Day: March 12, 2024

Earth Crisis by Shepard Fairey

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Earth Crisis by Shepard Fairey

Earth Crisis
2015
Installation Art
Installation
The Eiffel Tower, Paris, France

The first artist permitted to create an installation at the Eiffel Tower, Fairey’s ‘Earth Crisis’ was unveiled in time for the COP2 Climate Conference in Paris. Fairey had been promoting a sustainability agenda since the 1990s with designs for campaign material for influential environmental groups.

Shepard Fairey 1970-

Shepard Fairey
Street and Graffiti Art, Environmental Art
Born: 15 February 1970, South Carolina, USA
Nationality: American

Fairey is a contemporary street artist, graphic designer, illustrator, activist, and founder of OBEY Clothing who emerged from the skateboarding scene. He became known for the OBEY sticker campaign ‘Andre the Giant has a Posse’ while attending Rhode Island School of Design. During the 2008 US presidential election, Fairey became widely known for his Barack Obama ‘Hope’ poster. Described by the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston as one of the most influential and best-known street artists Fairey’s work includes collections at The Smithsonian, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, The National Portrait Gallery in Washington DC, the Museum of Modern Art in New York City and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, UK. Fairey is well-known for his bold iconic style

Huggin’ and Chalkin’ by Hoagy Carmichael

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Hoagy Carmichael 1899-1981

Huggin’ and Chalkin’
1946
Jazz

Hoagy Carmichael
Jazz, Popular Music
Born: 22 November 1899, Indiana, USA
Nationality: American
Died: 27 December 1981, California, USA

Carmichael was a musician, composer, songwriter, actor, and lawyer. He is among the most successful Tin Pan Alley songwriters of the 1930s and among the first singer-songwriters to utilize mass media technologies including television, microphones, and sound recordings

Keats by Henry Van Dyke

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Henry Van Dyke 1852-1933

Keats

The melancholy gift Aurora gained
From Jove, that her sad lover should not see
The face of death, no goddess asked for thee,
My Keats! But when the crimson blood-drop stained
Thy pillow, thou didst read the fate ordained, —
Brief life, wild love, a flight of poesy!
And then, — a shadow fell on Italy:
Thy star went down before its brightness waned,

Yet thou hast won the gift Tithonus missed:
Never to feel the pain of growing old,
Nor lose the blissful sight of beauty’s truth,
But with the ardent lips that music kissed
To breathe thy song, and, ere thy heart grew cold,
Become the Poet of Immortal Youth

Henry Van Dyke
Born: 10 November 1852, Pennsylvania, USA
Nationality: American
Died: 10 April 1933, New Jersey, USA

Van Dyke was an author, educator, diplomat, clergyman, and poet. Various religious themes are often expressed in his poetry, hymns, and essays. Van Dyke composed the lyrics of the hymn ‘Joyful, Joyful! We Adore Thee’

Baby, I Love You by Ramones

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Ramones

Baby, I Love You
Date: 1980
Genre: Film and TV
Artist: Ramones

The Ramones were a punk band formed in New York in 1974. During the band’s career they achieved limited success but now are considered highly influential. The band members adopted pseudonyms ending with the surname Ramone, however, none of the band were related

Raging Storm

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Raging Storm
Form: Four Kings Sonnet

The moon understands the beauty of rain
As she drops behind the gathering cloud
The night ignores her behind her dark shroud
As he rages us with his storm again
Perhaps he wants to remove human stain
And so he voices his anger aloud
The moon in her silence knows man is proud
And this, a raging night, is all in vain

The storms passes and she can shine again
A brief respite between the thundercloud
And the rising of the sun, day unbowed
The storms destruction seen in every lane
And humans wail as if they are in pain
Just watch as storms gather in a grey crowd

©JezzieG2024

A Year in the Life – Day 100

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Day 100
Prompt: 100 Days, Well Done

Hi Nigel

‘Hiya! That’s quite an achievement and our second milestone;

Second?

‘Yes, writer. You gave us 6 weeks and here we are’

True. And this one is just over a quarter of the way through the year

‘I think that’s quite something really’

It is mate

‘And you have got a story brewing too’

I think that’s the whole point of the project

‘And I thought it as because you love me’

Haha! I have no intention to kill you off just yet

‘I won’t let you yet, there is so much I want to do’

Have you been reading the outline?

‘No, I took a glance at the intro. Is that okay?’

If I said no, would it stop you?

‘Of course… NOT!’

Haha!

‘You said I could say what I think of what you write and to do that I have to read it’

True enough. I have no objection anyway

‘I figured that or you wouldn’t leave it around for me to read’

Now, there’s a thing how the devil do I hide anything from you

‘That’s a bit of a dilemma, isn’t it?’

You are free to come and go in this creative reality, just as I am

‘Ahh, so you are a character in our story then’

I figure I will have to be

‘And are you fictional too?’

Of course, I think it will be the only way to make it work

‘We all know you are bonkers, writer, but I see your point. Random chats with a figment of imagination probably isn’t a good idea’

And random chats between two such figments are?

‘Is that not what makes dialogue in a story?’

Very true. See you tomorrow, Nige

©JezzieG2024