~ The Confessions (& Expressions) of St. Augustine ~
~ Thursday 7 February 2008 ~
Whilst "Teaching in Rome"
and a .15th
Century. illustration
by .Florentine.
artist Benozzo
Gozzoli, St.Augustine
of Hippo
(.354-430
AD.) and his chorister companions align to sing
a line online from Book 10 of "Confessions".
St.
Augustine of Hippo "Teaching in Rome - Scene 6 - South Wall"
(1464-1465) by Benozzo
Gozzoli (c.1421-1497)
The complete ENGLISH
translation of "The Confessions
of St. Augustine" is available via [THIS]
link to Project
Gutenberg.
~ *(T)ext*raction ~
I have typed
the specific paragraph that the words, in
this animated greeting, open (and were extracted from)
further down this page. If you are feeling energetic,
you may scroll there - or, if that proposition sounds
like <<too much of a strain>>, click
[THIS] to
(take a running) jump....er,
hoping (if not hopping)
Augustine's
prayin' that such a "leap
of faith" won't
injure and make you endure <<too much of a sprain>>...
~ Strains of <Strains> ~
Vivian
Stanshall and the Bonzo
Dog Doo-Dah Band "Perform"
: "The Strain"
Click [THIS]
to see and hear Prime Minister Gordon
Brown "Perform"ing.
~ Animation Creation ~
"The Confessions (and
Expressions) of St.Augustine"
was the first lip-synching
animation that I made
with the .full
final release version. of Reallusion's
.Crazy
Talk 5.. You can see how much more MOBILE
the fluid features of the (bouyed) "boy"
figure at
the front are than was the case with characters
created with <earlier iterations> of the software.
~ Earlier Iterations/Irritations ~
These (irritating (?)) iterations, isolated
all, (numbly
(if not dumbly)) number : .1.)
Ross
the Sloth,
.2.)
The
Irate Pirate (I rate the "rating"
but everyone
at YouTube HATES him ; and his hymn), .3.)
The
Aunt
What Aren't (the aunt what she's done s'posed to be),
.4.)
The
Ewe Who "Yoo Hoo !"s .5.)
Barbecue
Barbie
.6.)
The
Newnham New Gnome.
~ (A)Head of the Church ~
The foregrounded lad(y)
was snatched (Yikes
!)
from another of Benozzo
Gozzoli's pictures :
Detail from Benozzo
Gozzoli's "Procession of the Oldest King"
We have already viewed the painting "Teaching
in Rome
- Scene 6 - South Wall", and observed how much
more
populated (Pope-ulated
?) that portrait is than is
my (grating) greeting with
its >>slimmed<< selection
of .seven.
<Signor Singer> subjects.
We might imagine that the turban-toting, girlie-ly-
.cur.ly-haired
caroller could feel cowed 'n' abashed
amid the original un.cur.tailed
crowd of .seventeen.
(not "Just
Seventeen", not "Heaven
17") humans...
Doggy Detail from Benozzo
Gozzoli's
"Teaching in Rome - Scene 6 - South Wall"
...and a .cur. with a tail...
Detail from Benozzo
Gozzoli's "Procession of the Oldest King".
This pony-trekking person clearly has cause to pause (and pose)
with paws ; and an "enigmatic smile".
...Yet a tail may oc .cur. on a cat or a pony...
This might be "The West Wing" (not "The
West Wing") of Benozzo
Gozzoli's
"Procession of the Oldest King".
...telling tales of the trails and a cavalcade displayed
in a copious, cantering company where His Royal
Highness (left on the left) and the possible Page
(of
this page and its pageant) show no shades of shyness.
~ You cannot see-ee ~
"You cannot see-ee, You cannot see-ee..."
...the chief singer's shyness because it is
NOT THERE and is a torturous trait unlikely
to afflict one, we have established, through
the revelation of his (oriental ?) origins, as
well accustomed (and well a-costume-ed)
to the hassle(')of
hustle and bustle (if not
bustles,
buses or
Darcey
Bussell).
You wait around all day for a
Darcey
Bussell
and then three come along at once...:
~ Darcey BUSsell No.1 ~
Darcey
Bussell appears in a .2003.
2-minute
Channel 4-aired auto-biopic : "Self Portrait".
~ Darcey BUSsell No.2 ~
That's GOTTA hurt !
Darcey
Bussell dances in the ballet "Sylvia",
letting nothing cramp her style as she "styles
her cramps" into the <champs of stamps>
with all the genuinely-genius genuflection
of a contortionist's contrivance.
Click ----->[THIS]<-----
for a flesh-in-.Flash.
.Flash.-animated
contrivance about contortion.
~ Darcey BUSsell No.3 ~
Darcey
Bussell demonstrates a dazzlingly
dizzying sequence from "Swan
Lake".
Click [THIS]
for another "Dizzy"- Dizzy
Gillespe
in my Mozart Mondegreen .FLASH.
animation.
~ Now drop an "e"-ee ~
"Now drop an "e"-ee, Now drop an "e"-ee,"
~ But Don't "Drop Off" ~
Drop an "e",
(not an "e",
("to one knee", L.S.D.
or a "Dead
Donkey")) from "Darcey" to make
"Darcy"
- the proud
and prejudicial literary hero - who,
in .1995.
(and a (wet) wet (not "Wet
Wet Wet")
T-shirt competition), was, arguably,
the making of
Colin
Firth via T.V.
and the B.B.C.
~ Deeply Drippy in a Big Girl's Blouse ~
~ Big Girl's Blouses in "Deeply Dippy" ~
Famously "...Too
Sexy" for their Shirts, "Right
Said Fred"'s beautiful
big girl's blouses give Colin
Firth his colour-fast money's worth and
more than a (fun)"run"
for his
character's £10,000 a year.
Colin
Firth's televisual
"Pride and Prejudice"
co-star was Jennifer
Ehle (who was not as
"eely" as 'e could 'ave been - particularly if 'e
were more Cockney than cocky - poppin' in 'n'
out of Pemberley's
pongy pond (if not his
perfectly pressed pantaloons) like a shirty
Ursula (Un)undressed Andress).
~ Sean's <Sworn-Seen> Seaside Scene ~
Here is a clip of the iconic seaside scene of
Ursula
Andress (as "Honey
Ryder") exiting
the ocean and, apparently, exciting many
motion-picture-(right little)go-ers
:
Amongst those "just looking" at the bikini-clad,
bleached-blonde, beached-Bond "looker", from
a greater distance than Sean
Connery, is likely to
have been Andrew
Davies, the writer responsible
for bringing Jane
Austen's (inadvertently, though
not ill-advisedly)<Colin
Firth-and-Jennifer
Ehle-
coupling-satire-on-small-mindedness> to as
big a small screen audience as possible.
~ Small Screen Small Faces ~
Andrew
Davies cannot, however, be credited with
having introduced Colin
Firth and Jennifer
Ehle to
one another. An examination of the small faces
(not the "Small
Faces") in Benozzo
Gozzoli's
centuries-old depiction of St.
Augustine of Hippo
"Teaching in Rome" reveals the pair
on a pew.
Detail of Colin
Firth and Jennifer
Ehle appearing in
Benozzo Gozzoli's St.
Augustine of Hippo "Teaching in Rome".
~ "Touching Up" Colin Firth & Jennifer Ehle ~
Screencast of "touching up" Colin
Firth and Jennifer
Ehle with Microsoft
PhotoDraw 2000 Version 2. Click [THIS]
to see more
PhotoDraw Fun.
~ Look AGAIN for Lookalikes ! ~
Colin
Firth ~ Anonymous ~
Jonathan Buttall ~ Jon
Ronson ~ Don
Johnson ~ Jennifer
Ehle
Perhaps the boy (?) in
blue (not "The
Blue Boy")
looks more like Jon
Ronson (not Don
Johnson) than
any Jennifer
Eally ; rEhle, though, - you'd have to
take his glasses off to make him fit in.
Don Johnson refusing to make a spectacle of himself.
~ Creation Criticism ~
I created entirely separate .Crazy
Talk 5. "scripts"
(Reallusion's name for facial
animation sequences)
for each individual in this animated greeting
and
composited the 1-gigabyte-per-head-heads with
Adobe's .Premiere
Pro. The extremely simple
presentation is of a single-scene CARD rather
than a film with pans and close-ups.
It's sillier than it's supposed to be but
I quite
like the audio. (I also like the audio I achieved
in my "William
Blake's Lamb-like Wail" adaptation
of "The Tyger). The sound for St.
Augustine and
his pulpit-peepin' pupils was arrived at via playing
(isn't everything ?) with drone Karaoke chord
changes on a .Yamaha
PSR-3000..
...and all without a crash helmet.
Who's Helmut ?
Hmm... Hell Mutt mu't be a Hound o' Hades.
I'll leave you now with the SENSIBLE STUFF -->
~ The Pre-Hexed Text ~
Extracted from
Book 10 of
"The Confessions of St. Augustine".
"And what is this ?" I asked
the earth, and it answered
me, "I am not He"; and whatsoever are in it confessed
the same. I asked the sea and the deeps, and the
living creeping things and they answered, "We are not
thy God, seek above us." I asked the moving air; and
the whole air with its inhabitants answered,
"Anaximenes was deceived, I am not God." I asked
the heavens, sun, moon, stars, "Nor (say they) are
we the God whom thou seekest." And I replied unto
all the things which encompass the door of my flesh:
"Ye have told me of my God, that ye are not He; tell
me something of Him." And they cried out with a loud
voice, "He made us." My questioning them, was my
thoughts on them : and their form of beauty gave the
answer. And I turned myself unto myself, and I said to
myself, "Who art thou ?" And I answered "A man."
And behold, in me there present themselves to me
soul, and body, one without, the other within. By
which of these ought I to seek my God ? I had
sought Him in the body from earth to heaven, so far
as I could send messengers, the beams of mine eyes.
But the better is the inner, for to it as presiding and
judging, all the bodily messengers reported the
answers of heaven and earth, and all things therein,
who said, "We are not God, but He made us." These
things did my inner man know by the ministry of the
outer : I the inner knew them; I, the mind, through
the senses of my body. I asked the whole frame of
the world about my God; and it answered me, "I am
not He, but He made me.