Wednesday, February 13, 2008

This video is hypnotic.



My only complaint is that I wish the videographer had snuck in the cover illustration for Whitley Strieber's "Communion" just to see if we were paying attention.
Posted by Mac at 1:40 AM
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6 comments:

Katie said...

Wow, that was really beautiful.

8:28 AM
mikec said...

Mac - the opening face (the one displayed on the site) is a painting by Ingres and it's in the Met in New York.

When I visit the city (where I lved for a decade) part of my pilgramige is a haunting search for that painting. The Met is big, and you gotta sorta loose yourself (a burt reynolds quote) to find that painting. That painting has a sort of mystical draw for me...

Anyway, it made me curious to see what was so hypnotic.

peace from idaho,
M!

10:27 AM
Anonymous said...

Who is the artist and what is the title for the painting that appears at 1:01? She's wearing an Elizabethan collar and her hair is pulled back.
??????
Thanks
Colan
Toronto

3:54 PM
jon said...

the woman at 1:01: i would guess El Greco... his model for "St Veronica with the Sudary" seen here, kinda looks like the woman:

http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/ij/images/impressn_elgrec.lg.jpg

if you pause the clip at 1:01/1:02, you can see (faintly) a signature in greek on the canvas; El Greco's full name was Domenikos Theotokopoulos...

9:50 PM
jon said...

the signature also looks like his seen at Wikipedia here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:ElGreco_signature.jpg

9:59 PM
W.M. Bear said...

Remarkable. "All women are One Woman...."

10:32 PM