The Epic of Gilgamesh #9
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Desc: The elders made way. The young men cheered. |
Sharyar ( http://romantic-drops7-rumi.blogspot.com/ )
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Desc: Persian, Poet, Poetry,Literature, Politics, Philosophy, General Knowledge, Entertainment, Nima, Shamlou, Sohrab Sepehri, Maryam Haderzadeh, Ali Salehi,Freindship, Love, Afghan, Iran, Tajikistan, Music , Moien, Moein,Humnan Rights, Women Rights, RoManTic_drOpS7 |
Sage Francis - Hopeless
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Desc: Sage Francis' "Hopeless" ... one of the finest pieces of literature around...rough and direct, straight in the heart. |
Literally Alive (TM) Children's Theatre
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Desc: Literally AliveTM is a NYC -based children's theatre company that produces original musicals based on classic children's literature.
See excerpts from four of our shows and workshop |
la llorona
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Desc: we had to trash our original script, so we improvised this corny little flick |
Amedeo Modigliani Paintings
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Desc: Amedeo Modigliani was born in Livorno (Leghorn) on 12 July 1884 into a rich merchant family. Versed in literature and art at an early age, Modigliani took his first lessons in drawing and painting between 1898 and 1900 at Guglielmo Micheli's studio. Modigliani was particularly fond of the Italian Early Renaissance. In 1902 Modigliani shared a studio in Florence with Oscar Ghilia and became a pupil at the free school for drawing from the nude. A year later Modigliani transferred to the Venice Academy, where he spent a great deal of time studying the works of the Old Masters and became familiar with international movements in art.
Modigliani went to Paris in 1906 to study at the private Colarossi Academy. In 1907 he met a young physician, Paul Alexandre, who was the first person to promote his work. Alexandre not only bought paintings and drawings of Modigliani's; he also helped to arrange the artist's first commissions. That same year Modigliani showed work at the Salon d'Automne and a year later at the Salon des Indépendents. The few pictures by Modigliani to have survived from that period reveal the influence of the Fauves, Matisse, Toulouse-Lautrec, Picasso and Cézanne. Paul Alexandre introduced Modigliani to the sculptor Constantin Brancusi and Modigliani began to sculpt under his influence but he gave up sculpture in 1914/15 to devote himself to painting. The same salient features are common to both Modigliani's sculpture and his painting: despite mask-like stylization, a poignant grace and spirituality inform Modigliani's heads. His lasting fame rests on the portraits of artists he did after 1914.
On the outbreak of the First World War, Modigliani volunteered for service but was exempted for health reasons: two severe attacks of tuberculosis had left him weakened for the rest of his life. Modigliani began to work with the art dealer Paul Guillaume and was also supported by the Polish poet Léopold Zborovski and his wife, doing many portraits of both. Modigliani's first one-man show was opened by the Galerie Berthe Weill on 3 December 1917 but was closed after only a few hours because his nudes caused a public scandal. Modigliani left Paris while it was under German siege in 1918 and went to Nice with his mistress, Jeanne Hébuterne. There he did some of his best known pictures and some of his few landscapes. A daughter was born to him in Nice. In May 1919 Modigliani returned to Paris and went to England several times, thus ensuring the successful sale of his work there. Early in 1920, however, Modigliani again fell ill of tuberculosis and died in Paris on 24 January.
Video Provided by http://www.allpaintings.org/v/Expressionism/Amedeo+Modigliani/
Music by Gotan Project - La Revancha Del Tango |
Prayers by the Lake (30 )
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Desc: ... |
Life Before During and After: A History of Native Americans
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Desc: This is a school project for my Native American Literature class that I did with a friend. The title explains it all. |
Solar System: Mars
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Desc: Mars is the fourth planet from the sun. Fabled in myth and literature, Mars has tickled the fancy of earthbound artists, writers, and philosophers through the ages. Named after Mars, the Roman god of war, this red planet was thought for many years to be the closest in similarity to earth, and so our fiction and film abounds with Martians and invasions from Mars. Early astronomers like Giovanni Schiaparelli and Percival Lowell even suggested they had seen markings on the planet that resembled canals. The scary side of Mars came to a head in 1938 when Orson Welles presented a radio version of H.G. Wells' "War of the Worlds" dressed up as a series of newscasts and scared the skivvies off a large portion of the American population. We now have closeups of Mars and a number of shots of the surface which pretty well wreck the idea of any imminent invasion from that part of space. The music is from Gustav Holst's seven-movement orchestral suite, The Planets Op. 32. This particular movement is called "Mars, the Bringer of War." |
How To Write The Great American Novel
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Desc: The National Book Association Of America
proudly presents
How To Write The Great American Novel |
Book Trailer for Coffin County by Gary A. Braunbeck
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Desc: Trailer for the new novel in the Cedar Hill Cycle |
The Mystery Guest Trailer
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Desc: The Mystery Guest: A Trailer |
Sunset Prospekt
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Desc: Writer Anthony Steyning interviewed about his Hollywood take on Russia´s KGB |
chicka chicka boom boom
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Desc: children's literature - story time |
Pubget is like Pubmed, except you get the PDFs right away
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Desc: Each year, scientists and doctors spend more than a quarter billion minutes searching for biomedical literature online. This is time that could better be spent exploring science and curing disease. Pubget was founded to give you that time back. |
Robert Wuhl reads "The Vice-Principal"
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Desc: Robert Wuhl reads "The Vice-Principal" by Houshang Moradi Kermani, from the book "Literature from the Axis of Evil" |
