Tuman-Bay

Tuman-Bay (879-923 A.H./1474-1517 A.D.), he was a Circassian king of Egypt (ruled: 922-923 A.H./1516-1517 A.D.) Sultan Qansawh Al-Ghuri appointed him prime minister and let him act on his behalf when he (Al-Ghuri) went to Allepo to fight the Ottomans in 922 A.H. After the death of Qansawh Al-Ghuri he was made sultan. The Ottomans defeated him and conquered Cairo under the command of Sultan Selim I (922 A.H./1516 A.D.) His death marked the beginning of the Ottoman rule of Egypt.

filaments of discovered

VERLAINE DRINKS

There will always be whores on street corners,

Lost shells stranded on the stellar shores

Of a blue dusk which is neither of here nor of earth

Where taxis roll by like bewildered bugs.

But roll less than in my whirling head

The green gem of absinthe deep in the glass

Where I drink perdition and the thunder

Of the Lord's judgment to roast my naked soul.

Ah! how the tangled spindles of the streets
Turn and spin the fabric of men and women,
As if a spider were weaving her web
With the filaments of discovered souls.
[by~ANTONIN ARTAUD]

it will not come

I could have been a successful bank robber, gangster, business executive, psychoanalyst, drug
trafficker, explorer, bullfighter, but the conjuncture of circumstances was never there. Over the years I begin to doubt if my time will ever come. It will come, or it will not come. There is no use trying to force it. Attempts to break through have led to curbs, near disasters, warnings. I cultivate and alert passivity, as though watching and opponent for the slightest sign of weakness." [W.Burroughs.]

Temptation$-$-$-0014

Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself.

Kalinin K-7

Where has youth gone?

Where are the brave ones?

The rich gorge themselves

The poor work themselves to death

The Islamic charlatans show their true face...

You can always cry or complain

Or escape... but where?[12]

Ruby

I ran up against misfortune

luck never shows its face

at every sign of hope

fate got in the way.

[ by Cheb Kader]

 

• "The percentage of good Art to bad Art is probable constant." - (William Bailey)
• "In America, collectors of Contemporary Art look with
• their ears, not with their eyes." ....(Michael Werner)

[below]~I like two kinds of men:

 domestic and imported.......
You ought to get out of those wet clothes...
 and into a dry martini.

-Mae West

(The key is in the media.You get art for adolesants,

 you get violent upheaval

and real ugly shit happens to the body. Check out the comic books.

 The levels of mindless mayhem go higher and higher.

 And don't even talk about DOOM. Our

culture's getting sucked into this big pink wadge of Bazooka Joe.

Why?

We're getting ready for the great leap forward(?)... (Paul McEnery, Mondo'95)

‘What is photography?’ may sound like an easy question to answer but the potential replies

could fill this book alone. The fact that photography can mean different things to different
people is part of its enduring appeal. Photography is such a part of our lives now that it would
be incomprehensible to think of a world without it. We probably couldn’t contemplate the fact
of a wedding, watching the children grow up, or going on holiday without the camera. We are
bombarded and saturated by images constantly, newspapers, magazines, advertisements, as well
as the television and internet, yet we have an insatiable desire for more.

Another girl, Another planet

I'm often wrong, but never in doubt.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvO7HNQPFRI

being before

"Congratulations to the one....

 who came into being before coming into being.

Japan

invisible antennæ

I am a rock, I am an island

I've built walls, a fortress deep and mighty

That none may penetrate

I have no need for friendship, friendship causes pain

It's laughter and it's loving I disdain
Why should one always lie about such matters?

 I repeat:It rests me to converse with beautiful women
Even though we talk nothing but nonsense,
The purring of the invisible antennæIs both stimulating and delightful."
Ezra Pound?

1927-thomann

They made out with a few flints like the Old Ones.

Why could not life have gone on forever in the autumn country?
Why did those others who came with sails
through the Barrier Reef
have to awaken time and destroy the world,
the unseen necessary balance?

Why? why?-[by Loren Eiseley]

1927-Thomann-250cc

Persian Gulf War- [20 years-ago]

1991: Beginning of Persian Gulf War

The Persian Gulf War, triggered by Iraq's occupation of Kuwait in

 August 1990, began on this day in 1991 with a U.S.
-led air offensive against Iraq that continued until a
cease-fire was declared on February 28.[ 20 years ago Now... as of today]

Today, the online WIKI “encyclopedia anyone can edit” is the fifth most visited Website on the planet and totals more than 17 million pages in 270 languages, with more than 3.5 million articles in English and another 32 languages whose collections each top 100,000 pages.

midst of winter

"In the midst of winter, I found there was within me,

 an invincible summer." - Albert Camus

Who says

Who says the eternal being does not exist?

Who says the sun has gone out?

Someone who climbs up on the roof and closes his eyes tight,
and says, I don't see anything.

Selection from Unseen Rain (versions of Rumi)

O i C

Pavlos Lismo"Fortune favours the Brave"

Pavlos LismoThere is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Pavlos Lismo[palm sunday] don't mess with the Jesus, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--wsvhp2oyQ&feature=related

Bosch

BOSCH (or BOS), JEROM (c. 1460-1518), the name generally given, from his birthplace Hertogenbosch, to Hieronymus van Aeken, the Dutch painter. He was probably a pupil of Albert Ouwater, and may be called the Breughel of the 15th century, for he devoted himself to the invention of bizarre types, diableries. and scenes generally associated with Breughel, whose art is to a great extent based on Bosch's. He was a satirist much in advance of his time, and one of the most original and ingenious artists of the 15th century. He exercised great influence on Lucas Cranach, who frequently copied his paintings. His works were much admired in Spain, especially by Phillip II., at whose court Bosch painted for some time. One of his chief works is the "Last Judgment" at the Berlin gallery, which also owns a little "St Jerome in the Desert." "The Fall of the Rebellious Angels" and the "St Anthony" triptych are in the Brussels museum, and two important triptychs are at the Munich gallery. The Lippmann collection in Berlin contains an important "Adoration of the Magi," the Antwerp museum a "Passion," and a practically unknown painting from his brush is at the Naples museum.

Vikings

The source for the word Viking is disputed.

Two suggested origins are the Old Norse word vik meaning

 bay or the Latin word for town, vicus,

similar to the Germanic wik.[4]

Dig the well before you are thirsty.

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
- Benjamin Disraeli



"The Culture of Complaint"

Robert-Hughes' skewerings of the hot-air art heroes of the '80s -- the lightweight Jean-Michel Basquiat, the bombastic Julian Schnabel, the unspeakable Jeff Koons -- and his one-hand-tied-behind-my-back drubbing of multiculturalism's imbecilities in his keen, rollicking "The Culture of Complaint"

Makedonía

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macedonia_(ancient_kingdom)

KELTio

The first recorded use of the word Celts (Κελτοί) to refer to an ethnic group was by Hecataeus of Miletus, the Greek geographer, in 517 BC,[6] when writing about a people living near "Massilia" (Marseille).[7] The Latin name "Celtus" (pl. "Celti" or "Celtae") seems to have been borrowed from Greek (Κέλτης pl. Κέλται or Κελτός pl. Κελτοί), according to testimony of Caesar itself taken from a native Celtic tribal name.[8] Pliny the Elder referred it as being used in Lusitania as a tribal surname[9] which epigraphic findings confirm.[10][11]

Being a man you cannot tell what might befall when tomorrow comes

Nor yet how long one who appears blessed will remain that way,

So unpredictable even a long-winged fly

Veers from its path less suddenly.

Dream World

Dream World