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Tuesday, February 20, 2018

"Moonwalker": Dancing with the Elephant Man's bones.




"Moonwalker": Dancing with the Elephant Man's bones.


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Friday, February 9, 2018

Display of a four-and-a-half-foot-long beard that belonged to a man who died when he tripped over it

 
Steininger’s long facial hair was cut off and preserved separately from his body, becoming a town heirloom. He’s become somewhat of a folk figure over time. There’s also a monument to him in the form of an epitaph displayed on the side of the town’s church





A local museum in the town of Braunau am Inn, located on the Austrian-German border, displays a four-and-a-half-foot-long beard that belonged to a man who died when he tripped over it

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Hans Steininger was a 16th-century burgomaster (town mayor) of Braunau am Inn. He was a popular mayor, serving multiple terms, but his incredible beard is what looms large in the town’s memory centuries after his death. 





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Thursday, February 8, 2018

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    Dragon exhibit features 5 foot long "Mama" and Harry Potter references at the Virginia Aquarium


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    Can meditating make you happy?

     
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    Can meditating make you happy?

    Jan.24.18
    A conversation between host of With Friends Like These Ana Marie Cox and ABC News' Dan Harris about his book "10% Happier" and finding peace through meditation. 



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    Cadet Bonespurs - Duckworth calls out 'Cadet Bone Spurs' after Trump's 'treasonous' remark

      


    Duckworth calls out 'Cadet Bone Spurs' after Trump's 'treasonous' remark

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    Washington (CNN)An Illinois Democrat who was seriously wounded in Iraq derisively referred to President Donald Trump's draft deferments after Trump called Democrats "treasonous" for not clapping during his State of the Union speech.
    "We don't live in a dictatorship or a monarchy. I swore an oath—in the military and in the Senate—to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States, not to mindlessly cater to the whims of Cadet Bone Spurs and clap when he demands I clap," Sen. Tammy Duckworth tweeted Monday evening.
    Duckworth, an Army veteran who lost her legs while serving in Iraq, appeared to be referencing Trump's draft deferments. Trump received five draft deferments throughout the Vietnam War, and on one occasion, Trump received a deferment because of bone spurs.
    On Monday, Trump called out Democrats' behavior at his speech last week.
    "They were like death and un-American. Un-American. Somebody said, 'Treasonous.' I mean, yeah, I guess, why not," Trump said, adding, "Can we call that treason? Why not."
    This isn't the first time Duckworth has pointed out Trump's draft deferments. Last month, she brought it up on the Senate floor.
    "I spent my entire adult life looking out for the well-being, the training, the equipping of the troops for whom I was responsible. I will not be lectured about what our military needs by a five-deferment draft dodger," Duckworth said at the time.
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    Wednesday, February 7, 2018

    The Art of Dreams





    The Art of Dreams


    Half our dayes wee passe in the shadowe of the earth, and the brother of death exacteth a third part of our lives.
    (Thomas Browne, On Dreams)


    …night after night, with calm incuriousness we open the door into that ghostly underworld, and hold insane revels with fantastic spectres, weep burning tears for empty griefs, babble with foolish laughter at witless jests, stain our souls with useless crime, or fly with freezing blood from the grasp of an unnamed dread ; and, with the morning, saunter serenely back from these wild adventures into the warm precincts of the cheerful day, unmoved, unstartled, and forgetting.

    (Elizabeth Bisland, Dreams and their Mysteries)


    Dreams have long proved a fertile ground for human creativity and expression, and no less so than in the visual arts, giving rise to some of its most arresting images. In addition to the many and varied dreams so important to religion and myth there has emerged, in the last few centuries since the birth of Romanticism, an exploration of the more personal dream-world. Indeed, with its link to the unconscious, the form has perhaps proved the perfect vehicle for those artists looking to surface that which lies submerged – desire, guilt, fear, ambition – to bring to light the truth the waking mind keeps hid.

    No doubt, also, artists have been attracted to the challenge of giving form to something so visually intangible as a dream, a challenge taken up in many ways through the centuries. More often than not there appears the sleeping body itself, with the dream element incorporated in a variety of ways. 

    Common is for the dream sequence to appear in a totally separate part of the image, as if projected on the walls of the sleeping mind: often in the midst of that familiar floating cloud, but also as emerging from nearby objects or events of the day (see the Toyokuni image below) . Also common, particularly in the depiction of nightmares, is for the figures of the dream to simply appear as though in the room with the sleeper, often directly upon the body itself (see the Fuseli below). 

    With the advent of photography, and the potential of double exposures, we see also a different way of trying to capture that intangibility of the dream image. With both the Grandville and Redon images featured, and the work of the Surrealists they anticipate, we see a different approach entirely, one which looks past the sleeper to focus solely on the imagery of the dream itself, and in the process perhaps giving a more true impression of the strangeness and otherworldliness which so often characterises the dream experience.








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     The Nightmare, by Henry Fuseli (1781). Perhaps Fuseli’s best known work, it has been copied by other artists, including many engravings such as this one by Thomas Burke – Source.

    Henry Fuseli Swiss, 1741-1825

     A Nightmare You Won't Soon Forget 

    In this painting, a young woman lies across a bed, seemingly in the midst of a nightmare. A small demon sits on her stomach, while a horse pokes his head through the drapery in the background. The woman depicted in this painting is probably Anna Landholdt, who Fuseli had fallen in love with. Some scholars believe that The Nightmare was painted as a revenge fantasy; since Landholdt did not return the artists' advances, Fuseli condemned her to experience a permanent nightmare. There is also a portrait on the reverse of this canvas which some believe is of Landholdt. DID YOU KNOW? The famous psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud considered The Nightmare representative of sublimated sexual desires, and kept an engraved copy of it hanging in his Vienna apartment.

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    Dream-land (ca. 1883), an etching by S.J. Ferris after a painting by C.D. Weldon – Source.


    El sueño del caballero, or The Knight’s Dream (ca. 1655), by Antonio de Pereda – Source.






    The Jockey’s Dream (ca. 1880), published by Currier and Ives – Source.






     
    A Nightmare (19th century), by E. Vavasseur – Source.



    Nightmare (1810), by Jean Pierre Simon – Source: Wellcome Library.






    Job’s Evil Dreams (1805), by William Blake, from a series of 19 watercolours illustrating the Book of Job that Blake painted in 1805-6 for Thomas Butts – Source.






     
    A Child Dreams of the Passing of Time (17th century), by Boetius Adamsz Bolswert – Source.






    The Soldiers Dream of Home (ca. 1861), by unknown artist – Source.






     
    A Dream of Crime & Punishment (1847), by J.J. Grandville. Predating Dostoevsky’s book by some 20 years, it shows “the dream of an assassin overcome by remorse” – Source.


     
    Dream Vision; A Nightmare (1525), by Albrecht Dürer: a watercolour and accompanying text describing an apocalyptic dream Dürer had on the night of 7-8th June 1525. The text reads: In 1525, during the night between Wednesday and Thursday after Whitsuntide, I had this vision in my sleep, and saw how many great waters fell from heaven. The first struck the ground about four miles away from me with such a terrible force, enormous noise and splashing that it drowned the entire countryside. I was so greatly shocked at this that I awoke before the cloudburst. And the ensuing downpour was huge. Some of the waters fell some distance away and some close by. And they came from such a height that they seemed to fall at an equally slow pace. But the very first water that hit the ground so suddenly had fallen at such velocity, and was accompanied by wind and roaring so frightening, that when I awoke my whole body trembled and I could not recover for a long time. When I arose in the morning, I painted the above as I had seen it. May the Lord turn all things to the best – Source.






     
    Yume no ukihashi, or The Bridge of Dreams (1854), by Utagawa Toyokuni – Source.






    The Artist’s Dream (1840), by George H. Comegys. The artist, with his head down on a table in his studio, perhaps seeking divine intervention, is having a vision of great artists from the past, such as: Sir Joshua Reynolds, Rubens, Rembrandt, Titian, Leonardo Da Vinci, Raphael Michelangelo, and others – Source.


    Legend of St Francis: Dream of the Palace (1297 – 1299), by Giotto – Source.



    The Orangerie;—or—the Dutch Cupid Reposing After the Fatigues of Planting, depicting William V, Prince of Orange, as a fat, naked Cupid (1796), by James Gillray – Source.


     
    Tatiana Larina’s dream (1891), by Ivan Volkov – Source.






    The Orphan’s Dream (19th century), by James Elliott – Source.






    Dreaming of Santa Claus (ca. 1897), by William H. Rau – Source.



     
    A Verger’s Dream: Saints Cosmas and Damian Performing a Miraculous Cure by Transplantation of a Leg (ca. 1495), by Masterof Los Balbases, – Source: Wellcome Library.






    Tako to ama, or The Dream of the Fisherman’s Wife (1814), an erotic ukiyo-e by Hokusai, from the book Kinoe no Komatsu (English: Young Pines), a three-volume book of shunga erotica first published in 1814. For an English translation of the rather racy text see the link to the source – Source.



    Jacob’s Dream (late 16th century), by Adam Elsheimer – Source.


     
    The Dream of King Nebuchadnezzar (10th century), Staatsbibliothek Bamberg, Msc. Bibl. 22, fol. 31v – Source.



    The Dream of Pilate’s Wife (ca. 1879), by Gustave Doré. According to Matthew 27:19, While Pilate was sitting in the judgment hall, his wife sent him a message: “Have nothing to do with that innocent man, because in a dream last night, I suffered much on account of him.” – Source.



    ‘Emperor Godaigo, dreaming of ghosts in his palace (1890), by Ogata Gekkō – Source.


     
    Dream (1878 – 1882), by Odilon Redon – Source.

     
    Little Nemo comic strip, by Winsor McCay (1906). This particular strip was from a European edition and never printed in the US – Source.

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    Details from Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights (ca. 1500)

    Collection of detailed crops from Hieronymous Bosch's most ambitious work, The Garden of Earthly Delights. …Continued





    The Surreal Art of Alchemical Diagrams

    The varied tradition of alchemy has given birth to a whole host of strange and wondrous imagery over the centuries. Here we pick out some …Continued



    Marvels of Things Created and Miraculous Aspects of Things Existing




    Images from an exquisitely illustrated Persian translation, thought to hail from 17th-century Mughal India, of Zakariya al-Qazwini's medieval treatise on all things wondrous. …Continued



    Emanuel Swedenborg’s Journal of Dreams and Spiritual Experiences in the Year 1744 (1918)

    Dream diary of the 18th-century Swedish scientist, philosopher, religious teacher and visionary Emanuel Swedenborg. …Continued



    Hypnotism Posters (ca. 1900)

    A set of amusing turn-of-the-century hypnotism posters showing hypnotised people up to various strange shenanigans. …Continued


    Raja Harishchandra (1913)

    Based on the eponymous legend recounted in the Sanskrit epics, this is the very first full-length Indian feature — the beginning of Bollywood. …Continued



    Celestial Phenomenon Over Nuremberg, April 14th, 1561

    A woodcut and description of strange UFOs seen in the skies of 16th-century Bavaria. …Continued


    The Sea Monk (ca. 1845)

    A woodblock print, by the late Edo period artist Utagawa Kuniyoshi, illustrating the story of an encounter with the Sea Monk or Umibozu, a spirit …Continued



    Sketches in Bedlam (1823)

    A compendium of glimpses into the personalities and stories of more than 140 mental patients confined to the Bethlem Hospital in the early part of …Continued





    The Friendship Book of Anne Wagner (1795-1834)

    Pages from a friendship book of Anne Wagner, aunt to the poet Felicia Dorothea Browne, who herself has a number of entries in the album, …Continued



    Phenomena Over and Under the Earth (1878)

    An Austrian painter's beautiful presentation of various atmospheric conditions including will-o'-the-wisp, a moonbow, and the Northern Lights. …Continued





    Lewis Hine’s Composite Photographs of Child Labourers (1913)




    A unique set of composite photographs by Lewis Hine depicting Southern cotton mill workers. Each image was created by purposively rephotographing several workers upon the …Continued


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