Because of the 'War on Christmas', it's more PC to say Happy Holidays. You've got to check out Bad Album Covers - volume 2 on flickr. He is hilarious!!
Showing posts with label flickr. Show all posts
Showing posts with label flickr. Show all posts
Sunday, December 21, 2008
Monday, April 02, 2007
Tuesday, March 27, 2007
Prague Alleyway
This is Prague, where Franz Kafka lived. Admittedly, Kafka is too depressing to actually read. The last thing I read was "The Metamorphosis" and it was the saddest thing ever. Kafka himself was a nice person, very charming and sweet. Unfortunately he had an insidious attachment to an oafish father whose approval he couldn't get. And he knew it. But it allowed him to define modern paranoia and become immortal.
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
Excited by new blog I found
A flickr user, Annabelle13, has the most surreal and haunting group of collages. She also has two blogs that are quite beautiful. Check them out.
underneathasugarywatermelonmoon.blogspot.com
pastoraldreams.blogspot.com
Wednesday, March 14, 2007
National Library, Vienna Austria
Some people on flickr have photographs of this rococo masterpiece. I never knew about it.
Monday, February 19, 2007
Michelangelo Buonarotti
Michelangelo was so passionate and emotional. I love the mannerist style. The reaching of the two hands toward each other is a pinnacle of humanist iconograhy. This gorgeous photo was blogged from flickr.
Monday, February 12, 2007
Submarine Lagoon
It was a blast from the past to see this on flickr. I used to go on this ride and thought it was really under the ocean!
Friday, February 09, 2007
Lewis Chessman, British Museum
The Lewis Chessmen in the British Museum were probably made in Norway, about AD 1150-1200
Found on the Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland
The chess pieces consist of elaborately worked walrus ivory and whales' teeth in the forms of seated kings and queens, mitred bishops, knights on their mounts, standing warders and pawns in the shape of obelisks.
(Written by RobRoyAus on Flickr)
Wednesday, February 07, 2007
Tuesday, December 12, 2006
Christmas in Germany
Because of the Grimm Brothers' fairy tale associations, I think of Germany as the embodiment of Christmas. It seems to go with the gingerbread house of Hansel and Gretel. (Photo from flickr - I need to find the credit.)
Tuesday, October 31, 2006
Magical Places - St. Petersburg
St. Petersburg Church Domes
Originally uploaded by Brenda M.
Church built where Czar Alexander II was assassinated, hence its name, "Church of the Savior on the Spilled Blood". from flickr
Monday, October 23, 2006
Neptune and Amphitrite
neptune and amphitrite
Originally uploaded by heavenuphere.
This beautiful mosaic is very large and decorated a wall at Herculaneum. (from flickr)
Wednesday, October 18, 2006
Friday, September 22, 2006
Wednesday, September 20, 2006
Magical Places - El Escorial, Spain
IMG_1236
Originally uploaded by Mike Connelly.
Royal monastery...photo blogged from flickr. Click on link to see the photographer's other photos.
Thursday, August 24, 2006
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