When Sir Richard Attenborough commenced on his arduous undertaking of directing Gandhi, he could not fathom the impact it would have on the world. How could he? This is an epic film whose concern is non-violence and independence. The opening sequence of the infant scene is seeing the assassination of Gandhi; Attenborough plunges you …
Michelangelo, ‘David’: The Divine Masterpiece of Humanity (1504)
Michelangelo accepted the challenge of sculpting David out of marble as confidently as David accepted the challenge to battle Goliath. Tension and fortitude are the decisive ingredients swirling inside the soul of the Renaissance marble. The architecture of Davidβs character is in full animation; he cannot perform errors or vanquish his calling. The radiance …
MYTHS&LEGENDS OF THE POLYNESIANS: THE WATERY GODS, TALES&HEROS OF OCENIA π΄π₯₯
If you have not bathed your imagination in the tales of the Polynesian People, you have let much pass over you like a wave. The watery world of these nut-brown people possessed a culture like that of no one on earth. Through the husks of coconut fiber up through the colors of the rainbow, …
The Cure Three Imaginary Boys The Dismantling and Reassembling of A Post Punk Apocolyptic Milky Way
1979 was a year full of change in music; just a year earlier, Van Halen made their mammoth preview with their self-titled album and Eddie Van Halen forever hurled the guitar into a cosmic chaos of tameless frets and gorgeously exaggerated tremolo blows; his venture was astonishingly poetic and placed the electric guitar into …
WHO WAS SAINT VALENTINE? β₯ππππ§‘
The origins of this holiday are extremely captivating; the day as we know and celebrate took centuries to possess the current form it now has. Ironically, though the celebration of the day itself is rooted in Roman tradition, it is quite a Christian holiday.Β The name βValentineβ (it means strong, respectful, powerful; this name …




