I WILL HONOUR CHRISTMAS

 On a nostalgic time-trip to the Christmas holidays of our childhood.

«I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. 

I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach. 

Oh, tell me I may sponge away the writing on this stone!»

                                    

 

Scene no 9: Several, vintage decor pieces from 60s and 70s (unknown manufacturers) and Christmas tree lights in the shape of flowers (Crystalite, Decoration 16 Set).

The promise of Scrooge: From «A CHRISTMAS CAROL» by Charles Dickens.

POWER AND BEAUTY

Bugatti Type 57 SC Atlantic Coupe, introduced at 1936, was the fastest street car of its time. This extraordinary automobile combined aesthetics and engineering with aerodynamic design, and was powered by a 3.3 liter inline 8-cylinde engine.

 

 

 

 

Scene no 8: Bugatti Atlantic (CMC toys, exclusive modelle, scale 1:18, serie Nr. 2081, with more than 1,700 single parts mounted by the hand) among three willing women, seated and lying (Preiser toys, Miniaturfiguren ΙΙ 45015, scale 1:22,5).

PARADE

«With music strong I come, with my cornets and my drums,

I play not marches for accepted victors only, I play marches for conquer'd and slain persons.

Have you heard that it was good to gain the day?

I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

I beat and pound for the dead,

I blow through my embouchures my loudest and gayest for them.

Vivas to those who have fail'd!

And to those whose war-vessels sank in the sea!

And to those themselves who sank in the sea!

And to all generals that lost engagements, and all overcome heroes!

And the numberless unknown heroes equal to the greatest heroes known!»

Scene no 7: Flag bearers of the Confederate States in parade (Toy Soldiers - King & Country, Preiser Η0, Plasty, Elastolin 7 cm, Elastolin 4 cm, Britains Eyes Wright, Britains Swoppets & Britains Deetail).

The verses: Part of the visionary poem «Song of Myself» by the American poet Walt Whitman.

COMBAT DIVERS

The elite of fighting forces.

Chariots of the sea for naval operations in underwater demolition.

Military diving, committing acts of devastating destruction.

                                                        

 

 

 

Scene no 6: Beneath the sea, three plastic Human Torpedoes - 2 Man Submarines (Timpo Toys, the three different colors), and above a die-cast metal Fighting Ship (Matchbox Toys, Sea Kings, K-307 Helicopter Carrier).

GODS OF THE NORTH

«The giants answered with roars like the grinding of ice-bergs on a frozen shore and heaved up their shining axes as the maddened Cimmerian hurled himself upon them. A frosty blade flashed before his eyes, blinding him with its brightness, and he gave back a terrible stroke that sheared through his foe's thigh. With a groan the victim fell, and at the instant Conan was dashed into the snow, his left shoulder numb from the blow of the survivor, from which the Cimmerian's mail had barely saved his life. Conan saw the remaining giant looming high above him like a colossus carved of ice, etched against the cold glowing sky. The axe fell, to sink through the snow and deep into the frozen earth as Conan hurled himself aside and leaped to his feet. The giant roared and wrenched his axe free, but even as he did, Conan's sword sang down. The giant's knees bent and he sank slowly into the snow, which turned crimson with the blood that gushed from his half-severed neck.»

                             

 

 

 

Scene no 5: Conan the Cimmerian killing the Snow Giants (Frazetta Snow Giants, ReelArt Studios and Dark Horse Deluxe, Limited edition statue # 361 of 2.000, Sculpted by Tony Cipriano). In the background, the cover of the second Dust LP.

The Album: HARD ATTACK (Dust, 1972). Early American Hard Rock. Cover painting by Frank Frazetta.   

The Painting: SNOW GIANTS (Frank Frazetta, 1967). Cover for the book CONAN OF CIMMERIA (1967, Lancer Books).

The Text: From the novel GODS OF THE NORTH, by Robert E. Howard. First published in Fantasy Fan magazine (March 1934).

THE COMING OF CONAN!

« Come with us to

the Hyborian Age!

...

...

Come with us to the raw,

untamed world of…

CONAN

THE BARBARIAN! »

 

                

 

Scene no 4: Conan the Cimmerian (Dark Horse Deluxe, Classic Comic Book Character Series no 5, Limited edition # 282 of 550) in front of his comic image!

The comic page: First page of the first issue of the iconic comic book CONAN THE BARBARIAN (Barry Smith and Roy Thomas, October 1970). 

THE HUNTER

«I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.»

 

 

 

 

 

 

Scene no 3: In the Forest! The hunter with his hound outside his car (Studebaker station wagon, Matchbox series No 42, Lesney toys) at the entrance of Forest diorama. Nearby, suitable hut and several forest animals in box (Faller and Noch toys).

The thoughtful phrase: From the book WALDEN OR LIFE IN THE WOODS by Henry David Thoreau.

 

KING KONG

 

In love!

Ιn the jungle!

 

 

Scene no 2: A small nude woman (Noch toys) on a tree trunk (Marolin toys), staring at a big Gorilla (Lineol toys) sitting in front of a deciduous tree (Marolin toys).

IRON HEART

Against the Meta-modern World, 

Our boyhood armies 

Will prevail!

War and Peace, 

In the Kingdom of the Sun.

The Boy is father of the Man.

Scene no 1: Attack! Straight through the toyshop window of a bygone era! A clockwork Tank (Gama toys, made in Germany US Zone) between a Birch tree (Britains toys, made in Great Britain) and a shrub row (Starlux toys, made in France).
The Child is father of the Man: Verse from the poem “My Heart Leaps Up” (1802, William Wordsworth).

My heart leaps up when I behold
A rainbow in the sky:
So was it when my life began;
So is it now I am a man;
So be it when I shall grow old,
Or let me die!
The Child is father of the Man;
And I could wish my days to be
Bound each to each by natural piety.