Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Winged Victory: Nike Complete










Have you seen Wim Wenders' Der Himmel über Berlin / Wings of Desire (1987)? Includes the great Bruno Ganz, Peter Falk, Otto Sander, Solveig Dommartin (who died at 45 a couple of years ago), Nick Cave, Curt Bois and Berlin -- the city not the band. Wings come in different shapes and forms, however.  













The Nike of Samothrace in the Louvre. An excellent 2007 photo by Marie-Lan Nguyen.  Here's a case where Gestalt doesn't deliver -- at least for me. I've seen an imagined Nike complete, "Winged Victory" and all, but what it really needs is the other side of midnight, something from a Man Ray photograph perhaps. It would be nice to see the whole of her.  




William S. Burroughs in a Nike, Inc., commercial. "Winged Victory," indeed!

Today's Rune: Joy.  

2 comments:

Charles Gramlich said...

The title "Winged Victory" is so evocative. I love the images it calls up.

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