The Mentis Flatuscence

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Take Flight with Free Admission this Saturday, May 18 as we celebrate International Museum Day at Lopez Museum & Library!

It’s halfway through National Heritage Month and take stock in the masterpieces of great Filipino Masters juxtaposed with contemporary artists in our ongoing exhibit GROUNDED.

GROUNDED: Dealing with the position of the museum as a cultural institution, the exhibition examines its relationship with different localities as it makes its way from Pasay, Pasig, and eventually to Makati. The exhibit focuses on waterscapes and features artworks from the museum’s permanent collection, along new works by invited artists Ahmed El Shaer, Khaled Hafez, Barbara Hlali, Toym Imao, Josephine Turalba, Goldie Poblador, Alma Quinto and Eric Zamuco.

Please call Tina at 6312417.

Mural from the elementary school precinct (Election Day). The Joy of Reading will take you to Stonehenge, Eiffel Tower, Great Wall, Leaning Tower of Pisa, Indian Tipi, Ifugao House, Chocolate Hills, Niagara Falls, Inuit Igloo, the Pyramids and some beautiful mosques! And the book is in English! Love it!

Finally, I get to build my resources on Athanasius Kircher: Obeliscus Pamphilius

lopeziana:

Inang Bayan wants your Honest Votes, Votos Honrados (Free Press, 30 May 1931)

How To Vote On May 13, 2013
http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/nation/05/08/13/infographic-how-vote-may-13

Resources: UP sa Halalan 2013
http://www.halalan.up.edu.ph/

Download the Electoral Almanac http://pcdspo.gov.ph/pub/Election-Almanac.pdf

Mga paalala para sa Halalan 2013:http://www.gov.ph/2013/05/08/mga-paalala-ukol-sa-halalan-2013/

Reminders for the 2013 Elections
http://www.gov.ph/2013/05/08/reminders-for-the-2013-elections/

Election Infographics and Reminders
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10151582749069824.1073741839.90180039823&type=1&l=c86aa3b2ab

lopeziana:

Apotheosis of Andres Bonifacio

Today we commemorate the 116th Death Anniversary of Gat Andres Bonifacio. He and his brother Procopio were executed in Maragondon after a trial in 1897.

Resources: Transcript of the Trial of Andres Bonifacio

In Art heroic figures are often celebrated in an allegorical manner referred to as ‘apotheosis’ which is the elevation of a dead leader (often one who was assassinated and/or martyred) to a kind of superhuman charismatic figure.

100,000 Stars is an interactive visualization of the stellar neighborhood created for the Google Chrome web browser. It shows the location of 119,617 nearby stars derived from multiple sources, including the 1989 Hipparcos mission. Zooming in reveals 87 individually identified stars and our solar system. The galaxy view is an artist’s rendition based on NGC 1232, a spiral galaxy like the Milky Way.

http://visual.ly/100000-stars?view=true

DAMAS ROMANAS, 1882. (Juan Luna)

The altar to the left is called Lararium which is found in most houses where the Romans make their offerings to the gods and their ancestor spirits. The dogs are attendants to the virgin goddess Diana, while the doves are sacred to Venus. One can say that the two Damas represent the two goddesses. - Eric Agoncillo Ambata

Grumpy Cat’s take on Google Maps!

(one last graphic before going to bed ;-)

Das große flaggenbuch! 

How do you say goodbye to a book? 

This rare German Flaggenbuch of the Nazi Period has been in my ‘care’ for almost close to 8 years. An invaluable reference to my study of vexillology and heraldry.

Now we have to part ways for the owner has sent its summons Huginn and Muninn; Geri and Freki. I love this book notwithstanding its provenance/publication.

Mighty Aphrodite: Venus Anadyomene by Guillermo Tolentino, Metropolitan Museum of Manila

May the Fourth Be Gilbert and Sullivan? Warp. Drive. :-)

Happy Free Comic Book Day! My drawing of a hero character from 1983 (Third Grade). :-)

I loved the movie so I made this, hee hee :-)

Extremis Vicki?

I was watching Weng Weng clips on Youtube and I could not resist.

A haiku I wrote inspired by the Game of Thrones: “Winter fell — Evergreen thoughts persist / Resting on laurels.

(Lord Mentis Flatus, House Ars*e)