from the 1929 silent film by director Luis Buñuel and artist Salvador Dalí
Archive for July, 2011
Un Chien Andalou – Razor Scene
Posted in Art, Movies with tags 1921, cut, dali, eye, luis bunuel, razor, salvador dali, un chein andalou on July 23, 2011 by elgraysoLaurie Lipton
Posted in Art, Death with tags art, detail, ink, laurie, laurie lipton, lipton on July 19, 2011 by elgrayso
Laurie Lipton
Senorita Meurte
Love Bite
Prime Time
Death and the Maiden
Queen of Bones
Asparagus
Posted in Animation with tags 1979, 70s, animation, asparagus, pitt, susan pitt, trippy on July 18, 2011 by elgraysounfortunately I wasn’t able to find the whole video…
Codex Gigas
Posted in Satan on July 8, 2011 by elgraysoThe Codex Gigas is the largest extant medieval manuscript in the world. It is also known as the Devil’s Bible because of a large illustration of the devil on the inside and the legend surrounding its creation.
According to one version of a legend that is already recorded in the Middle Ages the scribe was a monk who broke his monastic vows and was sentenced to be walled up alive. In order to forbear this harsh penalty he promised to create in one single night a book to glorify the monastery forever, including all human knowledge. Near midnight he became sure that he could not complete this task alone, so he made a special prayer, not addressed to God but to the fallen angel Lucifer, asking him to help him finish the book in exchange for his soul. The devil completed the manuscript and the monk added the devil’s picture out of gratitude for his aid. In tests to recreate the work, it is estimated that in order to reproduce only the calligraphy, without the illustrations or embellishments, would have taken 5 years of non-stop writing. [from Wikipedia]
Lucifer
The Cameraman’s Revenge (1912)
Posted in Animals, Animation, Movies with tags 1912, animation, insects, Ladislas Starevich, stop motion, the cameraman's revenge on July 7, 2011 by elgraysoThe Kaibo Zonshinzu Anatomy Scrolls
Posted in Science with tags anatomy, anatomy scrolls, japan, japanese, kaibo, kaibo zonshinzu anatomy scrolls, medical, science, scrolls, zonshinzu on July 1, 2011 by elgrayso
