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Remember that I am thy creature; I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel, whom thou drivest from joy for no misdeed.
Mediterranean Harbor
Tokyo DisneySea
Just one week ago I returned from Tokyo, which included a trip to the Tokyo Disneyland Resort. It was a great trip: the weather could not have been more perfect and I got 5 days split between Tokyo Disneyland and Tokyo DisneySea.
Here we see Mount Prometheus erupting from the Fortress Explorations area of Mediterranean Harbor area of Tokyo DisneySea. I've said my piece about DisneySea before, but I could easily gush about that place endlessly. Adventurous, exciting, beautiful, and romantic: it's one of a kind. If you've never had the pleasure, imagine Disneyland with a heavy emphasis on Adventureland mashed together with Walt Disney World's World Showcase then you get somewhat of an idea about what DisneySea is all about.
Fortress Explorations is an interesting area: it's an old-world, Da Vinci themed enclave that's part Tom Sawyer Island and part Kim Possible/Midship Detective Agency interactive adventure. We thought we would explore the area briefly before our lunch reservations but we found the area just kept going on and on with rooms and details, and 45 minutes later we were running to our lunch still not having seen everything.
As if I needed an excuse to come back.
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Ridley Scott present tis movie in 2012, with Noomi Rapace, Michael Fassbender, Guy Pearce, Idris Elba, Logan Marshall-Green, Charlize Theron,...
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Enjoying a Starbucks break at the Rockefeller Centre.
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Melissa came up with this idea for her art class based on the story of Prometheus and his being chained to a tree(or rock?). The idea is that he would have desire for a key aswell as for company.
The Prometheus Statue at Rockefeller Center in New York City is one of the most famous sculptures in the world. After the Statue of Liberty, it is perhaps the most celebrated piece of artwork in America.
Paul Howard Manship, 1885 - 1966, American sculptor, born St. Paul, Minnesota, studied at St. Paul Institute of Arts, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and the American Academy at Rome. He often went to classical mythology for his subjects. His art is notable for its emphatic musculature and polished contours.
According to Greek mythology, Prometheus was a Titan who defied the will of Zeus and brought fire to Earth, helping mortals while risking harsh retribution from the authorities. The mountain-like-pedestal at the base of the statue symbolizes the earth, while the circle containing the signs of the zodiac represents the heavens. The red Balmoral granite wall behind the statue has a quotation from Aeschylus: "Prometheus, teacher in every art, brought the fire to earth that hath proven to mortals a means to mighty ends."
The sculpture depicts Prometheus, a titan and brother of Atlas, carrying the fire he stole in a hollow stalk of fennel from the Chariot of the Sun, after Zeus denied it to the cold and shivering mortals. Prometheus is shown plummeting to earth with his right arm raised holding his prize, and his left hand reaching out to balance his descent. Since Zeus could not take the fire back because a god or goddess was forbidden to take away what another gave, he planned another form of punishment. For his hubris, Prometheus was carreid to Mount Caucasus, where an eagle by the name of Ethon would pick at his liver. Each day it would grow back and the eagle would eat at it again. The punishment was said to last 30,000 years, but twelve generations later Heracles, passing by on his way to find the apples of Hesperides as part of the Twelve Labours, freed Prometheus. Prometheus proceeded to catch the eagle and eat its liver. Since the freeing brought Zeus' son great glory, instead of returning Prometheus to the mountain, he was given a ring which contained a piece of the rock to which he was bound, which he wore for eternity to satisfy the original enslavement. In Manship's sculpture, the earth is represented by the huge mountain, the seas by the pool, and heavens by the zodiac ring.
Thomas Cole, artist
American, 1801 - 1848
Prometheus Bound, 1846 - 1847
oil on canvas
64 x 96 (162.6 x 243.8 cm)
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Steven MacGregor Read and Museum Purchase, Joyce I. Swader Bequest Fund 1997.28
I disagree with Cole pasting a guy in there. He should have just stuck with nature paintings that he's so good at.
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My attempt at a Lego prometheus ship. Not a big fan of the movie but I love this ship. Its like a smaller ship with a smaller crew. The cockpit is larger
Now Iapetus took to wife the neat-ankled maid Clymene, daughter of Ocean, and went up with her into one bed. And she bore him a stout-hearted son, Atlas: also she bore very glorious Menoetius and clever Prometheus, full of various wiles, and scatter-brained Epimetheus who from the first was a mischief to men who eat bread; for it was he who first took of Zeus the woman, the maiden whom he had formed. But Menoetius was outrageous, and farseeing Zeus struck him with a lurid thunderbolt and sent him down to Erebus because of his mad presumption and exceeding pride. And Atlas through hard constraint upholds the wide heaven with unwearying head and arms, standing at the borders of the earth before the clear-voiced Hesperides; for this lot wise Zeus assigned to him. And ready-witted Prometheus he bound with inextricable bonds, cruel chains, and drove a shaft through his middle, and set on him a long-winged eagle, which used to eat his immortal liver; but by night the liver grew as much again everyway as the long-winged bird devoured in the whole day. - Hesiod, Theogony, 650 BC
It's surreal, looking at Credit Default Swaps and term structure curves of a ticking time-bomb of Greek hell in the day, and adjusting Curves and Levels of photos of an apparently heavenly Greece at night.