Rise of Genius

mahler’s height.

ive been dying over this for 3000000 yrs now

hes shorter than alma (at least in this picture)

according to a friend’s estimate he couldn’t have been taller than 5’3”

girl I’m 5’3” like

just…… … . . lookit him i….… .

he a s m o l b o i

Visual Development art for my senior thesis Anna Karenina.  

Gryffindor

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

Henry V by William Shakespeare

Beowulf

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

Profiles in Courage by John F. Kennedy

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

Histories by Herodatus

Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville

Hufflepuff

East of Eden by John Stenbeck

Othello by William Shakespeare

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare

Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

Love In the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

White Fang by Jack London

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

Ravenclaw

Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Brief, Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz

Animal Farm by George Orwell

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

The Odyssey by Homer

Middlemarch by George Eliot

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

Slytherin

The Art of War by Sun Tzu

All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren

Hamlet by William Shakespeare

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

The Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

Macbeth by William Shakespeare

I think about Beethoven and the heilegenstadt testament.

MUSIC HISTORY LESSON TIME (but only the awesome parts)

Beethoven: badass composer of the time (Mozart had died, Haydn had died… Beethoven is the new sheriff in town, bridging classical and romantic music. He has tons of jobs as a composer and conductor)

He starts going deaf. no bueno. He hides it for a long time, but it starts to get bad, so he goes into the country (Heilegenstadt) and tries to recover.

He falls into a deep depression and writes a letter. Parts of it seem to be a suicide note, it seems to be going that direction, but then he says “Thanks to it (virtue) and my art, i did not end my life by suicide.”

The rest of the letter pretty much says, I want to die, but the music is too important. He is ready to die, but he still has pieces to write and things to say.

So pretty much this letter is him saying, yeah, my life blows, i’m going deaf (probably from syphilis), but I am a badass, and my music is worth too much for me to kill myself.

There is always something more out there, and if someone with that big of a life crisis can keep going to find it, so can i.

Josef Anton Bruckner (4 September 1824 – 11 October 1896) was an Austrian composer, organist, and music theorist best known for his symphonies, masses, Te Deum and motets. The first are considered emblematic of the final stage of Austro-German Romanticism because of their rich harmonic language, strongly polyphonic character, and considerable length. Bruckner’s compositions helped to define contemporary musical radicalism, owing to their dissonances, unprepared modulations, and roving harmonies.

Bruckner expanded the concept of the symphonic form in ways that have never been witnessed before or since. … When listening to a Bruckner symphony, one encounters some of the most complex symphonic writing ever created. As scholars study Bruckner’s scores they continue to revel in the complexity of Bruckner’s creative logic.

Albert Camus

Cause in older art you often see Moses depicted with little horns for example Michelangelo made this statue:

You can clearly see the horns on top of his head

And these horns were based on a mistranslation of the Hebrew text, instead of 'horned' it was meant to be 'shining' and thats a biiig difference

But since the horns were so ingraved in the iconography of Moses, they weren't ready to let them go completely so you get hilarious artworks such as:

Here you see there are little rays of light, where there would've been horns

Or another great one

They were just really keen on the horns

“By this invention every live part of Mother Earth’s body would be brought into action. Energy will be collected all over the globe in amounts small or large, as it may exist, ranging from a fraction of one to a few horse power or more. Every waterfall can be utilized, every coal field made to produce energy to be transmitted to vast distances, and every place on earth can have power at small cost. One of the minor uses might be the illumination of isolated homes. We could light houses all over the country by means of vacuum tubes operated by high frequency currents. We could keep the clocks of the United States going and give every one exact time; we could turn factories, machine shops and mills, small or large, anywhere, and I believe could also navigate the air.

“One of the most important features of this invention will be the transmission of intelligence. It will convert the entire earth into a huge brain, capable of responding in every one of its parts. By the employment of a number of plants, each of which can transmit signals to all parts of the world, the news of the globe will be flashed to all points. A cheap and simple receiving device, which might be carried in one’s pocket, can be set up anywhere on sea or land, and it will record the world’s news as it occurs, or take such special messages as are intended for it. If you are in the heart of the Sahara your wife can telegraph you from Washington, and if the instrument is properly made you alone will get the message. A single plant of a few horse power could operate hundreds of such instruments, so that the invention has an infinite working capacity and will cheapen the transmission of all kinds of intelligence.”

–Nikola Tesla