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SPACE INFATUATION of Ivan Misko
For more than forty years, this artist has been faithful in his work to his main theme — space exploration and its heroes. As he explains, this topic became important to him, when he was a student of theatre-art institute in the 1960-s. Everything started with the term project on Yuri Gagarin. By the way, a couple of years ago, in the memorial museum of Yuri Gagarin not far from Smolensk as a present from the Republic of Belarus there has been installed a bronze bust of the first cosmonaut of the planet, created by Ivan Misko.
For the time being, Ivan Misko has created a whole sculpture gallery of portraits of famous aviators and daring explorers of the star space. Among them there are almost all soviet cosmonauts, including Belarusian cosmonauts Vladimir Kovalyonok and Pyotr Klimuk, as well as people from other countries, who have been on the orbit of the Earth through the program “Intercosmos”. Ivan Yakimovich is a friend of many of them. By the way, thanks to the long-lasting friendship with Pyotr Klimuk Ivan Misko had a chance to fulfill his dream and visited Star City that became sculptor’s second home as well as second art studio. At that time, such trips had to be accomplished in secrecy, because Star City had strictly restricted access. But for a couple of decades Ivan Yakimovich became frequent visitor in Star City, coming for a couple of weeks in order to work on the portraits of space heroes, to get acquainted with their life and flight preparations.
A lot of pilot-cosmonauts and other star guests visited his art studio in Minsk. Famous door with autographs of many well-known people proves this best of all.
Ivan Yakimovich wanted even to write a book about his encounters. By the way, he is a brilliant storyteller, especially if it goes about something related to stars and space. Ivan Yakimovich likes to tell following story from his life. Once he took part in sculpture plain air in Lebanon. While he was cutting out a sculpture from marble, on his favorite space theme, of course, local journalists became very interested in his work. At that time, Ivan Yakimovich was not very good with foreign languages, but the main word was pronounced and heard — cosmos. Next day, local newspapers featured an article about cosmonaut Misko, who was a good sculptor as well… However, there is something symbolical about this story.
— Space theme will remain mine as long as I am able to work and hold clay in my hands, — confessed sculptor.
Artist’s hands are almost every day in clay. In April, the National Art Museum will hold a personal anniversary exhibition of Ivan Misko, commemorating the Astronautics Day. It will feature his new art, including sculptural composition dedicated to the mother of the first cosmonaut — Anna Gagarina.
Irina Trofilova
www.sb.by/articles/space-infatuation-of-ivan-misko.html
Ivan Misko, a native of Slonim district, managed to reach the peak of popularity by promoting the theme of Space. Among his debut works are portrait sculptures of Yuri Gagarin, Piotr Klimuk, and Vladimir Kovalenko.
He also captured other world-famous conquerors of the Universe. By the way, the sculptor himself is not a rare honourable visitor of the Star City.
Ivan Misko,People’s Artist of Belarus:
I had never before in my life thought about it, but then I just couldn’t stop thinking about Space. I am grateful and happy that this subject is part of my life. And whenever I visit the Star City, I feel myself at home. It is a place where I know a lot of people, where my modelling stand, plasticine and work material are. It is always pleasant for me to visit this place. I get new strengths and inspiration there.
Many big-name cosmonauts had once visited the sculptor’s workshop and today they all congratulate him on his birthday. Being out in space, cosmonaut Oleg Novitsky, a native of Belarus, congratulated Ivan Misko from the International Space Station.
Keisha explains the process to Athan at ACE Avatar Maker inside Windtraders at Pandora - The World of AVATAR in Disney's Animal Kingdom Park.
Jorge Dubon (Chiapas, 1938 – Paris, 2004) was also an architect, wich explains his vision that art should be part of buildings and of the street. For Dubon sculpture is linear motion and rhythm in color. Sculpture is nude, this is: separate from the anecdotal, literary and emotional. His sculptures have a strictly aesthetic function, to which all elements of the work of art are made useful.
Title of the work: Metalic wood
This work of art can be admired at the Middelheim open air museum at Antwerp: www.middelheimmuseum.be/en
Jorge Dubon (Chiapas, 1938 – Paris, 2004) was ook een architect wat zijn visie op beeldhouwwerk deels verklaart: hij vond dat die deel moest uitmaken van gebouwen en van het straatbeeld. Voor Dubon is sculptuur lineaire beweging en ritme in kleur. Sculptuur is naakt, dit is los van het anekdotische, literaire en emotionele. Zijn beelden hebben een strikt esthetische functie, waaraan alle elementen van het kunstwerk dienstbaar worden gemaakt.
Titel van het werk: Bos van metaal
Meer over dit werk: search.middelheimmuseum.be/details/collect/148191
Dit werk kan bewonderd worden in het openlucht museum Middelheim in Antwerpen: www.middelheimmuseum.be/nl
Jorge Dubon (Chiapas, 1938 – Paris, 2004) était également architecte, ce qui explique en partie sa vision sur la sculpture: il pensait qu'elle devait faire partie des bâtiments et de la scène de la rue. Pour Dubon, la sculpture est un mouvement linéaire et un rythme en couleur. La sculpture est nue, elle est séparée de l'anecdotique, du littéraire et de l'émotionnel. Ses sculptures ont une fonction strictement esthétique, à laquelle tous les éléments de l'œuvre d'art sont subordonnés.
Titre de l'œuvre: Bois métallique
Cette œuvre peut être admirée au musée en plein air Middelheim à Anvers: www.middelheimmuseum.be/fr
Lectern in the Form of an Eagle
Brass
Attributed to Aert van Tricht the Elder
South Lowlands, Limburg, Maastricht, about 1500
From the church of Saint Peter at Louvain
Boppard Room, The Cloisters of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Fort Tryon Park, New York, NY
Newton, Isaac
THE MATHEMATICAL PRINCIPLES OF NATURAL PHILOSOPHY [TRANS. A. MOTTE]. ... TO WHICH ARE ADDED, THE LAWS OF THE MOON'S MOTION, ACCORDING TO GRAVITY. BY JOHN MACHIN. LONDON: FOR BENJAMIN MOTTE, 1729
2 volumes, 8vo (194 x 117 mm). Engraved frontispiece after and by A. Motte in first volume, section-title to Machin's "Laws of Motion", 47 folding engraved plates, 2 folding letterpress tables, 3 engraved headpieces by Motte, numerous woodcut head and tailpieces, historiated and ornamental woodcut initials; antique calf to style. Internally fine.
LITERATURE
Babson 20; Gray 23; Wallis 23; see PMM 161
FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH OF NEWTON'S PRINCIPIA, the most important work in the history of science, "perhaps the greatest intellectual stride that it has ever been granted to any man to make" (Einstein). "The Principia is generally described as the greatest work in the history of science. Copernicus, Galileo and Kepler had certainly shown the way; but where they described the phenomena they observed, Newton explained the underlying laws" (PMM).
The first edition was published in Latin in 1687, followed by a second in 1713. This edition is by Andrew Motte, who was the brother of the publisher, and who provided the engravings for the frontispieces and three headpieces. The third book of the Mathematical Principles is actually a translation of Newton's Treatise of the System of the World; the first Latin and English publications of this work appeared the previous year. John Machin's unsuccessful attempt to correct Newton's lunar theory is included at the end.
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Ralph Nader in Salt Lake City. Great interview: www.publicbroadcasting.net/kuer/news.newsmain?action=arti...
Also taped for UtahNow, but I'm not sure if it'll show up here: www.kued.org/productions/utahnow/?action=viewShowDetails&...
The Cardo, Jewish Quarter, Old City, Jerusalem, Israel
The Cardo (or Cardo Maximus) was a paved avenue approximately 22.5 meters wide with a colonnade. It was built during the Roman Period (2nd-3rd centuries CE) and served as Jerusalem's main commercial avenue for almost 500 years.
"Many Roman cities had a Cardo – a grand main thoroughfare flanked by two rows of columns, bisecting the city from north to south. The Cardo was the main commercial avenue of Jerusalem for almost 500 years.
The northern section remnants date to the Roman period (2nd - 3rd centuries C.E.). The southern section remnants date to the Byzantine period (6th century C.E.). Jerusalem's Cardo is portrayed on the ancient mosaic floor of a church in Medaba, Jordan."
This is my third time in Tuscany, and I have always visited Montalcino. This is because it is probably my favourite place on Planet Earth, the views from the ancient streets and alleys are incredible. And it makes very fine wine.
Previously, I have been here on Sundays, when the cyclists finish a day of riding by passing through the city gates, and it crowded.
So, how would it be early on Monday morning?
I say early, we were going to Florence, but laid in bed too late, really. So, a change of plan and a trip to some old haunts. Or friends.
We did get up, have coffee and breakfast, before loading the car, setting in the destination. One hour.
I engage all gears and we lurch off, up the gravel drive and onto the lane beyond.
Places change, but I find it hard to believe that Tuscany has changed that much in 16 years, so, we go a different way. Pass through the portal of a walled village, criss-cross the little-used railway, through olive groves, then up and up to the town.
We parked at the other end of the village, next to the church which is perched on the edge of a sheer drop of hundreds of feet to the lush countryside that spreads out like Google Maps below.
The car park was half full, so we park up. I go to visit the church, but there was a lady inside, so I don't linger, take a half dozen shots, and we leave. Back outside into the blinding bright sunshine.
Two guys were strimming grass, which was more herbs than grass, and smelt fantastic, they stopped for us to pass, so up the wide steps into the town, there this view opens up to our left.
I have taken it before, and better, but this'll do. The road seems to plunge down the sides of the cliffs to the farmland below, which then stretches to the horizon.
We try to find somewhere for breakfast. Second breakfast. But most places didn't start serving until midday. And it wasn't yet ten.
I then spotted and ice cream parlour, so we tottered down on the cobbles, and ordered two huge waffle cones and cappuccinos. Then sat down outside to watch the (Italian) world go by, which was at least stylish.
The ice cream was wonderful, of course.
Then there was a wine shop.
The local wine is Brunello, a dark and mysterious wine, and pricy. I say pricy, I baulk at paying a tenner for a bottle, but I stump up the cash for a box of three bottles, and a small phial of aged Balsamic Vinegar.
I won't say how much it was, but I had to explain to Jools.
Now laden down with bottles, we had to walk back to the car, which was pretty much all uphill, and steep uphill too.
The town was getting busy, so it seemed good to be going the other way, back to the car.
Once back, all hot and bothered, we programmed the car for Pienza, where we hoped to have lunch.
Montalcino is at 2,000 feet, this is what comes with owning a car with an altimeter, and to get to Pienza, we would have to get down to the level of the farmland way below, this is done at a crazy roundabout near the city gates, two exits near each other, but one goes down at about 1:4, and that's the way we had to go.
However, before that fun, the sat nav tried to lead us through the middle of the town, were what is a road and what isn't, isn't always easy to tell.
After ending up at two dead ends, we retraced our way back to the car park and round the edge of the town to the roundabout.
We made it across, and the road just dropped like a stone, some 1,500 feet in five minutes, where we joined the main road for a twenty minute blast, before turning off, and heading up, up, up again.
Through more olive groves and woodland to Pienza, which I always remembered as being quiet.
Not at one on a Monday, the new car park was nearly full, but we nabbed a spot, then waled to the start of the ancient town centre, where we were sucked in by a pizza place, where I ordered a diavalo hot and spicy pizza, and Jools ordered one with truffle shavings, which added €10 to the price.
The wait meant we could people watch, the fussy French couple opposite, the noise eight person American group who argued about spitting the bill and left no tip.
The food came, and was very welcome indeed, and not that spicy. And the unfiltered beer went down well.
Normally we would also have gone to Montepulciano to complete the hat trick, but it would be crazy busy, and the car park is a long hard walk up a cobbled street to the town a couple of hundred feet above.
I have been twice, and so thought I could live with missing a third, so we headed back home, it being a hot and humid day, and too hot to be walking in crowds looking into shops selling stuff we don't need.
Though there is always room for more cheese and wine.
Talking of wine, we needed some, as we were nearly out. And I remembered a couple of places near to our apartment, where we could buy some local.
So that's what we did, following signs across farmland and over drainage canals to a castle, where we two scruffs were very much out of place. But our money is as good.
We parked and the gardener told us where the shop was, so in the air-conditioned coolness, we bought a bottle of rose and a bottle of red and made good our escape, back to the main road and back to the old farm.
Too hot for butterfly chasing, so we stay inside, drinking wine and listening to the Clash.
As you do.
This is a photograph from the FINISH of the SSE Airticity Dublin Marathon which was held in Dublin City, Ireland on Monday October 27th 2014 at 09:00. This was the 35th year of the SSE Airtricity Dublin Marathon, which is run through the historic Georgian streets of Dublin, Ireland's largest and capital city. This photograph was taken in Dublin City Center at the junction of Northumerland Road and Haddington Road. This is approximately 700 meters to the finish line.
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Presenter Jonathan Newell on-camera explaining the Dastarkhan in a Kazakh yurt while Director Nurzhan Akhmetov and local expert look on. Read my blog and see a short clip from this episode of Steppe Tales at bit.ly/uiThQS
Fan Jianchuan explained that Chinese people do not respect people who were prisoners of war, even though they vast majority of them fought bravely for China. He hopes to show people they are wrong through his museum honoring Chinese who were captured by the Japanese Army. Many prisoners were killed, especially before Japan and China officially declared war on each other in 1941.
Senator Beth Bye explains to Natalia Rolon of West Hartford what's going on during a debate in the state Senate Chamber. Natalia was a member of a Girl Scout troop that Senator Bye had met with previously and which the senator encouraged to get involved in the lawmaking process. Natalia, a 4th-grader at the Bugbee Elementary School, took Senator Bye up on her offer and 'shadowed' the senator for several hours on a day the legislature was in session. (May 1, 2013)
Paul St George explaining the current state of the tunnel system.
People from offices kept stopping by to take a look. Little clusters of sociability formed.
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He was an outstanding teacher heeling other UdG Agora participants during the "ask and offer" session. So good, we are inviting him back tomorrow to run a full studio session.
This is one of our projects from 3DMODEL. It's probably one of the two things that I'm proud of. We were tasked to create our very own logo. Since I am proud about being under Year of the Dragon and when I googled characteristics of being a dragon (and it fits me), I decided that my logo will be a dragon. Also, my nickname starts with "b", thus the letter b on the wallpaper. Oh yeah, I love color green, which pretty much explains the background. meh.
I got my dragon pattern from 's Tribal Tattoo collection, specifically this: wildspiritwolf.deviantart.com/art/Dragon-Tattoo-Tribal-Se....
I got the texture of the dragon from matriax.deviantart.com/art/Metallic-gold-5092138.