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Demeter - was the goddess of the harvest, who presided over grains, the fertility of the earth, the seasons, and the harvest.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demeter
After one entire year, here comes another image. Does anybody guess it's theme? wait for the others details to get more hints.
This image was made with the gentle contribution of the pictures of wikimedia commons and 'Eric in SF' [check out his stunning photostream www.flickr.com/photos/ericinsf/ – thank you, Eric, for the permission of using your fabulous images!].
It is a very important image for me, hope you guys like the final result.
;-)
Meninas para quem ainda não sabe , a Evinha fez uma brincadeira que chama: me indique um acabamento
Quem quiser participa lá =D.
A fofa da Babi escolheu um holo para eu e ai está. Usei 3 camadas =) bjs
I got into paper pulp sculpting entirely by accident. Originally I wanted to make paper to use in collage, and began armed with Nita Leland's and Virginia Lee Williams' book Creative Collage Techniques. After reading their section on making handmade paper for collage I set about ripping discarded office paper, which I soaked in water and pulped in an old blender. I flattened the pulp on a window screen that someone had put out on the curb for trash pickup. Excess water drained into the kitchen sink.
I discovered that by adding acrylic paint to the mix, I could take pulped, colored paper and make it into shapes that held together. I no longer flattened my pulp on a screen but mixed it with gesso to create a messy white clay that I could sculpt.
When we moved to Florida we found a "lawn" of sand that blasted Mary's legs when she explored the yard. Any trees that had once graced the property had been cut down. Almost three years later the sand is mostly gone; our gully is filled; and we have a variety of young trees, shrubs, and volunteer plants that make the place look lively. But in the beginning I wasn't sure how we'd fare.
If ever there was a time to call in the gods, this was it. And who better than Demeter, the Greek goddess of growing things? We had a nice little spot between our newly-planted dwarf elm and our honeysuckle-draped lamppost where I pictured her sitting, face tilted toward the sky and arms raised. I figured enough coats of gloss medium might help her withstand the weather.
The bust -- whose paper component comes from junk mail -- had to be done in about a dozen layers, each requiring hours of pulping and sculpting followed by days of drying time. And that's when I learned how much difference humidity makes.
Though still skeletal -- surely the goddess of fertility is more zaftig than that -- the bust has its basic form. Theoretically, outer layers would then attach it to arms, neck/head, and pelvis.
Theoretically. Until the mold moved in. I answered with an arsenal of rubbing alcohol and hydrogen peroxide, followed by an additional coat of gesso. By this time I was also a couple of layers into building Demeter's derriere, barely enough for a cheeky curve. Thinner layers. Given enough time for each to become bone-dry, perhaps they'd thwart the microorganisms.
Even if I could conquer the mold there was still the matter of density. That anorexic bust alone tips the scale at ten pounds. When I gave it to someone to heft and he was afraid he'd drop it I assured him the piece was hard enough to withstand a pounding. If I completed a full-sized sculpture, would I be able to move it?
The fourth in a series of custom patterns designed by Jun Sato of Voice of Paradise. It is piloted by a woman known simply as Texas.
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Another remake of an older frame, based on the same zizy2 core that I've been using.
My behold Mount Olympus submission - I've been ill so it's rather sad looking and quite a bit unfinished.
Avize è uno dei paesi in cui ogni portone è l'entrata di una cantina e se si passa davanti ad un passo carrabile senza insegna, vuol dire che qui è la sede di un Vigneron di quelli "Super". Qui non ci sono le grandi Maison, ( Moet-Chandon, Pol Roger, Mercier, De Venoge, Vranken ecc. sono tutti ad Eperney, in Avenue de Champagne) ma piccoli e medi produttori famosi tra gli appassionati. In testa a tutti Jaques Selosse, non perchè abbia le migliori bottiglie (alcune sono da paradiso, altre fanno letteralmente schifo), ma per il suo attaccamento maniacale al "Terroir". Coltiva la vite come si coltiva l'insalata che facciamo crescere nell'orto, cioè per dirla con una parola tanto in voga, in modo "biodinamico". Ho visto la sua cantina, ma di lui nessuna traccia.
Chi invece mi ha conquistato il cuore con la sua semplicità e il palato con il suo Grand Cru Extra Brut, è stata M.me Fallet-Prevostat. Una signora sulla settantina che produce 20.000 bottiglie l'anno. Niente millesimati, niente Reserve o Gran Reserve, niente cuvées speciali, solo due qualita: Brut ed Extra Brut, la cui unica diversità sta nel dosaggio.
A visit to the British Museum. Located near Great Russell Street, in Bloomsbury, London (within the London Borough of Camden).
The building is Grade I listed.
The ancient galleries on the ground floor.
Ancient Rome
Marble statue of Demeter
350-330 BC
Found in the sanctuary of Demeter at Knidos
This is an attempt to recreate our family portrait from four years ago.
Thanks to Uncle James for taking the photo.
Greek, probably island, marble, Hellenistic, 2nd century BCE, Michael C. Carlos Museum of Emory University
Head of a Goddess, Perhaps Demeter - This beautiful marble sculpture at Emory's Michael C. Carlos Museum dates to the 2nd century BCE and probably originated on a Greek island. It is the very first thing you see as you enter the main hall to the right, and for good reason, since it has to be one of their most striking pieces.
I'm glad that they allow non-flash photography in the permanent collection of the Carlos. I'm also glad that I don't have to ask the subjects whether it's OK to take their pictures.
NYK (Nippon Yusen Kaisha) smaller Container Ship manoeuvring in the Solent.
NYK is one of the 'big 3' Japanese shipping companies, formed out of a merger in 1885.
IMO 9337664
Built 2007 Hyundai Heavy Industries, Ulsan, Korea
55,534 grt
4,888 TEU
20Jun2022
Organics and Demeter cultivation methods of purple cabbage and edible flowers and some medicinal herbs in the fields near the The Great Gotheanum. ( Ghostly photo, will replace soon! "Now Replaced ! )
Anthroposophy, a philosophy founded by Rudolf Steiner, postulates the existence of an objective, intellectually comprehensible spiritual world accessible to direct experience through inner development. More specifically, it aims to develop faculties of perceptive imagination, inspiration and intuition through cultivating a form of thinking independent of sensory experience, and to present the results thus derived in a manner subject to rational verification. In its investigations of the spiritual world, anthroposophy aims to attain the precision and clarity attained by the natural sciences in their investigations of the physical world.
Anthroposophical ideas have been applied practically in many areas including Steiner/Waldorf education, special education (most prominently through the Camphill Movement), agriculture, medicine, ethical banking, organizational development, and the arts.
Architecture
The First Goetheanum, designed by Steiner in 1920, Dornach, Switzerland.
Steiner himself designed around thirteen buildings, many of them significant works in a unique, organic—expressionist architectural style. Foremost among these are his designs for the two Goetheanum buildings in Dornach, Switzerland. Thousands of further buildings have been built by later generations of anthroposophic architects.
Architects who have been strongly influenced by the anthroposophic style include Imre Makovecz in Hungary, Hans Scharoun and Joachim Eble in Germany, Erik Asmussen in Sweden, Kenji Imai in Japan, Thomas Rau, Anton Alberts and Max van Huut in Holland, Christopher Day and Camphill Architects in the UK, Thompson and Rose in America, Denis Bowman in Canada, and Walter Burley Griffin and Gregory Burgess in Australia.
One of the most famous contemporary buildings by an anthroposophical architect is ING House, an ING Bank building in Amsterdam, which has received several awards for its ecological design and approach to a self-sustaining ecology as an autonomous building and example of sustainable architecture designed by Ton Alberts, as remarked by Akbar ! :-)
The sanctuary of Demeter at Dion is one of the oldest sites sacred to the goddess in Northern Greece. The temples within it were built at different periods, from the Archaic to the Imperial age. The earliest finds from the sanctuary were found in the enclosure with the wells, where libations were performed. The two fine Doric temples, for Demeter and her daughter Kore (Persephone), were built in the late 4th century, replacing the Late Archaic megara. Within the sanctuary there were also smaller, single-room buildings, where offerings were made to divinities associated with fruitfulness and fertility, such as Aphrodite, Baubo and Kourotrophos. In front of the temples stood a row of altars for sacrifices and libations to the underworld deities. By the late Imperial period, the sanctuary had been reduced to its northern section, while in Late Antiquity pottery kilns were set up in the area.
Príap i Demèter és el nom que l'artista de Cardedeu Aryz ha triat per la pintura mural que ha fet a la paret mitgera del número 1 del carrer de Roger de Flor de Granollers. Aryz va iniciar aquesta intervenció urbana, feta amb pintura plàstica de sis colors bàsics, el 16 de juny de 2014 i la va acabar diumenge 29 de juny. En total hi ha invertit unes 150 hores. El nom de l'obra, l'ha triat entre més de seixanta propostes fetes per persones que hi han volgut participar.
Aryz ha explicat que en les seves intervencions sol utilitzar colors apagats perquè no cridin massa l'atenció dins l'entorn urbà. Aquesta pintura, a partir d'ara, passa a formar part del paisatge de Granollers.
La intervenció s'ha acordat amb la comunitat de veïns del bloc del qual és la paret, de més de 500 metres quadrats, i ha estat valorada positivament pel veïnat i a les xarxes socials, especialment a Instagram, on es va crear #aryzgranollers.
El projecte d'art públic que ha iniciat l'Ajuntament de Granollers amb l'acció artística de l'Aryz està en sintonia amb el que preveu el Pla de paisatge municipal i d'acord amb els treballs de la Comissió de Patrimoni, amb l'objectiu de portar a terme una o dues noves accions anuals d'intervenció.
Aryz, resident a Cardedeu, es va iniciar pintant a fàbriques abandonades del Vallès Oriental i a partir d’aquí ha viatjat a diversos països del món on és reclamat per desenvolupar diferents projectes. El seu talent s'ha expressat a països com Polònia, Finlàndia, Noruega, els Estats Units, Austria, França...
Aquesta imatge ha jugat a Pels camins dels Països Catalans.
The sanctuary of Demeter at Dion is one of the oldest sites sacred to the goddess in Northern Greece. The temples within it were built at different periods, from the Archaic to the Imperial age. The earliest finds from the sanctuary were found in the enclosure with the wells, where libations were performed. The two fine Doric temples, for Demeter and her daughter Kore (Persephone), were built in the late 4th century, replacing the Late Archaic megara. Within the sanctuary there were also smaller, single-room buildings, where offerings were made to divinities associated with fruitfulness and fertility, such as Aphrodite, Baubo and Kourotrophos. In front of the temples stood a row of altars for sacrifices and libations to the underworld deities. By the late Imperial period, the sanctuary had been reduced to its northern section, while in Late Antiquity pottery kilns were set up in the area.
janvier 2017
Roma, Museo Nazionale Romano alle terme di Diocleziano - Dipartimento epigrafico - Santuario di Demetra e Core del Municipio di Ariccia : busto di Demetra
On the right, Demeter holds a scepter and ears of grain; on the left, Persephone holds a torch and a phiale. From 5th century BC.
National Archaeological Museum, Athens, Greece.
The sanctuary of Demeter at Dion is one of the oldest sites sacred to the goddess in Northern Greece. The temples within it were built at different periods, from the Archaic to the Imperial age. The earliest finds from the sanctuary were found in the enclosure with the wells, where libations were performed. The two fine Doric temples, for Demeter and her daughter Kore (Persephone), were built in the late 4th century, replacing the Late Archaic megara. Within the sanctuary there were also smaller, single-room buildings, where offerings were made to divinities associated with fruitfulness and fertility, such as Aphrodite, Baubo and Kourotrophos. In front of the temples stood a row of altars for sacrifices and libations to the underworld deities. By the late Imperial period, the sanctuary had been reduced to its northern section, while in Late Antiquity pottery kilns were set up in the area.
The sanctuary of Demeter at Dion is one of the oldest sites sacred to the goddess in Northern Greece. The temples within it were built at different periods, from the Archaic to the Imperial age. The earliest finds from the sanctuary were found in the enclosure with the wells, where libations were performed. The two fine Doric temples, for Demeter and her daughter Kore (Persephone), were built in the late 4th century, replacing the Late Archaic megara. Within the sanctuary there were also smaller, single-room buildings, where offerings were made to divinities associated with fruitfulness and fertility, such as Aphrodite, Baubo and Kourotrophos. In front of the temples stood a row of altars for sacrifices and libations to the underworld deities. By the late Imperial period, the sanctuary had been reduced to its northern section, while in Late Antiquity pottery kilns were set up in the area.
At a distance of 3 kilometers southern to Ano Sangri, at the site of “Gyroula” are found the ruins of the sanctuary of the ancient gods Demeter and Apollo , dated in the late Geometric period, whereas the place seems to have been settled as early as in the Mycenaean times. The sanctuary was succeeded by a temple, in the 6th century b.C. The excavations of the site have brought to light numerous finds, now displayed in the small local museum on the site.
Donald Lee "Don" Demeter (b: June 25, 1935 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma) is a former outfielder, third baseman, and first baseman in MLB who played for the Brooklyn Dodgers, Los Angeles Dodgers, Philadelphia Phillies, Detroit Tigers, Boston Red Sox, and Cleveland Indians.
From September 1962 to July 1965, Demeter had 266 consecutive errorless games in the outfield, a Major League record that would stand for almost 30 years until Darren Lewis broke the mark in 1994 with 369.
On April 21, 1959 against the San Francisco Giants, he hit three home runs and had six RBI in a single game. In the 3rd inning off Giants pitcher Dom Zanni, Demeter hit the first ever inside-the-park home run at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. The next inning saw another home run, this time off Mike McCormick and to deep left. Demeter capped off the performance by hitting a game winning walk-off two-run home run in the bottom of the 11th inning off Al Worthington to win the game 9-7. It was the only game of his career where Don had an inside-the-park or walk-off home run.
Don played in all six games of the 1959 World Series for the Dodgers. He replaced Duke Snider late in the first two games, started the next three, and came off the bench once more in the decisive game six. In 12 at bats, Don hit .250 with 2 runs scored. Demeter tithed his World Series earnings to his church.
In an eleven-season career, Demeter posted a .265 batting average with 163 home runs and 563 RBI in 1109 games played. He had a career average of 21.1 at bats per home run, which stands as one of the top 150 rates of all-time as of 2010.
Link to a documentary on Don Demeter - www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4mESupuSds
Link to all of his issued baseball cards - www.tradingcarddb.com/Person.cfm/pid/1448/col/1/yea/0/Don...
Demeter, goddess of agricultural abundance, and Persephone, goddess of the Underworld and of fertility of the earth, stand on either side of a nude youth. Demeter, at left, is clad in a long, woolen peplos, belted at the waist; she holds a scepter in her left hand. Persephone, at right, wears a long, linen chiton with buttoned sleeves and a himation; she holds a long, lighted torch against her left side. The scene is usually explained as Demeter and Persephone giving Triptolemos the ears of wheat so that he may teach men how to cultivate grain.
The marble relief was found at the sanctuary of Demeter and Persephone at Eleusis near Athens, a site renowned for its secret cult of the Mysteries. Initiates from all over the Greek-speaking world participated in this secret ceremony of which we know very little. As Demeter gave grain to humanity, the rites at Eleusis may have celebrated this gift.
The renderings of the woolen peplos worn by Demeter and the linen chiton donned by Persephone show clear differences in weight and fabric. The peplos has wide, regular flutes, while the chiton is depicted with tightly crimped folds that suggest pleating. Unlike the regularly spaced folds seen in Egyptian or Assyrian representations, the fine, irregular texture of the linen suggests that the material has been bound and compressed, a technique still seen in certain regional costumes. In contrast to wool, which has a springlike elasticity, the fibers of linen are easily creased and pleated.
The next relief panel has barely survived. It is supposed that it showed Demeter.
East frieze. Pergamon Museum, Berlin
Photographed at the National Museum of Rome in the remains of the Terme di Diocleziano (Baths of Diocletian), Rome, Italy.
After one entire year, here comes another image.
Now we're almost there!
This is my baby son, Dimitri. This image is for him and for all the beauty he brought to my life. His name is a russian variant of Demeter, the greek Goddess of fertility, the "Earth-Mother". Congratulations 'ANDI2..too sad to flickr' & 'Desmo Dave!' you're right!
This image was made with the gentle contribution of the pictures of wikimedia commons and 'Eric in SF' [check out his stunning photostream www.flickr.com/photos/ericinsf/sets/203243/ – thank you, Eric, for the permission of using your fabulous images!].
It is a very important image for me, hope you guys like the final result.
;-)