Syncopated Lady iPad Mini Cover | Zazzle

Wisdom Extraction: Sadly, I’m not feeling so chipper today, nor did I at the end of last night. I think it must be a delayed reaction.  Mind you, Ben & Jerry’s Cookie Dough helped!

Style: Case Savvy iPad Mini Glossy Finish Case

Shield your iPad Mini from daily damage with a customizable iPad Mini case. Made of lightweight hard shell plastic, this case clips onto the back of the iPad adding protection without the bulk. Made with a glossy finish, your designs, photos, and text will look great displayed on this one of a kind case.

• Designed for Apple’s iPad Mini.
• Hard shell plastic case with glossy finish.
• Smart Cover compatible.
• Access to all ports, controls & sensors.
• Customize with photos, artwork and text.
• Designer Tip: To ensure the highest quality print, please note that this product’s customizable design area measures 5.85″ x 8.45″. For best results please add 1/3″ bleed.

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First Night Design | Syncopated Lady #Art #Repost

FROM THE ARCHIVE 12th November 2014

Created with a vintage lady from The Graphics Fairy and overlays from my texture collection.

Dance, Little Lady

‘Tho’ you’re only seventeen,
Far too much of life you’ve seen,
Syncopated child.
Mayb…

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First Night Design | Nijinsky dans La Peri — Ballets Russes #Vintage

Nijinsky dans La Peri – Ballets Russes Tote Bag from Fine Art America © Sarah Vernon

Nijinsky dans La Peri — Ballets Russes Greeting Card by FirstNightVintage

Now here’s a vintage ballet theatre programme illustrated by Léon Bakst that I haven’t played with! I bought it from Mindy Sommers at Vintage Stock Art and gave it a soupçon of restorative magic so that you can buy it as a greeting card, postcard, print or US stamp in the Theatre & Film section of First Night Vintage. You will also find many other products with the image at Fine Art America & England (see links below).

Nijinsky dans La Peri — Ballets Russes Postcard by FirstNightVintage

Nijinsky circa 1912 [Wikimedia]

The incomparable Vaslev Nijinsky (1890-1950) was so famous a dancer with Sergei Diaghilev’s (1872–1929) Les Ballets Russes that he, along with Diaghilev, was one of the few people known the world over by surname alone; both are inextricably linked with early 20th century arts. Nijinsky went on to choreograph Debussy’s L’Après-midi d’un faune (1912) and Stravinsky’s (1882–1971) The Rite of Spring (1913), which impresario Diaghilev produced. Ballets Russes was founded by the latter in 1909 and Stravinsky was not the only composer to be commissioned. Also included were Satie (1866–1925) and Rimsky-Korsakov (1844–1908), while there were sets designed by Picasso (1881–1973) and Jean Cocteau (1889–1963). Names to conjure with indeed. Add fellow dancers, Michael Fokine (1880–1942), Anna Pavlova (1881–1931) and George Balanchine (1904–83), and you can see why the company was so instrumental in reviving ballet as an art form.

If you like this, as they say at many online stores and give you examples you wouldn’t touch with a bargepole, you might also like Schéhérazade.

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First Night Design | Do Seahorses Mate for Life?

I am still not able to create new images, in this instance for Valentine’s Day, which saddens me. I had hoped I would have received my new MacBook Pro by now but ‘Greek Time’ is something else! In the meantime, this is a post from a year ago about love and seahorses.

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• Did you know there are contradictions wherever you look as to whether seahorses mate for life? Most, it seems, are certainly monogamous during the courting season and can be so for several seasons after.
• Did you know there are 35 species of seahorses?
• Did you know that they’re very poor swimmers and can sometimes die of exhaustion in the process if the weather is particularly stormy?
• Did you know they have chameleon-like eyes?
• Did you know that their ‘courtship dance’ can last for 8 hours?
• Did you know that the female of the species produces the eggs and inserts them into the male’s pouch?
• Finally, did you know that several species of seahorse are in danger of extinction due to pollution, destruction of their usual tropical, shallow water habitats and the continuing practice of harvesting them for traditional Asian medicine?

 

Seahorses use their prehensile tails to grab onto sea…

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First Night Design | Syncopated Lady

Syncopated Lady © Sarah Vernon

Created with a vintage lady from The Graphics Fairy and overlays from my texture collection.

Dance, Little Lady

‘Tho’ you’re only seventeen,
Far too much of life you’ve seen,
Syncopated child.
Maybe if you only knew
Where your path is leading to
You’d become less wild
But I know it’s vain
Trying to explain
While there’s this insane
Music in your brain

Dance, dance, dance little lady
Youth is pleasing to the rhythm
Beating in your mind
Dance, dance, dance little lady
So obsessed with second best
No rest you’ll ever find
Time and tide and trouble
Never, never wait
Let the cauldron bubble
Justify your fate
Dance, dance, dance little lady
Dance, dance, dance little lady
Leave tomorrow behind.

Time and tide and trouble
Never, never wait
Let the cauldron bubble
Justify your fate
Dance, dance, dance little lady
Dance, dance, dance little lady
Leave tomorrow behind.

—Noël Coward, from This Year of Grace, his musical revue from 1928. And below is the man himself singing the number.

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just a dance.

Irresistible! Thanks, Beth, for this made my day.

I didn't have my glasses on....

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quote by: robert brault

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Cab Calloway sings Minnie the Moocher

Rogues & Vagabonds

Portrait of Cab Calloway, Columbia studio, New York, N.Y., ca. Mar. 1947 by William P Gottlieb

Watch and smile. It will start your weekend with a bang!

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First Night Design | Handwritten Love

Love Letters © First Night Design

An image to brighten your week as I recently sold this at Redbubble! I must do some more pieces using this gorgeous hand-painted fan, which I inherited from my grandmother. Remind me, would you?!

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“You’ve gotta dance like there’s nobody watching,
Love like you’ll never be hurt,
Sing like there’s nobody listening,
And live like it’s heaven on earth.”
― William W. Purkey

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Also available at Fine Art America.

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First Night Design | On This Day | Sergei Diaghilev

Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev (1872-1929)

[Wikimedia]

Sergei Diaghilev was born on this day in 1872. The iconic Russian ballet impresario, dancer, choreographer, songwriter and critic, founded the incomparable Ballets Russes company. He was responsible for the ballet premieres of Stravinsky’s  The Firebird, Petrouchka and Le sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring), not to mention Rimsky-Korsakov’s Schéhérazade, Debussy’s Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune (Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun) and Prokoviev’s Chout.

[Diaghilev is] ‘a giant, undoubtedly the only one whose dimensions increase the more he recedes into the distance’. Sergei Prokoviev

[Wikimedia]

‘Of all the wonders that the world had to offer, only art promised immortality.’

Programme of Ballets Russes – 1913 Shéhérazade – Michel Fokine and Vera Fokina [Wikimedia]

‘I could make a choreographer out of this inkwell if I wanted to.’

Related sites

• History of Ballet Russes
• Sergei Diaghilev: first lord of the dance
• IMDb
• Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes (V&A)

Take care and keep laughing!

First Night Design | Do Seahorses Mate for Life?

• Did you know there are contradictions wherever you look as to whether seahorses mate for life? Most, it seems, are certainly monogamous during the courting season and can be so for several seasons after.
• Did you know there are 35 species of seahorses?
• Did you know that they’re very poor swimmers and can sometimes die of exhaustion in the process if the weather is particularly stormy?
• Did you know they have chameleon-like eyes?
• Did you know that their ‘courtship dance’ can last for 8 hours?
• Did you know that the female of the species produces the eggs and inserts them into the male’s pouch?
• Finally, did you know that several species of seahorse are in danger of extinction due to pollution, destruction of their usual tropical, shallow water habitats and the continuing practice of harvesting them for traditional Asian medicine?

 

Seahorses use their prehensile tails to grab onto sea grasses and corals – Photograph by George Grall [National Geographic]

Take care and keep laughing!

Related articles

• Seahorses – National Geographic
• Project Seahorse
• Project Seashore