#evanescence in prague

[neverlostmycrown]

Speak your mind Like I care I can see your lips moving I've just learned not to hear Don't waste your time

I just found this video and i had to make these. I was there too. First Evanescence show in Prague ever.

Evanescence: Made Of Stone in Prague, Czech Republic, 2012. 📽️ Karel Waldmann

[rionka-cz]

Evanescence in Prague, 2012 - art by rionka

[mag200]

rules: shuffle your ‘on repeat’ playlist and post the first 10 tracks, then list 10 songs you really like, each by a different artist. then tag 10 people to do the same thing

I was tagged by @iamnotawomanimagod thank you!! <3

first 10 tracks on shuffle:

you asked for this // halsey

a wolf stands up // city of prague philharmonic orchestra (twilight soundtrack lol)

hard times // ethel cain

sun bleached flies // ethel cain

try better next time // placebo

drowning lessons // my chemical romance

each time you fall in love // cigarettes after sex

love me more // mitski

experience // ludovico einaudi

all too well (10 minute version) // taylor swift

10 songs i really like:

bells in santa fe // halsey

disengaged // grouper

as it was // hozier

true trans soul rebel // against me!

the mountain song // laura jane grace

two men in love // the irrepressibles

the foundations of decay // my chemical romance

gay angels // perfume genius

hungover in the city of dust // autoheart

lost in paradise // evanescence

tagging: @m-e-w-666 @keepthefrank @morestarsplease @carefulwhoyoudancewith @buggyeyes @house-of-chemical-wolves and anyone else who wants to do this. as always no pressure to do this <3

[theprisoneroffantasy]

Awesome night. I lost my breath so many times I lost the count. Now I'm frozen, because of the weather. #evanescence #prague #concert #orchestra #synthesis #congresscentre #night #awesome (v místě Kongresové centrum Praha)

[morgue-ratt]

tagged by @eggsandbeer

nickname: Frenzy or B

zodiac: Aquarius Sun, Scorpio Moon, Taurus Rising

height: ......5 feet

last movie i saw: I made my dad watch tcm2. he didn't like it.

last thing i googled: I was looking up song lyrics

favourite musician: I don't have one, I guess it depends on my mood. I'll always listen to Lady Gaga or Evanescence though.

song stuck in my head:  the halloween theme lol

other blogs: none...

blogs following: 212

amount of sleep: uuuhh... not enough. I stay up too late and most days I have the opening shift so as soon as I get home I just crash on the sofa.

lucky number: 10.6, 9, 49, 7

what i am wearing: pj pants have elephants on them.... pj shirt has snuffkin on it

dream job: mortician or like. a writer.

dream trip: I wanna go to Prague,. I read a book that took place in Prague and I've wanted to visit ever since. I also have always wanted to go on a super long roadtrip.

favourite food: vanilla ice cream with Tabasco on top

play an instrument: I don't...

languages: I can order a cup of coffee in french but other than that, just english

random fact: Cadaver blood is viable for a transfusion up to 12 hours after death. We don't use ot though because once the heart stops beating, it's hard to exsanguinate completely.

describe yourself as aesthetic things: stained mugs, black hooded sweater, chipped nail polish, playing cards, over filled bookcase, pens everwhere

I tag @stumacher-theghostface @brownchickendog @dberl @1-800-slasher

[superbriefcollectorcollecti-blog]

Memories at Concert Amy Lee and Evanescence in Prague. Year 2018 #amylee #memories #concert #prague #evanescence #singer #top #instagood #prague #summer #noskaart #concertphotography #photo (c) @jardanoska_official (v místě Kongresové centrum Praha) https://www.instagram.com/p/BsWI-fUBEeF/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1m8g4pehimtld

[ukdamo]

Prague

Anala

It would not entirely be a lie if I were to say that a death brought me here. Only, he existed between covers holding printed sheets.

It was long after ink and papyrus had become life, evanescence and everything in-between, that I chanced upon the one that was destined to capture and chain me, beckon me across half a world, chasing wisps in the tangled catacombs of fairy tale streets and gothic bridges.

It was my first step into the world, a footstep that meant to find itself inside footsteps of personas of a book- half-beast, half-human, angels, blue-haired beauties and rabid fairies but fiction is only that and it wasn't meant to be. Instead I set my feet into an hourglass that ran backwards to the time of queens, kings and castles, stained windows and marionettes, steeples that looks as old as time itself- it's a past you do not walk out of.

Two hands touch in a haze of rose, Not mine but this time, this time there was no pang of pain. It was a city of miracles and wishes and in that time of the noon when the sky threw dazzling rays, the leaves were brighter, so were the stones, there was no space or time for salt tracks down winter-chilled cheeks.

It was three days in the little kingdom tucked in a corner of the world that still bottles my soul, awaiting the day I re-unite with it.

Until then, I shall be no more than a vessel that might have been wrought by Brimstone himself

[aelaer]

Thanks for @amethyst-noir for tagging me! Tagging some of the last folks I saw in reblogs: @mizu1412 @mistressstrange @bananasofthorns

Nicknames: Laer has been my internet nickname for the last 10ish years.

Zodiac: Capricorn

Height: 5'8 (about 172 cm)

Time: 6:15pm

Favorite band/artist: Evanescence, Disturbed, Imagine Dragons, Shinedown

Song stuck in my head now: Nothing, at least until you asked me about songs... now I'm going to do my best to get songs out of my head again.

Last movie i watched: Uhhhhh I'm not sure. Maybe Bad Times at the El Royale? Good film, very Tarantino-esque but the violence isn't as gratuitous.

Last thing i googled: Inches to cm 😂😂😂

Other blogs: Nothing active.

Do I get asks: On occasion (maybe 1 to 3 times a month), and I really do enjoy answering them.

Following: 99

Amount of sleep I get: Ugh depends. 7 to 9 hours on good nights. I'd like to make it so that my body can get on reliably and great with 7 every night because I do feel like I miss out on a lot with how much I can sleep.

Lucky number: I like the numbers 3, 42, and 87.

what am i wearing: I'm not sure why this questionnaire is flirting with me... (lol. Brown shirt with some sort of minimalist floral graphic on it, jeans)

dream job: I've mentioned this before but basically my dream job involves room for growth, doing different things on a day to day basis, enough creative thinking to make it fun, and freaking separate vacation and sick/doctor appointment days. I don't want all my PTO going to being sick and doctor appointments, honestly. It's 10 flipping days a year.

dream trip: Working my job abroad and living in Europe in that duration is my current dream.

favorite food: Too many things to count. American, Italian, Japanese, Chinese are at the top.

instruments: The musical talent genes skipped me sadly.

eye color: Hazel

hair color: Brunette, though according to the woman who does my hair it's actually the darkest shade of blonde so, okay. But seriously it's brown.

aesthetics: Comfort is number one, so I almost never wear heels. I prefer tops that are a single color, or no more than two, with more interesting designs than a tshirt (for work at least; tshirts come out on casual weekends when I'm not doing anything interesting). I live for ankle boots.

language: English. I'm halfheartedly trying Spanish.

most iconic song: Requiem for a Tower. This beautiful piece of epicness.

random fact: Uh.... the Defenestration of Prague is an event that happened twice. Learning about the Defenestration of Prague x2 was the best part of AP Euro history.

[glamoursarusrex]

Mama Dick vs. Bat Dad

I feel like I had to do this at some stage!

Raven sits at the head of the dining room table in Wayne Manor surrounded by Titans and the Bat family! She is wearing a princess crown and birthday sash.

Dick * hands her a package*: Happy Birthday, Kiddo!

Raven *Pulls out a leather jacket*: It’s exactly like in the shop window!

She hugs Dick

Raven: Thank you so much!

Bruce *hands her a box*: You know what would go great with that?

Raven *pulls out a diamond necklace*: Oh, Bruce, it’s beautiful! Thank you!

 Dick *Glares at Bruce. Hands her tickets.*: Well I also got you this! 

Raven *Looks at tickets and beams*: Evanescence is my favorite band!

Bruce *Glares at Dick. And texts on his phone*: I know their tour manager. How about I can book them to perform for your Birthday party?

Raven *confused*: Party?

Dick *glares at Bruce*: Great idea Dad! You know what, Kiddo? Let me book you a private yacht for the occasion.

Bruce *Smiles smuggly at Dick. Hands keys to Raven*: No need. I already bought her a yacht!

Raven *nervous*: B-but I don’t even know how to dri-

Dick *Glares at Bruce*: You’ve always wanted to go to Prague right?

Raven: Yeah?

Dick: Tomorrow morning let’s go! I’ll book us a 5-star hotel!

Bruce *Smiles and hands her signed certificate*: How convenient. I just bought you a castle in the Czech Republic! Perhaps you would rather stay there!

Raven *scared*: Uh-

Dick *Fuming*: Thank you, Bruce! Hey kiddo, how about I buy you your own island when we get back?

Raven: B-but I don’t need a-

Bruce *Pulls out file*: Here, Raven! How about your adoption papers?

Dick: 

Raven:

[marcosilveira18]

@evanescenceofficial by @db_photoat 💜💙😄🌷🌹🌸🍀😘🎹🎧🎤🎺🎻🎷🎸🎵🎼🎶😉💞😍💚💛😃❤😎🖤💜💙😚🤘❣🇧🇷❌❌ 📷: @evanescenceofficial & @amylee & @troymclawhorn1 & @db_photoat 🔁: @marcosilveiraa18 on Instagram #Evanescence #Amylee #Jenmajura #Synthesis #Metal #Rock #Rocknroll #Fallenera #TheOpenDoorEra #EvanescenceEra #Band #Guitarist #Evanescencetour #Live #Fallensweet19 #TheChain #TheBitterTruth #WastedOnYou #StreamWastedOnYou #TheGameIsOver #StreamTheGameIsOver #UseMyVoice #StreamUseMyVoice #YeahRight #StreamYeahRight #BetterWithoutYou #StreamBetterWithoutYou #Repost @evanescenceofficial with @repostsaveapp ・・・ We had the BEST time at @novarockfestival yesterday!! Loved watching @bush @muse and all the bands throughout the day. The festival will be sending us the full recorded livestream early next week to upload to our YouTube channel so stay tuned for that. Prague tonight! Can’t stop won’t stop ��� Photos by @db_photoat 1/2 (em NOVA ROCK Festival) https://www.instagram.com/p/CeokIAUlUQo/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[neverlostmycrown]

Evanescence in Prague

My own photos by rionka - from and after the first ever Evanescence show in Prague, Czech Republic, 17 06 2012. I love this 💜 I have a personalized ev3 booklet w my name now.

[capsing]

@persona-syke tagged me to shuffle my playlist and put the first ten songs! That was also a very good way to notice she’d changed her username. Thanks! :)

AS USUAL, MY IMPECCABLE MUSICAL TASTE STANDS STRONG THROUGHOUT THE YEARS:

1. Megurine Luka - Answer (Coping With Rejection Song)

2. Evanescence - Bring Me To Life (THIS HAPPENED IN THE LAST TIME I DID THIS AS WELL)

3. Prague - Light Infection

4. DJ Masa - ‘Till The World Ends (Kpop Mashup)

5. Safetysuit - What If (angsttt)

6. The Hunchback of Notre Dame - Out There (Disney~!)

7. Super Beaver - Shinkokyuu (two of my favorite OCs were created by this song)

8. A Perfect Circle - The Package (ANGSTTTT)

9. Our Last Night - Skyfall (Cover) (IT’S SO EMOTIONAL I LOVE IT)

10. Snow Patrol - Lightening Strike (THORKI SONG)

As per tradition, I tag anyone who’d like to consider themselves tagged! :)

[ladydeath66]

#Repost @jen_majura with @get_repost ・・・ #soultwins 💕 love singing with @amylee the way we can on these tours, each night is so inspirational #evanescence #amylee #jenmajura #timmccord #willhunt #troymclawhorn #best #band #gorgeous #goddess #beautiful #rock #music #synthesis #newalbum #evanescenceontour #prague (at Prague, Czech Republic)

[superbriefcollectorcollecti-blog]

Memories at Concert Amy Lee and Evanescence in Prague. Year 2018 #amylee #memories #concert #prague #evanescence #singer #top #instagood #prague #summer #noskaart #concertphotography #photo (c) @jardanoska_official (v místě Kongresové centrum Praha) https://www.instagram.com/p/BsWI17NBgp_/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=7vpkxqp38dln

[micaramel]

Artist: Vladimir Kokolia

Venue: Fait, Brno

Exhibition Title: The Essential Kokolia

Curated by: Miroslav Ambroz

Date: October 17, 2018 – January 12, 2019

Click here to view slideshow

Full gallery of images, press release and link available after the jump.

Images:

Images courtesy of Fait, Brno

Press Release:

To see nothing For Vladimír Kokolia painting is an opportunity to reach things that one wouldn’t be able to get at well enough in any other way. Kokolia is the type of painter who wants to really see his subject.

Seeing It might seem that Kokolia wants to be considered primarily as an impressionist, in the original derogatory sense of the term. He deliberately aims for the impossible: to be, as was quipped about Monet, “only an eye”. He does not, however, believe in a prepared innocent gaze — that would be a great affectation — but relies on an acceptance of the full torrent of visual sensations, or direct visual waste, when one doesn’t have the tools (and perhaps not even a reason) to distinguish illusion from the “overwhelming disorder of the real world”.[1]  He quickly discovered that the greatest obstacle to this kind of view of the ordinary world is the knowledge about seen things that one carries in one’s head. Even the names of things are disruptive for the naked eye. Kokolia declares that information inhibits the image.

Seeing the seeing Nonetheless, a painter wants to “see this seeing”. When seeing, how does a person notice that they are looking? According to Kokolia, this can happen only when we sacrifice meaning and simply let our view float. “I have the distinct impression that precisely such blank looking is the default setting of our vision. It is the most fundamental state, the ‘container’, the womb, the landscape, the pilot frequency, the Tao of seeing, only on account of which individual forms arise”, adds Kokolia.[2]  He believes that a lack of information brings astonishment. Truly, a lack of information? We know, after all, how James Joyce’s characters marvel at a sudden recognition of very fragile and evanescent moments, when a character experiences a sudden revelation about the “whatness” of a thing.

Similarly, for the nameless heroes in the hundreds of drawings from Kokolia’s Big Cycle, the inescapable mechanism of their actions is suddenly revealed to them at a single moment. Here, the vehicle of wonderment is an unexpected recognition of meaning. However, wonderment that is purely visual in origin is, in contrast to narrative epiphany, lacking in substance. The one who is experiencing wonderment just stares and does not actually know anything. Here, the intensity of not knowing shows the depth of wonder. It is as if the one in wonderment sees only one thing, so emptied that it can be considered null. For Kokolia, an example of such views momentarily without content are the squares and rectangles in Mondrian’s paintings. Here, they also have roots in Kokolia’s individualistic theory about cubism and in his thinking about the picture plane and “paintings within a painting”. For Kokolia, the view gradually became an independent entity in which it is possible to study only the visible content and to eliminate for the given moment both the observer and the observed thing.

Painting seeing Why would the one in wonderment even paint at all? Isn’t it enough just to have the experience? A painter’s embodiment of what is seen is a passage from one world to another, and what was true in one world is not necessarily true in the other one. It is a completely new situation that presumes “the picture has the logical form of representation in common with what it pictures”. [3] A painting may be able to adapt to the form of depiction, but it also has its own special demands as a physical object covered with paint as well as an object with the aim of controlling how the viewer will see it. It must remain adequate, even if it has done away with the function of depiction. The same brushstroke is both a physical trace and also creates the ideal of an image that arises only with the viewer’s gaze.

Kokolia describes the realisation he had in the Hermitage Museum in 1980 while standing before one of Matisse’s paintings: “… something tells me that this is the genuine space, not the three dimensions out there; at the same time, it really and truly is on the surface, literally just oil paints on a canvas. I am looking directly at the union of the greatest abstraction and the greatest materiality…”[4]  For Kokolia, the idea of transferring images across different worlds might have its origin in printmaking. He has dedicated himself to this medium for almost as long as he has to painting (originally to be able to disseminate his drawings under the previous regime, when copy machines were under supervision). Since 1992 he has led the Studio of Experimental Graphics at the Prague Academy of Fine Arts. The themes of a matrix, an imprint and a reversal of the image appear repeatedly in his written musings. He similarly incorporates his experience with Tai Chi in his painting. Both of his Chinese teachers, Gene Chen and Zhu Jiancai, taught Tai Chi to him in a completely matter-of-fact manner, without a pseudo-spiritual overlay, and Kokolia likewise leads his brushstrokes with a consideration for the precise transfer of strength.

Seeing painting The concentration on direct, unprejudiced seeing and effort to see seeing was followed by the materialization of seeing in an artefact. Apart from this, Kokolia certainly does not underestimate the special moment when a viewer turns up in front of a picture. This is confirmed by the fact that at his exhibitions he examines in detail the distance between the viewer and the picture, their movement around it, viewing angles and orientation of the view, as well as the time spent before the picture. For the sake of interaction, Kokolia occasionally resorts to popular or “discredited” forms. He styled one of his shows as a commercial sale in the course of which he lived, cooked and worked in the gallery. Another time he displayed “healing pictures” to which visitors were to “expose themselves”.

These and other strategies sought to provide viewers with sufficient time in front of pictures. Kokolia believes that the spent time itself causes that the mode of perception switches from a simple registration of visual information to abidance in a field of vision. The viewer, at least for a while, does not perceive a picture as a separate object, and the distance in the field of vision disappears. This situation can be generated, for example, by the induction of afterimages on the retina or by a view into the visual space of autostereoscopic pictures, as manifested by some of Kokolia’s exhibitions.

The image-in-itself In interviews and texts, Kokolia speaks ironically about such common and seemingly problem-free terms as “communication”, “opinion” and “expression”. And he doesn’t even have the word “art” in his lexicon. So, if he isn’t just taking a position, what would he offer instead? I suspect that Kokolia has own sect (of which he is the only member) that believes in the “image-in-itself”. Meaning that images exist, even if they are independent of observation. Even if nobody has seen them yet. Perhaps it is this belief that helps him not to be perilously captive to changes in the contemporary context.

[1] Borges, Jorge Luis, The Cambridge Companion to Jorge Luis Borges, p. 209 [2] Kokolia Vladimír, Úžas, habilitační přednáška, 1996, Akademie výtvarných umění [3] Wittgenstein, Ludwig, Tractatus logico-philosophicus 2.2 [4] S.M. Blumfeld, Prozření Vladimíra Kokolii, Vokno monthly, 1993, no. 27

Link: Vladimir Kokolia at Fait

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[baredmirror]

A whole book could be written about one symbol which from the days of The Student of Prague onwards the cinema of terror has used over and over again: the mirror. Here claustrophobic and agoraphobic motifs come together. The mirror-experience is claustrophobic when it hems us in and throws our own face back at us—singly, as in The Student of Prague, or multiplied many times, as in the scene of Lew Lander's The Raven (1935) which shows Boris Karloff shooting at his own reflection, or, outside the horror-movie, in one of the Xanadu sequences in Citizen Kane and the 'hall of mirrors' sequence in The Lady from Shanghai (1948). It is agoraphobic when, as in the episode of Dead of Night directed by Robert Hamer, the mirror opens out into an unfamiliar space, relfecting a room quite different from that in which it hangs, an older room in which a murder has been committed whose evil influence now radiates out into other, later lives. This episode is also remarkable, as Charles Barr has shown, for making the mirror assert darker energies, allow glimpses of a repressed part of the personality, a world of violence and sexuality with which the characters cannot come to terms. The mirror unites the claustrophobic with the agoraphobic when the hero of de Gregorio's Serail—a work centrally concerned with looking-glass experience—feels himself spied on by a two-way mirror and then finds there is, after all, nothing but wall behind it as the house closes itself around him. The mirror may be most disconcerting of all when it reflects nothing, registers an absense: the absence of a reflection, das verlorene Spiegelbild, an uncanny motif that runs from popular superstition bia the tales of E. T. A. Hoffmann to the vampire-films of the thirties and sixties. As has often been noted, mirrors have a relation to the cinema-experience itself; their shadow-images admit us to what Cocteau called la zone, the realm between dream and reality, the tangible and the evanescent.

S. S. Prawer, Caligari’s Children: The Film as Tale of Terror