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Death spirit [Ndolo, Kinshasa]: photo by Kim SOLA, 21 December 2016
Death spirit [Ndolo, Kinshasa]: photo by Kim SOLA, 21 December 2016
"What creates the intense pleasure of not knowing?" Negative Capability, from The Deep Keats Scrolls.: Tom Clark, 1987-2017
Bangkok, Thailand: photo by Hearhun Hun Shiun, 2 January 2015
Bangkok, Thailand: photo by Hearhun Hun Shiun, 2 January 2015
Bangkok, Thailand: photo by Hearhun Hun Shiun, 2 January 2015
Bangkok, Thailand: photo by Hearhun Hun Shiun, 28 January 2015
Bangkok, Thailand: photo by Hearhun Hun Shiun, 28 January 2015
Bangkok, Thailand: photo by Hearhun Hun Shiun, 28 January 2015
San Francisco, USA: photo by Hearhun Hun Shiun, 25 August 2015
San Francisco, USA: photo by Hearhun Hun Shiun, 25 August 2015
San Francisco, USA: photo by Hearhun Hun Shiun, 25 August 2015
Bangkok, Thailand: photo by Hearhun Hun Shiun, 3 May 2014
Bangkok, Thailand: photo by Hearhun Hun Shiun, 3 May 2014
Bangkok, Thailand: photo by Hearhun Hun Shiun, 3 May 2014
After Party: photo by Gabi Ben avraham, 24 March 2016
Tel Aviv 2014: photo by Gabi Ben avraham, 14 August 2014
Venice 2017: photo by Gavin Bragdon, 26 February 2017
Venice 2017: photo by Gavin Bragdon, 26 February 2017
Venice 2017: photo by Gavin Bragdon, 26 February 2017
As the Trump reign rolls on (to the tune of Gilbert and Sullivan's "I am the monarch of the sea")
st-126: photo by Ilan Ben yehuda, 21 February 2017
The Younger Memnon. Head and upper body of pink/grey granite monumental statue of Ramses II (one of a pair placed before the door of the Ramesseum) wearing nemes head-cloth and circlet of uraei (about half now lost), the sculptor has exploited the bichrome nature of the stone to emphasise the division between body and face; the dorsal pillar is inscribed with vertical registers of hieroglyphs - giving the name and titles of the king and part of a dedication to Amun-Ra; in 1817 it was noted that there were traces of colour upon the statue and it may have, therefore, been painted red in antiquity. (British Museum)
Percy Bysshe Shelley: Ozymandias
Egyptian workers clear mud away from the buried colossal statue: photo by Khaled Desouki/AFP, 9 March 2017
A mechanical digger is employed to clear mud away and allow access to the statue: photo by Khaled Elfiqi/EPA, 9 March 2017
On Thursday, archaeologists, officials, local residents and news media looked on as a massive forklift pulled the statue’s head out of the water.
San Francisco, USA: photo by Hearhun Hun Shiun, 15 September 2015
San Francisco, USA: photo by Hearhun Hun Shiun, 15 September 2015
San Francisco, USA: photo by Hearhun Hun Shiun, 15 September 2015
Death spirit [Ndolo, Kinshasa]: photo by Kim SOLA, 21 December 2016
Death spirit [Ndolo, Kinshasa]: photo by Kim SOLA, 21 December 2016
Death spirit [Ndolo, Kinshasa]: photo by Kim SOLA, 21 December 2016
[Untitled]: photo by Soumyendra Saha, 13 February 2017
[Untitled, Songkhla, Thailand]: photo by Sakulchai Sikitikul, 8 June 2016
[Untitled, Songkhla, Thailand]: photo by Sakulchai Sikitikul, 8 June 2016
[Untitled, Songkhla, Thailand]: photo by Sakulchai Sikitikul, 8 June 2016
Dong Xuan Market: photo by Chu Việt Hà, 14 November 2015
[Untitled, Dhaka]: photo by Muhammad Imam Hasan, 4 August 2015
[Untitled, Dhaka]: photo by Muhammad Imam Hasan, 30 July 2014
[Untitled]: photo by noppadol maitreechit, 12 August 2015
[Untitled]: photo by noppadol maitreechit, 12 August 2015
[Untitled]: photo by noppadol maitreechit, 12 August 2015
[Untitled, Dhaka]: photo by Muhammad Imam Hasan, 2 March 2017
[Untitled]: photo by Soumyendra Saha, 13 February 2017
Hong Kong, 5+5+5+5. More than 80% is emptiness... is it a picture?: photo by Edas Wong, 19 March 2015
Hong Kong, 5+5+5+5. More than 80% is emptiness... is it a picture?: photo by Edas Wong, 19 March 2015
Hong Kong, 5+5+5+5. More than 80% is emptiness... is it a picture?: photo by Edas Wong, 19 March 2015
[Untitled, Songkhla, Thailand]: photo by Sakulchai Sikitikul, 8 June 2016
[Untitled, Songkhla, Thailand]: photo by Sakulchai Sikitikul, 8 June 2016
[Untitled, Songkhla, Thailand]: photo by Sakulchai Sikitikul, 8 June 2016
[Mirza Ghalib Municipal Market, Null Bazar, Mumbai]: photo by Karl Grenet, 21 November 2014
Dong Xuan Market: photo by Chu Việt Hà, 14 November 2015
[Untitled, Dhaka]: photo by Muhammad Imam Hasan, 4 August 2015
[Untitled, Dhaka]: photo by Muhammad Imam Hasan, 30 July 2014
[Untitled]: photo by noppadol maitreechit, 12 August 2015
[Untitled]: photo by noppadol maitreechit, 12 August 2015
[Untitled]: photo by noppadol maitreechit, 12 August 2015
[Untitled, Dhaka]: photo by Muhammad Imam Hasan, 2 March 2017
Negative Capability: How much uncertainty can you tolerate?
"What creates the intense pleasure of not knowing?" Negative Capability, from The Deep Keats Scrolls.: Tom Clark, 1987-2017
Bangkok, Thailand: photo by Hearhun Hun Shiun, 2 January 2015
Bangkok, Thailand: photo by Hearhun Hun Shiun, 2 January 2015
Bangkok, Thailand: photo by Hearhun Hun Shiun, 2 January 2015
Bangkok, Thailand: photo by Hearhun Hun Shiun, 28 January 2015
Bangkok, Thailand: photo by Hearhun Hun Shiun, 28 January 2015
Bangkok, Thailand: photo by Hearhun Hun Shiun, 28 January 2015
San Francisco, USA: photo by Hearhun Hun Shiun, 25 August 2015
San Francisco, USA: photo by Hearhun Hun Shiun, 25 August 2015
San Francisco, USA: photo by Hearhun Hun Shiun, 25 August 2015
Bangkok, Thailand: photo by Hearhun Hun Shiun, 3 May 2014
Bangkok, Thailand: photo by Hearhun Hun Shiun, 3 May 2014
Bangkok, Thailand: photo by Hearhun Hun Shiun, 3 May 2014
After Party: photo by Gabi Ben avraham, 24 March 2016
Tel Aviv 2014: photo by Gabi Ben avraham, 14 August 2014
King of Kings Stuck in the Mud
Venice 2017: photo by Gavin Bragdon, 26 February 2017
Venice 2017: photo by Gavin Bragdon, 26 February 2017
Venice 2017: photo by Gavin Bragdon, 26 February 2017
Peter Heinegg: I Am the Blowhard on TV
As the Trump reign rolls on (to the tune of Gilbert and Sullivan's "I am the monarch of the sea")
I am the Blowhard on TV,
the Ruler of the G.O.P.,
the Ruler of the G.O.P.,
whose praise Sean Spicer loudly chants,
and so do Conway, Bannon, plus the other sycophants.
Refrain: Three cheers for Conway, Bannon, and the other sycophants.
All my Twitter posts are lies,
which should come as no surprise --
You see these fires in my pants?
Well, so do Conway, Bannon, plus the other sycophants.
Refrain: Three cheers for Conway, Bannon, and the other sycophants.
All my speeches are b.s,
My appointments are a mess.
Bah! Fox will celebrate my rants,
and so will Conway, Bannon, plus the other sycophants.
Refrain: And so will Conway, Bannon (he's the asshole with cannon): sycophants!
st-126: photo by Ilan Ben yehuda, 21 February 2017
The Younger Memnon. Head and upper body of pink/grey granite monumental statue of Ramses II (one of a pair placed before the door of the Ramesseum) wearing nemes head-cloth and circlet of uraei (about half now lost), the sculptor has exploited the bichrome nature of the stone to emphasise the division between body and face; the dorsal pillar is inscribed with vertical registers of hieroglyphs - giving the name and titles of the king and part of a dedication to Amun-Ra; in 1817 it was noted that there were traces of colour upon the statue and it may have, therefore, been painted red in antiquity. (British Museum)
Percy Bysshe Shelley: Ozymandias
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said -- 'Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert... Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal, these words appear:
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
No thing else remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.' --
Who said -- 'Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert... Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal, these words appear:
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
No thing else remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.' --
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), written late December 1817, first published in The Examiner, 11 January 1818
Egyptian workers clear mud away from the buried colossal statue: photo by Khaled Desouki/AFP, 9 March 2017
A mechanical digger is employed to clear mud away and allow access to the statue: photo by Khaled Elfiqi/EPA, 9 March 2017
Look on my works, ye mighty … Ozymandias statue found in mud: Archaeologists believe eight-metre statue found in Cairo slum is of Pharaoh Ramses II, who ruled Egypt in 13th century BC: Reuters in Cairo, 9 March 2017
Archaeologists from Egypt and Germany have found an eight-metre (26ft) statue submerged in groundwater in a Cairo slum that they say probably depicts revered Pharaoh Ramses II, who ruled Egypt more than 3,000 years ago.
The discovery – hailed by Egypt’s antiquities ministry on Thursday as one of the most important ever – was made near the ruins of Ramses II’s temple in the ancient city of Heliopolis, located in the eastern part of modern-day Cairo.
“Last Tuesday they called me to announce the big discovery of a colossus of a king, most probably Ramses II, made out of quartzite,” the antiquities minister, Khaled al-Anani, said at the site of the discovery.
The pharaoh, also known as Ramses the Great or Ozymandias, was the third of the 19th dynasty of Egypt and ruled for 66 years, from 1279BC to 1213BC.
He led several military expeditions and expanded the Egyptian empire to stretch from Syria in the east to Nubia (northern Sudan) in the south. His successors called him the Great Ancestor.
Percy Bysshe Shelley’s 1818 sonnet Ozymandias – which contained the line “Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!” – was written soon after the British Museum acquired a large fragment of a statue of Ramses II from the 13th century BC.
“We found the bust of the statue and the lower part of the head and now we removed the head and we found the crown and the right ear and a fragment of the right eye,” Anani said of the new discovery.
On Thursday, archaeologists, officials, local residents and news media looked on as a massive forklift pulled the statue’s head out of the water.
The joint Egyptian-German expedition also found the upper part of a life-sized limestone statue of Pharaoh Seti II, Ramses II’s grandson, measuring 80cm in length.
The sun temple in Heliopolis was founded by Ramses II, lending weight to the likelihood the statue is of him, archaeologists say.
It was one of the largest temples in Egypt, almost double the size of Luxor’s Karnak, but was destroyed in Greco-Roman times.
Many of its obelisks were moved to Alexandria or to Europe and stones from the site were looted and used for building as Cairo developed.
Experts will now attempt to extract the remaining pieces of both statues before restoring them. If they are successful and the colossus is proven to depict Ramses II, it will be moved to the entrance of the Grand Egyptian Museum, set to open in Giza in 2018.
The discovery was made in the working-class area of Matariya, among unfinished buildings and mud roads.
Dietrich Raue, head of the expedition’s German team, said ancient Egyptians believed Heliopolis was the place where the sun god lives, meaning it was off-limits for any royal residences.
“The sun god created the world in Heliopolis, in Matariya,” he said.
“That’s what I always tell the people here when they ask if there is anything important. According to the pharaonic belief, the world was created in Matariya.
“That means everything had to be built here. Statues, temples, obelisks, everything. But … the king never lived in Matariya, because it was the sun god living here.”
The find could be a boon for Egypt’s tourism industry, which has suffered many setbacks since the uprising that toppled Hiosni Mubarak in 2011 but remains a vital source of foreign currency.
The number of tourists visiting Egypt slumped to 9.8 million in 2011 from more than 14.7 million in 2010.
A bomb attack that brought down a Russian plane carrying 24 people from a Red Sea resort in October 2015 further hit arrivals, which dropped to 1.2 million in the first quarter of 2016 from 2.2 million a year earlier.
San Francisco, USA: photo by Hearhun Hun Shiun, 15 September 2015
San Francisco, USA: photo by Hearhun Hun Shiun, 15 September 2015
San Francisco, USA: photo by Hearhun Hun Shiun, 15 September 2015