Humans know what happens in the minutes after they die, research says Scientists have found evidence that suggests the human brain still works for a short time after death – meaning people know when they’re dead. Researchers made the discovery by looking at cardiac arrest cases in Europe and the US. What they learned was … Continue reading Mortality
Playing For Change is proud to present this video of the song "What A Wonderful World" featuring Grandpa Elliott with children's choirs across the globe. In these hard times, children and music bring us hope for a better future.
Art can be a powerful form of resistance to the horrors of war. Throughout history, artists have used their creativity.
While Putin's Russian military murderous machine advances on the city committing atrocities... an open-air concert named ‘Free Sky’ has taken place at Independence Square in central Kyiv, Ukraine. An orchestra assembled before a small crowd on Wednesday to play the national anthem as Russian forces advanced on the city. PH: REUTERS/Gleb Garanich https://fb.watch/bEJ3E-NpJd/
Clearly, this Métal Hurlant (‘Screaming Metal’) name was a reference to Jimi Hendrix's sound as both Jean (Moebius) Giraud and Philippe Druillet were his fans.
MeToo Medusa Sculpture Met with Controversy Ahead of Unveiling in New York. By Tessa Solomon, ARTnews, October 12, 2020: Downtown Manhattan will soon to be the home a seven-foot-tall bronze of the gorgon Medusa. The sculpture, titled Medusa With the Head of Perseus, is by Argentine-Italian artist Luciano Garbati, and it will be installed in the park facing the … Continue reading #MeToo Medusa Sculpture
Watching "Star Trek's "What Are Little Girls Made Of?" (TV Episode 1966), whose title is a reference to "What Are Little Boys Made Of?", a popular nursery rhyme dating from the early 19th century. In this Star Trek episode, a Nurse Chapel searches for her long lost fiancé and uncovers his secret plan to create … Continue reading Androids’ Dreams…
Applying maths and measurement, Leonardo created a beautiful and practical map of Imola accurate enough to navigate the Italian city today. Source: Leonardo da Vinci transformed mapping from art to science. By National Geographic History, 28 May 2020. Imola In 1502, the famous Renaissance polymath, pre-dated airplanes and satellites by centuries. Leonardo da Vinci created … Continue reading Leonardo da Vinci transformed mapping from art to science
I decided to post this blog on this historic day (10 april, 2019) as the world has for the first time seen a picture of a "black hole". Source: "Here’s the first image of a black hole" by Brian Heater. As an artist I "painted" such a "black hole" after my meeting with the now … Continue reading Black holes: painting the invisible
A 'rolling stone' refers to a free wanderer. By 1546, John Heywood published "A dialogue conteinyng the nomber in effect of all the prouerbes in the Englishe tongue": The rollyng stone neuer gatherth mosse.John Heywood By the early 17th century, a 'rolling stone' was referred to as a type of wastrel - one who would … Continue reading A Rolling Stone Gathers No Moss
Art and money do not go well together. Art dealers, people, or businesses that buy and sell works of art live in very different, sometimes antagonistic worlds than artists'. It is not new. In older times artists were mere craftsmen paid for manual work to please their patrons (monarchs, aristocrats, church, etc.) In modern times, … Continue reading The Artist and the Dealer
At the cathedral of Chartres, Orson Welles is reflecting on men's vanity. https://vimeo.com/303785418 Orson Welles (F For Fake - 1973) And this has been standing here for centuries. The premier work of man perhaps in the whole Western world, and it’s without a signature: Chartres. A celebration to God’s glory and to the dignity of … Continue reading “Maybe a man’s name doesn’t matter all that much…”
"Before the Law" (German: "Vor dem Gesetz") is a parable contained in the novel The Trial (German: Der Prozess), by Franz Kafka. "Before the Law" was published in Kafka's lifetime, first in the 1915 New Year's edition of the independent Jewish weekly Selbstwehr. Before the Law by Franz Kafka Translation by Ian Johnston Before the … Continue reading Before the Law
These "tips" are shown here more for practical reasons rather than for some "Esoteric Knowledge" pertaining to some "platonic secrets to the universe". These are no secrets and are based on my practical professional experience as a portrait painter. Read article HERE.
After nearly 50 years, Orson Welles’s unfinished final opus "The Other Side of the Wind" was finally completed. Welles died before he could complete this film. I just watched it on Netflix which also had broadcast its own documentary about Welles and this film, titled "They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead". Welles' film appears showing … Continue reading “The other side of the wind” and the grumpy old man…
I revisited my post on Van Gogh written on Tuesday, 27 July 2010. I wrote then: My Van Gogh painting 2010 Exactly 120 years ago, in July 27, 1890,Vincent Van Gogh walked out into the fields around Auvers-sur-Oise and shot himself in the chest with a revolver. He died two days later. Yet, by all … Continue reading Homage to Vincent Van Gogh. Revisited.
The BP Portrait Award is an annual portraiture competition held at the National Portrait Gallery in London, England. "BP" stands for "British petroleum" now "BP plc", one of the world's six "supermajor" oil and gas companies. Rembrandt's laughing self portrait as Democritus. A recent Guardian's article Sad face: doom and gloom at the 2015 BP … Continue reading BP Portrait Award: where are the “Rembrandts”?
At this circus school in a refugee camp, kids are learning to juggle, jump and forget their troubles.
At this circus school in a refugee camp, kids are learning to juggle, jump and forget their troubles.
Yves Messer 
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