Sunday, October 30, 2016

Silver

Silver
Silverware
Silver Bullet
The Lone Ranger
Revolver
Sam Colt
Colonel
Coronel
Argentina
Don Segundo Sombra
Silverado

Jas.1:17

"Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning."






"A city takes on that sombre garb of grey"~~~Dreiser





Silver dollar










Silverware



















Silver bullet













Colt Single Action Army Revolver P1841, 45 Long Colt, 4 3/4 in





"Bruscamente sentimos que jugaban su última carta, que eran taimados, ignorantes y crueles como viejos animales de presa y que, si nos dejábamos ganar por el miedo o la lástima, acabarían por destruirnos.
Sacamos los pesados revólveres (de pronto hubo revólveres en el sueño) y alegremente dimos muerte a los Dioses."~~~Jorge Luis Borges : Ragnarok











The Lone Ranger

Silver bullets also act as a calling card for The Lone Ranger in his adventures. The masked man decided to use bullets forged from the precious metal as a symbol of justice, law and order, and to remind himself and others that life, like silver, has value and is not to be wasted or thrown away. In the 3rd episode, his friend, who will be making his bullets for him, mentions killing villains with the bullets and the Lone Ranger explains that he won’t shoot to kill; he will let the law dispense justice. The silver bullets will be as symbols of justice. Whether he actually used silver bullets in his guns varies depending on story and medium. In the radio series, the Lone Ranger used only lead bullets as weapons, while the silver bullets were used symbolically.













Chess: "Silver" "Silverware" "Silver Bullet" "The Lone Ranger" "Revolver " "Sam Colt" "Argentina" "Silverado" "Coronel" "Colonel" "Don Segundo Sombra"


Silver

Silver
Silverware
Silver Bullet
The Lone Ranger
Revolver
Sam Colt
Colonel
Coronel
Argentina
Don Segundo Sombra
Silverado 
Cheshire Cat

Jas.1:17

"Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning."






"A city takes on that sombre garb of grey"~~~Dreiser





Silver dollar










Silverware



















Silver bullet













Colt Single Action Army Revolver P1841, 45 Long Colt, 4 3/4 in





"Bruscamente sentimos que jugaban su última carta, que eran taimados, ignorantes y crueles como viejos animales de presa y que, si nos dejábamos ganar por el miedo o la lástima, acabarían por destruirnos.
Sacamos los pesados revólveres (de pronto hubo revólveres en el sueño) y alegremente dimos muerte a los Dioses."~~~Jorge Luis Borges : Ragnarok







Cheshire cat 












The Lone Ranger

Silver bullets also act as a calling card for The Lone Ranger in his adventures. The masked man decided to use bullets forged from the precious metal as a symbol of justice, law and order, and to remind himself and others that life, like silver, has value and is not to be wasted or thrown away. In the 3rd episode, his friend, who will be making his bullets for him, mentions killing villains with the bullets and the Lone Ranger explains that he won’t shoot to kill; he will let the law dispense justice. The silver bullets will be as symbols of justice. Whether he actually used silver bullets in his guns varies depending on story and medium. In the radio series, the Lone Ranger used only lead bullets as weapons, while the silver bullets were used symbolically.













Chess: "Silver" "Silverware" "Silver Bullet" "The Lone Ranger" "Revolver " "Sam Colt" "Argentina" "Silverado" "Coronel" "Colonel" "Don Segundo Sombra" "Cheshire Cat"


Monday, October 24, 2016

Helmet

Helmet
Casco
Horseshoe
Zebra
Soliped
Gyroscope
Cantilever

Jas.1:8
"A double minded man is unstable in all his ways."




"Carrados wagged his head in good natured resignation"~~~Ernest Bramah




"Of him who walked in glory and in joy"~~~Coleridge



"Can this cockpit hold
The vasty fields of France? Or may we cram
Within this wooden O the very casques
That did affright the air at Agincourt?"~~~SHAKESPEARE: Henry V: Prologue








"Now, as there are many actions, arts, and sciences, their ends also are many; the end of the medical art is health, that of shipbuilding a vessel, that of strategy victory, that of economics wealth. But where such arts fall under a single capacity- as bridle-making and the other arts concerned with the equipment of horses fall under the art of riding, and this and every military action under strategy, in the same way other arts fall under yet others- in all of these the ends of the master arts are to be preferred to all the subordinate ends; for it is for the sake of the former that the latter are pursued."~~~Aristotle: Nichomachean Ethics: Bk 1 ch.1






































Zebra







Chess: "Helmet" "Casco" "Horseshoe" "Zebra" "Soliped" "Gyroscope" "Cantilever"

Wednesday, October 19, 2016

Hong Kong

Hong Kong
Fort Wayne
Fort
Strong
Fort Laramie
Coco Bongo
Shell
Breakthrough

Jas.1:13
"Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:"




“He for God only, she for God in him”~~~Milton





Shell







Hong Kong Harbour













Agra Fort, India









The first Fort Laramie as it looked prior to 1840. Painting from memory by Alfred Jacob Miller











The Birth of Venus is an iconic image and a cliché; but it is also a work of utter mastery. Rather than attempt pure photorealism, Botticelli chooses an almost cartoon-like style of sharp outlines filled in by washes of colour. Today we would call the deliberately crude rendering of the trees, shoreline, and water some form of Rousseauian Primitivism. Botticelli clearly has the skill to work just a realistically as he desires; I conclude that his primitivism is deliberate. Botticelli understands that by simplifying away the level of the smallest and least essential details what is left has all the more visual power. Simplification or no, not only are the outlines gorgeous but the colour washes are divine. Look at how limid and luminous are the colours in Venus' skin. (Yet for all that Botticelli manages to get Venus' left nipple in the wrong place, which suggests along with the sloping shoulders that she was drawn from imagination, not life.)
The story line is simple: we have Modesty attempting to cover the new-born nakedness of Beauty, while the god Zephyr (perhaps with a reconciled Chloris in tow?) attempts to prevent this tragedy from coming to pass.

















Humpty Dumpty




















Chess: "Hong Kong" "Fort Wayne" "Strong" "Coco Bongo" "Shell" "Breakthrough" "Fort Laramie"


Sunday, October 16, 2016

Texas

Texas
Perspective
Brunellesco
Mark 

Jas.1:11
"For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways."


"There is no better instance of how a burst of civilisation depends on confidence than the Florentine state of mind in the early fifteenth century."~~~Kenneth Clark: Civilisation. Ch 4 Man-The Measure of all Things



"the process which ascribes the Homeric poems to another poet of the same name."~~~ Charles H. Haskins





 Brunelleschi's Dome, the nave, and Giotto's Campanile of the Florence Cathedral as seen from Michelangelo Hill at night







Texas




Chess: "Texas" "Perspectiva" "Brunellesco" "Mark"


Saturday, October 1, 2016

Ulysses

Ulysses
Elizabeth
Mermaid
Reef
Black Pizza
Sirena
St. Basil's Cathedral
Plácido Domingo

Jas.1:7
 "For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord."



"fruitful regions gladdened by plenty and lulled by peace!"~~~Samuel Johnson


"This successful industry of England, with its plethoric wealth"~~~Carlyle






St. Basil's Cathedral











Trump Tower, Las Vegas











Pele and Bar Refaeli











Ulysses S. Grant served as U.S. general and commander of the Union armies during the late years of the American Civil War, later becoming the 18th U.S. president.











Silver Surfer










Black Pizza: 4 types of cheese and truffle flakes










 Silver Surfer







The Fisherman and the Syren, by Frederic Leighton, c. 1856–1858











Playa Guiones, Guanacaste











Chess: "Ulysses" "Elizabeth" "Mermaid" "Reef" "Black Pizza" "Sirena" "St. Basil's Cathedral" "Plácido Domingo"