The Sleeping Gypsy

April 9, 2010

A wandering Negress, a mandolin player, lies with her jar beside her …, over- come by fatigue in a deep sleep. A lion chances to pass by, picks up her scent yet does not devour her. There is a moonlight effect, very poetic.

HENRI ROUSSEAU on his own work

Don’t loose your head

April 9, 2010

by André da Loba

Geared up to do battle

April 8, 2010

Niko Pirosmani’s “martial” giraffe

Milky white

April 8, 2010

in Milwaukee

As proud as a peacock

April 8, 2010

A white giraffe in Hieronymus Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights (ca. 1500), symbolizing – now that the spots are gone – the purity of the soul.

London’s Arcelor Mittal Orbit

April 7, 2010

a “dynamic repre- sentation of a city coming out of a recession” …

£19.1 million for an early prototype of a respiration apparatus.

And here the enthusiastic artist …

Waiting for the next …

April 5, 2010

King Kong …

Put us out of our misery, Mr. Em- merich! Please …

Better than 3D

April 5, 2010

What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust? S. D.

So much for the fascination of a “deepie” …

A supreme pleasure

April 5, 2010

Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure – that of being Salvador Dalí.

Flame-resistant

April 5, 2010

burning since 1937:

Salvador Dalí’s giraffe on Inventions of the Monsters