Ukulele Orchestra of GB - Life on Mars

Life of Mars - Fantasy and Music..:-))

Surrealist Artist - Jaroslaw Kukowski

His name is Jaroslaw Kukowski and you should know about him. Why? Because he is a great artist.
He was born on 11 April 1972 in Tczew, Poland. In his paintings he deals with moral and social issues in a controversial manner. Early in his artistic career, his works, which were regarded as symbolic, were filled with drama and sadness. Full of pain, deformed human figures along with mystic creatures were depicted against the background of surrealistic landscapes. He defined this series of works as Undreams. During another period, he lightened his palette when he became interested in nudes; nevertheless, even there, a viewer can perceive the brand of disintegration and passing time. In another stage of his artistic career, he moved back to his early works, but despite fairer colouring, his work became more and more ironic and provocative. In 2001, some of his works were removed from an exhibition in The Gallery SD following complaints from some members of the audience.

Jaroslaw Kukowski is one of 50 Artists featured in the first publication entitled Metamorphosis.The best publication about contemporary Surreal & Fantastic Artists. You should have IT.

Arthur C. Clarke- 2001: A Space Odyssey Trailer

Just saw on BBC that Arthur C.Clarke dies today. He was born in my lovely Somerset,in Minehead.
Searching on YouTube found this video - Official 2001: A Space Odyssey Trailer
"A Space Odyssey" is Clarke's best-known book, a great book with a vision of extra-terrestrial civilisations. The movie is great, too. Absolutely one of the best of Kubrick's Movies

(From AFP news) Arthur C. Clarke was a visionary, born on December 16, 1917 first attracted attention after the Second World War when he wrote an article predicting satellites would make global broadcasts a reality -- years ahead of their time.

Drawn to Sri Lanka in 1956 by scuba diving, which the British author said was as near as he could get to the weightlessness of space, he lived in an "electronic cottage" from which he communicated with the world using computers and radios.

Clarke, who suffered from post-polio syndrome and was in later years confined to a wheelchair, was paid just 15 pounds for the theory that led to a satellite industry worth billions of dollars.

"People say I could have made a lot of money if I applied for a patent," Clarke recounted in the strong Somerset burr that he kept all his life. "I did not get a patent because I never thought it will happen in my lifetime."

After a varied career as an author, underwater explorer, space promoter and science populariser, he said in his last public message marking his 90th birthday in December he would like to be recalled mainly as an author.

"I want to be remembered most as a writer -- one who entertained readers, and, hopefully, stretched their imagination as well," Clarke said; "I have no regrets and no more personal ambition."

Chinese Red Dragon Statue

I found this video on Viddler.com .
An interesting promotion method of
your own product.
I add this video on my blog for different
reason of course. And the reason is
the dragon.
Red Chinese Dragon Statue. His name is Secretsoarer Fyrescale! Peculiar.

Fantasy Art and Dragons

I am very, very busy at the moment with a brand new internet project. It combines Art, Fantasy Art and Dragons from Orion in an Online World. I am very curious to discover in which direction it will develop and grow.

In the beginning I got a crazy idea, a vision, and a wild story in my brain. The story is about two baby dragons from another planet and another celestial time. The next step was the creation of the dragons. I just sat down and drew them. Jim liked them very much, his kids liked them too, my kids and friends liked them also, and I .........I just fell in love with them...I'm still in love.

Enough words about it, if you are curious just go to the page and keep in touch as things progress, I think the voyage will be very exciting. I hope you will enjoy my creation together with me.

http://fantasydragonart.com

Vampire versus Vampire, Dracula and Lilith

The notion of vampirism has existed for millennia; cultures such as the Mesopotamians, Hebrews, Ancient Greeks, and Romans had tales of demons and spirits which are considered precursors to modern vampires. However, despite the occurrence of vampire-like creatures in these ancient civilizations, the folklore for the entity we know today as the vampire originates almost exclusively from early 18th century South-Eastern Europe, when verbal traditions of many ethnic groups of the region were recorded and published. In most cases, vampires are revenants of evil beings, suicide victims, or witches, but they can also be created by a malevolent spirit possessing a corpse or by being bitten by a vampire. Belief in such legends became so pervasive that in some areas it caused mass hysteria and even public executions of people believed to be vampires. (Info: Wiki)

The most beautiful vampire was without doubt Lilith from the painting by John Collier, 1892. The most gorgeous, seductive, full blood vampire!

The mythical Lilitu was probably born in the story tales in the ancient Babylonia. Lilitu was considered a demon and was often depicted as subsisting on the blood of babies. However, the Jewish counterparts were said to feast on men and women, as well as newborns.

Who was the most famous vampire?

I guess the “Little Dragon” alias Dracula. It means also the son of dragon or devil.
In real he was a nobleman, a prince, father of three sons. Vlad III was as prince maintained an independent policy in relation to the Ottoman Empire, and in Romania, he is viewed by many historicises as a prince with a deep sense of justice and a defender of Wallachia (part of Hungary) against Ottoman expansionism.
His absurdly cruel punishments earn him the nickname in later years of Vlad the Impaler, which echoed the mode of death that would destroy the legendary Count Dracula.

In the English-speaking world, Vlad III is best known for inspiring the name of the eponymous vampire in Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula. Stoker came across the name Dracula in a history book- which mistranslated it as “Wallachian for devil”- and substituted it for his character’s original name, Count Wampyr.
I wonder or the English would have been happy if the people of Wallachia had painted Queen Victoria as a very cruel, despotic, imperialistic witch. Probably not.

Boltzmann Babies

My entry to the Simpleology competition for "Be the Next Best selling Author"