Gaud

Every year she had returned to Brittany with her father -- in the summer only, like a fashionable, coming to bathe in the sea -- and lived again in the midst of old memories, delighted to hear herself called Gaud, rather curious to see the Icelanders of whom so much was said, who were never at home, and of whom, each year, some were missing; on all sides she heard the name of Iceland, which appeared to her as a distant insatiable abyss.

An Iceland Fisherman Pierre Loti 1886

Sometimes called the Gaudí of Kiev, Gorodetsky was a bon vivant, ladies man, crack shot, big-game hunter, watercolorist, jewelry designer and lover of airplanes — besides being an extravagant architect.

Festooned With Fantasy John Pancake 2010

Sometimes called the Gaudí of Kiev, Gorodetsky was a bon vivant, ladies man, crack shot, big-game hunter, watercolorist, jewelry designer and lover of airplanes — besides being an extravagant architect.

Festooned With Fantasy John Pancake 2010

Sometimes called the Gaudí of Kiev, Gorodetsky was a bon vivant, ladies man, crack shot, big-game hunter, watercolorist, jewelry designer and lover of airplanes — besides being an extravagant architect.

Festooned With Fantasy John Pancake 2010

Sometimes called the Gaudí of Kiev, Gorodetsky was a bon vivant, ladies man, crack shot, big-game hunter, watercolorist, jewelry designer and lover of airplanes — besides being an extravagant architect.

Festooned With Fantasy John Pancake 2010

"Gaud," he began, in a low grave voice, "if you're still of a mind now ----"

An Iceland Fisherman Pierre Loti 1886

Inside Gaud í 's La Sagrada Fam í lia the surging upward thrust of the pillars, shaped more like celery stalks than the classical columns favored by more conventional architects, captures a raw energy of nature that can still shock today.

A Potter's Monumental Inspiration Emma Crichton-Miller 2010

It is not just the overwhelming presence of Antoni Gaud í (1852-1926), whose ecstatic pursuit of the life force in all his architecture has a clear parallel in Ms. Malone's own vibrant organic forms, but older buildings too.

A Potter's Monumental Inspiration Emma Crichton-Miller 2010

Filmmaker Dan Gaud has channeled his inner alternate ego in the parallel world short film, Leap:

Short Film: Leap 2010

Elsewhere, Tom Gaud has a Flicker set of cartoons he did for the UK's Guardian newspaper.

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