scary classical music Celebrate Halloween in macabre style with these bone-chilling masterpieces! Mussorgsky: Night on Bald Mountain The image of brooding, winged ghouls wreaking havoc on a mountain village under cover of night has terrified generations of young children in Walt Disney's Fantasia. Inspired by Russian legend, Mussorgsky's tone poem depicts the dark ritual of a witches' sabbath. Sadly, it was never performed in his lifetime, but the arrangement by his friend Rimsky-Korsakov has become a concert blockbuster. The version used in Fantasia was orchestrated by Leopold Stokowski. Marschner: Der Vampyr (Overture) The vampires in tabloids and teen novels today have nothing on the 19th-century European variety. Saint-Saëns: Danse Macabre Saint-Saëns’s creepy 1874 tone poem is a Halloween classic, depicting the revelry of the Grim Reaper at midnight every year at this time. Herrmann: Psycho Suite Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique: Dreams of a Witches' Sabbath Liszt: Totentanz Liszt loved to flirt with death.
These Photos Are Actually Pencil Perfect Drawings At just 22 years old, Italian artist Diego Fazo has developed the skill to create photo-realistic drawings using a simple charcoal pencil. His latest creation, pictured below, has drawn hundreds of positive comments on his Deviant Art profile. Don’t tell me you can tell the image below is a drawing and not a high-definition photograph, because I don’t buy it. In fact people were so skeptical this incredible piece of art was drawn by hand that young Diego Fazo had to put up some photos of the work in progress just to lay doubts to rest. Like other talented artists who started their careers on Deviant Art, Diego is a self-taught pencil master whose technique matured with the passing of the years. Scroll down for more of his awesome drawings, and check out his Deviant Art profile, as well. Reddit Stumble
8 math talks to blow your mind Mathematics gets down to work in these talks, breathing life and logic into everyday problems. Prepare for math puzzlers both solved and unsolvable, and even some still waiting for solutions. Ron Eglash: The fractals at the heart of African designs When Ron Eglash first saw an aerial photo of an African village, he couldn’t rest until he knew — were the fractals in the layout of the village a coincidence, or were the forces of mathematics and culture colliding in unexpected ways? Here, he tells of his travels around the continent in search of an answer. How big is infinity? Arthur Benjamin does “Mathemagic” A whole team of calculators is no match for Arthur Benjamin, as he does astounding mental math in the blink of an eye. Scott Rickard: The beautiful math behind the ugliest music What makes a piece of music beautiful? Benoit Mandelbrot: Fractals and the art of roughness The world is based on roughness, explains legendary mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot.
the xx 30 Awesome Pencil Portrait Sketches by Krzysztof Lukasiewicz You are visiting awesome pencil portrait sketches and this work has been done by well known freelance artist Krzysztof Lukasiewicz. His portfolio is a full of inspirational art/drawings. By the phrase "different portraits", we mean that the collection is Krzysztof as portraits of celebrities and ordinary people. Photo Credit goes to ESCUELA DE INICIACION ARTISTICA 1 Las Escuelas de Iniciación Artística del Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes brindan una formación en un nivel inicial. Su propósito es conducir el proceso educativo a través del desarrollo de habilidades y actitudes en alguna de las cuatro disciplinas artísticas: artes plásticas, música, teatro y danza (clásica, contemporánea y folklórica). La atención de los alumnos en las Escuelas de Iniciación Artística se agrupa en categorías de edad: infantil, juvenil y adulto. Perfil de ingresoLos aspirantes deberán tener gusto por las expresiones artísticas, disposición para experimentar, colaborar y aprender en un ambiente de respeto y disciplina. Para la mejor atención de los aspirantes en la plática informativa será indispensable la asistencia puntual; los aspirantes de las categorías infantil y juvenil acompañados sólo de uno de los padres de familia o del tutor, y de los aspirantes de la categoría adulto, únicamente el aspirante interesado.
quater life crisis Every rut needs a soundtrack. And if you're in your mid-to-early-twenties with zero direction, colossal debt, and an undiagnosed Internet addiction, maybe the prospect of change is too daunting. But the short term pain of getting your shit together is flimsy compared to the crushing realization you'll feel decades from now when you realize that you've spent an incalculable amount of time provoking fights on racist YouTube channels. Sonic Youth, “Teenage Riot” Sonic Youth - Teenage Riot <a href=" src=" alt="" width="640" height="340" /><br />Watch this video on YouTube</a> Pavement, “Range Life” Pavement - Range Life (1994) <a href=" src=" alt="" width="640" height="340" /><br />Watch this video on YouTube</a> Arcade Fire, “The Suburbs” Arcade Fire - The Suburbs The National, “Afraid Of Everyone” The National - Afraid of Everyone Fugazi, “Waiting Room”
Backlit Canvas Art Do you have one project that you've been longing to do, but just haven't found the time yet? This is it for me. I call it my Backlit Canvas Art and the inspiration piece has been pinned in my "Crafts to try" Pinterest board for ages. My "pin"speration is an artist's piece made from metal that has hand cut flowers all over it. Its backlit by Christmas lights, and I pretty much love it! So I decided to give it a go and create my version. There are two main differences between the two: 1. 2. The idea of the canvas is that during the day (ie. with the Christmas light off) you have a beautiful sculpture while at night (you guessed it, with the Christmas lights on!) How about a tutorial? Supply list Mounted canvas (mine is 10"x10") cardstock to fit on your canvas (mine is 12"x12") stamps ink pad X-acto knife light source* *I wasn't sure if I wanted to use a single bulb or Christmas lights so that is why both are in the above picture. I decided to go with the same flower theme as my inspiration piece.
Inicio Compañía de Teatro Musical UP STAGE jazz albums If I’ve seen it once I’ve seen it a hundred times. Someone just getting into jazz ventures online looking for some music to start with, and is instantly inundated with about 500 different choices. Everyone has their own ideas about the best places to start a jazz music collection, and it can get overwhelming pretty quickly. I know because I was one of those neophytes. So as a public service to all you new jazz lovers out there, here’s one man’s list of recordings that are essential for any new jazz collection. #10. To start a jazz collection with any artist other than Satchmo would be foolishness. I know that this style and sound (usually referred to as Traditional Jazz) is not for everyone, but it’s critical to hear where the music started in order to appreciate where it went. And hey, you never know, you may love it for more than its prime historical value. Buy This Album! #9. As World War II raged, a seismic shift was occurring in the jazz world. Buy This Album! #8. Buy This Album! #7.