Unknown Planet

21/06/2025

20-25 of June, 2025: the shortest nights 🙃 so far...

30/05/2025

"Me? Jon, I'm just a plain seagull and you're... "

"...the only Son of the Great Gull, I suppose?" Jonathan sighed and looked out to sea. "You don't need me any longer. You need to keep finding yourself, a little more each day, that real, unlimited Fletcher Seagull. He's your instructor. You need to understand him and to practice him."

A moment later Jonathan's body wavered in the air, shimmering, and began to go transparent. "Don't let them spread silly rumors about me, or make me a god. O.K., Fletch? I'm a seagull. I like to fly, maybe..."

"JONATHAN!"

"Poor Fletch. Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you
already know, and you'll see the way to fly."

The shimmering stopped. Jonathan Seagull had vanished into empty air.

After a time, Fletcher Gull dragged himself into the sky and faced a
brand-new group of students, eager for their first lesson.

"To begin with" he said heavily, "you've got to understand that a seagull is an unlimited idea of freedom, an image of the Great Gull, and your whole body, from wingtip to wingtip, is nothing more than your thought itself."

The young gulls looked at him quizzically. Hey, man, they thought,
this doesn't sound like a rule for a loop.

Fletcher sighed and started over. "Hm. Ah... very well," he said, and eyed them critically. "Let's begin with Level Flight." And saying that, he understood all at once that his friend had quite honestly been no more divine than Fletcher himself.

No limits, Jonathan? he thought. Well, then, the time's not distant when I'm going to appear out of thin air on your beach, and show you a thing or two about flying!

And though he tried to look properly severe for his students, Fletcher Seagull suddenly saw them all as they really were, just for a moment, and he more than liked, he loved what he saw.

No limits, Jonathan? he thought, and he smiled. His race to learn had begun".

***
https://www.lib.ru/RBACH/seagullengl.txt

22/04/2025

Shakespeare (1564-1616) + AI (2025)
***
Edgar:
The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices
Make instruments to plague us:
The dark and vicious place where thee he got
Cost him his eyes.
Edmund:
Thou hast spoken right, 'tis true;
The wheel is come full circle; I am here.
***

02/04/2025

An Old Man... by Rembrandt ("one of the greatest" as in Wikipedia)

>>> Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (1606–1669), mononymously known simply as Rembrandt, was a Dutch Golden Age painter, printmaker, and draughtsman. He is generally considered one of the greatest visual artists in the history of Western art.

It is estimated Rembrandt's surviving works amount to about three hundred paintings, three hundred etchings, and several hundred drawings

26/02/2025

A Green Platypus and a Yellow Echidna Play Tennis

This painting depicts a surreal tennis match between a giant green platypus and a giant yellow echidna on the Moon, set against a psychedelic backdrop of vibrant analogous colors and detailed textures, evoking the style of Renaissance art and classic realism.

Created using the SDXL 1.0 AI image generator model.

03/02/2025

On the Eve: to Drive the Evil Away 🙂
.."Setsubun marks the day before the beginning of spring, according to the lunar calendar.

The festival involves a ritual called mamemaki, traditionally intended to drive away the evil and wish for good health for the year. The ritual involves throwing roasted soybeans at people and children.

Despite the rainy weather, temples drew crowds for the event.
At Naritasan Shinshoji temple in Chiba Prefecture, stars of NHK's Taiga drama "Berabou," kabuki actors and sumo wrestlers threw soybeans from the stage to excited spectators who tried to catch and eat them.

It is believed to bring good fortune if you eat the same number of soybeans as your age.

The festival is also celebrated in many homes. The father or the oldest man in the house plays the role of a demon, wearing a mask, while children throw soybeans at him shouting Oni wa soto, Fuku wa uchi (Demons out, good fortune in!).

Another traditional custom for Setsubun is to eat eho-maki (hand-rolled sushi) which is supposed to bring good luck. You eat an uncut sushi roll while facing the lucky direction of the year.

This direction changes every year and is determined by the 12 Chinese zodiac symbols"...

© Japan Today

19/09/2024

Every-thing Is Ready!

Fool Harvest Moon. As seen in Osaka, Japan. September 18-19, 2024. Let's go! - as they say 🤓

26/05/2024

>> Nobody knows where I came from or where I'm going next

08/05/2024

Костюмерам, художникам: комикс-раскадровки в Unknown Planet

Полезные подсказки и кастинг-менеджерам. Ищем и присматриваем: не старше 20, однако. Ну, по крайней мере, - визуально чтобы. Кино, как ни крути 🙃 Meanings of Arts.

А диалоги - замысло-ватые, you know: Andrei Martynov, Unknown Planet и его друзья с партнёрами. Венгерский язык - не только Стэнли Кубрику 😎

Первые эпизоды - ключевые. Про Immortality Now всё больше. И век 22-й. Всего 77 лет осталось. Успеют кое-кто.
Богатыри не мы. Рабы немы.

06/05/2024

Пьер Безухов - Энтони Хопкинс, 3 года съёмок, 20 серий

Британский актёр - Энтони Хопкинс (Philip Anthony Hopkins; р. в 1937) сыграл в ТВ-сериале Би-Би-Си (1972) "Война и мир" Пьера Безухова. Графу П.Безухову в романе Л.Толстого - 27 лет в 1812 году. Хопкинсу в начале съёмок в 1969 - 32...😊

31/03/2024

Бесстрашный Trump в ожидании 8 апреля 2024

Или 4/8/24, например 😎
В 2017 Президент США всем про-демон-стрировал. Не сразу он очки надел, наблюдая за - тогда частичным - затмением самого (!) Солнца.

Нынче ставки выше! - ровно семь месяцев - и очередные выборы. Если вообще. Чемпионат мира по футболу-соккеру в этих Штатах запланированы. Мало ли что.

8 апреля сего года весь мир - частично. А в США - ПОЛНОЕ затмение. Ух!

Масоны, иезуиты и проч. мн.др. Увидят собственными глазами. Вжик. Unknown Planet - как обычно. You know 🤩

26/03/2024

https://planetarij.livejournal.com/133179.html

Скоро! Именно 28 февраля 2025 года: все планеты как на ладони. Сатурн, Меркурий, Нептун, Венера, Уран, Юпитер и Марс. Это ближайшая дата, когда 7 планет будут видны на небе ...