Ave Maria's shadow

Art, sport, Frank Schubert, Carolina Kostner, figure skater.

OperaPop on Ice Verona 2014 Carolina Kostner - Ave Maria

How to Recognize Olympic Figure Skating Jumps {here}

What's the difference between a triple axel, triple lutz and and triple toe? {here}

A GIF Guide to Figure Skaters' Jumps {here}



Physics of Jumps in Figure Skating (physicsfigureskating)

Ave Maria (Schubert) {wikipedia}

Schubert - Ave Maria

My favorite Ave Maria remix found on youtube, enjoy.

Ave Maria - Corbinator Techno Remix


Oops, sorry for the wrong framing but blogger doesn’t listen to me this morning!!

Post-punk counterpoint

Henri Fantin-Latour: A Basket of Roses, oil on canvas (1890)

The canvases of M. Fantin-Latour do not assault your eyes, do not leap at you from the walls. They must be looked at for a length of time in order to penetrate them, and their conscientiousness, their simple truth — you take these in entirely, and then you return.

– Émile Zola (1880)

Power, Corruption and Lies is the second studio album by New Order, released in 1983. The cover is a cropped reproduction of the painting A Basket of Roses by French realist artist Henri Fantin-Latour.

Portrait of Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527) by Santi di Tito

The art director Peter Saville had originally planned to use a Renaissance portrait of a dark prince to tie in with the Machiavellian theme of the title, but couldn't find a suitable portrait.


Peter Saville saw and liked a postcard with the Fantin-Latour's painting. His girlfriend mockingly asked him if he was going to use it for the cover.


The art director then realized it was a great idea. Peter Saville intended to create a collision between the overly romantic and classic image which made a stark contrast to the typography based on the modular, color-coded alphabet that spells out the catalogue number (Fact 75) of the album [upper right corner].

Peter Saville and New Order’s color code

Distortionned Power, Corruption and Lies by Paul Havell (2010)

Some distortion given to the original Fantin-Latour painting to give it a more modern style. The color-coded title is still here, but placed flat against the top to give the cover some more space.

Michael Zahn: Power, Corruption and Lies, acrylic on canvas (2008)

Power, Corruption and Lies by Michael Zahn takes as its reference a jpeg found on the internet. The painting is a low-resolution copy of the New Order LP sleeve of the same name, which in turn is derived from a floral still life by Henri Fantin-Latour.

Oh, our love is like the flowers

The rain, the sea and the hours.

– New Order, The Village (3rd song)

Martin Boyce: Our love is like the flowers, the rain, the sea and the hours, installation (2003)

In the installation Our love is like the flowers, the rain, the sea and the hours, the Scottish sculptor Martin Boyce uses common elements from public gardens (trees, benches, trash bins) in a game which describes at once a social space and an abstract dream space. The trees, unique sources of light in the exhibition space, produce their own environment.

The album cover for Power, Corruption and Lies was among the 10 chosen by the Royal Mail for a set of Classic Album Cover postage stamps issued in January 2010.

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December 27th: happy holidays, birthday, snowstorm, etc!

Filters for Furs

When the face of a handsome man is digitized, low resolution iPod pictures may become graceful.

Surface Blur

In 1989 at New York's Irving Plaza, a benefit concert took place to help raise legal-defense funds for art critic and curator Carlo McCormick after he was tossed into a Mexican jail. The Psychedelic Furs played 5 songs. The band was a stripped down 3-piece of Richard Butler (vocals), John Ashton (acoustic guitar) and Knox Chandler (cello and acoustic guitar).

One night I went there: icepickphil

While discovering those delightful acoustic versions on youtube, I took pictures of the computer screen with my iPod and applied Photoshop image treatment filters.

 Crystallize

 Cutout

 Dark Strokes

 Dry Brush

 Film Grain

 Fresco

 Glowing Edges

 Paint Daubs

 Poster Edges

 Smudge Stick

 Sumi-e

 Accented Edges

 Angled Strokes

 Crosshatch

 Palette Knife

 Rough Pastels

 Smart Sharpen

 Underpainting

Watercolor

The Psychedelic Furs - All That Money Wants

(raw)

Myriam, fan since first album

Winter Sinking Cupcake Girl: Broken Aeroplanes.

I usually listen to music very carefully and Winter Sinking Cupcake Girl is the result of my active attention. Aware that my work is deeply inspired by rock bands and songs I deeply enjoy, my translation remains unconscious. Sometimes I realize often only months later that a specific song lead me to create a specific world. What a mysterious adventure...

Broken Aeroplanes by Richard Butler (from his 2006 solo album): I don't know why exactly but this beautiful song inspired me to concoct a depressing – but almost happy – mood, I can call desperate indifference. (Broken Aeroplanes on youtube) Then I hand drew this sad and smart cupcake girl.



On the photographed drawing, coloration was done with Photoshop.



I took the ice rink background from another one of my images I made for a cartoon on an absolutely beautiful (beautifully absolute!) cover of Joy to the World by Frank Fuller.


Enjoy the candy bittersweet color palette of Winter Sinking Cupcake Girl. I love pop music.


♪♫♪ «We're broken aeroplanes on the runway
never leaving, going no place» ♫♫♪