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raziraphale · 1 month

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Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead (Neptune Theatre, 2024)

#rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead #ragad #gifs #edits #billy boyd #dominic monaghan #michael blake #i suddenly wanted to try gifmaking again right as I got my concussion for some reason lol #so this is my fun reward for recovery! I've had to sit on my hands all week but I'm feeling great today 😊#it's been 2 years since i last made gifs dear lord #so forgive me bc i forgor everything

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solopezoncillos · 1 month

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MICHAEL BLAKE

#michael blake

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obsesiveblue · 6 months

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Some spooky drawings of my ocs to celebrate this funny holiday .

#traditional art #drawing #ocs #doodle drawing #Yuki Arktika #michael blake #wings of darkness #my ocs #halloween #spooky #happy halloweeeeeeen #art #original oc #obsesiveblueartwork

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yumyumpod · 4 months

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#The Expanse #Expanse #Joe Miller #Miller #Thomas Jane #Havelock #Dimitri Havelock #Jay Hernandez #Michael Blake #Joon #Yum Yum Pod #Yum Yum Podcast

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thingsworthsaving · 2 years

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"There are many trails in this life, but the one that matters most, few are able to walk...It is the trail of a true human being. I think you are on this trail. It is a good thing for me to see. It is good for my heart."

-Michael Blake, from Dances with Wolves

#michael blake #dances with wolves #love #spirituality #quotes

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courseyoulovemeyoudontknowme · 3 months

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Dances with Wolves (1990, Kevin Costner)

22/01/2024

Dances with Wolves is a 1990 western film produced, directed and starring Kevin Costner.

The film, based on the novel of the same name by Michael Blake, who also wrote the screenplay, won seven Oscars, including best film and best director. In 2007 it was chosen to be preserved in the National Film Registry of the United States Library of Congress. In 1998 the American Film Institute placed it in 75th place in the ranking of the best one hundred American films of all time.

In 1863, during the Civil War, Lieutenant John Dunbar is an officer of the Union Army garrisoned at St. David's Field, Tennessee. The man, following a serious wound that would condemn him to the amputation of a leg, seeks death in front of the Confederate lines, but his extreme gesture breaks the stalemate between the two armies facing each other a few dozen meters away, resolving the battle in favor of the Northerners. His act being recognized as that of a brave man, he is treated, receives a commendation and is granted the possibility of choosing the place of his future destination; the lieutenant asks to be sent to a garrison on the western frontier, on the edge of the Nebraska prairies.

Arriving at Fort Hays, Kansas, Dunbar is sent by the mad commander of the garrison, Major Fambrough, to Fort Sedgwick, the most remote outpost. The suicide of Major Fambrough, committed just after Dunbar's departure, and the assassination of Timmons by a group of Pawnee Indians, which occurred on the way back, determined the subsequent oblivion of Fort Sedgwick by the rest of the army. John spends the first month working to get the outpost back up and running and writing his diary, in which he records everything that happens to him; only his horse Cisco and a wolf with whom he becomes familiar day after day keep him company and to whom he gives the name Two Socks because of his white paws.

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thebestestwinner · 10 months

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Top two vote-getters will move on to the next round. See pinned post for all groups!

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lunesalsol · 1 year

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#1990 #kevin costner #michael blake #indians #nature #photography #five #remember

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donospl · 2 years

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MUZYCZNE REKOMENDACJE: TJ and the Revenge „TJ and the Revenge”

Litlle Lost Records, 2018 Pod koniec roku 2018 pianista Elan Mehler zaprezentował dość nietypowy album, złożony z napisanych przez siebie i osobiście zaśpiewanych piosenek. W tym oryginalnym przedsięwzięciu towarzyszyli mu znakomici muzycy z Billem Frisellem na czele. Zespół TJ and the Revenge, poza wymienioną już dwójką, stworzyli basista Simón Willson i perkusista Dor Herskovits. Gościnnie…

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#Andres Abernante #Bill Frisell #Dor Herskovits #Elan Mehler #Eric Stilwell #Jason Palmer #Jeff Cox #Little Lost Records #Michael Blake #Paul Melhus #Simón Willson #TJ and the Revenge

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borninwinter81 · 3 months

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William Blake - an introduction for Good Omens fans

I have sent @neil-gaiman an ask regarding his feelings toward the poet/artist William Blake a couple of times, but no doubt due to the size of the poor man's inbox I haven't received a response. So I did a Google search to see if he's spoken about Blake before, and it did indeed come up with a fair few hits. I think you might enjoy seeing this Twitter post if you haven't already, the painting is from William Blake's illustrations to Paradise Lost.

It's not surprising that an author like Neil Gaiman might have an interest in Blake. A visionary from a young age, his imagination was such that he was surrounded by angels made visible in his mind's eye, and he interpreted these visions through poetry, painting and engraving, and self-printed and published many of his own works. This gave him complete freedom to say exactly what he wanted.

Though he had a passionate faith in God, he also had a deep distrust of the church as an institution, and disliked the use of religion as a means of control. This poem from "Songs of Experience" perhaps summarises his feelings best:

"I went to the Garden of Love,

And saw what I never had seen:

A Chapel was built in the midst,

Where I used to play on the green.

And the gates of this Chapel were shut,

And 'Thou shalt not' writ over the door;

So I turn'd to the Garden of Love,

That so many sweet flowers bore.

And I saw it was filled with graves,

And tomb-stones where flowers should be:

And Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds,

And binding with briars, my joys & desires."

In his poetry there is often an incongruity with the generally accepted religious ideas of what is good and evil, Angel and Demon. In The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (there's a title that should make any GO fan sit up and pay attention) he tells us that "in the book of Job, Milton's Messiah is called Satan", signifying that he feels it is Lucifer/the devil who is the true Messiah of Paradise Lost.

He gives us The Voice of the Devil and Proverbs of Hell, and has Angels being transformed into Demons through enlightenment. He tells us that Jesus broke all of the 10 commandments, yet was still virtuous because he acted according to his own morality rather than rules.

The god-figure of his later works, Urizen, generally comes across as malevolent, seeking to bind and control, whilst Los, the Satan/Messiah figure represents freedom, imagination and creativity.

"Restraining desire" and acting contrary to your own nature seem to be the only real evils for Blake.

He expressed his faith through a love of the world and the beauty in it, summed up in this quote:

"When the Sun rises do you not see a round Disk of fire somewhat like a Guinea? O no no I see an innumerable company of the Heavenly host crying Holy Holy Holy is the Lord God Almighty".

He saw "God" in everything, in all the wonders we have around us, and considered writers/poets and religious prophets as essentially the same, since they both have a connection to the divine, and express it through stories.

It's quite ironic that probably his most famous poem, Jerusalem (the one that starts "and did those feet in ancient times walk upon England's mountains green"), was made into a very popular church hymn, yet it is supposed to be satirical in nature. The poem recounts the myth that Jesus may have visited England in his boyhood, and Blake is expressing his disbelief at that notion and the unworthiness of England.

Did I have a point to all this? Mostly to show my hand as a massive Blake nerd, but also to hopefully demonstrate that there's a lot of common ground between his ideas and those expressed in a show/book like Good Omens, and hopefully to inspire some of you who may not be familiar with Blake to seek him out. In particular I'd recommend The Marriage of Heaven and Hell to any and all.

EDIT: I should have thought to include this, here's Michael Sheen reading a Blake poem. I have the CD this is from, he reads several by Blake, as well as other poets I love ❤️ 😍