home.social

#thehand — Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #thehand, aggregated by home.social.

  1. #HappyBirthday to Maurice Joseph Micklewhite, a.k.a. #MichaelCaine, the Oscar / BAFTA-winning English actor, born in London on this day. He has over 170 screen credits across eight decades and played, among others, Alfred Pennyworth, Fagin, Scrooge, "Sherlock Holmes" and Harry Palmer. Iconic as gangsters in #GetCarter ('71) and Neil Jordan's #MonaLisa ('86), but also memorable as the fracturing male leads of Brian De Palma's #DressedToKill ('80) and Oliver Stone's underrated #TheHand ('81). #OTD

  2. The Caring Hand – Sculpture in Glarus, Switzerland by Eva Oertli and Beat Huber

    Artists ‘Eva Oertli and Beat Huber The name of the sculpture is The Hand (dubbed The Caring Hand by many). It is about five feet tall and was cast in concrete by Eva Oertli and Beat Huber in 2004 as part of an exhibition of three-dimensional works in urban space in Glarus, Switzerland. In their artistic statement, the creators said, “With our sculpture we do not want to set a monument to the gardening profession, but rather point out that we, as a great human race, are responsible […]

    streetartutopia.com/2022/06/02