Rob Strati | The Fall from Fragmented series, 2022 | broken china, ink on paper
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Imants Tillers (Australia, 1950 - ) Kangaroo Blank, 1988 oilstick, gouache, synthetic polymer paint 78 canvas boards, nos. 16231 - 16308 installation 213.0 (h) x 195.0 (w) cm
At the beginning of this month my wife and I had to move, which was, of course, extremely stressful. I dealt with this totally practically, of course, by fixating on creating a design for Captain Nemo’s Nautilus that was as faithful to the precise details of the text as possible. I did so much math. I went through six interior plans and twelve exterior shapes before I settled on these.
If you’re interested in painstaking and obsessive analyses of Jules Verne’s work for this purpose, I can’t recommend this site highly enough— this is what I think the internet is FOR, honestly, and I definitely referred to it while constructing my design (though I disagreed with some of the conclusions vis. the internal layout). The historical canon I mention in the notes, used as reference for the decorative detailing, can be seen here.
#nautilus#captain nemo#Jules Verne#20000 leagues under the sea#you should SEE all the scratchwork and notes and drafts it was. i am. 🤷♂️#god I hope the resolution is legible#im out here like HOW DO I CALCULATE THE AREA UNDER A CHORD W/O THE ANGLES#next issue: design the engine and batteries to generate something close to enough power for this beast#my other new fixation btw is Malory’s le mort 😫
dragon that honks and hisses at you when you enter his territory 🍂
#I’ve moved maybe half my possessions into the new place so of course now#is the time to reblog some posts that I really like for the first time in months#anyway I’ve been reading Malory obsessively as some kind of mania coping strategy wrt moving and this is what’s on my shield @ tournaments#absolutely rampant little fucker I love this
INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE (2022-) ➢
Art.
#I HAVE BEEN HOPING THIS POST WOULD BE MADE!!! thank you SO much#I’d never heard of Ron Bechet before and I was fascinated by that abstract and wanted to see it better#they made SUCH fantastic decisions vis a vis art here goddamn… also Louis and Armand implicated in Gardner Heist fav details of all time#iwtv#iwtv amc#I haven’t reblogged shit in months but I don’t wanna lose this post so it’s an honor pal
ἄνδρα μοι ἔννεπε, μοῦσα, πολύτροπον, ὃς μάλα πολλὰ πλάγχθη, ἐπεὶ Τροίης ἱερὸν πτολίεθρον ἔπερσεν: πολλῶν δ᾽ ἀνθρώπων ἴδεν ἄστεα καὶ νόον ἔγνω
Speak, Memory— of a man of twists and turns— driven far-winding paths, when he had plundered the sacred citadel of Troy: many were they whose cities he saw, whose minds he learned—
This is the odyssey of recollection.
Opening lines of The Odyssey (mosaic of my own translation with Lombardo, Fagles, Lattimore, & Fitzgerald) // AMC’s IWTV
#iwtv#amc iwtv#interview with the vampire#Daniel Molloy#I’m OBSESSED with this connection#I’ve been thinking about it nonstop since I woke up yesterday#i have a SHITTON more to say abt it!! Helen & Menelaus’s uneasy revisionism to Telemachus#Odysseus rejecting immortality w Calypso#the unreliability of Odysseus’s narrative to his hosts#telling a story of your story but to what end!!#also listen I know Lombardo’s opening phrase there is a wack ass translation we all know this but it’s important for my purposes man#and yes I did spend far too much time nitpicking the accuracy and poetic/structural content of available translations#to the extent that I wound up using some phrases I personally thought better represented the text#I’m out here painstakingly making My Translation of the fucking Odyssey with less than two (2) yrs of ancient Greek I took eleven years ago#to make a graphic for a vampire chronicles tv show#it’s fine I’m fine and normal#also having spent a great deal of time pausing and unpausing and squinting at my screenshots may i just say that man can get it 😌#mister bogosian call me#me posting this @ noon @ the office like I’m not clogging the scamander of the workflow with corpses a la the Achilles of hyperfixation#no I’m kidding I swear Hannah I’m being hyperbolic I’m actually working this is just also happening#I SAW THE TYPO NO ONE POINT IT OUT I’m the fucking fool who picked that phrase and then put#“THOSE’ ON THE GRAPHIC AND “THEY’’ IN THE TEXT BELOW it’s too late I’m committed
René Magritte (Belgian, 1898-1967), Le Principe du plaisir [The Pleasure Principle], 1937. Oil on canvas, 73 x 54.5 cm.
Françoise Pétrovitch - From the series Saint Sebastian (ink wash on paper), 2019-21 [Exhibition at Fonds Hélène & Édouard Leclerc pour la Culture, Landerneau, France, 2021-22]
This home recently sold in Riverside, California, but it’s so over-the-top that I actually like it.
Look at this, 2 big cannons. I doubt if they convey, though.
This is the courtyard in the middle of the house.
Huge kitchen with a message carved over the stove.
Dining area with a bar. This room looks like a pub and it’s got one of those pirate statues coming down from the ceiling.
In this game room there’s even a wheel of fortune.
Nice bright red bath with cute vintage look fixtures.
I guess this could be the main bd.
I thought that the decor style was like a pirate ship, but it’s starting to look like a brothel, too.
In the dining room there’s a ship, 2 knights and a sarcophagus.
Look at the pipe organ. I wonder if that’s included. I think the house sold for around $1.6M.
The home office has a pool table and another Egyptian statue.
I don’t know, maybe this is the main bd.
It looks like they made a home theater as an afterthought, b/c that’s a regular TV.
Here’s a big chess game outside.
And, you get your own astronomical observatory.
You know, it seems that $1.6M is cheap for all this house has to offer.
And, look at this trains! A train set with a little town going thru the property. Look at this setup!
Down to the wine cellar.
Also down here in the basement is a rathskeller.
The house is built in a square, so there are 4 wings.
Display area for collections.
The pool area looks like a resort.
There’s a crow’s nest and a pool house, too. The house is so big the realtor has 288 photos posted, so if you want to see the rest of it, click on the link. But, hurry before they take it down, b/c it’s been sold.
#oh. my god. oh my god.#I’m having a full on meltdown over this house the addtl pics ARE still up atm at the link#wHAT!! please. holy shit.#architecture#homes#what fuckin kinda stardust cpt shakespware fuckin stede bonnet ass fucKIN ?!?!???#the observatory?????? the LAGOON. .. . I don’t know what to do#long post
new DB Cooper theory: he went up
#👌#god this made my night idk why but it got me#db cooper#whyyy don’t I have a tagging system (I sayreturning to this blog after months as if I’d remember if I did)#brand new conspiracies#I’ve been using the technique of that one post that was like u believe the moon landing was faked huh oh so u still believe in the moon???’#for over a year now and it’s been beautiful I’ve said some of the most insane things to people it’s really helped me in life
I finally saw Our Flag Means Death and of course enjoyed it so much. Here’s my first passes at figuring out Ed, Stede, and Izzy for more drawings later. ID in alt text.
Episode 10 OFMD Ed’s plotline is just he wants to abandon his classic heavy metal band Blackbeard (literally just evil Judas Priest) and release a Rumors-esque folk rock/indie solo album because of how sad he is about his breakup. Then he realizes he only listens to folk rock because of his ex to begin with, gets mad, scraps his old band anyway, and press-gangs his old bandmates into his new extreme black metal project, The Kraken, by just showing up for a recording session in corpse paint and telling the rest he pushed their publicist off the motel’s second story.
#they’re out here releasing evil hell bent/painkiller and it’s evil bc Izzy’s closeted and homophobic 😔#Izzy ur band looks like a Tom of Finlnad illustration babe grow up#ofmd#what else am I supposed to take away from Ed’s New Lük tho I mean#been dying to sit down and make a stupid black metal logo for this joke since I was actively watching the episode#some utterly legit mayhem antics tho lbr ‘Izzy said he couldn’t do black metal vocals so I cut off his pinky toe with scissors#and force-fed it to him and recorded the screaming noises he made so those are the vocals on the opening track’#Mayhem tHE BLACK METAL BAND my wife is insistent that this is not actually common knowledge shit & tht I fucked up by failing to capitalize
Wrote a bit abt OFMD, for the yearning masses desirous of Ep 10 Ed thinking he and Izzy are the same person, like the Holy Trinity but with two people (& the concept of Blackbeard is the ghost?), and that he can 1.) possibly Feel It Happening when Izzy whacks it and 2.) since they're the same person feeding Izzy his own toe is TECHNICALLY Just Like communion &/or a vow renewal, all of which are normal things to think.
In celebration of Queequeg and Ishmael’s anniversary the 170th anniversary of the first publication of Moby Dick passing yesterday, on this day I offer you… niche among niches, the Moby Dick fanfiction! An inserted scene— intended to intercede between chapters 109 (Ahab and Starbuck) and 110 (Queequeg in His Coffin), somewhat of an alternate take on the events of the latter, during the search for the leaking barrel of whale oil.
It’s a beach episode. I wrote a beach episode for Moby Dick. It’s almost 10,000 words long, and will be when I finish the godforsaken fifth chapter.
It has everything! Extended metaphors about sailing, Ishmael narrating things he explicitly was not present to see, the chapter written as a monologue with stage directions with no warning and for no clear cause, sentences so long you have to go back to the beginning and start over because you lost track of what clause went where, a chapter of nothing but inane and factually questionable sociological theories… everything, in point of fact, except for whales. There are no whales in this fic. I have some notions of continuing it (it would become an AU incorporating references to Biblical dream- and prophecy-interpreting, exploring the nature of prophecy fulfillment as a central piece in the narrative through Starbuck’s reluctant connection to the mystical in the story), at which point it would, in fact, include whales, but for the moment, this is a whale-free zone. Happy Belated Whale Day!
The unbearable horror of discovering that the fic you posted almost a year ago somehow uploaded ch 1 & 5 ONLY and not the intervening THREE CHAPTERS oh my GOD I am gutted, bereft, demolished, anguished, &c. All five extant chapters are now ACTUALLY ONLINE. I am so sorry. There WAS in fact an established series of events between the first and last bits. This is fine.
Six European havdalah spiceboxes:
- Danzig, Poland, 1746
- Germany, 17th century. A later dedicatory inscription in Hungarian, partially erased: “Gift… on the occasion of the wedding… from Shmuel Altman and his wife…25”
- Silversmith: Mattheus (Markus?) Wolff, Augsburg, Germany. Late 17th century
- Germany or Eastern Europe, ca. 1840
- Germany, late 18th century (?)
- Austria-Hungary, 1872
Kelsey McClellan (American, based San Francisco, CA, USA) - Topiary from San Francisco, California, Photography
new live laugh love sign but it says 'hubris, heresy, horseshit'
