#featuring two caravaggios

[lesbiancabdriver]

Mean Streets saint cards

#mean streets #mean streets 1973 #martin scorsese #johnny boy civello #charlie cappa #teresa ronchelli #featuring two caravaggios #😌 #what if YOU wanted to forget your catholic school trauma #but scorsese said NO

[taylor-titmouse]

The Masson Circle Collection (18+)

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Even killers can fall in love. Set against a backdrop of early 70s Europe, The Masson Circle is a collection of illustrated queer romance novellas between assassins, thieves, and the criminal mastermind at the middle of them all. Originally released between 2020 and 2021, these three stories have been remastered with revised text, 30 brand new illustrations, and an exclusive bonus story. This collection is roughly 69k words.

All three stories contain some violence, references to alcohol, and explicit sexual content and images. They are intended for adult audiences only. Comes in DRM-free PDF and EPUB formats, and includes an image gallery ZIP containing all book illustrations, plus all the sketchbook content included in the original releases.

Daffodils

Retired assassin Ezra Platt loves his wife, Tessa, more than anything else in the world. For the first time in six years, the two are both in town for their anniversary, which means it has to be made special. What do you get the woman who is your everything, especially when she's an assassin herself? Perhaps the answer lies in Ezra's memories of meeting her...

18.2k words. Features fem dom, face sitting, and pegging.

Carnations

The Duplessis is hosting its biannual masked bacchanal, and art forger and thief Leonard Lacroix has been hired to empty its safe. Infiltrating the classy gentlemen's club is easy, but when he runs into an old flame, getting out with all he wants is not. 

17.4k words. Features gay sex in a private office. Contains the use of a homophobic slur.

Laurels

French couturier Mathieu Masson is a man with one foot in the underworld, the one to call for anything from a killing to a Caravaggio. But when a new client demands what he can't give, he has only his bodyguard, Jean Martin, to lean on. 

16k words. Features a trans male lead and tender lovemaking. Contains some queerphobia, and references to child sex abuse in a character's past.

This collection also includes Narcissus, Dianthus, and Sweet Bay, each an extra short story connected to their corresponding book, from the perspective of the love interest. Narcissus explores Tessa's memory of her and Ezra's first night together. Dianthus recalls the time Lionel and Leonard fooled around in a professor's office in college. Sweet Bay takes place just before Laurels' epilogue, as Jean and Mathieu settle into their partnership and open up about themselves. Sweet Bay contains discussion of child sex abuse in a character's past.

Read it today!

#taylor titmouse #the masson circle

[nepentheisms]

This is it; this is the Big 'Un that's been knocking around in my head since the bookclub's inception.

When it comes to mentions of the biblical parallels in Trigun, I've seen that Wolfwood is most frequently discussed as a Judas figure. I think it's important, though, to note that carrying out the Judas role to Vash's Jesus was a job he was ordered to take, and it's one he went through the motions of following while having the ulterior motive of killing the one who gave him the order in the first place. In fact, when Wolfwood does turn traitor, it's actually Knives and the GHG he chooses to betray. He ends up Judas-ing the guys who assigned him to the Judas mission - that's some sweet irony!

And as Wolfwood's time in the story draws to an end, he takes the path completely contrary to Judas' ignominious end by suicide. He instead takes a leap of faith and dares to place his trust in Vash's vision for humanity's future. His faith remains imperfect, but in the midst of all his doubt and uncertainty, he persists anyway.

This last stand of his becomes Wolfwood's ultimate affirmation of his devotion to Vash's ideals, and he effectively becomes a martyr, which places him far outside the image of Judas. In fact, I think that when we look back on his character arc as a whole, we can see how it more neatly lines up in trajectory with the story of another apostle: Peter.

Like Peter in the gospel narratives, Wolfwood finds it difficult to have the kind of faith that is asked of him. Vash goes into his battle with Rai Dei insisting to Wolfwood that he can finish the conflict without taking a life, but Wolfwood intervenes against Vash's wishes because he was worried about Rai Dei's next move. Peter sees Jesus walking on water and goes out to join him, but with the rough winds blowing around him, Peter becomes overwhelmed by fear and begins to sink. After these failures of faith in their respective stories, Peter and Wolfwood are then chastised by the men they follow.

Matthew 14:31 (NRSV) - Immediately Jesus reached out his hand and caught him. "You of little faith," he said, "why did you doubt?"

And it's these struggles with doubt, these moments of fear and cynicism overtaking faith that are so instrumental to the Christian perspective on salvation with its message of "You are flawed by nature, but you are loved beyond all comprehension nonetheless. Accept this love that it may save you and change you."

In Peter's case, although he is singled out multiple times for his failures (e.g. denying Jesus three times), he still holds a special place of prominence among Jesus' disciples. The 21st chapter of John features a conversation between Peter and the resurrected Jesus in which Peter affirms his love for Jesus three times (a reversal of the three times he denied Jesus), and Jesus responds by instructing Peter to care for his flock. After Jesus ascends to Heaven, Peter continues the work set out for him in building the early church until his eventual martyrdom, which, according to church tradition, occurs via upside-down crucifixion (see Caravaggio's rendition here). Interestingly, Wolfwood's martyrdom also involves lots of grievous bodily harm being dealt by crosses.

So the saint gets brought to death's doorstep, and that brings us to the infamous whiskey bottle

Others have already pointed out that "The Bride" likely refers to the Bride of Christ. This excerpt from the Catechism of the Catholic Church sums up the concept:

The unity of Christ and the Church, head and members of one Body, also implies the distinction of the two within a personal relationship. This aspect is often expressed by the image of bridegroom and bride. The theme of Christ as Bridegroom of the Church was prepared for by the prophets and announced by John the Baptist. The Lord referred to himself as the "bridegroom." The Apostle speaks of the whole Church and of each of the faithful, members of his Body, as a bride "betrothed" to Christ the Lord so as to become but one spirit with him. The Church is the spotless bride of the spotless Lamb.

Now Peter is of particular importance when talking about the Church as an institution, because in the Catholic tradition, Peter is believed to have been granted a distinguished position of authority as the very foundation of Jesus' church, and every Pope is considered a successor to Peter in their occupation of the Church's highest office.

So Peter = Pope = the head of the Bride of Christ. And if we take the reading of Wolfwood as a Peter analogue.... you see where we're going. The Bride of Christ has been sanctified through a powerful demonstration of sacrificial love and prepared for the wedding to the bridegroom, but right here Yasuhiro Nightow subverts the biblical metaphor to devastating effect. The wedding doesn't come to fruition, because Vash can't bring himself to step into the role of the heavenly bridegroom. In this moment, he just feels all too painfully human in his grief. Wolfwood ascends - celebrated across the sky by those he saved with his selfless love, but Vash descends - acting as an ordinary person mourning the loss of a loved one.

John 13:36 (NRSV) - Simon Peter said to him, “Lord, where are you going?” Jesus answered, “Where I am going, you cannot follow me now...."

#trigun #trigun maximum #trigun spoilers #trigun maximum spoilers #suicide mention #cw suicide mention #religion mention #christianity mention #trigunbookclub #the bookclub is a funeral procession this week #hugs going out to all of you #Guns&God meta

[pazzesco]

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio | Medusa, 1597

Cardinal del Monte commissioned Caravaggio to paint two versions of Medusa. Both paintings were gifts to the Grand Duke of Tuscany, Ferdinando I de Medici, who presumably had a taste for all things gruesome. The second version, painted in 1597, is the most famous of the two. The reason for the commission was to rival Leonardo da Vinci’s earlier depiction of Medusa, which the Medici family once also held in their private art collection. Sadly, Da Vinci’s Medusa is lost, so we will never know exactly how Caravaggio’s version compared to that of his predecessor.

Caravaggio painted his Medusa onto a convex wooden shield, and it could still function as a working shield today! He did this for several reasons. One was simply because this was what Da Vinci had done before him, and he was imitating the design of the great Renaissance master.

Another reason ties in with the Greek mythological tale of Medusa, and the reflective shield Perseus used to help him find her without looking her in the eye. Caravaggio might also have painted Medusa onto a shield because he had heard a story about how Da Vinci once painted a shield for his father with a realistic array of snakes, lizards and monsters.

Caravaggio was quite an interesting character...

Actually he sounds like an asshole. An exhibition of documents at Rome's State Archives throws vivid light on his tumultuous life here at the end of the 16th and the beginning of the 17th centuries.

The documents provide a completely new account of his most serious brawl in May 1606 in which he killed a certain Ranuccio Tommassoni. 

Some biographers have suggested that there may have been an argument over a woman, but the text of the court report suggests the quarrel broke out over a gambling debt. Caravaggio killed Ranuccio and fled the city. (details are attached to his portrait above)

Anyway... a few more paintings:

Caravaggio | The Beheading of St. John the Baptist (1608)

The highly dramatic painting, The Beheading of St. John the Baptist, still resides in the locale for which it was commissioned. Located in the Oratory of the Co-Cathedral of St. John in Valletta, Malta, this painting depicts St. John being held on the ground while blood is gushing from his neck. Salome waits nearby holding a golden platter, while another woman watches in horror as the scene plays out.

Caravaggio | The Taking of Christ "Presa di Cristo nell'orto or Cattura di Cristo", 1602

A painting, of the arrest of Jesus, commissioned by the Roman nobleman Ciriaco Mattei in 1602. Featuring seven figures, all of which fill out the majority of the composition, the painting, once again, showcases Caravaggio‘s skill in using light and dark to create a bold (and in this case, claustrophobic) work.

#art #renaissance #caravaggio #medusa #mythology #greek mythology #Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio #cliff clavin #john the baptist #taking of Christ #Christ #Jesus

[houseofsnarry]

House of Snarry’s Prompt Challenge: September 2023 🖊️🖊️🖊️

Here are this month’s prompts! Each month will feature various prompts to get our creative juices going. There is no time limit. We are all here to have some fun! <3 

💚 Works must feature Harry, Severus or both. It does not need to be Snarry. All pairings and all ratings are welcomed. ❤️ You may include one prompt, two prompts, or all the prompts in one work. You may also create a separate work for each prompt and/or use the same prompt more than once. 💚 Any fic length is welcomed. From one sentence story, to a micro fic, to a 40k monster.  ❤️ Any medium is welcomed. Moodboards, podfics, poetry, song. The sky is the limit. 💚 If the work falls under one of AO3 major warnings, please list them.  ❤️ Tag us @houseofsnarry or use the tag #hosprompts and we’ll reblog the work.

And here are the prompts! 🖊️🖊️🖊️

Word: Callous

Fandom: Dementor's Kiss

Song: Bad Guy - Billie Eilish

Picture: Narcissus by Caravaggio

Discord || Previous Prompts

#house of snarry #hosprompts #prompt challenge #snarry #snarry fanfic #snarry fanart #pro snape

[twdmusicboxmystery]

Just read the latest post from you and you said two of Cavaraggio paintings are in Slabtown and both are related to Beth. BUT GUYS! I checked if there are any other Cavaraggio arts in Louvre and guess what? There are 3, and one is VERY interesting!

I found this: "Morta della Vergine (Death of the Virgin). This was the last altarpiece that Caravaggio painted in Rome before fleeing after he killed a man in a fight.

The painter engages you in the weeping of Mary Magdalene and the apostles around Mary, lying on her deathbed - a scene of dignified poverty among modest but deeply emotional people. The desolate environment appears even more solemn and intense due to the big red curtain at the top, similar to a raised theater curtain. Dramatic tension is achieved with an extraordinary concentration of media. The figures are dramatically highlighted by the light that shapes the figures and allows the face of the Madonna and the apostles to emerge from the shadow...."

"In this particular work, the universal human emotions of grief and despair are exposed to us. (Screams Coda imo with all those angles) This art also features his most sensuous painting of fabric, with the red drapes occupying one-third of the canvas. Caravaggio painted a masterpiece that can still speak volumes to us in this increasingly secular age, featuring a strong depth of emotional truth." (On another site)

This art is in Louvre, Beth is in France! I might be reaching, but I really believe in this. I'd really like you to check that master piece, I think you'll find more connection to Beth than I would.

Ooohh! I love this SO much! You're so right about the red curtain especially. Another great Caravaggio clue about Beth and France. I don't think I have anything to add except...I love it!

Great detective work! Xoxo! 🦃😍

#beth greene #beth greene lives #beth is alive #beth is coming #td theory #td theories #team delusional #team defiance #beth is almost here #bethyl

[blogynews]

"Unveiling the Unseen: The Enigmatic World of Caravaggio in Rome - A Review of a Renowned Master and His Competing Disciples"

The Art Institute of Chicago has recently unveiled a captivating exhibit that showcases the artistic genius of Caravaggio, featuring two of his mesmerizing masterpieces – ‘The Cardsharps’ and ‘Martha and Mary Magdalene’. This extraordinary exhibition also presents an exceptional collection of artworks from various renowned artists who were deeply influenced by Caravaggio’s unparalleled talent and…

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[blogynewz]

"Unveiling the Unseen: The Enigmatic World of Caravaggio in Rome - A Review of a Renowned Master and His Competing Disciples"

The Art Institute of Chicago has recently unveiled a captivating exhibit that showcases the artistic genius of Caravaggio, featuring two of his mesmerizing masterpieces – ‘The Cardsharps’ and ‘Martha and Mary Magdalene’. This extraordinary exhibition also presents an exceptional collection of artworks from various renowned artists who were deeply influenced by Caravaggio’s unparalleled talent and…

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[blogynewsz]

"Unveiling the Unseen: The Enigmatic World of Caravaggio in Rome - A Review of a Renowned Master and His Competing Disciples"

The Art Institute of Chicago has recently unveiled a captivating exhibit that showcases the artistic genius of Caravaggio, featuring two of his mesmerizing masterpieces – ‘The Cardsharps’ and ‘Martha and Mary Magdalene’. This extraordinary exhibition also presents an exceptional collection of artworks from various renowned artists who were deeply influenced by Caravaggio’s unparalleled talent and…

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[denimbex1986]

'...this summer, it was the blockbusters in cinemas that had tongues wagging: a film for adults about Barbie—a fashion doll that launched in 1959 from the US toy company Mattel—and a biographical thriller about Oppenheimer—a US theoretical physicist who developed the atomic bomb, leading to the world’s first nuclear explosion in 1945.

What tied these two opposing films together was their release date: 21 July. As each film’s marketing teams did battle to become the most visible, social media took up the bizarre portmanteau “Barbenheimer”. It went viral. People began creating memes that combined Barbie’s signature pink aesthetic with Oppenheimer’s visuals of apocalyptic doom. Cinema-goers started planning their back-to-back Barbie-Oppenheimer double feature, and cinemas changed viewing times accordingly. Debates raged about whether one should see Barbie before Oppenheimer (“I’m sorry, do you also eat dessert first?” quipped one TikTok user) or vice versa? This Frankenstein’s monster actually seemed to create even more buzz around both films. Could this kind of online marketing help art blockbusters?

Lighthearted relief

In the Los Angeles Times article “Why Hollywood needs the movie mashup”, the writer Ryan Faughnder argues that the Barbenheimer phenomenon is bolstering the film industry at a difficult time. “The bar for getting people to the movies is higher than ever,” he writes. “That’s why the utter weirdness of something like Barbenheimer taking hold in online culture comes as such a lighthearted relief. At this point, it can’t hurt to make a sport out of movie-going, encouraging fans of one, the other or both to vote with their wallets.”...

But can you manufacture a campaign like Barbenheimer? Certainly, there are oppositional artists and movements that could easily be paired into a catchy-sounding face off: Rothney (Rothko and Hockney), Monaggio (Monet and Caravaggio), Picaleschi (Picasso and Artemisia Gentileschi). The problem with exhibitions is their geographical limits: what are the chances that one city will have two blockbuster shows that are different enough that you could encourage people to see them back to back and want to make memes about it?...

Uncreative arts marketing

One thing that certainly pushed Barbenheimer to fame is the enormous marketing budgets for both films, particularly Barbie. While the exact budget has not been disclosed, it is not uncommon for big studios to spend more than $100m on marketing for major releases. Both the RA and V&A declined to comment on their marketing budgets for the aforementioned exhibitions—but it is obviously nowhere near Barbie’s figure...

But should museums be thinking more experimentally about online promotion? “In terms of art marketing, I think that the commercial arts organisations are sometimes a little ahead of the public museums and institutions,” says Cat Manson, an arts brand and communications consultant. She says that the key to Barbenheimer’s success was its use of humour and wit, which is “quite ‘in’ right now”...'

#Barbenheimer #Barbie #Oppenheimer

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Published June 8, 2021 at 3:54 PM EDT

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Invision, AP'Bones And All,' starring Timothée Chalamet, began filming here May 27."

For the second time in 10 days, Film Cincinnati has announced that a feature film is shooting in Greater Cincinnati.

Drew Harwood is the writer, director, producer and one of the lead actors for Rebel/Rebel, described by the film commission as "a coming-of-age drama about a once famous actor grappling with drugs, addiction and self-discovery."

Harwood also wrote, directed and produced The One You Feed, which was released last year.  Rebel/Rebel stars South African native Gareth Koorzen, who also appeared in The One You Feed, and Katie Garland Noble, a producer on The One You Feed. Her acting credits include Fat City, New Orleans and Caravaggio and My Mother The Pope.

Cincinnati natives John A. "Johnny" Mocker Jr., and Robert "Chip" Heidt III are executive producers along with Noble's Blue Himalayas Productions.  Mocker also was an executive producer for The One You Feed.

The Rebel/Rebel cast includes Roger Jerome, Joseph Moreland, Chris R. Taylor, Mary Charles Miller, Aja Nicole, Sidney Edwards, Nick Coleman, John Christian Schulte, Amber Hutchins, Heather Fay and Jai Sahai, according to the Internet Movie Datebase.

Location shooting for Rebel/Rebel began in May. It is "expected to continue through late June," the Film Cincinnati announcement said.

Bones And All, starring Timothée Chalamet, Taylor Russell and Oscar-winner Mark Rylance, began filming here May 27. It's the first film shot in the United States by Italian director Luca Guadagnino, a 2017 Academy Award nominee for Call Me By Your Name, and the first major film production in Greater Cincinnati since the global coronavirus pandemic outbreak.

"With more feature films returning to production, we are thrilled to have F/A Films using our locations and our talent," says Kristen Schlotman, Film Cincinnati executive director, in the announcement. "Greater Cincinnati continues to be in demand for features thanks to our talented roster of cast and crew members," 

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[disordinarybeauty]

I changed my strategy to find out what DISØRDINARY BƏAUTY 🥀🪞 Beauty is Chaos ⚡ would look like if made by AI. I formulated a new prompt including more words describing features of the actual glitch art collection. Very happy with the results.

The images here above, the first one is generated by starryAI (Stables Diffusion) using the new prompt. The other two were generated using an old prompt mostly made of default inputs suggested by starryAI. I used the same prompt on DALL-E 2.

The new prompt is:

A glitch art portrait in the style of Disordinary Beauty by Italian glitch artist Domenico Barra, glitch, glitched, glitching, databending, dirty new media, processing, generative art, Domenico Dom Barra

The old prompt was:

A glitch art portrait, hyperrealism, iridescent, photorealistic, realism, 3dsmax, cinema4d, unity 3d, unreal engine, houdini 3d, octane 3d, caravaggio michelangelo merisi.

In the old prompt (see the previous posts on the blog) I used some slight variations, where only eventually made, according to my personal point of view, some significant impacts.

The motivation to change the prompt is mostly due to wishing to craft a prompt that is more faithful and descriptive of DISØRDINARY BƏAUTY 🥀🪞 Beauty is Chaos ⚡ glitch art NFT collection series. The first attempts at creating AI system-generated images inspired by DISØRDINARY BEAUTY 🪞🥀 was to create something different, exploiting what systems were offering as default, and also create something that resembles more human faces, opting for hyperrealism and 3D styles. After carrying out some experiments I realized that to make an AI DISØRDINARY BƏAUTY 🥀🪞 prompt based I need to shift towards keywords inherent to the glitch art collection.

Exploring DISØRDINARY BƏAUTY 🥀🪞 to see what it would look like if made by AI/s. Same prompt, two different machine systems at wwwərk. On the left is DALL-E 2 by Open AI On the right is starryai (Stable Diffusion). So far, those generated by Stable Diffusion are STRONGer!🔥

As soon as I saw the first images starryAI (Stable Diffusion) generated based on my DISØRDINARY BƏAUTY 🥀 🪞 AI prompt, some of the images reminded me of the film Metropolis (1927) by Fritz Lang. In the traits, the images carry some features of Art Déco from the '20s.

I look forwards to see what else the AI/s will generate based on this new DISØRDINARY BEAUTY 🥀🪞 prompt.

#beauty #digital art #new media art #new aesthetic #ai #artificial intelligence #glitch art #openai #stable diffusion #dall e 2 #my prompts #ai prompt

[sullenarchives]

Jarman (i)

First published in The Wire 412, June 2018

Derek Jarman: Volume 1 (1972-86)

BFI 5 x Blu-Ray, 515 mins + extras

Music plays a dissonant role in Derek Jarman's films. It's been too easy to subsume the confluence of radical post-war sound and art in his work – the lingering 60s counterculture, punk, industrial music, experimental film, post-pop abstract painting – with the biographical whose memory the broadsheets hallow with every anniversary. The remarkable list of musicians who contributed to his films, which in any other context would read like someone flaunting their taste, was in one sense the effect of keeping what performance artist Andrew Logan, Jarman's neighbour at Butler's Wharf in South London in the 1970s, called his “little court”. But, as a new BFI box set of his work up to 1986's Caravaggio shows, the social, performative ethos of his films could not have had the power they did without the abstraction of music, which scrawls itself unstoppably across the image.

Trained as a painter and designer at the Slade School of Art in the early 1960s, the visual element in Jarman's films have an expressive prominence that often seems to either clash or wildly diverge with the soundtrack. In a 1989 interview, he describes screenings at his flats in Bankside and later Bermondsey, where he showed his early Super-8 films: their making and exhibition in the wastelands of post-industrial, pre-gentrification London were an excuse for friends to “come down to laugh at themselves and put on records behind them”. Music, like film, was for Jarman disposable, a material snatched for a moment from the culture industry: a span of time to be inhabited, transformed and left behind. When the Super-8 films reappeared in 1981, in the edited form of In The Shadow Of The Sun, it was with a soundtrack by Throbbing Gristle – recorded on the brink of their breakup – that unfolds in parallel to the gauzy, broken movement of the image track, regarding each other across an odd distance.

But that disposability, arbitrariness, lack of fit, was itself the conduit of an immense energy. His first emergence into the art world coincided with the apotheosis of British Pop Art; there was an extraordinary cross-fertilisation in these years between pop music, fine art, film and the underground. Think of Richard Lester's A Hard Day's Night (1963) and its influence on the tone of 'Swinging London' films, Kenneth Anger's Magick Lantern Cycle (1949-72), with its interpolations of homoerotic violence, abstract electronic music and Phil Spector, Keith Rowe's training as a painter leading him to pull distorted loops of The Beach Boys into AMM's early gigs, the meeting of Royal Academy alumnus Donald Cammell and Mick Jagger in Performance (1970). That confluence was clear in Jarman's early set designs, as seen in documentation of a 1968 “jazz ballet” he worked on, included on this box set: abstract curlicues that recall the fabrics of Sonia Delaunay and Peter Blake's paintings on shaped canvases a few years before. Pop expressed and enacted the devaluation of art, the collapse of the idea of organic structure and medium-specificity, even as it injected with the frictional energy of mass culture. Music pushes through Jarman's films with its own heedless motion, animating the image by a kind of sympathetic resonance or momentary dreaming between the two. There is no dichotomy in them between structure and ornament, only the aggregation of jagged, glittering detail. Music in Jarman's films is an excess without any containment; its improvised freedom of movement writes the shape that the narratives will take in time.

Thus In The Shadow Of The Sun patents the use of music in his later narrative features. TG's soundtrack has all the psychedelic richness of their final performances, all blurry guitar notes, tape loops and a fog of tuned percussion. Jarman superimposes multiple layers of Super-8 footage: deep blazing oranges, purple and yellow, lens flare and light reflected in mirrors, figures crouching or standing in landscapes, as if enacting indecipherable rituals. The short TG: Psychic Rally In Heaven (1981), shot at a Throbbing Gristle gig at London's Heaven, emphasises the club's lurid lighting, layering extreme close-ups of the group's members, turning them and their instruments into slow-moving abstract shapes. Curiously, even though it is in theory a performance film of the sort that was a standard format for music videos, there's no necessary relation between what we hear and the playing that we see: punctuated by the same silences as Shadow, it renders both sound and music alien, denatured by turning the accidents of technology into a method.

In his narrative features, therefore, music is at once what increasingly undermines and buttresses their shaky fictional worlds. Brian Eno's cues for Sebastiane (1976) and Jubilee (1977), Jarman's first two feature-length narrative films, drift into what is otherwise a deeply naturalistic use of sound that recalls Pier Paolo Pasolini's early work: no music except for what's played onscreen. Filmed in Sardinia (standing in for North Africa), Sebastiane features long passages of sun-baked silence in which the film's web of homoerotic relationships unfold: as the jealous commander Severus (Barney James) prepares to martyr legionary and future saint Sebastian (Leonardo Treviglio), a long shot watches a herd of goats with pealing bells, as if emphasising not only nature's indifference but its aesthetic congruence with noise itself. Jarman reserves Eno's momentary atmospheres for his most charged scenes: as Adrian (Ken Hicks) and Anthony (Janusz Romanov), the film's only example of happiness, frolic in an extreme slow-motion that, as Tony Rayns points out, parodies hetero love scenes of the 70s, Eno's pads glide across like radiant clouds. The Tempest (1979) does the same, this time with cues by the synth-prog duo Wavemaker, founded by ex-Radiophonic Workshop and White Noise member Brian Hodgson.

Those films' sonic austerity only underline by contrast the dense artificiality of The Angelic Conversation (1985). This left turn had already been signalled by setpieces in the preceding three films: the opening scene of Sebastiane, in which Lindsay Kemp (mime teacher to David Bowie) and his dance troupe cavort to traditional North African music played offscreen; Amyl Nitrate (Jordan, one of the most important figures in the punk set around Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren) miming and gyrating to a disco version of “Rule Britannia”; Elisabeth Welch, a veteran of African-American showbusiness, coming on to do “Stormy Weather” at the wedding of Miranda (Toyah Wilcox, who released her first single that year) and Ferdinand (David Meyer) singing “Stormy Weather”, performing the resolution traditional to Elizabethan comedies through the anachronistic melodies and dimmed glamour of mass culture. Jubilee's bitter satire of punk, with a young Adam Ant falling into the hands of media mogul Borgia Ginz (Jack Birkett), is mixed with a deep love for its investment in the fake and shoddy. Shot in silent Super-8 blown up to a hazy 35mm, the soundtrack of The Angelic Conversation braids together rather pro forma readings of Shakespeare's sonnets by Judi Dench and music by Coil at their most dark, listing and abstract. Metal percussion, which the industrial scene had turned into means of sonic violence, turn into a permanent background fog to scenes of two men carrying out obscure rituals; processed voices float in the wind between synth blasts and a distant, staticky recording of Benjamin Britten's Sea Interludes. At once minimal and hallucinatory in its excess of colour and noise, it forms Jarman's greatest celebration of queer love precisely in its distance from naturalism, breaking and dragging out time, refusing to foreground any one element as the soundtrack meditates in its own space.

These twin poles of sparseness and density resolve in Caravaggio, which set the template for his major late films (The Last Of England, Edward II, Blue), being also his first collaboration with Simon Fisher-Turner. Christopher Hobbs's production design bricolages grim 1980s bohemia and a budget imitation of the splendour of the Italian Baroque, empty rooms studded with flowers and ornate fabrics, rent boys – including Ranuccio, played by a pre-Hornblower Sean Bean – arranged in starkly lit tableaus of Caravaggio's most famous works. Fisher-Turner's score likewise meshes faux-Baroque lute music, dark strings, massed choral vocals, field recordings of bells, crickets and water. The music flows with extraordinary freedom through the film's spaces, bridging time as it leaps from Caravaggio's death to his childhood and combative adulthood. In behind-the-scenes footage included as an extra here, you can hear a harpsichord filtering through the fake-Italian sets knocked up in Limehouse Studios: sound as a decorative texture expanding through an endlessly artificial world. The yawning silences as Caravaggio (Nigel Terry) paints or Ranuccio and Lena (Tilda Swinton) wait in the sun seem simply to mutate out of the slow, intentless drift of Fisher-Turner's music and vice versa. It redeems the artificialities of punk about which Jubilee was so ambivalent. Jarman's gift to experimental music was to imagine a form of film and narrative time that moved through technology and the society of the spectacle as a fish in water, that found in the traps that the culture industry produced in the late 20th century the opportunity for endless formal renewal, a heterotopian space for love and freedom.

[rabbitcruiser]

International Eat An Apple Day

International Eat An Apple Day, held on the third Saturday of September each year, is on September 17 this year, and encourages us to bite into this crunchy, bright-colored fruit. Don’t stop there; the goal here is to eat one each day. As the saying goes, that’s how you keep the doctor away.

History of International Eat An Apple Day

The apple originated in central Asia, in the Tien Shan mountain range of Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan. In human terms, we’d call this species of apple the great-great-great(repeat many times) grandparent of the present apple. This older wild apple featured prominently in the food and culture of the region it came from, and Kazakhstan’s Alma-Ata — now called Almaty, loosely meant ‘Father of Apples.’

Merchants using the Silk Road — a network of trade routes connecting China and the Far East to the Middle East and Europe — discovered these wild apples and were the reason this fruit spread to western Europe. From there, European colonists took the apple to America. As the story goes, the very first apple trees were planted in the Massachusetts Bay Colony by pilgrims. Over the years, these wild apples were cultivated and cross-pollinated to become the species we see in commercial farms today.

Apples feature prominently throughout history, appearing in poems by Robert Frost and Emily Dickinson, and in paintings by Caravaggio and Magritte. Apples have also appeared in folklore and stories. The Arabian Nights featured a magic apple that cures all human diseases, and perhaps the most famous book of all — the Bible, apparently alludes to the apple too. Although the testament only specifies fruit, the idea that this was the apple came around in the 12th century in western Europe. The thought might have stemmed from the fact that in Latin, ‘malus’ means both ‘apple’ and ‘evil.’ This thought gained steam, and by 1504, there was even a painting by Albrecht Durer, showing Adam and Eve with apples around them. Apples had unique significance in Greek and Norse mythology as well. The Norse goddess Iðunn awarded eternal youth via apples, and a golden apple caused the Trojan War in the Greek epic tale, Iliad.

By the 20th century, industrial agriculture-focused efforts on only a few varieties of apples in the U.S., like the Red Delicious, Granny Smith, and McIntosh. The push for new varieties and diversity came in the 21st century, with new consumers driving this demand.

International Eat An Apple Day timeline

1300s First Apple Pie Recipe

Originating in England, this recipe says you are not supposed to eat apple pie crust.

Early 1700s Apples Come to America

European colonists bring the apple to the U.S.

1800s John Appleseed Aka John Chapman

The famous folktale was inspired by the real guy, Chapman, who benefits from the rule that anyone can claim land by creating a permanent orchard on the same land; he plants apple trees all over parts of the U.S. and then sells the land.

1866 The Proverb Comes to Life

A Pembrokeshire proverb, “Eat an apple on going to bed, and you'll keep the doctor from earning his bread," is the forerunner to today's common proverb, "An apple a day keeps the doctor away," which was coined in 1913.

2010 The Genetics of the Apple

The genome, the complete set of genetic information, of the modern apple is studied; it has 21,000 more unique genes than the human genome.

2019 Apples get more Famous

A cross of the Honeycrisp and Enterprise variety of apple, called the Cosmic Crisp, features on NPR as the holiday season approaches.

International Eat An Apple Day FAQs

Is there an International Apple Day?

There is an Apple Day that is celebrated on October 21. It honors all things apples, including orchards.

What does eating an apple a day do?

Apples reduce the risk of many major diseases, including diabetes and cancer. They can also promote weight loss and gut health. Eating one medium-sized apple covers around 3/4 of the two-cup daily recommendation for fruit.

Is apple in season in October?

Fresh apples appear on shelves all year round because of imports and multiple varieties of this fruit, but peak apple season for U.S. apples is usually September and October.

How To Celebrate International Eat An Apple Day

Munch on an apple

Try out apple recipes

Share the habit

It's in the name! The best way to celebrate this day is to grab an apple of your choice and get eating. Try out new varieties, or eat apples with assorted condiments — peanut butter, honey, maple syrup — for a different experience.

Maybe you are not into cooking; you could experiment with various yummy foods made from apples. Try out apple pies, drink apple juice or apple cider, or even make Polish apple pancakes. Go crazy and experiment.

Encourage people around you to eat apples too. Maybe you could hand them an apple, or even talk about this day and what it means. Share your knowledge and your healthy apple-eating habit to inspire a healthy food kick in people you know.

5 Fun Facts About Apples

George Washington loved apples

Apples big and small

20 years to eat all apples

The world's largest collection of apple trees

Apples are from the rose family

One of his favorite hobbies was pruning his apple trees.

They come in all sizes and can be as small as a cherry or as big as a grapefruit.

There are 7,500 varieties of apples grown all around the world; eating them all will take you a fair bit of time.

The USDA’s Plant Genetics Resources Unit in Geneva, New York, has about 2500 different varieties of apple trees in a 50-acre orchard.

Known taxonomically as a member of the Rosaceae family, this group also includes pears, plums, peaches, cherries, strawberries, and raspberries.

Why We Love International Eat An Apple Day

Apples are good for you

There are plenty of ways to eat them

They are a fascinating fruit

Today is the day we remember what our moms said, "Eat your fruits! They are good for you," especially fruits like apples, which have low-fat content, loads of fiber, and a host of other lovely health benefits. There is a reason the 'an apple a day keeps the doctor away’ quote is still so popular.

Eat them fresh. Bake with them. Fry them in a delicious batter. Apples are versatile and yet never lend their sweet and unique flavor to every dish. They can even be added to some savory dishes! What more do you need?

With a fun history too! They have traveled the world and overcome their sour beginnings to become the world's most consumed fruit.

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[volterran-wine]

What sets your soul aflame? || Caius x F!S/O

“Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.” -- Edgar Degas

Summary: Nerves and misconceptions makes it difficult for Caius and his newfound mate to bond. Will they be able to find common ground and show how deeply they feel for one another between the paintings?

Wordcount: 1238

Warnings: None! things get a bit steamy but there is nothing explicit. Apologies... this one is not gender neutral, I tried multiple times to write it so but it just didn't want to cooperate with me.

Caius was well known for his privacy, not being the type of man to boast about his previous conquests of the flesh. Nor were he the type to go through with frivolous relationships that would lead nowhere. When he came across his mate one fateful night, it came as quite a shock. After millennia of being without a life partner... someone who had the potential to mean everything to him was in front of him. The bonds were there, but they had difficulties communicating with one another.

One evening the kings had gathered in their private quarters. Simply sitting with another as they had done so many times before. Aro however, had extended an invitation to Caius' significant other as well. Both him and Marcus were curious to see how their relationship were progressing. Now the two kings were studying the couple's behaviour.

They were seated on the same sofa, though they did not look overly comfortable in each others company. This puzzled Marcus, when looking at their bonds he could see they both had grown attached... Caius' side of the bond pulsating and eagerly reaching out to his significant other. Discreetly he let his hand slide over to Aro, urging him to take a look at what Marcus was witnessing.

Aro was tired of this nonsense.

"Ah, I just remembered. My sweet new sister mentioned she was quite interested in the artworks we have displayed." He flipped the pages of his book innocently, not looking up. Marcus, who was seated in the armchair by the roaring fireplace turned his head in their direction. Wondering where Aro was going with this. Caius on the other hand only lifted a brow at the comment.

"Brother, would it not serve her well to see the paintings in the east wing?" Caius eyed his brother with suspicion now, just what was he trying to accomplish with this?

Turning to his new mate he let a small smile grace his features as he closed his book. "I will show you my personal collection."

"Oh! the paintings will simply leave you breathless my dear, quite a prolific painter has left his art there." Aro's words and honeyed tone made Caius let out a sigh of annoyance, did he have to lay it on so thick? His steely gaze were met with a cheshire smile from his younger brother. Turning back to his mate he simply gestured with his head before striding out of the room, cloak billowing behind him.

She caught up to him quickly enough for a human, heartbeat accelerating the farther they moved from him and his brothers personal sitting room.

Aro had been correct, the art did take her breath away. The east wings gallery hall were certainly the most lavish one. Paintings of various sizes and subject matter hung in beautifully gilded frames. They walked for the most part in silence, Caius a couple of paces behind her. Keenly gauging her reactions to the artwork.

"Who is the artist? I don't recognise it." Hopefully these paintings weren't attributed to a painter like Caravaggio or Botticelli. That would be horrendously embarrassing.

"... They are all mine." that made her halt. Turning her attention back to the man who had been tailing her. He stood there with a neutral expression, but she could discern a faint restlessness in his shoulders. She couldn't help but admire him in that moment, handsome and tall. A sleek black and red figure in the golden light of the chandeliers. If she had to be honest, Caius was the most beautiful thing she had ever seen. At a loss for words she turned her attention to a portrait, painted with so much feeling. Every brush stroke perfect and confidently applied. "They are brilliant..."

She was lost in her own thoughts until her companion spoke up from behind her. "What kind of art makes you feel?" his voice was laced with curiosity.

"Oh, I like the details of renaissance paintings but I-"

"That is not what I asked you." his words were suddenly colder. It made her pause and look back over her shoulder. Caius had soundlessly moved closer to her, the sudden proximity made her jump. Instinctively she took a couple of steps in the opposite direction, her back landing against the wall. In her periphery she could see she had placed herself in the small space between two grand landscape paintings.

"I asked you- " his voice grew deeper, "What kind of art makes you feel?" Caius looked every bit a predator, his height paired with his lean yet muscled build made him look like he was always ready to pounce. Prepared to throw himself into a fight. Never afraid.

"What takes your breath away and leaves you quivering before it? Something so beautiful it terrifies you." He had moved closer, arms moving up and resting them against the cold wall behind her. She was caged in; Caius had successfully cornered his prey. With blazing eyes he studied her features up close. Perfect. As if he had sculpted her himself. Absentmidedly he wondered what paints would do her justice, what shades would bring out her unique colouring. A carefully placed knee was pressed between her legs, drawing a hitched breath from the woman in front of him. Leaning down he let his cold breath tickle the shell of her ear when he spoke next.

"Art so grotesque and romantic it makes the blood in your veins surge and boil... " his voice lowered to a harsh whisper, intentionally raspy. Besides her head she could feel Caius begin to dig his hands into the marble and curling his fingers. The sound of stone slowly being turned to dust sent a shiver down her spine. As he leaned back the distance between them shrunk, his body now firmly pressed against hers.

He had to be aware of the effect he had on her, his eyes darkening from that brilliant vermillion into the finest of merlot. "So.. I ask once more, what artwork makes you feel?"

"Yours." the words escaped her without much thought. Caius stilled, showing once more that vampiric poise that could fool anyone into believing him a statue. His pupils might have widened by a few increments, but even that was barely noticeable. Only her shallow breaths filled the silence between them.

She was about to apologise for her blunder when Caius surged forward, cradling the back of her head as he captured her lips in a hungry kiss. Everything clicked into place as he pulled her away from the now crumbling wall. It felt as if they both had waited a thousand lifetimes for this moment. Parting from one another was bittersweet, but Caius had a question he needed answered.

"May I take you to my chambers?" the question was quiet and murmured against her lips. He almost looked uncertain and worried of what her answer would be. Nothing like the Caius she had built up in her mind. But there was nothing to fear, with a soft nod she left a chaste kiss on his lips.

Almost reverently was she hoisted up into his arms, cradling her close and leaving a heated kiss against her temple. How had the gods deemed him worthy of this? To receive a mate.

Caius rushed out of the gallery hall, and everything was quiet once more. The chandeliers going out one by one until the artworks were bathed in darkness.

#caius volturi #caius volturi imagine #caius volturi x reader #twilight #twilight renaissance #This is shamefully self indulgent #Caius takes art very seriously

[liahaslosthermind]

Too beautiful for just words||Remus x reader

Pairing: Remus Lupin x reader

Pronouns used for reader: she/her

Angst-fluff-hurt/comfort 

Warnings: Remus is a little insecure about his looks, also I am in the performing arts not painting type of arts so I know only what I was taught in elementary and middle school.

Summary: Not being able to find inspiration for your painting project was stressful. Till you caught sight of one of your classmates looking out the window.

You had spent one out of the four weeks given for your project just trying to find some inspiration. The project was to take a famous painting and repaint it with one major change to make it your own and you were slowly losing your mind. Not only couldn’t you choose a painting, but you couldn’t even find the type of painting you wanted to go for. Abstract would be too hard to change up while also keeping it somewhat similar, cubism just isn't your thing, landscape is nice but half your class was already doing that. 

It wasn’t until transfiguration that inspiration struck. While not paying attention you glanced aimlessly around the classroom till you spotted Remus Lupin staring out the window. You had many classes with the boy, but this was the only one you had with him where he wasn’t surrounded by his noisy friends. You watched as he peacefully looked at the world just outside the classroom. As you admire his features you realize something. You had to paint him. 

As you ran back to your dorm you searched through the muggle art book you had brought. After looking for an eternity you found the perfect painting. 

‘Boy with a basket of fruit’ by Caravaggio was an oil painting you admired a lot, a print of it had been hanging on your wall for years. It was amazing how at the same age as you, Caravaggio could have created such a wonderful piece. 

With the art piece in mind, all you needed was to get your inspiration to agree. You knew that wouldn’t be hard. While Remus seemed to be more closed off than say, Sirius or James, you knew how to get him to agree. Chocolate. 

“Y/n I still don’t see why you wanted me for this. I am sure Sirius would have been much more willing and all the students seem to love his looks, you probably would have gotten much more praise if you picked him.” Remus said as he let you work.

“Remus please, that would feed Sirius’ ego too much plus he wouldn't be patient enough to get this done in a timely fashion. For the record, you are absolutely gorgeous yourself, Lupin, so please quiet yourself and let me capture it.” That shut him up and left him with the most beautiful blush to add to the piece. 

You two had gotten along very well during your time painting. Sure you didn’t need to spend that long with him as your model and could have let him go a while ago but both of you didn’t mind the company and Remus sure as hell wasn’t complaining, especially with the hot chocolate he would get to drink with you after.

Finally the day came where both the professor and students would observe your work and you were freaking out. You had the best model and didn’t want to let him down with a bad grade. But luckily your painting was a hit. Both you and your model got compliments from everyone. As you ran back to the gryffindor common room you told Remus what had happened.

“Of course you did. You deserve it for your painting. Even if your model wasn’t the best.” Remus said.

“Oh hush Remus. When will you realize how handsome you are? All I did was paint your face and half the class was swooning when they saw it. I couldn’t have picked a better person as my inspiration.”

“Really? You believe that?”

“Yes, of course I do. You are too beautiful for just words. That's why I painted you.”

#Marauders #marauders imagine #Remus Lupin #remus x reader #andrew garfield #andrew garfield x reader