#hippodrome

[letmeinimafairy]

A continuation of this motif inspired by me being annoyed at a motorsport article's headline. Another pair of brothers, a mortal and a demigod, golden wreath around a face erased by worship. Long shadows and how to live in it.

Saw an article about the birth of Luca's and Marta's daughter called 'an addition to Rossi's family' and it pissed me off, like come on, can you congratulate a man without making it about his brother (no shade at Vale here, I'm just annoyed at some journalists). So here I am, having an artistic bitch about it with a fake fresco

Available (previous one too)

[todays-xkcd]

Interpretations of the Hermeneutic Oath differ.

Professional Oaths [Explained]

Transcript Under the Cut

[8 Panels in a grid.]

Hippocratic Oath [Ponytail in a doctor's coat with her arm raised in pledge.] First, do no harm

Hyperbaric Oath [Cueball shaking.] First, acclimate to the pressure

Holographic Oath [A hologram of Ponytail fitzing in parts.] First, shimmer intangibly

Histrionic Oath [White Hat yelling, fists upraised.] First, whine and complain

Hydroelectric Oath [Megan sat in the cut-out wall for a giant turbine.] First, maintain your turbines

Hippodromic Oath [Ponytail in a chariot pulled by a horse.] First, race your chariot well

Hypnagogic Oath [Cueball, half-risen from bed in shock.] First, jolt awake just as you're drifting off

Hypergolic Oath [Cueball on fire.] First, burst into flame

[vintage-ukraine]

Pechersk Hippodrome in Kyiv, 1988

[cesontlesfemmes]

Albert Harlingue, Elégantes à l’hippodrome d’Auteuil. Paris (XVIème arr.), mars 1912.

[postcard-from-the-past]

Hippodrome of Paris

French vintage postcard

[papillondusublime]

Ô étalon qui au galop Écrases cieux, grattes leur dôme! Toi qui, cabré sur tes sabots, Du monde fais un hippodrome!

Ô pur-sang qui, taché de vin, Comme une feuille restes blanc! Toi qui te moques du destin, Sur ses pistes montrant tes dents!

Toi qui, le jour où tu es né, Plein de hennissement as ri! Toi dont la selle et le harnais Sont oubliés dans l’écurie!

Qui oserait te chevaucher, Compagnon des Napoléon, Pégase des sources cachées, Ennemi des Bellérophon?

Qui aurais-tu, ami d’Odin, Comme sage palefrenier? Quel héro, parmi les humains, Deviendrait ton preux chevalier?

Bucéphale des Alexandre, Vainqueur du mal auprès d’Indra, Toi qui vas partout sans te rendre, Toi qui scelles les scélérats,

De Saint Georges le frère d’armes, D’Épona le coéquipier, Toi qui, défait, défaite en larmes Ignores – ô noble guerrier! –,

M’accepterais-tu comme maître, Toi dont se changent fers en art? Tu n’obéis ni rois ni prêtres, Mais empereurs, dieux et barbares.

Hélas, je ne tiens pas les rênes Du pouvoir, cheval à bascule. À perte de vue sont les plaines, Mais l’heure avance en funambule.

Jouant au sommet des montagnes, Une enfant que voilent brouillards Regarde de haut la campagne Glissant en n’allant nulle part.

Se balançant d’un bord à l’autre, Celle qui, morte, en moi veut vivre, Ses mouvements sans but se vautrent Des deux côtés de l’équilibre.

Je rêve, ô sauvage cheval, De te monter en amazone, Étant mi-homme, mi-cheval, Ni personne, ni ma personne.

Mais comment m’assoir sur ton dos, Encombrée par mes quatre pattes? Comment reproduire tes sauts, Vacillant à gauche et à droite?

Cheval, cheval de mes ardeurs, Si immense, fier et fort! Ta robe, en révélant couleurs, D’Apocalypse te colore.

Cheval, cheval des passions, Si libre, qu’habite l’audace! Sans bride, ta position Tu troques contre plus d’espace.

Cheval, cheval des sentiments! Ce pré, a-t-il jamais été? Ou n’est-il rien, finalement, Qu’un champ de possibilités?

-Poésie: extrait de "Au pré du cheval sauvage", à lire dans "Genèse d'une femme" par Marine Mariposa -Image: "Étude de cheval gris", Théodore Géricault

[monkeyssalad-blog]

1925 programme for Mercenary Mary by totallymystified Via Flickr: Illustration by Paul Chesney.

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[freddiemercurylegendabovelegends]

Today - December 9th, 1979 - Queen Story!

Bristol, UK, Hippodrome

'Crazy Tour'

Queen during soundcheck, rehearsal of “Crazy Little Thing Called Love” filmed for BBC Tonight programme.

“Crazy Little Thing Called Love”

by Freddie Mercury and taken from 'The Game' album, 1980

📸 Pic: 1979 - Freddie Mercury Screenshot from video for BBC

[thomtmexploration]

Bonjour et bienvenue dans le festival de Montgolfières de Thouars 2024 à ne pas manquer !

La vidéo 👇

Les photos 👇

Présentation:

Créée en 2009, la Montgolfiade de Thouars est une fête populaire et gratuite qui rassemble chaque année plus de 15000 personnes sur le site de l’Hippodrome de Thouars le 1er week-end de septembre. 40 ballons prennent leur envol matin et soir du vendredi soir au dimanche soir pour le plus grand plaisir des petits et des grands. La Montgolfiade est une fête gratuite (entrée + parking gratuits) qui propose diverses animations sur tout le week-end au sol comme dans les airs.

[corvianbard]

#5941

Fair lady of seafoam, Sing a song of tides In the abysmal home Of the mariner who glides On waves as if in hippodrome For his new brides.

[amateurghoul]

Musicals I've seen (Not in order):

Mean Girls

Ride the Cyclone (Community College Production)

Le Mis

Moulin Rouge

Aladdin (Somehow saw this twice)

Lion King

Wicked

Jersey Boys (Dinner theater production)

Rocky Horror Picture Show

Tina - The Tina Turner Musical

[postcard-from-the-past]

St Avertin Hippodrome in Tours, Touraine region of France

French vintage postcard

[philoursmars]

Des chevaux à Marseille, avec certains portant un badge "police" devant la Bourse, d'autres peints à l'hippodrome Borély et enfin quatre autres longeant mon bus !

[pantalon-et-colombine]

Frank Xavier Leyendecker (American, 1876-1924)

1919

Hippodrome souvenir program for Happy Days

Frank Xavier Leyendecker, also known as Frank James Leyendecker, was an American illustrator. He worked with his brother Joseph Christian Leyendecker, in their studio, first in Chicago, then later in New York City and New Rochelle, New York.

He was born in Germany on January 19, 1876, as Franz Xavier Leyendecker. Frank Leyendecker and his sister Augusta lived for a period of time (though 1924) with their brother J. C. Leyendecker and the model Charles Beach in New Rochelle.

He studied for a time at the Académie Julian in France. He was known for his stained glass work as well as his illustrations for posters, magazines and advertisements. He also painted covers for Street & Smith pulp magazines, such as People's Favorite Magazine and The Popular Magazine, as well as for Fawcett's pulp magazine Battle Stories. His painting for Battle Stories was originally created as a WWI recruitment poster that Fawcett Publications posthumously reprinted as a pulp magazine cover in 1931. Leyendecker served as the judge in the first Strathmore Water Color Contest, sponsored by the Mittineague Paper Company of Massachusetts. His work was described as an "important feature" of the second exhibition of the Society of Illustrators at the International gallery in New York.

Leyendecker was suffering from depression and poor health due to his ongoing drug addiction, when he most likely committed suicide by morphine overdose on April 18, 1924, at the age of 48.

[mooifiasco]

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