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Viggo Mortensen, the true Renaissance man, from the NYTimes:
[Viggo Mortensen] is the author of art books that combine painting, photography, poetry, journal entries and whatever else he cares to include, with interests that also extend to fervently antiwar politics and music.
If his books and CDs seem remarkably free of constraints, that’s because they are. The dreamboat actor runs a fine little publishing house, too.
Indirectly, Mr. Mortensen’s Perceval Press is a “Lord of the Rings” offshoot. It began operations in 2002, soon after Mr. Mortensen had finished playing the warrior-king Aragorn in the movie trilogy. His first book, the poetry collection “Ten Last Night,” had been published nine years earlier. And by 2002, his art gallery exhibitions and books were arriving on a regular basis. Thanks to “the movie, you know, notoriety,” as Mr. Mortensen mumblingly describes his career trajectory, they were selling nicely too
A hunk, a poet, and a publisher. It’s just too much…
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Via Heraclitean Fire, Specklet’s Tiny Animals on Fingers Flickr Set.
If you watch this as a slide show, it becomes quite surreal.
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