Posts Tagged ‘odyssey’

Design Some­thing Every­day 14/365 This was a design based on one of my favorite poems, Ulysses, by Alfred Lord Ten­nyson. The poem is very mov­ing, and has the great hero Ulysses (Odysseus in Greek) at the end of his life feel­ing the urge to strive, explore and set sail once again. That is an urge […]

Design Some­thing Every­day: 12/365 Here’s a lit­tle sketch for my design some­thing every day project. Imag­ine your­self as one of clever Odysseus’ men in the cave of the Cyclops, and one-eyed Polyphe­mus, son of Posei­don, reaches down to devour you, or as Samuel But­ler grue­somely put it in his trans­la­tion: The cruel wretch vouch­safed me […]

The witch Circe tempts the crew of wily Odysseus. Click for the full image.

Helen of Troy and Menelaus rem­i­nisce about the golden age of heroes. Click for the full image.

A moment of peace on the Island of the Cyclops. Before the dark times, before the com­ing of Odysseus. Polyphe­mus idyll. Click for the full image.

Polyphe­mus has a late night snack, con­sist­ing of two slices of bread, mayo and the crew of clever Odysseus. Click for the full image.

Odysseus hears the com­plaints of the dead while vis­it­ing the under­world to get direc­tions. Elpenor let’s Odysseus know, in no uncer­tain terms, that he needs a proper bur­ial, Odysseus is unmoved. Click for the full image.

Make this site live for us in its many bear­ings, O Muse… In the great book “The War of Art” by Steven Press­field he details how he begins any cre­ative ven­ture by call­ing on the muses for suc­cess. He does this by recit­ing the open­ing lines from the T.E. Lawrence trans­la­tion of The Odyssey; when Homer […]