“One seventeenth-century scholar suggested that the chipped flints were ‘generated in the sky by a fulgurous exhalation conglobed in a cloud by the circumposed humour,’ whatever that means.” Robbins, Miller, Nin, Kundera, Tolkien, Lawrence, Eliot, Cummings, Plath, Bukowski and other favorites. Gauguin, Kahlo, Dali, Ernst, Van Gogh, Toulouse-Lautrec, Schiele, Klimt, Escher, Waterhouse, Hopper and others. New art, old art, latin american art, my art. Music from 1950 through the present. A few girlie things. Portraits. Poetry. Photographs. Some of which…are mine. Generally Circumspecting.Tumblr (3.0; @fulgurous)http://fulgurous.tumblr.com/<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4slryrOtI1qj59bvo1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4slryrOtI1qj59bvo2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4slryrOtI1qj59bvo5_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4slryrOtI1qj59bvo4_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p>My dad took some photos of me yesterday morning similar to the ones he took of my little brother Chris a little while ago (previously posted). I love them. This is the first series of artistic portraits he’s ever taken of me, and I am very happy with them. I love my dad, ha.</p> <p><strong>Jeffrey C. DuFlon</strong>. 2012.</p>http://fulgurous.tumblr.com/post/24001568836http://fulgurous.tumblr.com/post/24001568836Tue, 29 May 2012 12:28:00 -0400To have self-esteem, commit estimable acts.http://fulgurous.tumblr.com/post/23911256918http://fulgurous.tumblr.com/post/23911256918Mon, 28 May 2012 00:26:24 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4p25hhnf41r0lpsto1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4p25hhnf41r0lpsto2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4p25hhnf41r0lpsto3_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://farewell-kingdom.tumblr.com/post/23875452427/being-here-by-mark-garry-thread-pins-beads" target="_blank">farewell-kingdom</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><em>Being here</em>, by <strong><a href="http://www.kerlin.ie/artists/Garry.aspx" target="_blank">Mark Garry</a></strong>, thread pins, beads</p> </blockquote>http://fulgurous.tumblr.com/post/23906993308http://fulgurous.tumblr.com/post/23906993308Sun, 27 May 2012 23:09:10 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4p7c6cV7B1rqtjd8o1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4p7c6cV7B1rqtjd8o2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://modernate.tumblr.com/post/23882389444/glasgow-based-artist-jim-lambie-can-transform-any" target="_blank">modernate</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><span class="Apple-style-span">Glasgow-based artist Jim Lambie can transform any space into a visual delight with his geometric tape designs. Using everyday vinyl tape, he creates angles and lines of contrasting colors that suggest movement and optical illusions. He can convert a once empty and quiet room into a space filled with energy. As viewers enter a converted space, they instantly have a visual interaction with the artwork.</span></p> </blockquote>http://fulgurous.tumblr.com/post/23906961345http://fulgurous.tumblr.com/post/23906961345Sun, 27 May 2012 23:08:37 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4pibyaynr1qz7lxdo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://fulgurous.tumblr.com/post/23906880819http://fulgurous.tumblr.com/post/23906880819Sun, 27 May 2012 23:07:14 -0400communistsextips: When you come across a picture of young Stalin, and have to deal with all your...http://fulgurous.tumblr.com/post/23906778558http://fulgurous.tumblr.com/post/23906778558Sun, 27 May 2012 23:05:28 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3q6gmaWKW1r1bfd7o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://artistandstudio.tumblr.com/post/23899140655/man-ray-surrealist-chessboard-1934-a" target="_blank">artistandstudio</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Man Ray, <a href="http://www.musee-magritte-museum.be/Typo3/index.php?id=62" target="_blank"><em>Surrealist chessboard</em></a>, 1934, a photomontage integrating portraits of twenty fellow surrealists, including René Magritte, Max Ernst, Salvador Dalí, Giorgio de Chirico, Joan Miró and Man Ray himself.</p> </blockquote>http://fulgurous.tumblr.com/post/23906634982http://fulgurous.tumblr.com/post/23906634982Sun, 27 May 2012 23:03:04 -0400<embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://assets.tumblr.com/swf/audio_player_black.swf?audio_file=http://www.tumblr.com/audio_file/23906442048/tumblr_m4mzpfdQmt1qzc9zt&color=FFFFFF" height="27" width="207" quality="best" wmode="opaque"></embed><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://colinsteers.tumblr.com/post/23800149993/new-tallest-man-on-earth-revelation-blues-good" target="_blank">colinsteers</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><img height="500" src="http://popstache.com/wp-content/uploads/The-Tallest-Man-On-Earth-Theres-No-Leaving-Now-album-cover.jpg" width="500"/></p> <p>New Tallest Man on Earth - Revelation Blues - Good</p> </blockquote> <p>uff.</p>http://fulgurous.tumblr.com/post/23906442048http://fulgurous.tumblr.com/post/23906442048Sun, 27 May 2012 22:59:49 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2edxsvASv1qzr1olo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://fulgurous.tumblr.com/post/23906374980http://fulgurous.tumblr.com/post/23906374980Sun, 27 May 2012 22:58:39 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4lbs3SdK81qj59bvo1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4lbs3SdK81qj59bvo2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p>Portraits of my brother Christopher in the morning, aged 18 yrs. <strong>Jeffrey C. DuFlon</strong> (my dad). 2012.</p>http://fulgurous.tumblr.com/post/23742662854http://fulgurous.tumblr.com/post/23742662854Fri, 25 May 2012 14:09:39 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4jlenFjjn1qz9v0to1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4jlenFjjn1qz9v0to2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4jlenFjjn1qz9v0to3_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4jlenFjjn1qz9v0to4_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://supersonicelectronic.com/post/23742457868/olaf-hajek" target="_blank">supersonicelectronic</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><a href="http://www.olafhajek.de/" target="_blank">Olaf Hajek</a>.</p> </blockquote> <p>!!! </p>http://fulgurous.tumblr.com/post/23742596792http://fulgurous.tumblr.com/post/23742596792Fri, 25 May 2012 14:08:16 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4hwn5fcTI1qarjnpo1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4hwn5fcTI1qarjnpo2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://darksilenceinsuburbia.tumblr.com/post/23740383325/collier-schorr-lilly-pads-2-2006-die" target="_blank">darksilenceinsuburbia</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><strong><a href="http://www.we-find-wildness.com/page/4/" target="_blank">Collier Schorr</a></strong>.</p> <p><em><span>Lilly Pads #2, 2006.</span></em></p> <p><span><em><span>Die Blaumann-Akademie (Cornelius), 2008.</span></em></span></p> <p><span></span> </p> <p><span><span>After her masculine portraits of wrestlers and young men in military uniforms, American photographer <span><strong><a href="http://collierschorr.com/" target="_blank">COLLIER SCHORR</a></strong></span> worked on a project called <em>Forests and Fields</em>, where she documented life (real and imagined) in the small German town of Schwäbisch Gmünd. When she started making flower pictures she wanted to make portraits of something that escaped nationality and identity, but that kept an idea of the “pose” and a kind of struggle between the subject and the photographer – so she uprooted the flowers and transported them to another location, tied them and watched them die.</span></span></p> <p><span><span><span>all images courtesy the artist </span></span></span></p> </blockquote> <p>beautiful photographs and subjects. </p>http://fulgurous.tumblr.com/post/23741240731http://fulgurous.tumblr.com/post/23741240731Fri, 25 May 2012 13:37:36 -0400<embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://assets.tumblr.com/swf/audio_player_black.swf?audio_file=http://www.tumblr.com/audio_file/23548510037/tumblr_m211dzsC8c1qaqcne&color=FFFFFF" height="27" width="207" quality="best" wmode="opaque"></embed><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://colinsteers.tumblr.com/post/22554385941/just-saw-them-at-the-jefferson-live-debuting-a" target="_blank">colinsteers</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><img height="500" src="http://cdn.7static.com/static/img/sleeveart/00/016/362/0001636231_500.jpg" width="500"/></p> <p>Just saw them at the Jefferson, live debuting a bunch of new material. It was pretty beautiful, but unsatisfying in a way I haven’t been able to put into words just yet.</p> <p>But, yeah, this song.</p> </blockquote> <p>bah, so jealous. </p>http://fulgurous.tumblr.com/post/23548510037http://fulgurous.tumblr.com/post/23548510037Tue, 22 May 2012 12:24:33 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lror4o0gKJ1r2clyno1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://tudisrien.tumblr.com/post/10330282064/frida-kahlo-by-sylvia-salmi-1944" target="_blank">tudisrien</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Frida Kahlo by Sylvia Salmi, 1944</p> </blockquote>http://fulgurous.tumblr.com/post/23492746503http://fulgurous.tumblr.com/post/23492746503Mon, 21 May 2012 15:29:48 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3kdyammaJ1r1bfd7o1_r1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://artistandstudio.tumblr.com/post/23436227796/picasso-in-his-cannes-studio-with-model-1955" target="_blank">artistandstudio</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Picasso in his Cannes studio with model, 1955.  <a href="http://habituallychic.blogspot.com/2011/12/fashionable-photos.html" target="_blank">Photo</a> by Mark Shaw.</p> </blockquote>http://fulgurous.tumblr.com/post/23438135736http://fulgurous.tumblr.com/post/23438135736Sun, 20 May 2012 17:17:02 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m487jns9A51qbz9meo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://life.tumblr.com/post/23434871616/the-regal-ella-fitzgerald-backstage-before" target="_blank">life</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>The regal Ella Fitzgerald, backstage before singing at a “Birthday Salute” in honor of JFK at Madison Square Garden, New York, May 19, 1962.</p> <div>See more photos <a href="http://ti.me/JTttnF%20" target="_blank"><strong>here.</strong></a></div> </blockquote>http://fulgurous.tumblr.com/post/23435148975http://fulgurous.tumblr.com/post/23435148975Sun, 20 May 2012 16:29:53 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3ptuhb6YA1r1bfd7o1_r1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://artistandstudio.tumblr.com/post/23432529247/salvador-dali-photo-by-horst-paul-albert-bohrmann" target="_blank">artistandstudio</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Salvador Dali, <a href="http://pleasurephoto.wordpress.com/category/horst-p-horst/" target="_blank">Photo</a> by Horst Paul Albert Bohrmann</p> </blockquote>http://fulgurous.tumblr.com/post/23432778388http://fulgurous.tumblr.com/post/23432778388Sun, 20 May 2012 15:52:50 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4bv3ffikv1qh7jlwo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://poboh.tumblr.com/post/23416819765" target="_blank">poboh</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><em>Spring Blossom in Oirschot.</em>, Antoon Kruysen. Dutch (1898 - 1977)</p> </blockquote>http://fulgurous.tumblr.com/post/23431542823http://fulgurous.tumblr.com/post/23431542823Sun, 20 May 2012 15:33:33 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4acmvRDOr1qj59bvo3_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4acmvRDOr1qj59bvo1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4acmvRDOr1qj59bvo4_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4acmvRDOr1qj59bvo2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p>We did another shoot! I like these pics better than the last time, I think. I least I feel like I look a little more like myself, and like they are using my hair and face in a way that I am more comfortable with/suits me better. They are more romantic. Little by little, haha. Geh. The whole thing is quite an interesting experience.</p>http://fulgurous.tumblr.com/post/23366957298http://fulgurous.tumblr.com/post/23366957298Sat, 19 May 2012 15:54:30 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l8hjdrapm41qamp4eo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>wow. </p>http://fulgurous.tumblr.com/post/23366566138http://fulgurous.tumblr.com/post/23366566138Sat, 19 May 2012 15:47:33 -0400