Druids and their friends gather at Stonehenge to celebrate the rising of the sun on Summer Solstice 2017 in these photos from The Telegraph.
Happy Summer Solstice 2017!
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Game of Thrones Sing-Along
Survive?
In Game of Thrones?
Magic 8 Ball says: “Unlikely”.
Less than four weeks to go until a new season of Game of Thrones once again takes over our Sunday nights and Monday mornings.
More Images from the Bosch, Brueghel, and Arcimboldo Experience
I’ve found more images from this year’s Carrières de Lumières program, which features the works of Bosch, Brueghel, and Arcimboldo.
Even these still photographs are awesome. Seeing them in motion, with a soundtrack that ranges from Carl Orff to Vivaldi to Led Zeppelin, must be amazing. There’s a brief video at the above link that will give you a hint of what visitors to the site will experience.
(All photos found on the Net.)
“The Fantastic and Wonderful World of Bosch, Brueghel, and Arcimboldo” is open now, and will run through 7 January 2018.
“The Fantastic and Wonderful World of Bosch, Brueghel, and Arcimboldo”
This year’s Carrières de Lumières program looks like a stunner. It’s called “The Fantastic and Wonderful World of Bosch, Brueghel, and Arcimboldo”, and it runs from 4 March 2017 to 7 January 2018.
Here’s a peek:
Carrières de Lumières is an immersive art and music installation which is staged in what used to be a quarry, in the French village Les Baux de Provence. The massive rock walls of the quarry form the backdrop for a son et lumière program that changes each year.
I’ve posted items about the 2014 Klimt and Vienna and the 2015 Chagall: Midsummer Night’s Dreams programs, and about how much I’d like to work for Culturespaces, the European company that designs and manages events like this for 13 monuments and museums, most of them in France. The only things that are standing in my way are my total lack of artistic talent and my residence on the wrong continent.
Complementing the son et lumière this summer are four monumental sculptures by Philip Haas, which will be on display in the Château des Baux-de-Provence from 23 May through 30 September. The sculptures of the giant heads are inspired by Giuseppe Arcimboldo’s “The Four Seasons” paintings.
“Oh, to be in Provence, Now that Summer’s there”
—Close, but not quite by Robert Browning
Offered at Auction: Warhol — The Album Covers
Oh, this looks like fun! Andy would approve.*
Between 1949 and 1987, Andy Warhol designed the sleeves for 60 LP records. And now you can own the whole set. All you have to do is place the high bid in an auction.
The estimate is €50,000 (about ~US$55,980).
The Complete Warhol LPs, the full set of Andy Warhol record sleeves, will be offered at auction by PIASA in Paris on 22 June 2017. According to the auction notes:
“This unique ensemble, assembled by a passionate music-lover, transports us through 40 years of musical creativity. It has never been offered at auction before.”
The 60 vinyl discs are included in the collection, but the notes say nothing about the vintage or condition of the records.
Warhol’s instantly recognizable jacket for the first Velvet Underground album, featuring a peelable banana, is the most famous item in the collection, and one of the best known record sleeves of all time. Warhol is credited as the “producer” of the album, which was hugely influential, and still shows up on most “Greatest Rock Album Ever” lists, 50 years after its release. The copy offered at auction was signed by Warhol.
Also included is the notorious jacket for the Rolling Stones’ Sticky Fingers, which featured a very explicit crotch shot of Joe Dallesandro—“…generally considered to be the most famous male sex symbol of American underground films of the 20th century,” according to Wikipedia—in skin-tight jeans. The Smiths later used a photograph of Dallesandro from the Warhol film Flesh as the cover of their 1984 self-titled début album The Smiths.
A related video. (As if I needed an excuse to post it….)
*On second thought, Warhol would probably be irritated that someone else figured out a way to monetize the album jackets before he did.
Better Than a Hoverboard!
Remember those hoverboards that Back to the Future promised we’d have by 21 October 2015?
Were you as exasperated as I was when 21 October 2015 came and went, without the slightest need for public service announcements warning kids to always wear a helmet when hovering? Once again, we’d been deceived by the powerful and secretive Media/Flying-Transportation Complex, just as earlier generations had been deceived when they were promised jet packs and flying cars, and taken in by those fake “1969 Moon Landing” movies that were filmed in a North Carolina studio.
We won’t get fooled again.
Because this time, it’s for real. Our wait is over.
Here’s how the game ball was delivered at Portugal’s Cup Final on Sunday:
When Amazon offers a pre-order option, I’ll be the first to sign up.
Game of Thrones Season 7 — Official Trailer
And once again, I’m reduced to quivering fanboy status, unable to come up with anything more insightful than “Oooooh! Oooooh! Oooooh!” I feel the same way I did when Breaking Bad reached those final two seasons: I couldn’t wait to see the next episode, but at the same time, I dreaded the approach of the end of a masterpiece.
I’m not the only one feeling ambiguous about the completion of Game of Thrones. Word is that George R. R. Martin, always eager for an excuse to avoid finishing the Song of Ice and Fire book series on which the show is based, is working with HBO on four or five possible Game of Thrones spinoffs.
Better Call Littlefinger, anybody?
Brilliant trailer, btw, but of course it is.
The penultimate series of Game of Thrones will begin airing in the US on 16 July 2017, with a simultaneous screening in the UK, where it will be 2 AM on the 17th.
