Architect (who “disappeared in a poof of smoke” according to
@msnbc
) / Artist / Musician living in an age of patent absurdity. Original Music:
@ECSquares_music
@seanonolennon
Both your parents are extraordinary people and true artists. I can’t imagine what it would be like to inherit that kind of mantle and do it with the grace and humility that you demonstrate.
For a “celebrity” or “public figure”, you come off as one of the sanest voices of reason
@culturaltutor
While Bofill departed from modernist dogma (as did most of his fellow post-modernists) by eventually accepting that certain architectural forms have an inherent meaning that moves beyond about what materials they are made of or how they are assembled - in other words a tradition
I spent an absolutely magnificent morning at the Temple of Poseidon at the tip of the Attic peninsula and the most southern point of mainland Greece.
The Temple is a Doric peripheral temple with its cella opening east. It was constructed on the site of an older archaic temple
@romanpriestess
I love this account. I love antiquity. Here are my drawings of statues of Antinous. They comprise a triptych I call “Ephemeral Beauty”.
@MaddowBlog
@maddow
@maddow
and her garbage network
@msnbc
are cancers. You’ve done more damage to the public interest and public good, than most corrupt politicians I can think of (and as we know, they are ALL corrupt).
I can only hope that one day all of you will be taken to task. Not only do
Happy Greek Independence Day!
Shown here, one of my favs:
“Looking East through the Opisthodomos of the Temple of Hephaestus”
2022
18” x 24“
Colored Pencil on 400 series 100 lb white Strathmore Colored Pencil Paper
@GrecianGirly
@greekcitytimes
@greece_heritage
@ArysPan
“About this time he had the sarcophagus and body of Alexander the Great brought forth from its shrine, and after gazing on it, showed his respect by placing upon it a golden crown and strewing it with flowers; and being then asked whether he wished to see the tomb of the
@MarshaBlackburn
@POTUS
Oh look, another worthless politician and member of the corrupt and entrenched political class appears on my feed. Muted and blocked. I only wish I could so this in real life.
@InsideWithPsaki
@MSNBC
@KerryKennedyRFK
Oh look another former worthless civil servant now being overpaid as a propagandist
@msnbc
, state TV of the Idiocracy.
I hope Trump makes RFK Jr head of the CIA. That would be a barrel of laughs.
@omerF1971
@bulutuzay_
You can make all the excuses you like, but the fact is this was not built by the ottomans because quite frankly, the ottomans had neither the knowledge, purpose, or intelligence to create such a structure. Even its early restorations during the ottoman period were done with
@GrecianGirly
My 2022 drawing of the same from my "Solace of Antiquity" series. Prismacolor pencil on graytone paper.
Facing east through he opisthodomos and into the agora.
@Culture_Crit
Some of us still are. Thought it’s fair to say these days I’m an architect in name only. I no longer practice Architecture, nor desire to.
Here, my drawing “The Maiden’s Return: An Allegorical view of the Propylaea and Erectheion of the Acropolis of Athens, facing West Towards
@D_abdulkader
@eevriviades
@NATO
Because like every other phony alliance which has become nothing more than a front for an empire - namely the transnational fascist Corporotacracy of which the elite (and entrenched) political class of the United States (as well as that of other western countries) comprises its
@christinawilkie
@KamalaHarris
@KevinWilliamB
Ah, I see you got today’s talking point from the DNC. Cut and paste propaganda laughably masquerading as “journalism”.
Even among all the worthless morons at
@cnbc
there is a first among equals, and that title squarely belongs to @
@christinawilkie
.
Do you still think I’m
@latinedisce
I have a masters in architecture and urban design. I still don’t understand why anyone would build, let alone, design, the building on the right. And yet Frank Gehry is lauded as one of the great architects of our time. I call that “emperor’s new clothes” syndrome.
Having said
@Culture_Crit
I spent close to two decades commuting in and out of the oversized dirty toilet that replaced one of the most majestic buildings in the western hemisphere.
Passengers, rather than being dazzled and elevated, were forced to gather like cattle and move through never ending
@archi_tradition
On the Attic peninsula near Cape Sounion where I am right now but sadly leaving tomorrow. Here the Temple of Poseidon from a visit earlier this week.
The Real Story of MH370 - Espionage
"I have no special talent, I am only passionately curious."
-Albert Einstein
I'm Ashton Forbes and I've been a citizen journalist investigating the Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 disappearance for seven months. The group I started, MH370x, has
@MaddowBlog
@AliVelshi
Not sure what's funnier here, the bloated sense of self-importance or the nauseating, finger-wagging sanctimony. Either way you have to be some kind of masochist to sit through more than 5 minutes of this tripe.
I suggest giving this a listen instead.
@seanonolennon
11 time zones in Russia.
Before air wars, that was an impossible territory for land armies. Imagine the corridors one would have to keep open for supplies, ammo, troop movements etc. Go big or go home.
I once went to a city called Omsk in Siberia for a project (shows you the
@JustXAshton
“National Security? That’s a good one.
No Irony. Because whatever Chuck Schumer (or any if those other worthless politicians for that matter), do / does is for one reason only. That is to stay in power and to keep making money grifting. The ONLY thing that motivates them is
@seanonolennon
I recently reread 1984. I can no longer see a difference between his fictionalized “ministry of truth” and the blatantly propagandized American TV “news” networks (that have been directed by the intelligence agencies at least since the Cold War began - see “operation
@seanonolennon
I predict it will become the new state religion (if it hasn’t already. Note the pride flags flying on public buildings), as its trajectory bears an uncanny resemblance to Christianity in the 3rd and 4th centuries. History Rhymes. In Hoc Signo Vinces.
And as we know, like every
@greg_price11
Britghtest is an understatement. Apparently his consulting services were going for $20k a month in Ukraine. I also did work in Ukraine. I was lucky if I got that much for a whole architectural design project. Then again I ran a legitimate business.
And you wonder why most sane
The Temenos Project - Western Stair and Balustrade at the Northern Ascent.
I spent time yesterday designing, redesigning, and adjusting the relatively simple stair shown here. You’d think one would be taught this canon in architecture school, if for no other reason than to
@ArysPan
I love these anecdotes of history viewing history. Another amazing thought like this often comes to me when I look at images of the Giza Plateau - that is, when Solon visited Egypt and met with the priests there who told him of the Atlantean story. He also saw the pyramids, and
Various drawings in and around Athens from my “Solace of Antiquity” series, based on trips there in 2019 and 2021. Can you guess where?
The first three are graphite on white watercolor paper. The last is white and dark charcoal on graytone paper.
@nomadpossum
@GrecianGirly
@Culture_Crit
IMHO modernism at its core, was a rejection of an old order. And that rejection I believe is due largely to the First World War - mechanized horror which is forgotten today, but was such a massive catalyst for societal change - primarily in a political dimension - that it
@robinmonotti
I no longer believe the mainstream media of any country, any government, or any politician for that matter. Personal experience has shown me that the above mentioned entities create and disseminate a constant stream of lies in order line their pockets, while separating me from my
@0zmnds
Love Robert. Here a quick project from last summer. My analysis of the architecture within a Robert painting “The Fountains”, and the consequent 3D reconstruction.
@gasandoilparty
I don’t disagree. But I also don’t think the reactive movements that followed would have happened if modernism, which at it core being so highly dogmatic, hadn’t produced so many relentlessly and maddeningly uniform buildings, regardless of climate, location, culture, etc. The
@mediterraneanAE
Not the Roman Empire in particular, but I think about classical antiquity quite often. Incidentally, what is the name of this image/ painting?
@nomadpossum
Thanks! 👍🏼
Greece (and especially Αττική), is an endless font of inspiration for me.
Here are a few more drawings from around Athens and Lavrio. Poetry in every nook and corner.
In Athens today and tomorrow as my trip winds down. I took the afternoon to marvel once again at the achingly beautiful neoclassical buildings in the heart of this city, which to me at least, represent a great irony in Greece’s emergence as a modern nation-state after its war of
@matthewstoller
@FabiusMaximus01
They like to use the hackneyed phrase of “Save our democracy” while they fail to tell you you actually live in an oligarchy.
@SenatorMenendez
You’re a worthless political clown and a corrupt, third rate civil servant. But after all, the joke is on me because I pay your salary.
A few more pics (adjusted for lens distortion), from today’s walk through neoclassical Athens. Here, my favorite building of the “Athens Triptych”, Theophil Hansen’s masterpiece, the main building of The National Academy of Athens, completed in 1885.
#mediterranean
@ancientorigins
Baalbek. I have to see those enormous blocks with my own eyes. I haven't yet heard a reasonable explanation of how they were moved and set in place. It is just mind boggling.
@casedeepoca
You have my sympathy. My father was born in Costanza and was lucky enough to get out of Romania in 1950. He said the communists that came in, made the nazis who were leaving look like boy scouts. They took everything my grandfather had made and built from nothing and with no
Following yesterday’s post of travel sketches, here are some of the finished drawings that resulted. I created these between 2019-2023, which I call “The Solace of Antiquity”. Most of them are of ancient sites in and around Athens and the greater Attic peninsula.
These drawings
Publius Aelius Hadrianus (AKA “Hadrian").
Not only a great philhellene who revived Athens as a cultural center in the first century, Hadrian had a particular interest in architecture. As a result some of the greatest Roman buildings (including the miraculous Pantheon) were
@MarioNawfal
Biden once again confusing the imaginary family history bullet points he was given by his handlers (in a really big font), with the Commander McBragg cartoon he was watching yesterday. I understand he will spend all day tomorrow working on colors and shapes.
The Maiden’s Return: An Allegorical view of the Propylaea and Erectheion of the Acropolis of Athens, facing West Towards Salamina”
36” x 57”
Prismacolor pencil, acrylic pen on gray tone paper.
The Maiden’s Return
One of the Caryatids from the Erechtheion on the Acropolis of