#AesopRock - #Alchemy feat #Blueprint #music #rap #hiphop #LoveMusicHateFascism #video #youtube

https://youtu.be/kYyxhpSkhd4

Scientist, philosopher, and Catholic saint Albertus Magnus supposedly built a brass man that could answer any question. However, this automaton never stopped talking, which so annoyed Albertus' disciple Thomas Aquinas that Thomas smashed it to pieces with a hammer.

Alchemy vibes~

Gouache and coloured pencil on black watercolour paper

Prints available: https://lindenshieldarts.com/products/fine-arts-prints-lindentober-2024

Mercury, final prompt for #printerSolstice2425, made me think of #alchemy. It is an element the alchemists favoured & felt was fundamental in their efforts to transmute base into precious metals, both in western & Chinese alchemy (from whence western alchemy emerged).

This is my #linocut portrait of an #alchemist known as Master Geng (before ~975, 耿先生; Gěng Xiānshēng, sometimes Kêng Hsien-shêng). 1/n

Not sure why I made this.

10 Interesting Things I Found on the Internet #148

Floaty #Japanese environmental #ambient #music, the #etymology of #bread, ancient manuscripts of #alchemy, poisonous snakes in an infographic, … 10 Interesting Things I Found on the Internet #148

http://nedhamsonsecondlineviewofthenews.com/2025/03/01/10-interesting-things-i-found-on-the-internet-148/

My book review of Alan Moore's 'The Moon and Serpent Bumper Book of Magic'. I recommend this good book.

#books #review #magic #imagination #kabbalah #dreams #carljung #alanmoore #jewish #mysticism #mystic #mustafakulle #book #astrology #hebrew #zodiac #gods #alchemy #mythology

https://youtu.be/6jH-oiRKR5Y

I just finished writing an article about working with #wildclay terra sigillata that’ll be out in The Studio Potter, March 1. This is one of my favorite examples I shared: Light-green #clay sample from Abiquiu, NM, refined to terra sig, painted on two test tiles, one fired to cone 04 (left) and the other fired to cone 6 (right). The iron in the clay oxidizes and reveals itself as dark red at a lower temp, then melts & vitrifies into a green glaze at a higher temp. #alchemy #experimentation

Und aller guten Dinge sind zwei:

Sarah Langs "Fine-Tuning Machine Learning with Historical Data. An Alchemical Object Detection Dataset for Early Modern Scientific Illustrations" berichtet über die Herausforderung, Darstellungen alchemistischer Laborgeräte in frühneuzeitlichen Drucken zu annotieren, um darauf einen Objekterkennungsalgorithmus zu trainieren - und ist das zweite Data Paper in der #ZfdG :

https://doi.org/10.17175/2025_002 #dh #DigitalHumanities #alchemy #machinelearning

@sarahalang

Symboles alchimiques, oppositions/synergies
Premières réalisations pyrogravées sur des éléments aussi petits : pas si simple, ça développe le sens du détail !

Vie et mort, Feu et eau, Air et terre, Soleil et lune, Heure et jour

#woodburning #pyrography #art #alchemy

https://youtu.be/agAU3xJ-XCQ?si=pJL3HXTqXsEoZjDo

The next prompt for #printerSolstice2425 is sodium, which had me thinking of salt. To the alchemists (following Paracelsus) matter was made of various concentrations of three elements: salt, mercury and sulphur. So, for my next print I am working on a portrait of an alchemist who worked right at the transition from alchemy to chemistry (and pharmacy). 1/2

It strikes me how the Alchemical work is so much like just breaking something apart and rebuilding it better than it was.

#alchemy
#CrystalAlchemy

#art #music #ai #alchemy #66386 "when she sings for me" https://suno.com/song/ffed5f17-2ab2-468c-99d2-dfc457f44e54

"Romeo and Juliet" is a #rock song by the British rock band #DireStraits, written by frontman #MarkKnopfler. It first appeared on the 1980 album #MakingMovies and was released as a single in 1981. The song subsequently appeared on the Dire Straits live albums #Alchemy and #OnTheNight, and later on Knopfler's live duet album with #EmmylouHarris, #RealLiveRoadrunning (though Harris does not perform on the track).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rC95MEenIxA

Antoine Lavoisier: The Frenchman who transformed chemistry forever.

Antoine Lavoisier didn’t just study chemistry—he transformed it. Known as the Father of Modern Chemistry, he shattered old myths, and laid the foundation for the science we know today. His work turned chemistry into a precise and logical field.

In this episode of Towering Scientists RFI takes a look at his life and legacy.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20250204-antoine-lavoisier-the-frenchman-who-transformed-chemistry-forever?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

Je viens de récupérer ma céramique, elle avait explosé au moment de la cuisson, pendant que de mon côté j’étais à Tours…

Si les préceptes alchimiques dont je me nourris m’ont appris quelque chose, c’est que tout se fait dans le processus où création et destruction s’emmêlent.
La transmutation de la matière ne se fait pas sans coût, et c’est de nos erreurs que nous apprenons.

Je suis sur le chemin, et je vais continuer à expérimenter de mon côté

transition is fundamentally an alchemical working, and i'll die on this hill

*adjusts priestess hat* - think about it:

nigredo (blackening) - the dysphoric dissolution of false self, the death of who you were told or forced to be. breaking down in darkness until nothing remains but pure potential. the void that hungers for authentic form.

albedo (whitening) - the careful purification of essence. HRT as the philosopher's stone, transforming base matter into something sacred. each change a step toward truth. every cell learning to sing a new song written in hormones and starlight.

citrinitas (yellowing) - the solar dawn of authenticity. coming out, claiming space, letting your light burn away shadows. the rebirth into golden possibility. becoming a walking act of rebellion against god's first binary.

rubedo (reddening) - final integration. the blood price paid willingly. surgery as sacred sacrifice, scars as sigils of transformation. becoming fully real. flesh as clay, remolded by will and blade into truth.

we are practicing the darkest arts:
autocannibalism of assigned flesh, voluntary possession by our true selves, necromancy of buried gender. we die a thousand small deaths to birth ourselves anew.

trans friends, we are all practicing magicians, conducting the great work on our own flesh. every injection a ritual, every pill a prayer, every morning mirror check a divination.

the doctors call it "transition"
the witches know it's "transmutation"
the alchemists whisper "opus magnum"
the priests call it "abomination"
we call it "Tuesday"

break down and rebuild. die and be reborn.
emerge dripping with the blood of your former self.

solve et coagula - dissolve and coagulate.