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Paste-up street art by Myth, seen in Manchester, England. Depicting a man walking away from a trashed Spiderman costume, with the words "I was bored before I even began", which is a line from The Smiths song "Shoplifters of the World Unite". The artist Myth is a Brooklyn-based street artist.
In “Fasti” Book I, Ovid tells us about Livia as a goddess.
«utque ego perpetuis olim sacrabor in aris,
sic Augusta novum lulia numen erit.»
[Fasti. I, 535 – 536]
“shall one day be sanctified at eternal altars, so shall Julia Augusta be a new divinity"
Ovid's addressee is Germanicus, Drusus Major’s son, Livia's grandson, adopted by her son and his uncle Tiberius to be joint heir with Tiberius' natural son Drusus the Younger. By the will of Augustus, Livia was adopted into the Julian family and became Julia Augusta. With these verses Ovid anticipates her deification by her grandson, the emperor Claudius.
«hanc tua constituit genetrix et rebus et ara,
sola toro magni digna reperta lovis.» [Fasti. I, 649 – 650]
“That goddess your mother honored both by her life and by an altar, she who alone was found worthy to share the bed of mighty Jupiter.”
The addressee of this second passage is Tiberius, Livia’s son from her previous marriage with Tiberius Claudius Nero. Here Augustus is assimilated to Juppiter.
Translation By Franzer J.G.
Marble statue
223 x 87 x 40 cm
38 - 40 AD
From Parma, “Complesso Monumentale della Pilotta”
Exhibition: “Ovidio: Loves, Myths & Other Stories”
Scuderie del Quirinale, Rome
Ancient myth and contemporary fashion combine to create a magical doll. Barbie® doll as Medusa wears a green corset and chiffon fishtail skirt. Long, auburn curls play against the golden snake arm cuffs and necklace, which foretell the serpents that will become her hair.
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Myth of tomorrow of Tarō Okamoto
(February 26, 1911 – January 7, 1996)
Tarō Okamoto was a Japanese artist noted for his abstract and avant-garde paintings and sculpture. He was known for the quote, "Art is Magic" and "Art is Explosion." One of his most famous works, Tower of the Sun, became the symbol of Expo '70 in Suita, Osaka, 1970.
Taro Okamoto was a citizen of the world whose much lauded abstract mural “Asu no Shinwa” (Myth of tomorrow) mural depicting the horror and destruction of the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki will be unveiled to the public in Tokyo’s Shibuya ward on November 17th 2008.
This massive work was Okamoto’s largest, measuring 30 meters in length and 5.5 meters high, and was originally commissioned in 1967 by a Mexican property developer. The piece was displayed in the lobby of a luxury hotel until the developer had financial troubles and was forced to sell the hotel in 1969. Myth of tomorrow subsequently went missing and was not found until 2003.
After being returned to Japan, Myth of Tomorrow was displayed at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo from April 27, 2007 to April 13, 2008. The piece was then dismantled and moved to a corridor linking the Shibuya stations of the JR and Keio Inokashira lines where it will remain on permanent public display.
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Ho hum. After years of believing that Walter Raleigh brought tobacco and potatoes to England, it turns out that potatoes came via Italy, and tobacco came from France where it was introduced by Jean Nicot (hence nicotene). Oh, and he didn't spread his cloak over a puddle for Queen Elizabeth to walk over.
Still, the myth gave Bob Newhart some pretty good material!
Sarcophagus' frieze depicting the myth of Jason and Medea in Corinth.
Roman Sarcophagus, 140-150 AD
Berlin, Altes Museum
Using sacred wood that grows in a cemetery, the mask is sculpt on a blessed fine day, and using a real tusk of a babyrousa.
got new glasses this weekend!
prescription has gone up again... right eye is now up to 7! :0 leftie is ok... that's the one I use to take photos with :)
also got some new lipstick - I never ever wear lipstick normally, but I've never tried this colour before and I love it! it's mac and I think the colour is myth - my sister bought it a while ago but she let me keep it because she wasn't too keen~
In the Navajo myth of the fall, the quarrel between First Man and First Woman came to pass in this way: When she had finished her meal she wiped her hands in her dress and said: "E'ydhe si-tsod" (Thanks, my vagina). "What is that you say?" asked First Man. "E'ye'he si-tsod" she repeated. "Why do you speak thus?" he queried; "Was it not I who killed the deer whose flesh you have eaten? Why do you not thank me? Was it tsod that killed the deer?" "Yes," she replied; "If it were not for that, you would not have killed the deer. If it were not for that, you lazy men would do nothing. It is that which does all the work." "Then, perhaps, you women think you can live without the men," he said. "Certainly we can. It is we women who till the fields and gather food: we can live on the produce of our fields, and the seeds and fruits we collect. We have no need of you men." Thus they argued. First Man became more and more angry with each reply that his wife made, until at length, in wrath, he jumped across the fire. During the separation of the sexes, both the men and the women were guilty of shameful practices, which the story-tellers very particularly describe. Through the transgressions of the women the andye, alien gods or monsters, who afterwards nearly annihilated the human race, came into existence (Matthews, 1897, p.218).
The First Woman has a point! But if you find a woman inside you and you are woman, then I guess one is more inclined to think that it is oneself not a self-representation. Alas, I think the first number is three, at least in my case. Perhaps it is different for women, who may be almost two in the first place. After all they may have two types of libido. I am not, nought, no thing. In me the eye that wants to look is an alien.
Matthews, W. (1897). Navaho Legends. American Folk-Lore Society. archive.org/details/agy7773.0001.001.umich.edu