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Perfume para o concurso ALEA realizado na Escola Panamericana em 2007, aqui uma inspiração na bela Jessica Habbit que posteriormente passou a adornar as cores do perfume.
Desenho em Flash e pintura no Photoshop
Melanie is hosting this wonderful swap with the Marie Antoinette Mail Art Group. This is an extra one I made, these are so much fun.
If you have not red the Baker Hotel set information, here is my experience in this room:
One of the "hauntings" of the Baker tells that when you are on the seventh floor you can smell the perfume of what is said to be Mr. Baker's mistress. When Nick and I entered this room, it was like any other. I immediately smelled something sweet, but thought nothing of it, so continued to explore. The smell became stronger, so I turned to him and jokingly said, "Something smells good!" And he spins around and quickly explains that he smells it, too. He then tells me the story of the so-said haunting, which I had never heard before. So it struck us as quite odd that we were smelling something that resembled a perfume, especially under the circumstances that it's a common experience here.
Now, let me explain that I am a natural skeptic. That does not mean that I am not willing to believe what could be out there or even than I don't want to. It's just that I REALLY want to make sure of something before I decide it's true in my mind. So we searched for anything that could be the reason for the scent, but found nothing. And it wasn't coming from a particular area, it was just looming in the air. It was nowhere else but in this room. Not in the hallway, the rooms next door, only in this two-part guest room of sky blue and lime green. It was my first ever unexplainable experience exploring. :)
The Baker Hotel
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The 'Macmillan Aryballos' perfume bottle. Found in Thebes and attributed to the Chigi painter.
Protocorinthian, 650BC.
On display at the British Museum, room 13: Greece 1050-520 BC.
Information from; www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_object...
"Despite its tiny size, the main figure scene on this perfume bottle displays no fewer than seventeen fully-armed warriors. They are locked in combat, thrusting their spears, jostling for position, or falling to the ground. Each warrior is armed with plumed helmet, spear and blazoned shield. Some are realistically streaked with blood. Two further figure scenes below show a horse-race and a hare-hunt. The upper part of the vase takes the form of a lion's head, its mouth open to display rows of fearsome teeth and a red tongue.
In the seventh century BC, Corinth took the lead in the development of fine painted pottery. It specialized in the production of small perfume vessels covered with a dense and intricate network of animals and flowers. This style, known as Protocorinthian, is characterized by designs in silhouette with added colour and incision. It is the earliest use of the black-figure technique, which was to dominate the production of fine painted pottery throughout the Greek world until the end of the sixth century BC."
A panoramic view of the Perfume River from Thien Mu Pagoda.
Vietnam is at about its thinnest at this point. The distant mountains seen here are more than three-quarters the way to the Lao border. Beyond the mountains, and running parallel with the border, lies the A Shau Valley, scene of much desperate fighting during the Vietnam war, particularly on the infamous Hamburger Hill, which lies between the A Shau and the Border.
Between the 10th and 20th May 1969, US Airborne and South Vietnamese troops (mainly the former!) succeeded in capturing the hill, on and in which North Vietnamese troops were deeply dug in. There was much debate afterwards about the cost and value of attacking and subsequently abandoning an otherwise meaningless jungle covered mountain. In my view, this misrepresents the point of the battle, which was to destroy the enemy regiment on the mountain, not capture the mountain itself.
The Americans lost 72 men KIA on Hamburger Hill while the bodies of 630 members of the 29th regiment of the People's Army of North Vietnam were counted. Many more are believed to have been buried within their bunkers by the 450 tons of bombs and 69 tons of napalm dropped on them.
Shortly after, Life Magazine published the photographs of 241 Americans killed in one week in Vietnam, which is considered to be another watershed point in the war. While only five of these were casualties on Hamburger Hill, many Americans had the perception that all the dead were victims of the one battle.
Life's like a bottle, half empty and half full... enjoy the full part, but never forget about the empty one !
Liked the lighting. Playing with a new lens. It's Burberry Weekend by the way, if you were thinking about getting it, and yes, it's fabulous.
Strobist Info: Vivitar 285 HV fired at 1/16th through white paper placed under the subject and a reflector umbrella above.
The products were kept in a glass bowl partly filled with water.
And yes, I got my flash today, and this is my first experiment :)
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Submitted for Macro Mondays. The theme this week is "Abracadabra." I am looking for some magic in stars and bokeh. And there is magic in perfume--especially when it is a perfume called Alchimie!
Aroma Interessante, Marcante, Ótima Fixação, Gruda No Osso rsrsrs... Muito Bom. Durante o Dia Uma Borrifada Já é O Suficiente Para Ficar o Dia Todo Cheiroso, a Noite Até 3 Borrifadas Em Climas Ameno. Nota 9 Para o Perfume.
Perfume flask shaped like a fish, 500–330 BC
found at Takht-i Kuwad, Tajikistan
Gold
This gold flask shaped like a fish contained perfumed oil. A ring on its side was probably for a chain that may have been used to hang it from the owner’s belt or to attach a stopper. Aromatic oils were used to style a nobleman’s beard and ringlets, keeping them shiny and fragrant.
The fish has been identified as a barbel, a freshwater species endemic to the Oxus river and Caspian Sea.*
From the exhibition
Luxury and power: Persia to Greece
(May 2023 – Aug 2023)
Between 490 and 479 BC, the Persian empire tried, and failed, to conquer mainland Greece. Many Greeks explained their victory as a triumph of plain living over a ‘barbarian’ enemy weakened by luxury. Ancient objects reveal a different story. The Persian court used luxury as an expression of prestige and power, with a distinctive style that was imitated and adapted across cultural borders, even influencing democratic Athens and, later, the world of Alexander the Great.
'Treasure there was in plenty – tents full of gold and silver furniture… bowls, goblets, and cups, all made of gold'
When Greek soldiers captured the royal command tent of the Persian king during the Greco-Persian Wars (499–449 BC), they were confronted suddenly and spectacularly by luxury on an unimaginable scale. To many ancient Greek writers, the victories of the small Greek forces against the mighty Persians were a triumph of discipline and restraint over an empire weakened by decadence and excess.
Drawing on dazzling objects from Afghanistan to Greece, this exhibition moved beyond the ancient Greek spin to explore a more complex story about luxury as a political tool in the Middle East and southeast Europe from 550–30 BC. It explored how the royal Achaemenid court of Persia used precious objects as markers of authority, defining a style of luxury that resonated across the empire from Egypt to India. It considered how eastern luxuries were received in early democratic Athens, self-styled as Persia's arch-enemy, and how they were adapted in innovative ways to make them socially and politically acceptable. Finally, it explored how Alexander the Great swept aside the Persian empire to usher in a new Hellenistic age in which eastern and western styles of luxury were fused as part of an increasingly interconnected world.
The exhibition brought together exquisitely crafted objects in gold, silver and glass, and featured star loans including the extraordinary Panagyurishte Treasure from Bulgaria. Whether coveted as objects of prestige or disparaged as signs of decadence, the beauty of these Persian, Greek and Hellenistic luxuries shaped the political landscape of Europe and Asia in the first millennium BC – and their legacy persists in our attitudes to luxury today.
[*British Musem]
Taken in the British Museum
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