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Ruth Asawa went to Mexico in the 1940s and learned a technique they used for weaving wire into baskets. Here's her version.
Estas forman parte del Centro Termolúdico de Caldea, en el Principado de Andorra más concretamente en la pequeña población de Escaldes-Engordany. Al atardecer y dado el contraluz las nubes se reflejaban sobre la cúpula de su fachada principal.
Sand of Plum Island contains deep purple and dark grey patches. It is due to high abundance of almandine-pyrope garnet, pyroxene augite, and magnetic minerals such as ilmenite and hematite. Epidote adds some greenish hue.
Brighton's starling murmuration flocking around Brighton pier in the winter months. This one is form December 2020.
Yosemite, USA
This morning, I got lucky to have the sun behind me while visiting Yosemite Falls. Fortunately, I got with me a full raingear which proved itself to be absolutely indispensable in the a strong downdraft coming form the waterfall. The rainbow just sat there for hours allowing me to explore various compositions and viewpoints. It was pure magic…
This old vase/planter has been laying out in the yard for about 5 yrs now....it had a pecan tree in it that was brought from the old house, but by the time I got around to transplanting it, the roots had grown so much that I couldn't get it out of the vase without breaking it!!
The tree is now dead, and I'm waiting for it to decompose enough to free the vase!!!!
Yeah, I'm lazy......'Form and Texture' On Black
I saw this structure off the Canadian shore of Lake Erie and I was inspired to make a Kenna-esque image. Image made with my Olympus OM-D e-M1 mk2 with the m.Zuiko 12-40mm f2.8 Pro lens, NiSi CirPL & 10 stop ND filters and meFoto Globetrotter tripod (12mm | f8 | ISO64 | 15sx8). Processed solely in On1 Photo RAW 19.1.
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He actually came all the way back around on the same path as the echidna and looked like he would run into me. I moved a bit in my seat and he recoiled a bit before skirting out wider to avoid me. Phew!
This is one of the last shots as he passed close by me at point blank range and headed into the scrub.
Rocky craggy pillars form a gully and channel the tidal waves through their narrow opening which widens out. In the foreground a rockpool edged with Neptunes necklace which incidentally is a gourmet seaweed. The sun has just risen and its first warm rays are hitting the tips of the rocks
By Dutch artist Maria van Kesteren (1933-2020), Vorm, 1984.
At an exhibition in Kunstmuseum The Hague NL in 2019.
Wawel Castle's immaculate arcaded Courtyard of great dimensions formed the ideal setting for tournaments and various court events over the centuries. This courtyard is regarded to be the largest and most beautiful Renaissance castle courtyard in Europe. The building surrounding the courtyard are the State Rooms, Royal Private Apartments and the Crown Treasury and Armory and have running three-story cloister, the lowest part are arcaded. In addition, there are carved portals, picturesque exterior stairwells and mural paintings.
The Wawel Royal Castle is a castle residency located in central Kraków, Poland, and the first UNESCO World Heritage Site in the world. Built at the behest of King Casimir III the Great, it consists of a number of structures from different periods situated around the Italian-styled main courtyard. Wikipedia
The castle is part of a fortified architectural complex erected atop a limestone outcrop on the left bank of the Vistula River, at an altitude of 228 metres above sea level. The complex consists of numerous buildings of great historical and national importance, including the Wawel Cathedral where Polish monarchs were crowned and buried. Some of Wawel's oldest stone buildings can be traced back to 970 AD, in addition to the earliest examples of Romanesque and Gothic architecture in Poland.[5][6] The current castle was built in the 14th-century, and expanded over the next hundreds of years. In 1978 Wawel was declared the first World Heritage Site as part of the Historic Centre of Kraków.
For centuries the residence of the kings of Poland and the symbol of Polish statehood, Wawel Castle is now one of the country's premier art museums. Established in 1930, the museum encompasses ten curatorial departments responsible for collections of paintings, including an important collection of Italian Renaissance paintings, prints, sculpture, textiles, among them the Sigismund II Augustus tapestry collection, goldsmith's work, arms and armor, ceramics, Meissen porcelain, and period furniture. The museum's holdings in oriental art include the largest collection of Ottoman tents in Europe. With seven specialized conservation studios, the museum is also an important center for the conservation of works of art.
Sweet Jasmine Bracelet
Sweet Jasmine always reminds me of my childhood and visiting my grandmother in the summertime on her lovely ranch in North Texas. There was a beautiful garden that she tended herself, and it was just bursting with sweet jasmine!! Bees hummed around intoxicated by that wonderous smell and I was never afraid to go right up to them... almost tempted to touch their little furry bodies! Such fun memories!!
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I hand formed and fused the links from fine silver (99.9% pure silver) and then gently hammered them. Then I cold forged the fine silver clasp and the fun dangle from a Thai silver (almost pure) flower bud and wire wrapped the golden yellow jade for a saucy touch!
Andromeda Rock
In Greek mythology, Andromeda is the daughter of the Aethiopian king Cepheus and his wife Cassiopeia. When Cassiopeia's hubris leads her to boast that Andromeda is more beautiful than the Nereids, Poseidon sends a sea monster, Cetus, to ravage Aethiopia as divine punishment.[1] Andromeda is stripped and chained naked to a rock as a sacrifice to sate the monster, but is saved from death by Perseus.
Her name is the Latinized form of the Greek Ἀνδρομέδα (Androméda) or Ἀνδρομέδη (Andromédē): "ruler of men",[2] from ἀνήρ, ἀνδρός (anēr, andrós) "man", and medon, "ruler".
As a subject, Andromeda has been popular in art since classical times; it is one of several Greek myths of a Greek hero's rescue of the intended victim of an archaic hieros gamos (sacred marriage), giving rise to the "princess and dragon" motif. From the Renaissance, interest revived in the original story, typically as derived from Ovid's account.
Contents [hide]
1Mythology
2Constellations
3Perseus and Andromeda in art
3.1Film
3.2Novels
4Depictions in art
5See also
6Sources
7References
8External links
Mythology[edit]
A small Roman fresco from Pompeii
In Greek mythology, Andromeda was the daughter of Cepheus and Cassiopeia, king and queen of the North African kingdom of Aethiopia.
Her mother Cassiopeia boasted that her daughter was more beautiful than the Nereids, the nymph-daughters of the sea god Nereus and often seen accompanying Poseidon. To punish the queen for her arrogance, Poseidon, brother to Zeus and god of the sea, sent a sea monster named Cetus to ravage the coast of Aethiopia including the kingdom of the vain queen. The desperate king consulted the Oracle of Apollo, who announced that no respite would be found until the king sacrificed his daughter, Andromeda, to the monster. Stripped naked, she was chained to a rock on the coast.
Perseus was returning from having slain the Gorgon Medusa. After he happened upon the chained Andromeda, he approached Cetus while invisible (for he was wearing Hades's helm), and killed the sea monster. He set Andromeda free, and married her in spite of her having been previously promised to her uncle Phineus. At the wedding a quarrel took place between the rivals and Phineus was turned to stone by the sight of the Gorgon's head.[3]
Andromeda followed her husband, first to his native island of Serifos, where he rescued his mother Danaë, and then to Tiryns in Argos. Together, they became the ancestors of the family of the Perseidae through the line of their son Perses. Perseus and Andromeda had seven sons: Perses, Alcaeus, Heleus, Mestor, Sthenelus, Electryon, and Cynurus as well as two daughters, Autochthe and Gorgophone. Their descendants ruled Mycenae from Electryon down to Eurystheus, after whom Atreus attained the kingdom, and would also include the great hero Heracles. According to this mythology, Perseus is the ancestor of the Persians.
At the port city of Jaffa (today part of Tel Aviv) an outcrop of rocks near the harbour has been associated with the place of Andromeda's chaining and rescue by the traveler Pausanias, the geographer Strabo and the historian of the Jews Josephus.[4]
After Andromeda's death, as Euripides had promised Athena at the end of his Andromeda, produced in 412 BCE,[5] the goddess placed her among the constellations in the northern sky, near Perseus and Cassiopeia; the constellation Andromeda, so known since antiquity, is named after her.
Constellations[edit]
Andromeda (1869) Edward Poynter
Andromeda is represented in the northern sky by the constellation Andromeda, which contains the Andromeda Galaxy.
Four constellations are associated with the myth. Viewing the fainter stars visible to the naked eye, the constellations are rendered as:
A huge man wearing a crown, upside down with respect to the ecliptic (the constellation Cepheus)
A smaller figure, next to the man, sitting on a chair; as it is near the pole star, it may be seen by observers in the Northern Hemisphere through the whole year, although sometimes upside down (the constellation Cassiopeia)
A maiden, chained up, facing or turning away from the ecliptic (the constellation Andromeda), next to Pegasus
A whale just under the ecliptic (the constellation Cetus)
Other constellations related to the story are:
Perseus
The constellation Pegasus, who was born from the stump of Medusa's neck, after Perseus had decapitated her
The constellation Pisces, which may have been treated as two fish caught by Dictys the fisherman who was brother of Polydectes, king of Seriphos, the place where Perseus and his mother Danaë were stranded
Perseus and Andromeda in art[edit]
Cesari: Perseus saving Andromeda, 1596, Gemäldegalerie, Berlin
Sophocles and Euripides (and in more modern times, Corneille) made the story the subject of tragedies, and its incidents were represented in numerous ancient works of art, including Greek vases. Jean-Baptiste Lully's opera, Persée, also dramatizes the myth.
Andromeda has been the subject of numerous ancient and modern works of art, which typically show the moment of rescue, with Andromeda usually still chained, and often naked or nearly so. Examples include: one of Titian's poesies (Wallace Collection), and compositions by Joachim Wtewael (Louvre), Veronese (Rennes), many versions by Rubens, Ingres, and Gustave Moreau. From the Renaissance onward the chained nude figure of Andromeda typically was the centre of interest. Rembrandt's Andromeda Chained to the Rocks is unusual in showing her alone, fearfully awaiting the monster.
If by dull rhymes our English must be chain’d,
And, like Andromeda, the Sonnet sweet
Fetter’d, in spite of pained loveliness;
Let us find out, if we must be constrain’d,
Sandals more interwoven and complete
To fit the naked foot of poesy;
Let us inspect the lyre, and weigh the stress
Of every chord, and see what may be gain’d
By ear industrious, and attention meet:
Misers of sound and syllable, no less
Than Midas of his coinage, let us be
Jealous of dead leaves in the bay wreath crown;
So, if we may not let the Muse be free,
She will be bound with garlands of her own.
“”
"If By Dull Rhymes Our English Must Be Chain’d"
John Keats (1795-1821)[6]
The Italian composer Salvatore Sciarrino composed an hour-long operatic drama called Perseo e Andromeda in 2000.
Film[edit]
In 1973, an animated film called Perseus (20 minutes) was made in the Soviet Union as part of the Soviet animated film collection called Legends and mуths of Ancient Greece.[7][8]
The 1981 film Clash of the Titans retells the story of Perseus, Andromeda, and Cassiopeia, but makes a few changes (notably Cassiopeia boasts that her daughter is more beautiful than Thetis as opposed to the Nereids as a group). Thetis was indeed a Nereid and also the future mother of Achilles. Andromeda and Perseus meet and fall in love after he saves her soul from the enslavement of Thetis' son, Calibos, whereas in the myth, they simply meet as Perseus returns home from having slain Medusa. In the film, the monster is called a kraken, although it is depicted as a lizard-like creature rather than a squid; and combining two elements of the myth, Perseus defeats the sea monster by showing it Medusa's face, turning the monster into stone. Andromeda is depicted as being strong-willed and independent, whereas in the stories she is only really mentioned as being the princess whom Perseus saves from the sea monster. Andromeda was portrayed by Judi Bowker in this film.
Andromeda also features in the 2010 film Clash of the Titans, a remake of the 1981 version. Several changes were made in regard to the myth, most notably that Perseus did not marry Andromeda after he rescued her from the sea monster. Andromeda was portrayed by Alexa Davalos. The character was played by Rosamund Pike in the sequel Wrath of the Titans, the second of a planned trilogy. In the end of the sequel, Perseus and Andromeda begin a relationship.
In the Japanese anime Saint Seiya the character, Shun, represents the Andromeda constellation using chains as his main weapons, reminiscent of Andromeda being chained before she was saved by Perseus. In order to attain the Andromeda Cloth, he was chained between two large pillars of rock and he had to overcome the chains before the tide came in and killed him, also reminiscent of this myth.
Andromeda appears in Disney's Hercules: The Animated Series as a new student of "Prometheus Academy" which Hercules and other characters from Greek mythology attend.
Novels[edit]
In Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson & the Olympians series, there are a few references to Andromeda. The most obvious is that the series' lead villains have a cruise ship which serves as their headquarters and is called The Princess Andromeda.
Andromeda is the main character in Harry Turtledove's short story "Miss Manners' Guide to Greek Missology", published in Esther Friesner's Chicks in Chainmail series of humorous feminist fantasy collections, and reprinted in other anthologies afterwards. It is a satire filled with role reversals, puns, and deliberate anachronisms relating to pop culture.
Andromeda is Anna's full name in Jodi Picoult's My Sister's Keeper, which was turned into a movie in 2010. In the novel there are several references to mythology, as Anna's dad Brian is an astronomer in his free time.
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Happy Smile on Saturday!
I was struggling to find something colourful and interesting to illustrate this challenge, then remembered this amazing project my sister managed. It worked with a local social enterprise to turn old PPE (personal protective equipment) workwear into a whole range of things - other clothes, reflective armbands for cyclists/children, and these amazing bags.
Made from the trouser legs of refuse collectors workwear (fully cleaned of course!) - the reflective strips are excellent to make you show up when it is over your shoulder!
Felsenburg Neurathen
Nationalpark Sächsische Schweiz
three single shots
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Elgin Bridge is believed to have existed at its current location as an unnamed footbridge as early as 1819, the year Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles (founder of Singapore) landed on Singapore. It was the only bridge across the Singapore River, linking the Chinese community on the southern side to the Indian merchants of High Street on the northern side.
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As I walked through the valley of covent gardens. I avert my eyes from the hustle of passing crowds to look for the light.
This house belonged to Kikunyo Moriwaki, the plantation’s laundress for five decades. Kauai, Hawaii
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formas parte del paisaje de un bazar artístico, en la expresión del todo luces, sin embargo en forma individual y en algunos ángulos eres absolutamente grandioso
Meanwhile on another planet...
klik! "Rover to Shuttle! Got a red sandstorm coming in hard!"
klik! "I see it, Rover. Get back in."
klik! "Packing up! But, I... I think there's a life form out here!"
klik! "Come again?? A life form!? Not sure that's possible, Rover."
klik! "I think I have it on camera. I... I looked at it, I think I was looking at some... small creature of some sort. I don't know, we can review the recordings when I get back but, if there was something living, I don't want it getting in the shuttle unquarantined."
klik! "And you don't see anything now?"
klik! "No visuals since then."
klik! "Hurry home, Rover."
klik! "On my way, Shuttle!"
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A year of the shows and performers of the Bijou Planks Theater.
Astro Venture
Space Shuttle
Rover
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