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A Young Hare by Albrecht Dürer
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Durer, Albrecht (1471-1528) – 1502 A Young Hare
Albrecht Dürer was a German painter, printmaker and theorist from Nuremberg. His watercolors mark him as one of the first European landscape artists, while his ambitious woodcuts revolutionized the potential of that medium. Dürer’s introduction of classical motifs into Northern art, through his knowledge of Italian artists and German humanists, have secured his reputation as one of the most important figures of the Northern Renaissance. This is reinforced by his theoretical treatise which involve principles of mathematics, perspective and ideal proportions.
His prints established his reputation across Europe when he was still in his twenties, and he has been conventionally regarded as the greatest artist of the Renaissance in Northern Europe ever since.
Monet – Le Grenoillere
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Claude Monet (1840-1926) – 1869 – Le Grenoillere (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
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Anne Sexton: The Room of My Life
Anne Sexton: The Room of My Life
Here,
in the room of my life
the objects keep changing.
Ashtrays to cry into,
the suffering brother of the wood walls,
the forty-eight keys of the typewriter
each an eyeball that is never shut,
the books, each a contestant in a beauty contest,
the black chair, a dog coffin made of Naugahyde,
the sockets on the wall
waiting like a cave of bees,
the gold rug
a conversation of heels and toes,
the fireplace
a knife waiting for someone to pick it up,
the sofa, exhausted with the exertion of a whore,
the phone
two flowers taking root in its crotch,
the doors
opening and closing like sea clams,
the lights
poking at me,
lighting up both the soil and the laugh.
The windows,
the starving windows
that drive the trees like nails into my heart.
Each day I feed the world out there
although birds explode
right and left.
I feed the world in here too,
offering the desk puppy biscuits.
However, nothing is just what it seems to be.
My objects dream and wear new costumes,
compelled to, it seems, by all the words in my hands
and the sea that bangs in my throat.
— from The Complete Poems of Anne Sexton (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1981)
Eddie Henderson – Galaxy (1975)
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Blue Note, 1975.
Funky fusion doesn’t get any funkier than this — and the album’s one of the greatest 70s recordings by jazz funk trumpeter Eddie Henderson! The album’s got a harder edge than a lot of Eddie’s other records of the decade — razor sharp rhythms crackling away underneath a sublime space-heavy mix of keyboards, bass, saxes, and Eddie’s funky trumpet. The group includes work by Harvey Mason, George Duke, Julian Priester, Alphonso Johnson, and Bennie Maupin — and the great Skip Drinkwater is at the production chair, cutting the grooves here with a lot more fire than in some of his later work! The whole thing’s great
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Herbie Hancock and Mwandishi in Molde (1971)
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Mwandishi / Herbie Hancock: Fender Rhodes
Mchezaji / Buster Williams: Bass
Jabali / Billy Hart: Drums
Mganga / Eddie Henderson: Trumpet, Flugelhorn
Mwile / Bennie Maupin: Bass clarinet, Tenor Sax
Pepo Mtoto / Julian Priester: Trombone
Kuroshio Sea
Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium in Japan. The main tank called the ‘Kuroshio Sea’ holds 7,500-cubic meters (1,981,290 gallons) of water and features the world’s second largest acrylic glass panel, measuring 8.2 meters by 22.5 meters with a thickness of 60 centimeters. Whale sharks and manta rays are kept amongst many other fish species in the main tank.
WE MUST PROTECT OUR OCEANS!
Shot by Jon Rawlinson: http://jonrawlinson.com
Music: Please Don’t Go – Barcelona
Full Screen Kuroshio
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