB, citing fears that indebted countries would no longer have an incentive to reform their economies, as well as concerns about reigniting inflation…
Read More: Reuters
Clearly a sense of historical irony isn’t lost on Reuters with their choice of title, as well as evidently the Polish government.
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UN rejects US-backed cluster bombs regulation bid
UN rejects US-backed cluster bombs regulation bid:
UN member states have rejected a US-backed plan to introduce new regulations on cluster bombs - munitions which break up into hundreds of smaller bomblets.
The plan would have eliminated all cluster munitions made before 1980.
But human rights groups argued that an international convention banning such bombs already exists and that the new protocol would dilute its provisions.
The US said that it was “deeply disappointed” by the decision.
“The protocol would have led to the immediate prohibition of many millions of cluster munitions [and] placed the remaining cluster munitions under a detailed set of restrictions and regulations,” the US embassy in Geneva said in a statement.
First developed during World War II, cluster bombs contain a number of smaller bomblets designed to cover a large area and deter an advancing army.
A total of 111 UN member states have already signed up to the Oslo convention prohibiting the production, transfer, and use of cluster munitions. The US, Russia and China have not.
A senior US official said the bombs were a military necessity for when targets were spread over wide areas, and that using alternative armaments would cause more collateral damage and prolong conflicts, Reuters reports.
The outcome of Friday’s meeting in Geneva was welcomed by human rights campaigners who say cluster bombs are indiscriminate weapons that can fail to explode on impact and lie dormant, often causing injury to civilian years after conflict has ended.
“How often do you see the US, Russia, China, India, Israel and Belarus push for something, and they don’t get it? That has happened largely because of one powerful alliance driving the Oslo partnership,” said Steve Goose of Human Rights Watch (HRW).
The BBC’s Imogen Foulkes, in Geneva, says that though the proposal would have eliminated millions of ageing cluster munitions, even military allies of the US, like Britain, chose not to support it.
Many UN member states felt, she says, that getting rid of some cluster weapons while officially sanctioning others would set a dangerous precedent, and might even legitimise their use in the long-term.
The US move was also opposed by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the top UN officials for human rights, emergency relief and development.
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cavetocanvas: Lucrezia di Cosimo - Agnolo Bronzino, c. 1555-65
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zeroing: scott listfield
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