New Foot-Wear for Gandalf Wanna-Be

[TordelBack]

That's the Perseus from the great Piazza del Signorina in Florence - your 'dark grey marble' is actually weathered bronze!  The first monumental bronze statue of the 16th C, if I'm remembering the right one, though don't ask me who it's by.  Ah Florence, where we somehow managed to drive our battered Nissan Almera right into the middle of a pedestrianised market.  Such larks.

[/thinly veiled "I've been to Florence" post]

[ThryllSeekyr]

It's only because of the classic Clash of the Titans (Not the remake...) that I ever got into Greek Myth and aside from a few other fantasy films that might almost be classified as soft-porn straight to video nasties. Remember that series with Kevin Sorbo that's also responsible for the more popular spin-off with Lucy Lawless? Loved those, even if they weren't expecting you to take them seriously.

So, I have this Brimax a large hard cover, that is still hopefully up on my bookshelf. A Old Easter pressie from my parents. Had all well known myths in them. At least, the ones I thought they are. The one about the hero on Pegasus and this Chimera, another about the Cyclops, the Minotaur of Crete and so on as well the one where talking about.....

As for that being the colour of weathered bronze. Which reminds me of this show on television, on cable and series about some artist that were all picked out making living paintings featuring real live nudes. Adie from the censoring. I lost interest in watching very fast. One of them did the very same thing with one of models and painted one up like a statute and gave it that weathered look. This look very authentic. I think they went for a particular colour like the one shown in the picture here because it was exposed to the elements and aside from that I don't recall much else about it. Your observation jogged my memory, but just a little.

About that colour, it does look more like a Aqua or Torquoise. As it's a little too bright for the colour I'm using...maybe is that picture was seen through a greyish or darker filter.....

I assume one of the Ninja Turtles did all those so anatomically correct statues aside from drawing, painting, sculpting, inventing one of the earliest flying machines before the Wright brothers.

About driving through the pedestrianised market?   

No casualties?

I once drove my Ute through a Mall while briefly following a tram. NO worries about that except, I'm just supposed to drive there. Happened while I was in Melbourne about fourteen years earlier on working excursion that lasted about four-five years.

[ThryllSeekyr]

I once drove my Ute through a Mall while briefly following a tram. NO worries about that except, I'm just supposed to drive there. Happened while I was in Melbourne about fourteen years earlier on working excursion that lasted about four-five years.

I really meant NOT supposed to drive there.

[ThryllSeekyr]

It's only because of the classic Clash of the Titans (Not the remake...) that I ever got into Greek Myth

This also branched off into Nordic legends, and Egyptian Times as subject of Ancient History at high school, while also starting my interest alone in Celts when I got introduced to Slaine