American Vampire Anthology #1 (Herein lies the brilliance of Scott Snyder: teams of renowned writers and artists rip and tear their ways through the AV mythology, leaving a blood trail of vignettes, one better than the next. Like the vamps in Ba and Moon’s “Last Night,” I’m “hungry...
The phrase “one cohesive body of work” and the reference elsewhere to the works as “artists’ books” indicate that the publisher has more in mind. Weems’ two volumes rise to the intention. They stand on their own but also capture elements of the artist’s larger body of work. In ...
Keywords: "Water Margin", Female image, Symbol, Birth of body, Birth of spirit. 1. INTRODUCTION The story of "Water Margin" mainly took place in the late Northern Song Dynasty. In the Song Dynasty, Neo-Confucianism was promoted, emphasizing women's concept of "chastity" and deepening the ...
At breakfast, after the morning game drive, I found myself regularly getting up from the table to photograph new birds which showed themselves in the trees next to the pool and above the deck in front of the lodge. “In the cathedral of the wild a glorious language is revealed in every ...
Mark 15:43; John 19:38 – Joseph of Arimathea sought Christ’s dead body instead of leaving it with the Romans. Joseph gave veneration to our Lord’s body. Mark 16:1; Luke 24:1 – the women came to further anoint Christ’s body even though it had been sealed in the tomb. ...
The fridge is a place where people could put food inside it and let the people in need collect them anytime. The moment of an elderly taking food from the fridge is captured. Although it is a blue fridge, it is sharing happiness and warmth. It shows the Lion Rock Spirit of Hongkong...
This is Blennerville Windmill, at Tralee Bay, viewed from the bridge leaving Tralee town for the DIngle Peninsula. It’s some time since I showed some photos of the Tralee area, so here is one of my earlier posts, from when I temporarily lived there. ...
The film offers a view of the new South Africa, a view that may be appealing to an international audience, and the spirit of the film is open and pleasant, and the film recognizes the difficulties in people’s lives while suggesting the value of compassion, common sense, hard work, ...
So, balance will return this week and that is good for the spirit and health. When my doctors are concerned, upset, anxious and generally outraged at RFK Jr as United States Secretary of Health and Human Services, it concerns the hell out of me also. It will be very interesting to ...
Leaving Upland Road at age 15 I felt a profound sense of loss. Looking back, it wasn’t just the house and neighborhood I was leaving, I was more importantly leaving behind a sense of the world having permanence. By the time I was15, three of my grandparents had died, and my parents...