Lian Renaud Lian Renaud

Inspiration

Art inspires Music,Fashion,interior design,poem.

Inspiration.


Guess the song or form of inspiration.


Starry starry Night .....A Painting by Vincent Vangogh.
The scene from the window of his asylum



Mondrian

(You May not guess this)
No prizes if you do.


Leonardo Da Vinci

Above all an inventor/artist/scientist.


Botticelli


Frieda is back
(Frieda Kahlo)

Toulouse Lautrec


Post:images....cartoons.....music....poems.....snippets....fashion.
All are welcome.
Enjoy







Read More
Lian Renaud Lian Renaud

The Dog n Bone

The Dog n Bone.
(Phone)


Communications.


Alexander Bell is credited with patenting the first phone.He co-founded the American Telephone and Telegraph company,1855.

However the first device was invented by Antonio Meucci 1808..

Communications have changed radically over the years,changed life styles and advanced technology.

Love it or hate it the phone is a huge part of our life.

Post music,memes,Videos,cartoons,information.

All are welcome to The Dog ‘n Bone discussion.




How times have changed designs










Read More
Lian Renaud Lian Renaud

That ‘Ole’ Black Magic....Halloween Special.


The Sixties...A Renaissance

A Renaissance in Music,Writers,,Fashion; An awakening of Optimism.

Hidden agendas were masked by the optimism,music and the affluence of the sixties.










Money was easy,POP Stars vied with each other,buying Beautiful homes,or Stately Homes.
Their grand estates were in the countryside,Town Houses,acres of land.


Unknown to many music was based on the Black Arts,Drugs,Sex and Rock and Roll.
Stories that we loved and cherished innocently through child hood suddenly became sinister in undertone?!

no-one just no-one will take my love away from my childhood memories of:
Winnie the Pooh,
Little Black Sambo.
’Dunctonwood’ became a war between Good and evil.Golliwog badges were no longer acceptable.

Brian Jones of The Stones bought Crotchford Farm in Sussex,England.That was the original,’House at Pooh Corner’,in a small Sussex Village.The house had belonged to AA Milne,author of Winnie the Pooh.

Jimmy Page bought a house in Scotland that had belonged to Alistair Crowley,the house had a series of  unusual and sinister events,spontaneous fires.

Not to be out done Mick Jagger bought a huge stately home,The Beatles also bought large estates and houses as did other pop stars.

Brian Jones met Anita Pallenberg,model actress,fashion designer,she rolled with the Warhol Art movement,started with Brian Jones,left home for Micky Jagger,and left him for Keith Richards.
It was Anita that influenced The Stones wild fashions and black magic undertones in their music.
The occult played a huge role in purple Harem and the Stones music.

Alistair Crowley was classified as the most evil man in Britain,and AA Milne also practiced the black arts in fact the village in Sussex where Crotchford Farm was had a circle of Black magicians which AA Milne belonged to.Brian Jones felt Crotchford Farm was cursed,and he died in his swimming pool sure that he had been cursed by Voodoo when he was in Morocco.
The reason for his drowning is a mystery to this day.

Read More
Lian Renaud Lian Renaud

Blue Faces all round.

Kool Knights

Blue Faces.

Wales

A Journey from Reading to Cardigan.
Kool Knights.

Of course Lord Cardigan from Wales invented Cardigans,just as the Earl of Sandwich
invented sandwiches.


The train was delayed for four hours on Reading station.waiting was BORING!

A fearsome guy was knocking back Drambuie.

Join me...........Nothing else to do so I knocked back the Coca-Cola to celebrate his birthday.
He looked a bit intimidating,he turned out to be a Commander of Knights,his name was....

Commander Gobshite.

On the train there were lots of blue faces,that was his army from Cardiff in Wales.
We arrived at Cardiff at 4 am,and I slept on his sofa,waking up to bacon and eggs in the morning.

Next day traveled to Cardigan to stay in my friends cottage on the Cardigan estuary,that was the view from my bedroom window,and the castle on the other side of the river.


The Real Knights.Hot Knights.

Malt is a hot country.

A small island in the Mediterranean.

Built by a French Knight La Valletta.born:1494.He joined the order of St John of Jerusalem.

Was captured by the Ottoman Turks and rowed the gallies as a slave.
Few survived more than two years,but LA Vallette was six ft tall and very strong.
Some say he escaped and others that he was an exchanged prisoner.

He became the Grand Master of Malta and fought the corsairs in the sea around Malta.
The siege of Malta was1565.500 Knights fought 40,000 Turkish invaders.Finally
When only 19 knights were left defending the Turks left,never to return.


Vallette designed a new fortified city ro defend against warfare,but war changed its fighting techniques.


The heritage of La Vallette was a city of architectural beauty,a city built for gentlemen for gentlemen.

The order of the Knights of St John exists till this day.

The knights

Photos include:Welsh Knights and Knights of Malta.

Cardigan and the island of Malta.









attended the sick.The knights were hospitaliers.



 Valletta was designed as a fortification....a city for gentlemen,the first modern city in the world.

He left a beautiful architectural city,and the heritage of a grand history and the Knights of Malta,an organization that exists today.

Read More