101th post – incl. Independance Day goodies

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  • April 23, 2007 at 5:59 pm #50850
    Yatz57
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    Well, missed out on #100 – but 101 has significant connotations in Israel, so I use that an excuse for this post (which is also going to be my last art posting for the near future).
    The following painting – a re-working of one I made several years back – was inspired by this day, Israel's Rememberance Day. I am thinking about all of those young lives – both Jewish and Arab – cut down by an endless war that is made eternal by religious fanatacism and plain human stupidity. Like every year, it sets me off on a downward spiral of despair (and I have to struggle to stop myself from going off on a REAL rant, here, folks…), so I decided to channel my frustration to a positive direction, to a vision of a nicer world that might yet come true:

    It's the Ms. Universe contest, 2017, Ms. Israel and Ms. Palastine walk on stage, together…

    In my own private vision they kiss hello, and then start making out and stuff, but – hey, you can make up your own daydream, buster!

    April 23, 2007 at 6:14 pm #50851
    AlexG
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    And being that's its April 23 its also St George's Day and Shakespeare's birthday in England today.

    Guess that makes it a Three-peat Day . . .  8)

    Thanks for posting the double buffness for peace portrait, Sir Yatz.   ;D

    “I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself.”
    ~ Mark Twain / Samuel Clemens (1907)

    April 24, 2007 at 2:11 am #50852
    btx
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    Great drawing. Great sentiments.

    BTX

    April 24, 2007 at 3:17 pm #50853
    cpbell0033944
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    Yatz – that's just a great vision of how people could be brought together.  I also get very frustrated with the bad things I see happening in the world and would love to have artistic talent like yours that would help me to work it out of my system.

    Alex – I'm a proud Englishman, and now I realised that I failed to remember that yesterday was St George's day. :-[  Mind you, those in the neighbouring county to myself, Suffolk, having established St Edmund (a genuinely English saint, unlike George who was eastern European, I think) as the Patron Saint of Suffolk, now want to promote him to take over as England's Patron Saint.
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/suffolk/6583021.stm

    April 24, 2007 at 10:04 pm #50854
    AlexG
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    Alex – I'm a proud Englishman, and now I realised that I failed to remember that yesterday was St George's day.

    Well, Mark Steyn didn't . . . such are the perchance happenstances of my surfing his web site.  8)

    “I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself.”
    ~ Mark Twain / Samuel Clemens (1907)

    April 28, 2007 at 4:02 am #50855
    Jack
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    Hooray for peace and incredibly muscular women!  I loved the old pic you did of this and love this reworking even more.  Femuscle can be political too!  I also hope and pray that  the conflict can be ended peacefully.  Thanks for your great pic, Yatz.  I love your vision of world peace the most!

    By the way, cpbell, George was actually a Roman legionary from Turkey who refused to persecute Christians and was executed for it, as far as I remember.  He's also the patron saint of many other places including Barcelona.  In Spain he's known as Jorge (pronounced 'hor-hay') and in Barcelona they call him 'Jordi', so perhaps he came from Newcastle after all…?

    April 28, 2007 at 3:25 pm #50856
    cpbell0033944
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    Hooray for peace and incredibly muscular women!  I loved the old pic you did of this and love this reworking even more.  Femuscle can be political too!  I also hope and pray that  the conflict can be ended peacefully.  Thanks for your great pic, Yatz.  I love your vision of world peace the most!

    By the way, cpbell, George was actually a Roman legionary from Turkey who refused to persecute Christians and was executed for it, as far as I remember.  He's also the patron saint of many other places including Barcelona.  In Spain he's known as Jorge (pronounced 'hor-hay') and in Barcelona they call him 'Jordi', so perhaps he came from Newcastle after all…?

    That's it, Turkish – knew it was somewhere like that.  Thanks for reminding me.  Jorge; what a great name for demonstrating those crayzee Spanish pronounciations (I did Spanish at school, and remember j's being pronounced as h's very well.
    Presumably Jordi would be pronounced 'hor-di', which would tend to suggest that his house was untidy, rather than him being from the Toon.

    April 28, 2007 at 7:02 pm #50857
    Jack
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    I don't know quite how to spell the Spanish – I've only heard it pronounced, but the Catalans definitely pronounce it as if he came out of the Tyne.

    Anyway, great pic, Yatz.  Thanks again!

    April 30, 2007 at 3:26 am #50858
    ze fly
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    Yatz – that's just a great vision of how people could be brought together.  I also get very frustrated with the bad things I see happening in the world and would love to have artistic talent like yours that would help me to work it out of my system.

    Alex – I'm a proud Englishman, and now I realised that I failed to remember that yesterday was St George's day.

    Yep! Peace and love!
    And yet, maybe in 2017, French and Brits will make peace too…  ;D

    is a good occasion too, since it's a palindrome.  😉

    April 30, 2007 at 3:34 am #50859
    Yaponvezos
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    Just to clarify. Saint George wasn't Turkish as, at his time, there weren't any Turks around what we call Turkey today. The connection with the area of modern Turkey comes from the fact that he was born in Anatolia, which today is a part of Turkey.

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