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BIBLICAL CONTEXT: Proverbs 4:18-27 NIV
(from biblegateway.com)
18 The path of the righteous is like the morning sun,
shining ever brighter till the full light of day.
19 But the way of the wicked is like deep darkness;
they do not know what makes them stumble.
20 My son, pay attention to what I say;
turn your ear to my words.
21 Do not let them out of your sight,
keep them within your heart;
22 for they are life to those who find them
and health to one’s whole body.
23 Above all else, guard your heart,
for everything you do flows from it.
24 Keep your mouth free of perversity;
keep corrupt talk far from your lips.
25 Let your eyes look straight ahead;
fix your gaze directly before you.
26 Give careful thought to the[c] paths for your feet
and be steadfast in all your ways.
27 Do not turn to the right or the left;
keep your foot from evil.
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5 MORE THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW:
1. Like it or not, we are ALL sinners: As the Scriptures say, “No one is righteous—not even one. No one is truly wise; no one is seeking God. All have turned away; all have become useless. No one does good, not a single one.” (Romans 3:10-12 NLT)
2. The punishment for sin is death: When Adam sinned, sin entered the world. Adam’s sin brought death, so death spread to everyone, for everyone sinned. (Romans 5:12 NLT)
3. Jesus is our only hope: But God showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners. (Romans 5:8 NLT) For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 6:23 NLT)
4. SALVATION is by GRACE through FAITH in JESUS: God saved you by his grace when you believed. And you can’t take credit for this; it is a gift from God. Salvation is not a reward for the good things we have done, so none of us can boast about it. For we are God’s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago. (Ephesians 2:8-10 NLT)
5. Accept Jesus and receive eternal life: If you openly declare that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. (Romans 10:9 NLT) But to all who believed him and accepted him, he gave the right to become children of God. (John 1:12 NLT) And this is what God has testified: He has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have God’s Son does not have life. (1 John 5:11-12 NLT)
Read the Bible for yourself. Allow the Lord to speak to you through his Word. YOUR ETERNITY IS AT STAKE!
Red-figure volute-krater (vessel for mixing water and wine) depicting an Amazonomchy, a mythical battle between the Greeks and Amazons. On the left, a mounted Amazon - dressed in a short chiton, trousers, and a spotted kidaris/Phrygian cap - is charging a Greek warrior, her spear raised. Below the youthful, beardless Greek warrior is the body of a fallen Amazon, her crescent-shaped pelta shield (depicting a running hunting hound) at her side. On the ground on the right is a kneeling Greek archer -wearing a pilos helmet - aiming at the mounted Amazon. At the far right is a beardless, youthful Greek trumpeter.
The extreme detail of the clothing and the drama of the scene, in addition to the well modeled palmettes, laurel wreath, and other decorative patterns, mark this as the probable work of the Sisyphus Painter.
Greek, Apulian, ca. 420-390 BCE. Attributed to the Sisyphus Painter.
British Museum, London (1856,1226.3)
My cultural knowledge fails me with this particular photograph. Are the dancers depicting a part of the traditional Kerala dance form or is it something else. The Mallus brethren or sistern ;-) please come to the rescue and tell us what is it that is going on here.
The deep thoughtful visage is something that totally defines the Malayalee. Serious, poignant and always thinking of something heavy is what is my 3 years of experience with the Malayalee people.
Onam in Kerala is the most important festival. This a season of happiness. It would me much like what Diwali is like for the people of North India.
People buy their new clothes, new gadgets, new everything around Onam time.
In short, it is celebration time like no other. There are celebratory feasts called Onam Sadya which are served everywhere. House courtyards are decorated with traditional flower arrangements of geometric symbolism called 'Pookalam' is laid in front of every house to welcome the arrival of the beloved king.
There is a surfeit of agrarian festivities comprising of boat races and bull races and carnivals that are held all over Kerala.
The origins of this great festival of Kerala are steeped in history and centres around a powerful king who became too powerful and loved by his subjects. The jealous Gods of the Hindu pantheon saw to an end to this popularity by a cunning design and confined the king into the bowels of the earth. After some relenting, the Gods allowed the King to visit his subjects once a year and it is that which is celebrated in Onam.
Athachamayam is a carnival of sorts that is held in Thripunithra a small town about 10-12 kms away from Cochin.
Camera: Nikon D70
Exposure: 0.002 sec (1/500)
Aperture: f/4.5
Focal Length: 70 mm
ISO Speed: 200
Exposure Bias: 0 EV
Flash: Off, Did not fire
DSC_0804 via ACR from jpeg 2 exp sel cu gr br le TFM VER 2
Van de Velde The Younger excelled in depicting all kinds of weather. This storm scene is a good example. The battered ship has lost half of the mainmast in the storm. Crew members are sent aloft to repair and control the damage. The only sail, the fore course, is almost blown away and the yard has to be lowered to get hold of the canvas again. The clouds and waves do not indicate a change in the weather soon...
Collection National Maritime Museum Greenwich
My graphic depiction of the Deconstruction and Reconstruction of the consciousness of Homo Sapien - the "knowing man". (From the idea of 'transhumanism' by Julian Huxley 1957 - [brother of Aldous Huxley - author of 'Brave New World'] ).
(Go to all sizes to view at max. 1050x1050 - 150 dpi).
Depicted in his Rebirth Superman armor, I was pretty lucky to already have all of the figure I needed for this one!
Depicting a piece of the Portuguese coastline that I hope to return to again and again ... the photo below was taken three years earlier.
Magoito, Portugal
These paintings are on a wall in the centre of Sherborne & depict colourful events in Sherborne's history.
The temple rested on a 30.31 x 14.03 m stilobata, with 6 columns on the short sides and 13 on the long ones. In the background, the island of Lesbos is visible.
Depicted in black and white...
(a few cellphone photos earlier today, actually taken in black and white.)
A photo-video depicting the fisherman of Kerala, India. Photographed in 2012 and assembled in Final Cut Pro with ambient audio for the location.
Depicted here is the the Brookdale Lodge's Mermaid Room, a bar with underwater views of the swimming pool with murals of former guests, including Humphrey Bogart and comedian W.C. Fields. A mural of James Dean, also a former guest, adorns the exterior. Brookdale became world-renowned as California's second most popular resort, playing host to Hollywood stars, including Mae West, Marilyn Monroe, Rita Hayworth, and President Herbert Hoover. The recently reopened Clifton's Cafeteria in Los Angeles was inspired by the Brookdale Lodge's Brookroom.
Opened in 1890 on the site of the Grover Lumber Mill, the Brookdale Lodge was founded by James Harvey Logan, a botanist and Judge (also responsible for the cultivation of the Logan berry).The stunning Brookroom, through which a natural stream flows, was built in the 1920s by the lodge's subsequent owner, Dr. F.K. Camp, a Seventh-day Adventist and outspoken prohibitionist.
After a 2009 fire, the Lodge was abandoned and remained in a state of neglect. Hotelier Pravin Patel purchased the Lodge in 2014 and began restoration of the property in 2016. Brookdale Lodge should open this year.
This memorial can be found on the corner of Whitehall Court and Whitehall Place. It depicts the five-man crew of a World War II British Comet tank. I took several shots of this, some with all five members but the most striking one was this of the four. This is 3 exposures with -1+ stops bracketing, then Photomatix for HDR and tonemapping, and finally Photoshop for the finishing touches!
Tapestry depicting the audience of the Emperor of China (c. 1697-1705)- Beauvais Manufactory (French, founded 1664) Woven under the direction of Philippe Béhagle (1641 - 1705), on cartoons by Guy-Louis Vernansal (1648 - 1729)- Residence, Munich
serie di nove episodi chiamata Storia dell'Imperatore della Cina. La scena qui raffigurata è l'udienza dell'imperatore, che è la più famosa e più frequentemente riprodotta dell'intera serie. Altre repliche si possono ammirare al Metropolitan Museum di New York, al J. Paul Getty Museum di Los Angeles, al Louvre di Parigi.
Series of nine episodes called History of the Emperor of China. The scene depicted here is the Emperor's audience, which is the most famous and most frequently reproduced of the entire series. Other replicas can be seen at the Metropolitan Museum in New York, the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, and the Louvre in Paris.
Depicted in one piece of pottery of 2 classic paintings, 'Las Meninas' and 'Guernica', clever, I particularly like the Picasso face and the Guernica motif.
The swallow harbour depicts the story of the young pilots that flew to Bremen on 4 and 5 September 1942 to bomb aircraft factories there. 251 aircraft left England, but not everyone made the crossing back home during this last flight. The aircraft are represented in the design by 251 nesting holes in a semi-circular stone wall in which swallows can breed. Of these nesting holes, 12 remain closed, which symbolise the number of aircraft that did not return. Sand martins are ‘weather forecasters’ and ‘bringers home’.
Some interesting details. The monument is constructed from English bricks, which fits perfectly into the natural environment of the Alde Feanen National Park. The nest holes are filled with metal capsules with a message. And the material of the capsules consists of the melted down parts of the excavated aircraft. Even the size of the English Lancaster was an inspiration for Nynke Rixt Jukema. The 32-meter wide swallow harbour has the same wingspan as the crashed bomber.
The Temple was a monumental structure; it measured 120 m in length and 50 m across. The sixty massive columns surrounding the cella were well over 2 m in diameter and more than 21 m high. The Temple was topped with the largest Corinthian capitals ever sculpted, one of which, 2.5 metres in height, 1.9 metres in diameter and 20 tons in weight, was unearthed in 2013.
In AD 124, the city of Cyzicus was granted the role of neokoros, temple warden of the imperial cult. The people of Cyzicus declared Hadrian the 13th Olympian god.
The Byzantine chronicler John Malalas called the Temple of Hadrian at Cyzicus “a very large temple, one of the wonders" with a very large bust of Hadrian on the roof and a marble stele inscribed "of Divine Hadrian". (Malalas, Chronography Bks 1-7, 10-18)
Cassius Dio called it “the largest and most beautiful of all temples, writing that “its columns were four cubits in thickness and fifty cubits in height" writing that "in general, the details were more to be wondered at than praised.” (epit. 70.4.1–2).
The theatre was built by taking advantage of the natural slope of the land and using local limestone blocks in the Hellenistic period. In addition to the seating of the theater, the orchestra and stage buildings were also unearthed.
This decorative detail - repeated elsewhere in the same 'exedra' room in the northwest of the peristyle in the House of the Vettii - depicts a panther on a blooming acanthus volute, stalking three panicked hippocampi below. It's painted on a background of vibrant cinnabar. It's details like this that make me love this house more than any other in Pompeii.
House of the Vettii, Pompeii.
Another scene at Mountain Ash Colliery in the Cynon Valley, South Wales depicts Austerity No.8 being watered (via a leaky pipe] on 7 December 1978.
An interesting Work of Art depicting the removal of the 5th Head of Brahma.Here we find the Lord holding the 5th Head of Brahma in one hand and having the Tharjani mudra in another reprimanding Brahma .
The kanchi Kailasanathar temple is the oldest structure in Kanchipuram. Located in Tamil Nadu, India, it is a Hindu temple in the Dravidian architectural style. It is dedicated to the Lord Shiva, and is known for its historical importance. The temple was built from 685-705AD by a Rajasimha ruler of the Pallava Dynasty. The low-slung sandstone compound contains a large number of carvings, including many half-animal deities which were popular during the early Dravidian architectural period. The structure contains 58 small shrines which are dedicated to various forms of Shiva. These are built into niches on the inner face of the high compound wall of the circumambulatory passage.
The temple is located on the banks of the Vedavathi River at the western limits of the Kanchipuram. It faces east. Its location, demarcated according to the religious faiths, is in one of three "Kanchis", the Shiva Kanchi; the other two Kanchis are, Vishnu Kanchi and Jain Kanchi. It is 75 kilometres (47 mi) from the Chennai, the capital city of Tamil Nadu.Kailasanathar is one of several notable temples in Kanchipuram, the others being Ekambaranatha, Kachapeshwarar, Kamakshi Amman, Kumarakottam Temple, and Varadaraja Perumal
Temple construction is credited to the Pallava dynasty, who had established their kingdom with Kanchipuram (also known as "Kanchi" or "Shiva Vishnu Kanchi") as the capital city, considered one of the seven sacred cities under Hinduism.
The only temple of this period which is extant is the Kailsahanathar Temple.
The temple was built during 685-705AD. It is the first structural temple built in South India by Narasimhavarman II (Rajasimha), and who is also known as Rajasimha Pallaveswaram.
The temple has retained the Pallava architecture in its original stylized form with influence of the later styles developed by the Chola Dynasty and Vijayanagara Emperors. It is of stone built architecture unlike the rock cut architecture built into hallowed caves or carved into rock outcrops as in Mahabalipuram.
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fly agaric toadstool ~ amanita muscaria
Cultural depictions
Children play on Jose de Creeft's sculpture Alice in Wonderland in Central Park, New York. Alice sits atop a mushroom, inviting children to climb up and join her. Whilst the mushroom in the sculpture is not a faithfully reproduced Amanita muscaria, the reference within Lewis Carrol's original literary work upon which the sculpture is based is often discussed.
Moritz von Schwind's 1851 painting Ruebezahl features fly agarics.
The red-and-white spotted toadstool is a common image in many aspects of popular culture, especially in children's books, film, garden ornaments, greeting cards, and more recently computer games. Garden ornaments, and children's picture books depicting gnomes and fairies, such as the Smurfs, very often show fly agarics used as seats, or homes.Fly agarics have been featured in paintings since the Renaissance,albeit in a subtle manner. In the Victorian era they became more visible, even becoming the main topic of some fairy paintings.Two of the most famous uses of the mushroom are in the video game series Super Mario Bros.,and the dancing mushroom sequence in the 1940 Disney film Fantasia.
Ref: wiki
Imitation and Shame:
Dark Shadows is a haunting exhibition of beautifully carved sculptures depicting the horrific scenes of the suffering of the Great Irish Famine. Following a visit to the Irish Workhouse Centre in Portumna the knowledge attained of this man made famine and starvation inflicted on the Catholic Irish Peasants by a cruel English Parliament is a wonderful work of art to behold . The artist Kieran Tuohy captures the suffering and misery of the walking dead with this amazing collection.
An Gorta Mór or the Great Hunger is more commonly referred to as the Irish Famine. A famine is defined as a failure of crops but in 1850's there was lot of food but the Catholic peasant dependence on the potato crop meant starvation and death for millions.
Irish history shows that the savage campaign carried out by Oliver Cromwell and the Protestant English Parliament 1619 to 1653 resulted in the loss of 42% of the population. Bad as this may have been, the displacement of Catholic Landowners ( to hell or Connaught ) and there replacement by mostly absentee Protestant Landlords and their agents .This resulted in a large amount of the population moving to higher and less fertile lands. The only way of survival was growing potatoes for many and the blight and failure of the crop was a total disaster.
While the poor starved Ireland was producing more than enough food to feed them, but food was being removed at gunpoint by Queen Victoria’s troops garrisoned in Ireland for this purpose. In 1847 alone, 4,000 ships carrying £17,000,000 worth of foodstuffs, 10,000 head of cattle, and 4,000 horses and ponies sailed to England. That same year, etched in memory as “Black 47,” saw 500,000 Irish people die of starvation and related diseases.
It became cheaper for the Landlords to pay passage on a Famine Coffin Ship than to keep starving tenants so many shipped off their tenants. 25% of Ireland population either died of starvation or emigrated, that's two millions people. In today's world it would be called ethic cleansing, twice within two centauries.
As with Ali Qapu, the palace contains many frescoes and paintings on ceramic. Many of the ceramic panels have been dispersed and are now in the possession of major museums in the west.
They depict specific historical scenes such as the infamous Battle of Chaldiran against the Ottoman Sultan Selim I, the reception of an Uzbek King in 1646, when the palace had just been completed; the welcome extended to the Mughal Emperor, Humayun who took refuge in Iran in 1544; the battle of Taher-Abad in 1510 where the Safavid Shah Ismail I vanquished and killed the Uzbek King
Taken @Chehel Sotoun, Esfahan, Iran
The ceiling mosaic depicts John the Baptist baptizing Jesus (depicted with beard) standing waist high in the Jordan River. To one side stands the personification of the Jordan river, with a reed in one hand and a garment in the other
Baptistry of Neon (5th century) - Ravenna
UNSECO World Heritage site (1997)
Il Battistero Neoniano, detto anche degli Ortodossi, è un battistero presente a Ravenna risalente al V secolo e prende il nome dal vescovo Neone che ne ha fatto proseguire la costruzione dopo il suo predecessore Orso. L'appellativo degli ortodossi va invece inteso secondo il significato dell'epoca, che intendeva i cristiani della "retta" dottrina in contrapposizione all'eresia ariana.
Il battistero è inserito, dal 1996, nella lista dei siti italiani patrimonio dell'umanità dall'UNESCO, all'interno del sito seriale "Monumenti paleocristiani di Ravenna".
The Baptistry of Neon is a religious building in Ravenna, central Italy. The most ancient monument remaining in the city, it was partly erected on the site of a Roman bath. It is also called the Orthodox Baptistry to distinguish it from the Arian Baptistry constructed on behest of Ostrogothic King Theodoric some 50 years later.
The octagonal brick structure was erected by Bishop Ursus at the end of the 4th or beginning of the 5th century, as part of his great Basilica (destroyed in 1734). The baptistery was finished by Bishop Neon at the end of the 5th century, at which time the mosaic decorations were added. The original floor is now some 3 meters underground, so the proper structure and extent of the building can no longer be seen. The octagonal design of the building, employed in virtually all Early Christian baptisteries, symbolizes the seven days of the week plus the Day of the Resurrection and Eternal Life.
Depicting the pivotal moment of his judgment as to who was the most beautiful of the Greek goddesses, Paris is represented as a young shepherd holding the prise of the contest – the golden apple – behind his back. Through contemplation of the features of the human body as an idealized composition rather than as a representation of an historical or legendary individual, Canova sought to guide the viewer to universal beauty.
Antonio Canova, the greatest of all neo-classical sculptors, remains famous for the elegant nudes of mythological subjects that he carved exquisitely in marble. But he also worked in a deeply serious, deceptively simple style. His depiction of the shepherd Paris exists in two marble originals from 1807 and 1816. The current plaster model was used to review his compositions before they were transferred into stone. It bears a distinctive feature of his sculptural practice.