Landscape with the Fall of Icarus (poem) Daedalus, took flight from Crete, where he and his father were trapped in exile, wearing wings made from wax and feathers. Icarus, disregarding his father's wishes that he not fly too close to the sun, did just that and melted his way to a feathery demise, drowning in the sea. This subject—and Bruegel's painting—are also treated by another Modernist poet, W. H. Auden, in "Musée des Beaux Arts". Landscape with the Fall of Icarus (poem) "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus" is an ecphrastic poem by the 20th-century American poet William Carlos Williams that was written in response to "Landscape
Wax or the Discovery of Television Among the Bees Wax or the Discovery of Television Among the Bees Wax or the Discovery of Television Among the Bees was the first film on the Internet. "Wax" is the first independent feature film by American filmmaker and artist David Blair. Released in 1991, "Wax" was a cult hit, playing cinemas in 26 U.S. cities and had additional theatrical play in Japan and Australia. "Wax" was a co-production with ZDF, German Television, and opened theatrically to rave reviews at the Public Theater in New York. "Wax" was included in a number of 10 Best Film lists that year. As the first film