Art Nouveau in Belgium
Every time I see this winter garden on my dash, I’m desperate to begin working on Innogen again. I’ll defeat you someday, inertia! There’s so much story left to go!
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Nope. It is over for the day. Hard reset time. I am done.
(I have had this image in my drafts forever and ever and ever. I don’t know who the artist is; it was originally a find for one of the headers of Innogen and the Hungry Half, although it was sort of judiciously cropped to focus on the three women and not the random naked youth strolling by through what looks like an incredibly unpleasant field to walk over barefoot.)
Briar Rose: Study for the Garden Court, by Sir Edward Burne-Jones
Always reblog potential Imogen portraits.
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Rare 1917 Photographs (Autochromes) from the Alexander Palace
A rare and unique set of 48 Autochrome color photograph plates, taken by Alexander Zehest in 1917 of the interiors of the Alexander Palace, including both the Parade rooms and the personal rooms of the Imperial Family, have been returned to the Alexander Palace Museum. The Autochrome process was a rare and difficult one, invented by the Lumiere Brothers of France in 1903 and marketed in Europe and the US starting in 1907.
The autochromes, 140 in total, were made in 1917 by the military photographer Andrei Zeest, who was invited by the art historian George Loukomski, Head of Tsarskoye Selo Inventory Commission.
The Alexander Palace interiors were photographed in August-September, soon after the Tsar’s family left for exile. Now that a comprehensive restoration of the palace approaches, the detail-rich autochromes become one of the most important resources for the museum workers, restorers and historians. Particularly noteworthy are the views of the Playroom of Tsarevich Alexei, previously unavailable, and Alexandra Fiodorovna’s greenery-decorated Maple Study or Drawing-Room and the Palisander Reception Room with a vase holding a Hortensia put there by the Tsarina herself.
The plates were at auction in Paris in June 2012. A close friend of the work of the Alexander Palace Time Machine, Mr. Mike Pyles, contacted Bob Atchison, offering a most generous gift of $25,000 toward the purchase of the plates for the APTM websites. Bob declined the gift personally, insisting that the plates go to the Alexander Palace Museum. Mr. Pyles readily agreed. The Museum staff were already aware of the impending sale of the plates. With Mr. Pyles promised gift in hand of $25,000 toward their purchase, the Museum was able to secure the photographs, which ultimately sold for 53,000 Euros!! (about $70 000 American dollars!)
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These incredible and rare photographs are currently being restored, and due to be released, digitally, on the APTM site sometime in the next month!!
*I will never, nor have I ever owned these photographs, these were taken directly from the APTM Forum and I am citing in full the incredible generosity and passion for those who are saving these incredible historic pieces from the most spectacular period in history.*
Oooh, remembering this for Cymbeline’s palace. Even if Innogen is not as Edwardian as perhaps it should be.
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René Lalique gold, emamel and horn carved hair comb, c. 1901-2.
Ongoing Imogen feels.
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Song - Animal Life
Artist - Shearwater
Album - Animal Joy
Genre - Rock
Lyrics
Born inside the gates of the family
Hardened by a Roman machinery
Cast among the building sites
The coiling wires, the shots collected
Called out in the wake of a lottery
Held inside the family gathering
Mirrored beams and doglike stretch
The wandering association
Murmurs in the dark confessional
And it rides along the road, ephemeral
As in animal life
Rusting in the shade of the batteries
Hanging from a rope in the gallery
Pacing down the balance beam of half-remembered holidays
No rush of light, no sign of belonging
No joy in building, love in the finishing
Chasing down an anodyne and half-reflected radiance
To hide below the ancient barricade
In chambers like the rooms a swallow made
For an animal life
Charging down the maw of the ocean
I wanna come close, I wanna come closer
I held your name inside my mouth through all the days of wanderingBut called out from the mouth of oblivion
Cast away like dogs from the shelter
I shed the dulling armor plates
That once collected radiance
And surging at the blood’s perimeter
The half-remembered wild interior
Of an animal life
Oh dammit, because I need more Posthumus Leonatus songs.
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Every time I see this ceiling come up, I want to get back to writing Innogen and the Hungry Half. Spoiler alert: the next section, whenever it happens, happens at the Minervan Exhibition.
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Frustrated forever by two things — first, that, since this is, you know, from a Russian TV station, all the VO is in Russian, and I can’t hear much of the English dialogue; and second, that I probably missed a chance to see this production at Chicago Shakes in 2007 because I a) found out about it too late and b) couldn’t afford it.
The bits we see here, though, augh, are they tantalizing. Stupid abiding by the union contract with the cast and crew that means they can’t release it on DVD.
