Maintaining his arm strength and definition, Lance Cpl. Christopher J. Talbot, a scout with Charlie Company, 2nd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, Regimental Combat Team 5, curls a 50 pound dumbbell during one of his weight lifting sessions at Camp Korean Village, Iraq. Via USMC mil.
STOP SHOP at Port Authority Bus Terminal NYC, 641 8th Ave. Corner of 41st and 8th, Open Wednesday December 2nd, 2009 - Saturday January 2nd, 2010, presented by Areaware.
These look like those “no gun” stickers that are on doors to public buildings in the U.S. Peekasso: b:ang
Metal on Metal “BASTARD” by The Glue Society.
Who doesn’t like the name BUG DOME, who doesn’t love a giant nest sprouting up out of the concrete jungle like some sort of deranged home for Mothra? Bug Dome by WEAK! Architects - “For the Shenzhen Hong Kong biennale, the taiwanese architectural group WEAK! Architects have created ‘Bug Dome’ and installed it on the outdoor space northeast of the shenzhen civic center.
As part of the theme - ‘Losing the Countryside’, WEAK! architects brought many workers from the southern part of china for their performance. based around insects the ‘Bug Dome’ is constructed out of bamboo and weak concrete in the form of cement mixed with soil. All the necessary materials were collected from around the building site and will return to the natural environment after the biennale.
The cocoon is a temporary multi-functional architecture space, which will serve as a workshop for children, as well as a performance area by underground bands, poetry parties and architecture forums.”
Each morning, as I confront my closet’s array,
I have to admit again that the life I lead
is hardly good enough: I have not been named
ambassador to Malta; I am not on the board
of any college or large corporation; I shall not
receive a major prize today and pose
for photographers. Those suits, the shirts, the ties
are ready, but I am not, and the shoes are shined
as they wait for different occasions than I imagined
on the tailor’s block, when I shopped for a dandified
future brighter than what I expect or deserve.
Even for weddings and funerals that require
a suit, I choose from the second best, reserving
that one for the dream into which I yet hope to awake
Gen Miyamura: Image Langue - Temptation of Indecipherable Characters - Sublimating the beauty of characters or bokusho through radical approaches. “Traditionally trained japanese calligrapher, Gen Miyamura will present his new work, image langue at Sfera Exhibition in kyoto, japan. Image Langue - Temptation of Indecipherable Characters - is an experience in reading the abstract, more precisely, a dot code which is formed by miyamura’s impressive bokusho work, a form of brush calligraphy.”
Sex and Sanctity: Eros Exhibition Bares All in Athens - Reading the Guardian UK online I stumbled up the following; “From phallic lamps to erotic figures, a bawdy new exhibition depicting the sex lives of the ancient Greeks has opened at the Museum of Cycladic Art in Athens. More than 270 objets d’art, some dating back as far as the sixth century BC, portray the loves and lusts of the gods – as well as murkier erotic practices such as pederasty and sex with animals. The show runs until April 2010, but why not sneak a peek here …”
Left, a statue known as Feathered Eros. ‘The concept of Eros – love – was very broad in ancient times,’ says the archaeologist Nicholaos Stampolidis, director of the museum. ‘Sexual desire was … a unifying force that encompassed the desire for anyone or indeed anything. Right, a bronze winged phallus in the form of a lion with pendant bells (dated from the first century AD) Hmmm a prick bangle, kinky fuckers.
DNA Tests Could Solve Mystery of Baroque Master Caravaggio’s Death -“The mystery surrounding the death of Baroque master Caravaggio may soon be resolved thanks to new DNA tests — as long as the right body can be found. What caused the death of the painter in 1610 and the whereabouts of his corpse have always been unclear. But a team of Italian anthropologists believe that what is left of Caravaggio’s body may be hidden among dozens of bodies buried in a crypt in Tuscany, thanks to recent historical clues.”
*Musicians 1595, 92 cm × 118.5 cm (36 in × 47 in), Oil on Canvas, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City.
