Dear LJ-friends,

I wish you a HAPPY CHRISTMAS and a joyous time with your families. Peace on earth.

Meee-ooo-www! :-D





And also I'd like to send birthday wishes to not_alone !

Hugs and kisses,
your (Snow) Whiteling ;-*

Johnny Duerer 1500 AD by ~Whiteling on deviantART


Well, again I carried on my project of art improvement by Deppisation. This time, it was German painter Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) to suffer for my forgery. ;-) It was a birthday gift for a friend of mine. Guess whether she is a Johnny fan... :-D

Clicking on the thumbnail will bring you to the DeviantART-Site where the picture is displayed in apt size. (The original painting, a self-portrait dating from AD 1500, is to be found here: upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8c/Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer_104.jpg)
I can't help it - as much as I admire Master Albrecht, I like Johnny's look much better... (sorry, Albrecht!)

Isn't it a wonderful coincidence that my newest Johnny drawing was finished just the day before yesterday, so that I can post it in honour of the birthday of two friends on my f-list? :-)

Happy belated birthday, wendylady1 and happy birthday, morrelli !!
I hope your special day was/is a good one!

It looks as though Johnny had a nice birthday present for both of you up his sleeve...

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I hope everyone is doing fine! Sorry for my long absence from LJ, but I was knocked out by a flu (am still struggling with the aftermath of it).
I may not post much anymore, but I'll be popping in now and then for sure and try to catch up with my f-list. *hugs*

The last week was rather exciting for Deppsters, as the European premieres for Johnny's new film "Public Enemies" (directed by Michael Mann) in London and Paris took place.

In this shaky video of the premiere in London you can see Johnny speed signing. At 0:18 min. he's just about to sign a printout of one of my drawings (no, it's not visible in that clip), then he suddenly shys away! What has happened? Is my art that frighteningly bad, you may ask??!
;-)



Well, let's start from the beginning.
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A Very Happy Birthday to
Mr. Johnny Depp
and
saturnine3 !!

I hope you both have a most enjoyable day! Luck and success for your new year to come!

What would be more obvious than to post a piece of art for an artist's birthday? A piece of art with Johnny in it to boot?
Dear Siriuss, I hope you will forgive me that I took the shortcut and made a photomanip for you... the drawing I am at will take some time longer.
I inserted Johnny's lovely head into one of my favourite artworks - Oedipus and the Sphinx (1864) by Symbolist artist Gustave Moreau:

Caution! Very lightly dressed persons ahead!
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Like you and so many others here, I enjoyed the new Star Trek movie thoroughly. It was such a delight to see the actors put on the mannerisms and habits of the original crew.

I can't believe though that this fabulous crew shouldn't have met much much earlier. How could they grow up without each other??? My suspicion therefore: they knew each other since their days in the intergalactic toddler group. Hollywood - do a BABY STAR TREK (aka The Original Original Series)!

I can see it just before my eyes:

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Happy Birthday, dear Pearl! I hope you are having a fascinating special day! :-)

A few days ago, I was following a link from an online magazine which brought me to www.vimeo.com, a relatively new and not yet widely known video website and I was really blown away by the wonderful pieces of film I discovered there. The videos there are so much better than on YouTube, technically; they are mostly presented in HD - image and sound are of first-rate quality and as it seems, vimeo attracts particularly artists and that shows.
I'd like to share following finds with you. :-)


This one is called A Short Love Story in Stop Motion (very moving, I thought):


A SHORT LOVE STORY IN STOP MOTION from Carlos Lascano on Vimeo.



The title of this video is Apoptosis, and I loved it for its mesmerising pictures and music (a trippy image meditation on the image of the circle):


apoptosis from takcom™ on Vimeo.




Powerlinerflyers is simple on the first glance, but it has a wonderful rhythm to it (and I love the music of the film "Amelíe"):


powerlinerflyers from wes johnson on Vimeo.




Vimeo is full of such little gems. Very worth a visit! I hope you enjoy it like I did!
ETA: The embedding function shrinks the video display size. They are displayed larger on the Vimeo page.

Happy Easter, everyone! Frohe Ostern Euch allen!





I wish you all a very happy Easter, full of joy and happiness. I hope, the cute bunny above has brought some yummy chocolates for you, too. :-)

... liebe Mona alias lame_pegasus !

Ich hoffe, Du bist wieder gut beieinander!

Passend (?) zu Deinem Wolf's Moon gibt es hier noch einen....

tada...

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The Rake's Progress...




Ever since I saw Johnny Depp in the role of John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, I was totally blown away by this gripping, haunting, amusing and heartwrenching portrayal.

The historical John Wilmot (1 April 1647 – 26 July 1680) was an English libertine, a friend of King Charles II, and the writer of much satirical and bawdy poetry.
A patron of the arts, he was the toast of the Restoration court and had besides his wife many mistresses. Wilmot was also an infamous debauchee, and when he died at the age of 33, he had made himself that early end, drinking and shagging himself literally to death (it is said that he suffered from syphilis and other venereal diseases).

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