Spring Awakening

in Finsbury Park, London

Wedekind

Death of the Messenger

in Baba Amr, Syria

Journalist Marie Colvin killed by Syrian government forces to prevent the getting out of the truth of Assad regime's terror against their own people

 ‘We send home that first rough draft of history.’

Spirits on the Pitch

Zambia won the African Cup because they were helped by the spirits of the National Team who died in the catastrophic 1993 air-crash near the coast of Gabon 

They pay tribute to the players who were never found in the sea

Lunch

"Skinless and Boneless fillets of Cod (Gadus Morhua), caught in the Atlantic Ocean (FAO Nos. 21 & 27) or (Gadus macrocephalus), caught in the North Pacific Ocean (FAO Nos. 61 & 67), in a rich Sauce with Mixed Peppers, Tomatoes, Garlic and Herbs." 

Obsession

 Yayoi Kusama

obsession with dots

Olek

obsession with crochet

Ahab - The Threat to Democracy

WHALE OF A TALE 

First mate Starbuck and crew on the high seas

by Mead Schaeffer, 1923

„In every age, there will be a threat to the principle of "divine equality," and his name is Ahab. In Melville’s view, it doesn’t take much to become a demagogue as long as you learn a few simple tricks. Dictators such as Hitler, Saddam Hussein, and Muammar Qaddafi are not geniuses; they are paranoid despots and expert manipulators of men. If you want to understand how these and other megalomaniacs pull it off, read the last third of Moby-Dick and watch as Ahab tightens his stranglehold on the Pequod's crew in his increasingly horrifying quest for the White Whale.

In the midst of a disorienting crisis, what is needed more than anything else, he suggests, is a calm, steadying dose of clarity, the kind of omniscient, all-seeing perspective symbolized by an eagle on the wing....This is the anti-Ahab, who instead of anger and pain relies on equanimity and judgment, who does his best to remain above the fray and who even in the darkest of possible moments resists the "woe that is madness.”

The Daily Beast

Sad Snowmen

life is soo beautiful, but soo short

Change your life, villain!

Commendatore

Mozart: Don Giovanni

Hajj

Pilgrims circulating around the Kaaba in Mecca

Milky Way

Ahmed Mater: Magnetism

"It all began in the mists of time with Adam's expulsion from the Garden of Eden. He it was, the first man to have immediate contact with God, who built the first Ka'ba, the great cubic block that is the most important physical feature of the Hajj in Mecca; this, by the time of Abraham, some 1,700 years BC, had so deteriorated that its site had to be revealed to him by God Himself. By divine design, no doubt, it was close to the place where Abraham had abandoned Hagar, the Egyptian slave who had borne him his then only son, Ishmael...
As Abraham returned to Mecca and, with young Ishmael's aid, rebuilt the Ka'ba, he is regarded as the founder of the Hajj and its first pilgrim. During the rebuilding a mysterious Black Stone, a metre or so long, was set in the wall; this, profoundly precious to Islam, is variously believed to have been discovered by Ishmael on a nearby hill, or to have been given to Abraham by the Archangel Gabriel."
Brian Sewell

The Hajj
British Museum