Men Conquer the World and Women Save Mankind
Chinese Web-based Matriarchal Romances
Jin Feng’s Romancing the Internet is a fascinating book about an art form most of us are unfamiliar with: internet-based Chinese romance novels. (Review…
Ziggy Stardust
Chuck Conelly's David Bowie
When I photographed the young man in today’s featured image I immediately thought of David Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust, although by that time…
Portraits of Young Men
· Thomas Gainsborough's Boy in Blue ·
I learned that in your email the featured photo does not automatically show – it only shows if you go to the…
The Aftermath
The lingering effects of war
Today is the last day to introduce a montage for a movement of Karl Jenkins’ The Armed Man – I chose Now that…
Sacrificial Lamb or Sheep for Slaughter?
The Armed Man/Agnus Dei
I remember the collective gasp of students in my social psychology class when they saw a movie about gender differences – often assumed…
We’ll never know
The Armed Man/Charge!
“Cousin Swift, you will never be a poet!” John Dryden, famous man of letters at the end of the 17th century, is…
Firestorm
The Armed Man/Angry Flames & Torches
Freud wrote in Civilization and Its Discontents (1930), “The present cultural state of America would give us a good opportunity for studying the damage…
Protect us from Bloody Men
The Armed Man/ Jewish Prayer from the Psalms
Some of the first movements of Jenkins’ The Armed Man are a Muslim call to prayer, the Christian Kyrie Eleison and a Jewish…
Käthe Kollwitz (1867 – 1945)
The Armed Man/Kyrie Eleison
The third movement of Jenkins’ The Armed Man is called Kyrie Eleison (Lord, have Mercy on us) – music here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5BfirqTqm8. In response to this…
The Armed Man
Karl Jenkins' Mass for Peace
Karl Jenkins’ The Armed Man – a mass for peace was commissioned by UK Royal Armories Museum in 1999, and dedicated to…