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iDlympics of the Arts I: Art Day 2011 in Jacksonville, FL USA

iDlympics of the Arts, planned since 2002, will have its opening ceremony on Art Day 2011, July 2, 2011.  No details are available yet, but all categories of the arts (most likely just of Mother Millennium and Mother Millennia submissions) will collectively be judged and winners will be chosen similar to the iDlympics of the Arts' older brother, The Olympic Games.  One thing is certain:  Channel A will make his debut airing and streaming eternal music on this date and will begin the opening ceremonies in harmony. Thank you, Beijing, for the awesome artistic 2008 opening and closing ceremonies.  We expect the opening ceremonies of the first iDlympics of the Arts to at least equal the quality of your spectacular interpretation.  May the rivalry begin between the arts and the games!

If you had the pleasure of being in Jacksonville, FL USA in February 2005 when Super Bowl XXXIX came to a town that was shining brightly, you didn't see us at our best.  On Art Day 2011 (07-02-11), greater Jacksonville will be set on fire as the area hosts the inaugural iDlympics of the Arts.

Expect to sweat!  Seriously!!  Summertime will never be as heated as when the much anticipated the Explosion of Arts III bursts back into flames with plans to spread the healing effects of the arts that lead to peace of mind and explodes outward across the globe.  Currently January 6, 2009, this leaves us very little time to get organized and raise the money and create the art needed.  But we are game for the iDlympics even though our roads may still be highly under construction, sorry but our construction team is working as fast as they can.  And where the hell are we going to find a green oboe with which to tune Channel A and Jacksonville's double reed choir named Double Trouble performing a special arrangement of Aaron Copeland's "Fanfare for the Common Man" by talented arranger/composer/musician/band director Richard Beder from Jacksonville?

Art Day 2011 and the iDlympics II in Athens, Greece has even more promise, as there is plenty of time to prepare.  We all know how the arts affect the ceremonies of the Olympic Games.  Now let's see what the arts can do for themselves.  Rivalry, as long as it is peaceful, is a good thing. War, violence, and many other aspects of modern society, on the other hand are undesirable and must go.

Note:  The green flame on the newly redesigned iDlympics logo for Art Day 2011 represents the fires of peace -- WORLD PEACE -- just like the fire held by Spiritualized Life, a twice-altered statue that serves as a memorial to those from this area that died in WWI (see image below).  A NASA engineering team will have a lot of fun designing another eternal flame for the world, one that is tamper, vandalism, and hurricane proof . . . and green as green gets.  The iDlympics I logo is an alteration and combination of two Olympic logos.  The original modern Olympic logo of 1896 appears as the background and the centennial Olympic torch created for the Atlanta 1996 Olympics has (we think) been altered enough to be considered a new logo.  The general iDlympics of the Arts logo along with the logo for the Explosion of the Arts III arts festival.  Both are working logos until the winning design is chosen from the current logo competitions' submissions.

T-shirts (shown below) in the color that represents peace, green (and almost in Army camouflage since we are trying to avoid WWIII -- or starting WWIII, depending on how you view life), are now available for PRE-SALES for $47 US dollars each plus shipping and handling.  Shirts are a unique tie-dye design with the iDlympics I logo over the heart area of the garment.  Contact us well before Art Day to place your orders; we order by the thousand AFTER orders have been made.  Shirts are available in most sizes and are $41 US dollars each without the logo.

More details are to come as the same shirt with the Green Edition 2011 and Art Day 2011 logos become available for PRE-SALES (prices may vary).  Let's make this perfectly clear:  There will be PRE-SALES only until we have working capital to order shirts for sales at iDlympics I.  Also, these shirts are especially designed and take considerable time to construct -- ORDER NOW, PLEASE, as there really is no time to delay.  No shirts sold, no iDlympics, no nothing from A City of Expression.  In-kind donations are welcomed.

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Ancient Greece's and Modern Jacksonville's Nike and Athena

Nike, in Greek religion and mythology, was the Goddess of Victory and daughter of Pallas and Styx.  Often an attendant of Zeus or Athena, she also presided over all contests, athletic as well as military.  She was a popular subject in art, usually represented as winged and bearing a wreath or palm branch.  The Romans identified Nike with Victoria.  Nike (shown top left, below) was an important part of the ancient Olympic Games.

Life was early associated with air because the need for air is so immediate.  The birds flew in the air and were often associated with the spirit of life.  Since a winged flight is associated with a victory over death it was easily associated with victory.  Hence victory is associated with the winged goddess Nike.  Nike is an aspect of Athena and is essentially an Athena with wings.  The Greek goddess Athena (shown bottom left, below) was considered the child of Zeus alone, for Zeus had swallowed her mother named Metis and gave birth to Athena himself through his head.  Athena was born fully grown and is the ancient Greek goddess of civilization and war, reason and violence.

In Jacksonville, we house two beautiful statues in the historic arts district that are our interpretation of Nike and Athena.  Our Nike is male and named Spiritualized Life, also known as The Winged Figure of Youth (shown top right, above -- photo by Bruce Jones of Jacksonville, FL USA).  He was modeled after an area athlete named Percy Palenthorpe and was unveiled on Christmas Day in 1924 as a memorial to those from the area that died in WWI.  Shortly after his release to the world, Memorial Park's Spiritualized Life was altered because, according to a newspaper article, the statue was too revealing.  Now he has a rough bulge instead of the original genitals.

This is not the first time the statue will be altered.  Plans are underway to add an eternal flame for the iDlympics, hopefully as a sphere of fire held in his left hand as a reminder of the world's chaos and violence.  He rises triumphantly above this nonsense holding an olive branch in his right hand to represent the peace that he brings forth.  The planned fire for the upcoming statue's second alteration must be green flames, the color of peace.

Athena is also present in Jacksonville (shown bottom right, above), with a beautiful interpretation housed at The Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens within the historic Riverside neighborhood, which serves as the arts district for the city.  This Athena holds her arrow and shoots towards the stars; there is a dog at her feet.  The statue lies in the garden area and proudly protects a huge, beautiful oak tree next to the breath-taking river.

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