Popular 2013 Day 1

Highlighting American Artist Wayne Norman. An eclectic collection of pieces using a variety of mixed media. This California man shows heart, soul and a dark, macabre style in everything he produces....from women, skulls,flowers, American Icons and more....

Popular 2013 Day 7 ~Massive Attack~ One thought at a time

This video brings a conclusion to my homage to Massive Attack...the majority of the bands songs are fronted with amazing voices such as Hope Sandoval,Tricky,3D and Elizabeth Fraser. This one however is instrumental and showcases the bands unique musical style.

The film footage is taken from Bettie Page in Bondage,1950s

Popular 2013 Tears, Idle Tears a poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson

Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depth of some divine despair Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes, In looking on the happy Autumn-fields, And thinking of the days that are no more. Fresh as the first beam glittering on a sail, That brings our friends up from the underworld, Sad as the last which reddens over one That sinks with all we love below the verge; So sad, so fresh, the days that are no more. Ah, sad and strange as in dark summer dawns The earliest pipe of half-awakened birds To dying ears, when unto dying eyes The casement slowly grows a glimmering square; So sad, so strange, the days that are no more. Dear as remembered kisses after death, And sweet as those by hopeless fancy feigned On lips that are for others; deep as love, Deep as first love, and wild with all regret; O Death in Life, the days that are no more!

Popular 2013 Day 6 ~Massive Attack~ Teardrop

Popular 2013 Day 4~ Massive Attack~Black Milk

~Eerie,dark song....video is footage from the 1965 British Film The Man Who Came in From the Cold ~

Popular 2013 ~Lady Mermaid~ A Haiku ~~

 Lady Mermaid,lost
Dive,dive! Into the waters....
One....with the Abyss


~Dark Ali~

Popular 2013 On Mermaids...William Shakespeare

OBERON:

My gentle Puck, come hither.
Thou rememberest since
Once I sat upon a promontory,
And heard a mermaid on a dolphin's back
Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath
That the rude sea grew civil at her song,
And certain stars shot madly from their spheres,
To hear the sea-maid's music?

From.....A Midsummer Night's Dream 

ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE:

O, train me not, sweet mermaid, with thy note,
To drown me in thy sister's flood of tears.
Sing, siren, for thyself, and I will dote;
Spread o'er the silver waves thy golden hairs,
And as a bed I'll take them and there lie,
And in that glorious supposition think
He gains by death that hath such means to die;
Let Love, being light, be drowned if she sink!

From...Comedy of Errors