Suzanne Griffin from the ELSA Holland Facebook Page is the winner this week. Another Giveway same time next week. Giveaway this week is from the Megan Hart series Order of Solace called Pleasure and Purpose. Open internationally for 24 hours …
Category: Artists
Libertango (Piazzolla) – Yo-Yo Ma
This is one of my favorite tango pieces. I love to play tango music late at night, preferably a glass or three of wine already consumed. For me the tango belongs in the night, there is something about the dark that enhance it’s character. …
Artist’s and their Studios
The creative space. It’s a place of incubation, birth and death. I feel that way about where I write. When I am deep in process I can get very agitated when someone enters. If I could, I would put up …
Weekly Giveway
To enter please link to facebook page on the side bar and comment in the post. Winner drawn 24 hours after facebook posting time. Another giveaway same time next week.
Weekly Giveway
To enter please link to facebook page on the side bar and comment in the post. Winner drawn 24 hours after facebook posting time. Another giveway sametime next week.
500 years of female portraits
This is just wonderful to watch. I guess it is the unfolding and evolution on what we saw was beauty.. as well as the evolution of art as the vehicle for that expression.
Henri Rousseau
Henri Rousseau’s paintings animated. Just beautiful!!
Colin Firth & Jessica Biel the tango from Easy Virtue
So not quite the original sound track but it works <3
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Uldus Bakhtiozina’s photos of Russian fairy tales.
Below is a gallery of photos focused on Russian fairy tales that Uldus is compiling for a book. Each image is layered with symbols and meaning much like her ironic earlier projects. In an article by Katie Baker, Bakhtiozina says, “All fairy tales were …
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Rigging video via Nicolette Hugo – Son Lux song “Easy”
The official Video of Son Lux song “Easy” Sharing a wonderful video via Nicolette Hugo.. puts me in mind of Jamie…the bookbinder in The Bound Heart. “Some beautiful suspension bondage…poetry in motion” Nicolette Hugo http://nicolettehugowriter.com/2015/03/30/rigging/
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Chocolate and young men
Beatrice Wood lived until she was 105 and was an active potter through her 90’s. When asked what her secret was she said “I owe it all to art books, chocolate and young men.” Those things which inspires us and make …
Milonga triste – Hugo Diaz (di R. Grela)
In the summer, late into the night with the big lounge doors open and a few glasses of wine already dusted, I like to put this on, Milonga Triste. It features the harmonica player Hugo Diaz and is from the sound track The Tango …
Remembrance of an Open Wound
I’ve reblogged this from Nicolette Hugo: Nicolette Hugo’s site Remembrance of an Open Wound. Whenever we make love, you say it’s like fucking a crash – I bring the bus with me into the bedroom. There’s a lull, like before …
Penny Dreadful Season 2
Gothic Victorian: Penny Dreadful Season 2 trailer starts May 2015
Ferdinando Scianna & Random Musings
“A photograph is not created by a photographer. What they do(es) is just to open a little window and capture it. The world then writes itself on the film. The act of the photographer is closer to reading than it …
In Search of Peter Pan
I’ve been told when I get older that I’ll understand it all…… but I’m not sure if I want to…. Yes I’m an old Kate Bush fan. Old as in long standing cough, cough There is something about finding that …
Jeanette Winterson
“SHE MUST FIND A BOAT AND SAIL IN IT. NO GUARANTEE OF SHORE. ONLY A CONVICTION THAT WHAT SHE WANTED COULD EXIST, IF SHE DARED FIND IT.” Jeanette Winterson
Random Musings
We’re 75% water. But I think we treat ourselves as if we were solid because it looks like and feels like we are solid. No doubt the cultural idea that we come from the earth and return to the earth contributes …