Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Birthday Greetings... John Balance on AOS...



¤ Austin Osman Spare ¤
(30 December 1886 - 15 May 1956)

Artist, Occultist, Sensualist

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Monday, December 28, 2009

Sunday, December 27, 2009

Sunday night.... the Goddess...





‡ Rosaleen Norton

Rosaleen Miriam Norton (2 October 1917 – 5 December 1979) New Zealand, was an artist, occultist & witch.



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Sunday night

A long audient meditation, which chiefly consisted reminiscing about the more peculiar episodes in my sex life.
Have decided on a retreat of at least three months -- nobody to be admitted. Will create magnetic centre...................................................







Friday, December 25, 2009

The Act of Drawing... Unica Zurn







The pen "floats" tentatively above the white paper, until she discovers the spot for the first eye. Only once she is "being looked at" from the paper does she start to find her bearings and effortlessy add one motif to the next....


The Man of Jasmine - Atlas Press 1994



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Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Federico García Lorca...drawing and poem...



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Sonnet of the Sweet Complaint


Never let me lose the marvel

of your statue-like eyes, or the accent

the solitary rose of your breath

places on my cheek at night.


I am afraid of being, on this shore,

a branchless trunk, and what I most regret

is having no flower, pulp, or clay

for the worm of my despair.


If you are my hidden treasure,

if you are my cross, my dampened pain,

if I am a dog, and you alone my master,

never let me lose what I have gained,and adorn the branches of your river

with leaves of my estranged Autumn.




Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Monday, December 21, 2009

Aleksander Blok... poem..



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"Snow Wine"


Again, from the goblet, your presence
sparkling fills my heart with care--
you with your smiling innocence
and your serpentine waves of hair.

Swept off my feet in the dark stream
I again live through
a passionate forgotten dream
of kisses, of snowstorms masking you.

Your laugh your magical laughter
and in the golden goblet sway,
and lightly over your sable hair
the current of the blue wind play.

And how, looking into the liquor,
could I miss my Bacchic wreath?
and fail to remember your kisses
my face upturned to meet mouth your mouth?


29 December 1906


Sunday, December 20, 2009

Russian Animation...Valentin Olshvang 2003

About Crayfish (Про раков)

a beautifully crafted tale, animated by Valentin Olshvang 2003















Saturday, December 19, 2009

Prints...Max Pietschmann




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Two Satyrs fight for the wineskin 1897



Thursday, December 17, 2009

Shunga...Japanese erotica...




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Translated literally, the Japanese word shunga means picture of spring; "spring" is a common euphemism for sex.



Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Alastair...L'Anniversaire de l'Infante ... Oscar Wilde...



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Published by Harry and Caresse Crosby at their Black Sun Press 1928


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Thursday, December 10, 2009

Austin Osman Spare...drawing



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from A Book of Satyrs


Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Monday, December 7, 2009

Thursday, December 3, 2009

Tuesday, December 1, 2009