Tag Archives: J.W. Waterhouse

dogging it out: every doge has their day

Posted on April 20, 2012 by Dave

Lying on the bare earth, shoeless, bearded, half naked, he looked like a beggar or a lunatic. He was one, but not the other. He had opened his eyes with the sun at dawn, scratched, done his business like a … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Alexander and Diogenes, Alexander the Great, Alexander the Great Corinth, Corinth in Spartan war, Dio Chrysostom, Diogenes, J.W. Waterhouse, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Plato, Spartan invasion | Leave a comment

bizarre love triangles : black moon rising

Posted on June 10, 2011 by Dave

Booted out of Paradise? Lilith as the first mistress and well-spring of promiscuity, both real and imagined? There has always been some perplexing inconsistencies in the Old Testament; a kind of lost narrative between the Greek Septuagint, the Dead Sea … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Andrew Samuels, Anita Sarkeesian, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Dead Sea Scrolls, frank dicksee, Gershom Scholem, Greta Garbo, J.W. Waterhouse, john collier lilith, john collier painter, John Keats, John William Waterhouse, joseph heath, judith plastow, louis ginzberg, Madonna, michael walzer, perle besserman, rabbi jill hammer, rebecca honig friedman, Rick Salutin, Salka Viertel, thomas frank the baffler | Leave a comment

owsley bear :looking for habitats of unreason

Posted on March 23, 2011 by Dave

A justifiable flight from reason? I human life inevitably alienating? At a very base and primal level does this alienation and its pathological impulse to dominate make an easy excuse to justify exploitation and thus rationalize our present societal structure?Was … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Music/Composition/Performance | Tagged Bruce Eisner, Charles Reich, Eisner, Erich Fromm, J.W. Waterhouse, Jean Antoine Watteau, Jeffrey Mishlove, Jerry Garcia, Ken Kesey, Owsley Bear Stanley, Owsley Stanley, R.D. Laing, Theodore Roszak, Timothy Leary, Tom Wolfe, Walt Disney, Watteau | Leave a comment

HOWL with GURDJIEF: “YOU ALL DIRT!” & Dirty Dancing

Posted on October 12, 2010 by Dave

Did my Karma run over your Dogma? All is not lost; when one has a metaphysical poop scoop. Even dog doo has consciousness. Who is the unique idiot? Along with Helena Blavatsky, Rudolf Steiner, and Aleister Crowley, Georges Ivanovich Gurdjieff and … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged A.R. Orage, Aleister Crowley, Allen Ginsberg, David Appelbaum, Elizabeth Wilson, Ethel Broido, G.I. Gurdjieff, Geoff Olson, Georgi Ivanovitch Gurdjieff, Gordon Ball, Gurdjieff Sacred Dances, Helena Blavatsky, J.G. Bennett, J.W. Waterhouse, J.Walter Driscoll, Jacob Needleman, James Franco, James George, Jay Kinney, Jerry Aronson, John William Waterhouse, Katherine Mansfield, Mary Ellen Korman, Michel de Salzmann, Osho, P.D. Ouspensky, P.L. Travers, Peter Demian Ouspensky, Peter Orlovsky, Roger Lipsey, Rudolf Steiner, Thomas Albright, Thomas de Hartmann, Timothy Miller, Trunga Rinpoche, William Patrick Patterson | Leave a comment

BEYOND COMPREHENSION OF ORDINARY MEN

Posted on April 8, 2010 by Dave

What does a dragon enjoy? It enjoys sleep. If large, for a thousand years; small ones, not less than several hundred years. After such a long hibernation, a dragon will enter into a nirvana like state to renew itself. The … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc. | Tagged Chinese female divinities, Chinese literature, goddess of the Lo River, History of Chinese Literature, Hsiang Goddess, J.W. Waterhouse, John William Waterhouse, Li Ho, Lo Goddess, M.C. Escher, Mermaids, Nu Kua and Fu Hsi, Sung Yu, Victor H. Mair, Wu-shan goddess | Leave a comment

PRINCES IN SCALY ARMOR

Posted on March 31, 2010 by Dave

Dragon ladies and water fairies. Fish Maidens, rain mothers and other hybrid critters. Now you see them, now you don’t. These powerful shimmering phenomena of the Chinese imagination reveal themselves but briefly through mist and clouds.Watery nymphs beloved by mortal … Continue reading →