#Matthiessen

[random-brushstrokes]

Hjalmar Matthiessen - Stargazing (ca. 1916)

#Hjalmar Matthiessen #danish art #genre painting #1910s

[hauntedbystorytelling]

Kaj Gynt in Scenen 1, 1928

Kaj Gynt. Cover of Scenen Nr. 1, 1928 | src Project Runeberg View on WordPress

Swedish-American actress Kaj (or Kay) Gynt: Karin Sophia Matthiessen; née Karin Sophia Cederstrand. From: Scenen Nr. 1, 1928 View on WordPress

#Kaj Gynt #scenen #portrait #Kay Gynt #headwrap #Karin Sophia Matthiessen #Porträt #retrato #ritratto #portret #retrat #Bildnis #1920s #scenen magazine #smoking cigarette #swedish actress #uncredited photographer #unknown photographer

[njamil21]

Happy Late Valentine's Day!

This is incredibly late but I wanted to just finish this properly and get this posted. I was doing research and came across Erotes and got interested in making some designs and as I'm currently taking an online course on UI/UX designers so I thought it would be fun to create modern versions of them as developers on a dating app.

First is Anteros, the Erotes of requited love and the head UX designer of the app, Cupid Connect. He's very eager to help as many clients get their happily ever after so he helps manage deadlines and making sure the app runs smoothly. Anteros may not be in a relationship himself, but he's very excited to see people find their happily-ever-afters through the app! Hedylogos is the Erotes of flattery so naturally he's their PR manager and UX researcher, connecting directly with clients to get their honest feedback so the app can be easily used and understood by all. He's a sweet talker and likes to keep the atmosphere light by bringing homemade candies to the office to pick everyone up. Hedylogos tends to lay it on thick when it comes to compliments but his friends learned to understand that's just how he operates.

Hermaphroditus, as an Erotes of androgyny, was hard to pin down as to what their role on the team would be but I thought having them be the UX designer overseeing the safety features of the app would be best. Love is meant to be safe in the end and they would like to make sure all clients can experience their app and avoid any potential dangers when using it. In their free time, Hermaphroditus likes to garden and will occasionally bring flowers to the office. Hymenaeus is the Erotes of marriage so he does a lot of the heavy lifting of UX development in managing clients' information and helping Anteros in the match-making department. I like to think he worked as a wedding planner before so Hymenaeus also works as an event planner for the app, so couples can meet on safer grounds to get to know one another. People tend to look at Hymenaeus when it comes to throwing the best parties.

Pothos is the Erotes of yearning so as the UI designer, he makes sure that not only does the app look pleasing to the eye, but that also the client can navigate the app and get the love they long for. He can relate to wanting to be with the one you love, as he's in a long-distance relationship at the moment so he enjoys this aspect of the job. When Pothos isn't video chatting with his sweetheart, he likes to go drinking with the rest of the team. Last but not least, is Himeros, the Erotes of unrequited love and desire, so he works as another UI designer. Himeros will sometimes add articles regarding intimacy tips on the home page so clients can use that as they will but he'd like to upload advice on what happens when finding love is difficult, especially given their clientele. It hasn't been approved since that might be a bad look for the app but Himeros still tries.

This was insanely long and I'm so sorry about that. It's all just been rattling around in my brain for two months so I just wanted it out and posted before February was done. I hope you all had a great Valentine's day and enjoying some now half-priced chocolates on sale!

Please do not edit or repost without permission. (I edited my commission prices!)

#artists on tumblr #illustration #character design #erotes #valentine's day #Anteros #Hedylogos #Hermaphroditus #Hymanaeus #Pothos #Himeros #Please feel free to reblog!! #Or comment! #Nishat's doodles #All of the background images are stock photos from Unsplash #In order it's: Micheile Henderson; JACQUELINE BRANDWAYN; Susn Matthiessen; freestocks; Georgia de Lotz; and Amy Shamblen

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Jessica Kaczor By Richard Calmes

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"In that very breath that we take now lies the secret that all great teachers try to tell us." - Peter Matthiessen

[via "alive on all channels"]

#Jessica Kaczor #Richard Calmes #dance #dancers #leap #jump #movement #alive on all channels #Peter Matthiessen #quotes

[wellconstructedsentences]

The forest on this ridge is oak and maple, and a mist of yellow leaves softens the ravine sides all around: on a golden wind comes a rich humus smell of autumn.

The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen

#the snow leopard #Peter Matthiessen

[godzilla-reads]

🐯 Tigers in the Snow by Peter Matthiessen

“When you see a tiger, it is always like a dream.”

—Ullas Karanth

#godzilla reads #tigers in the snow #Peter Matthiessen #tiger books #reading #books and nature #nature books #animal books #book blog #bookworm #booklr #bookish #quotes #booklover #bibliophile

[the-hearth-and-the-wild]

Autumn warmth in early November at Matthiessen State Park, Illinois

#my photography #nature photography #autumn walks #autumn photography #my photos #illinois #autumn leaves #walking in nature #nature #Matthiessen state park

[leefi]

TONIGHT IS A BLUE MOON MY FRIENDS PLEASE LOOK OUTSIDE

#driving an hour out to Matthiessen state park at 10 PM: 🗣️ BLUE MOON 🎶 #man if i lived by a desert I’d be out there every weekend

[seasai]

#The Snow Leopard #Peter Matthiessen

[lisamarie-vee]

#jane lynch #actress #illinois #matthiessen state park

[inafetse]

Nutured by nature the moment my lungs fill with its pure light air

Helping me heal and taking my stress so easily. As if it was saying sorry for the things that cause it.

Light and lifted as you get lost deeper and deeper in the woods.

With no where to be but everything to see.

#woods #hiking #nature photography #nature lovers #forest #Matthiessen State Park #naturecore

[cryingoflot49]

Book Review

In the Spirit of Crazy Horse by Peter Matthiessen

I’ve always thought Peter Matthiessen was a terrible writer. I’ll be up front about that right from the start. The fact that he was a CIA agent doesn’t do much to lend him credibility either. But the story of Leonard Peltier and the American Indian Movement (AIM) is important enough for me to overlook the shortcomings of the author and take In the Spirit of Crazy Horse into serious consideration.

This copiously researched and overwrought work on recent Native American Indian history begins with an account of Crazy Horse, Geronimo, General Custer, and the massacre at Wounded Knee in South Darkota. After some commentary on stolen land and treaties that were never upheld by the U.S. government, the story is brought into more recent times by briefly telling the story of AIM and how leaders like Russel Means, Dennis Banks, John Trudell and other lesser known men formed the militant activist group at the end of the 1960s. The group was loosely organized and made up of urban Indians, mostly from the West coast. They came into prominence in the early ‘70s when they occupied the Oglala reservation of Pine Ridge, South Dakota. This led to a brief standoff with the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) and the FBI that brought AIM into the spotlight of national politics and won them support among Native peoples all across the country. Matthiessen follows this section up with an account of the trials that came after.

Up to this point, the story is straight forward and easy to follow since it goes along an ordinary linear path. Matthiessen’s style is not known for being direct, precise, or clear, but in these opening chapters he manages to keep a tight rein on his language so the audience doesn’t get lost so soon. The opening chapter on Wounded Knee feels arbitrary and unnecessary, especially for anybody who knows about American history. It could have been left out or shortened, but it doesn’t do any real damage to the book. The problems come later. At least these sections do a good job of setting the tone and context for what comes next.

What does come next is the whole heart of the story. In June of 1975, two FBI agents drove onto the Pine Ridge reservation with a huge entourage of FBI and BIA agents, SWAT teams, a gang of thugs, and a right wing militia group, while a spotter airplane flew overhead. A group of AIM members were camping on the reservation with a cache of weapons. Nobody knows how it started, but a firefight began. The two FBI agents were shot point blank and one AIM activist named Leonard Peltier was later charges and convicted of murder.

This whole chapter is confusing. I have to say, that is not Peter Matthiessen’s fault. He tells the story several times from the points of view provided by several different witnesses. Since most of them were either firing guns or hiding to avoid being shot, you can’t expect any of them to provide a clear explanation of what happened. As muddled and difficult as this part of the book can be, Matthiessen still holds your attention enough to keep you reading and guessing what will happen.

The inevitable next section of the story is the arrest of Peltier and some others and their two trials for murder. The prosecution does a terrible job in both trials, resulting in a finding of not guilty in the first and guilty in the second, the one in which Leonard Peltier got sentenced to life imprisonment. Matthiessen demonstrates how insufficient the prosecution’s case was in both and how they broke the law in their conduct by intimidating witnesses, tampering with evidence, and withholding necessary documents from the defense. If Matthiessen’s account of these trials is accurate, then there is more than sufficient reason for Peltier to be allowed a retrial. If Matthiessen’s account isn’t accurate, then it is because he is guilty of massively cherry picking his information. Given what I know about Leonard Peltier, I think the former is more believable than the latter and I would prefer to just go along with the author. But what comes later in the book, or more accurately what doesn’t come later, gives me reason to pause and question how trustworthy the author is.

From a simple standpoint of excitement, the beginning of the last section is the most interesting. The imprisoned Leonard Peltier learns of a supposed plot to assassinate him, so he escapes from the penitentiary, only to be caught soon after. If you want any more action to keep the narrative going, you will find it here. This incident leads the author to assert that there is some sort of conspiracy by the FBI to bring down the American Indian Movement. Matthiessen’s theory is that they are working with some corporations to access uranium mines in the Black Hills on the Pine Ride Reservation. Is it a real conspiracy or just a conspiracy theory? We know that the FBI tried to take out other Civil Rights organizations along with other activist groups of the New Left in the 1960s, so it isn’t a far fetched idea. As to why they chose to go after Peltier even though they probably knew he wasn’t guilty, is a bit more complex. It appears they needed to pin the murders on someone, even if it wasn’t the actual murderer and they found it easier to build a case against Peltier than anyone else. As for the assassination plot, I just don’t know. The FBI had Fred Hampton of the Black Panthers assassinated so it can’t be ruled out even if there is testimony from only one man regarding this.

The rest of this last section involves Matthiessen rambling around, talking to various people about various elements related to the case. Except for the two people who claim to have murdered the FBI agents, there isn’t anything here that actually strengthens the author’s argument. It is a disorganized mess of random stuff that is barely, if ever, interesting. It seems that Matthiessen felt he had to include all the information he had gathered even if it didn’t contribute anything of value to the book overall.

The biggest problem with this last section is not its bad writing, but the way in which it makes its one-sidedness so obvious. I have to say that I mostly agree with the author’s stance on the issues addressed, but the absence of opposing points of view make it look suspicious. There is one passage where the author has a phone conversation with FBI agent David Price, but Price does little more than talk in circles without ever saying much of anything. He obfuscates the FBI’s case rather than clarifies it. It doesn’t stand firmly as an attempt at providing a counter-argument. Matthiessen should have cut down on all the testimony from AIM members and sympathizers, who sound like nothing more than yes-men and yes-women, and included more from the government’s point of view. It would have made the story more complete and I don’t think it would have hurt his thesis. It probably would have strengthened it.

Is In the Spirit of Crazy Horse worth reading? For now, I have to say yes. The history is interesting enough on its own to survive the bad writing. And as far as I know, this is the most well-researched and comprehensive account of the Leonard Peltier affair that is available. Still the question remains, did Leonard Peltier kill those two FBI agents? I really don’t think so, but I also don’t think Peter Matthiessen did a good job of proving his innocence. What he does succeed in is showing how the trial was a sham, a persecution motivated by extreme prejudice and not by a desire for justice.

#book reviews #peter matthiessen #leonard peltier #american history #native americans #american indians #american indian movement

[litandlifequotes]

Figures dark beneath their loads pass down the far bank of the river, rendered immortal by the streak of sunset upon their shoulders.

The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen

#peter matthiessen #the snow leopard #book #book quote #quote #words #reading

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

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"Soon the child’s clear eye is clouded over by ideas and opinions, preconceptions and abstractions. Simple free being becomes encrusted with the burdensome armor of the ego. Not until years later does an instinct come that a vital sense of mystery has been withdrawn. The sun glints through the pines, and the heart is pierced in a moment of beauty and strange pain, like a memory of paradise. After that day, we become seekers."

Peter Matthiessen

[Alive On All Channels]

#quotes #Peter Matthiessen #Alive On All Channels #caring #kids #children #innocence

[valsedelesruines]

"The secret of the mountain is that the mountains simply exist, as I do myself: the mountains exist simply, which I do not. The mountains have no "meaning," they are meaning; the mountains are. The sun is round. I ring with life, and the mountains ring, and when I can hear it, there is a ringing that we share. I understand all this, not in my mind but in my heart, knowing how meaningless it is to try to capture what cannot be expressed, knowing that mere words will remain when I read it all again, another day."

- Peter Matthiessen, Snow Leopard

#quote #quotes #snow leopard #peter matthiessen #books #mountains #mine #thoughts

[wonderlesch]

Amazing Travel Adventures - Illinois

Amazing Travel Adventures - Illinois shares a few of my favorite things. With this travel destination guide explore Shawnee National Park, Old Joliet Prison, Cloud Gate and more. Let's travel Illinois style!

Hello, and welcome to my next Travel Destination Guide: Amazing Travel Adventures – Illinois. Read on to explore Shawnee National Forest, Matthiessen State Park, Wabash Arts Corridor and so much more. Planning your next vacation or day trip get away to Illinois starts right here. Let’s travel Illinois style! Shawnee National Forest – Illinois Shawnee National Forest has over 289,000 acres to…

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#A Few of my Favorite Things #Amazing Travel #Amazing Travel Adventures #Chicago Riverwalk #Cloud Gate #Illinois Lifestyle #Matthiessen State Park #New Blog Post #Old Joliet Prison #Shawnee National Forest #The Bean #Things to do in Illinois #Travel #Travel Adventures #Travel Destination Guide #Wabash Arts Corridor