Strength – the Dragon slayer III by Attila Karpathy
Acrylic paint on canvas.
24×30 cm (9.44 x 11.81 inch).
Private collection.
Entitled Strength is my third interpretation of Saint George slaying the dragon.
The primary source Read more Strength – the Dragon slayer III
We still believe that we are the children of G_d, and the smartest beings walking on the planet, yet we are a bunch of idiots. In fact, we still don’t know basic facts about ourselves and our history. Significant parts have been altered or deleted. You cannot google it, so it doesn’t exist or is untrue.
The Dragon Slayer (Saint George II)
Acrylic colours on canvas.
20×30 cm (7.87x 11.81 inch)
Bucharest, September, 2024.
Private collection.
My second instalment of Saint George slaying the dragon.
The primary inspiration for this painting was the Equestrian Portrait of Carmen Bordiu-Franco by Salvador Dali, painted in 1974. I recycled that image and rendered it into Read more The Dragon Slayer
Is there anybody listening to the lyrics anymore?
Many people I know never do. They consider the vocals just another instrument and the song lyrics neglectable.
For me, the message is important. I learned English by listening to songs and translating the lyrics from the inlay of the records word by word using a dictionary. Especially in a world where “everything you thought you knew is wrong”, words become treasures. Or weapons.
True words were hard to find before 1989, left behind the Iron Curtain. Words meant freedom and carried the flavour of hope.
To our bitterness and disappointment, in 2024, true words only seem like a lost memory from an imaginary world or parallel reality. Yet, the scariest thing is “We can deny reality – but not its consequences”. Read more The The – Ensoulment (2024)
The tragic death of Chester Bennington in 2017 seemed to put an irreversible end to the band’s career. However, in the music business, nothing is irreversible, and nobody is irreplaceable.
Linkin Park reunited after a seven-year hiatus and introduced two new members, co-vocalist Emily Armstrong and drummer Colin Brittain. They also announced a new album, From Zero, which would be released on November 15, 2024, and on September 5, they released a video for a new song and single, The Emptiness Machine. Read more Linkin Park – The Emptiness Machine (reaction)
It was a time when I thought Marilyn Manson was dead and buried and there is nothing in this world that could bring him back to the spotlights. Fortunately, I was wrong.
Marilyn Manson came back banging.
First came As Sick As The Secrets Within, followed by Raise The Red Flag.
The first has a very sick video thanks to Bill Yukich, best known for Read more Marilyn Manson – As Sick as a Red Flag
Punk’s not dead, but it deserves to die, and it’s dead because of you.
Punk means something else for everyone and can mean different things at particular moments in life.
It doesn’t matter what punk means to anybody else, and it only matters what it means to you.
Punk came kicking and screaming out of the 60s, then it was murdered at the end of the 70s, raised back to life only to be dishonoured and killed again over and over again occasionally. From being “not dead” in ’81 to “it just deserves to die” in ’86, and the final conclusion of “it’s dead coz of you” in 2024, punk proved to be a tough nut to crack.
Alive, dead or resurrected, mocked, mugged, hijacked, raped, advertised, monetised, revamped, sold out or surviving at the street level, punk comes back haunting once in a while. Some still believe in it, and others make a buck or two out of it. It’s like your first sex date, which you wouldn’t take home to present to your mom, but you sneak it into your room and can’t get enough of it.
It was the mid-80s, and Read more Not dead, deserves to die, dying because of you
Sunrise. 8.12.2024. The painting on the wall is called 1793 – MMXXIII, and I painted it last year. Acrylic dye on canvas. There are times for simplicity and times for complexity. Some said this was too crowded, while others said it was too esoteric and they didn’t understand it. It is just a painting. And now a snapshot of a moment. Art generates art. Sometimes, life happens, and we only have to seize the moment.
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MAYHEM, cu siguranta unul din cele mai controversate nume din istoria muzicii contemporane, revine in Romania pentru un show cu adevarat special, in data de 3 septembrie la Club Quantic din Bucuresti.
Formatia va aniversa 40 de ani de cariera printr-un show niciodata prezentat pana acum in Romania.
Seara va include Read more Rockstadt Extreme Fest MAYHEM
Football used to be quite a simple game. Two teams, usually of 11 players, were kicking a ball to score a goal. The team who managed to score more goals wins.
Not anymore.
As with everything else, football has been hijacked and perverted.
The principle of polarity, one would say, “Everything is dual; everything has poles; everything has Read more Football aka soccer
