kathleen

oh you awesome woman… thanks soooo much for listening… it’s a little nerve wracking…

interesting about the massive attack thing… I have another piece I am working on which made me think that way too… wierd… I guess that what happens when you use free loops :) I am trying to introduce more real stuff into the throw but am still setting up for better quality recording…

thanks so much…

by the way… what ARE you studying… would you mind me reading your essay.. it sounds fascinating… I have about 200 books on mythology and the greek and roman temples… about 200 :-)

you know … I am obsessed … but I used to be a priestess of the mysteries in a past life… I love them…

you were the first thing I thought of when I read the topic : )

really? that warms my heart :-)

but I must warn you I am a really shit writer I have all this information in my head and it just dribbles out into a mess

I’m sure you are harder on yourself than you need to be…

_its a case study so short that’s probably where my trouble is, there is just so many things to talk about I can understand your interest in it… _

Especially with Zeus, he has an extremely long convoluted tale… one of power and jealousy and a lot of it is contradictory… however, if you are focusing only on the temple of Zeus statues… ooh… just getting a book…

For anyone reading…

Zeus’ temple was built by Elis to vaunt her conquest of Pisa and other neighbours, and its great statue inside may have aimed to rival the colossus in the Parthenon. By 457 BC the temple was finished. Measuring 27.68×64.12 m (91×210 ft) on the top step, it was the largest in the Peloponnese, with 6 by 13 Doric columns and the usual two porches framing a shrine with bronze doors and a corridor of two rows of superimposed columns leading up to the statue. Pausanias mentions a spiral staircase to the attic. Built from the local shell limestone, stuccoed and paited, the temple used Parian marble for relief metopes of the Labours of Herakles over the two porches and groups showing the chariot-race of Pelops nd the battle of Greeks and centaurs in, respectively, the west and east gables.

Inside the shrine sat one of the ancient Wonders of the World, an enthroned Zeus in gold and ivory. An estimated 12.27 m (40 ft) high, it was commissioned from the Athenian Pheidias as a change of plan. The traces of the massive base, squeezed into the central aisle, show that a smaller statue was envisaged first. Details of the viewing experience in the 2nd century AD are given by Pausanias, including a pool of black stone filled with the olive oil used to maintain the ivory, but also with reflective qualities; painted barriers ‘made like walls’, to keep people off; a viewing gallery ‘up above’; and, somewhere, a purple woolen curtain, ‘let down to the pavement’, a gift of th3e Seleukid king Antiochos IV (died 163 BC). The remains point to a further security grille in metal, wall-to-wall at the level of the second columns.

Functioning for over eight centuries, this working temple received repeated and extensive repairs, such as replacement figures in the gales and the Augustan reflooring of the front porch in pavonazetto, a couloured marble beloved by Romans. Around AD 267, for its own protection the temple was built into a hastily constructed fortress. About AD 300 the roof received a last major repair. With the abolition of the cult in 391 AD, the statue was transferred to Constantinople for a connoisseur’s art collection, and the temple fell to ruin. The columns were toppled by earthquake in the 6th century AD.

totally copied from The Complete Greek Temples by Tony Spawforth, published by Thames & Hudson pp153-4

wikipedia article

i have just crazily got myself into 2 project of a video nature…

one be a documentary about an Art Action Union collaboration with Ecopaparazzi’s Moon Bear Bile Farming Action which is a really exciting and sad project to be working on…

the second is for 4ZZZ radio… which will be VERY cool if it eventuates…

I would love some help if you are very keen… I only have a basic video editing program … came with my digital cam… but it does enough :-)

I was thinking of doing the ZZZ interviews using 2 or 3 people holding camera video mobile phones to get extra camera angles… and recording the sound separately … given it’s a radio station I figure they could do this pretty easy… and endless music catalogue for the soundtrack… I am soooo excited…

wow… that’s a cool little review… very encouraging… doing more but have some limitations … technical ones… and learning curve is getting better…

buddah bar?