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RobertoOrtiz
03-21-2007, 01:17 PM
"Illustrate the poem Xanadu"
by
Indeed

FULL POEM (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Taylor_Coleridge#Poetry)
by
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Taylor_Coleridge#Poetry)



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embryotic
03-21-2007, 02:16 PM
heres a link there (http://www.poetry-online.org/coleridge_kubla_khan.htm)

I hadnt read that poem before... whats it all about? its kinda boring - Ill read it again tomorrow. :)

Grondhammar
03-21-2007, 04:44 PM
*shocked* Coleridge, boring? Try listening to the Rush version if the text doesn't grab you :)

Shawshank
03-21-2007, 09:38 PM
Worst topic ever. Can we change it to "illustrate the 1980's musical, Xanadu." --Roller disco yeah!

Check it out - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081777/

RobertoOrtiz
03-21-2007, 09:43 PM
Oh boy...
Where is that paper bag?

-R

byvfx
03-21-2007, 11:10 PM
or listen to iron maidens rime of the ancient mariner!

Grondhammar
03-21-2007, 11:22 PM
All right, sticking my foot in the water...

90 mins, Painter gouache & pastels

http://cicero.modwest.com/images/cgtalk/1018.jpg

whitefeather160
03-22-2007, 03:47 AM
Kubla Khan is the name of the poem that Xanadu came from. Samuel Taylor Coleridge supposedly wrote it after doing some drugs and having this dream. He woke up and started writing and before he finished someone interrupted him and he forgot what the place looked like.

http://etext.virginia.edu/stc/Coleridge/poems/Kubla_Khan.html

embryotic
03-22-2007, 07:28 AM
Nice one Grondhammer

Ok - so when I found this guy Samuel Taylor Coleridge is said to have been high on Opium when he wrote this - I knew I had an out. :D
so he rocks the gunga and then writes poetry ... I feel that.

http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/4306/xanaduef2.jpg
1.5hr ps

LDiehl
03-22-2007, 02:44 PM
embryotic: He he. I admire your creativity ;)

ysvry
03-23-2007, 06:46 AM
nice one embryo, remember artist friends , drugs and art dont go together well, people who tell u otherwise just need an excuse to use them. Xanadu reminds me of olivia newton john lol.

burpy
03-24-2007, 04:49 AM
http://img259.imageshack.us/img259/4041/xanadunf8.jpg
PS CS, 60 min

Gord-MacDonald
03-26-2007, 01:04 AM
OMG!!! Coleridge boring!?!
:eek: :eek: :eek:
Take another read guys!
(great topic!)

Gord

Taron333
03-26-2007, 02:55 AM
Something inside me's tickling like crazy to laugh out loud, but I'm afraid to - even in my solitude, secluded savely in my home- offend those, who lack the patience of submerging themselves in an honest, yet, embellished vision of a man, who lived in a time that appears to us so unfamiliar. Thus he exhibits the vivid fantasies that are as timeless as they come, if only someone overcomes, that dulcimers are no longer popular instruments (which i so regret, geee, I'd love to have one!).

I'm inclined to make a sketch for this one! :)

embryotic
03-26-2007, 04:22 AM
Taron - lol - WTH are you saying??

its always good to see your sketches man!

Gord - come out of hiding for Coleridge? - maybe one day i'll understand... tho I do love the beginning of Citizen Cane...

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