tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-282389002012-02-02T17:10:51.468-05:00<p> <i>World as it is</i>. <p> Live updated. Everything informal. Comments are welcome.</p></p>Pierre Radulescuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16470498506314399360noreply@blogger.comBlogger33391100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28238900.post-62868981781076983442012-02-02T17:04:00.004-05:002012-02-02T17:10:51.476-05:00

(http://www.homescaninspection.com/is-the-snow-melting-off-your-roof-too-quuickly/)snow was evenon the roofeven colorthe surface must beperfectly eveneven aseven so(http://www.uglyducklingpresse.org/catalog/online-reading/small-poems-by-yuko-otomo/)(Yuko Otomo)

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(http://www.bigbridge.org/BB14/BIO3.HTM)Yuko Otomo is a bilingual poet (Japanese and English) and a visual artist (in pursuit of Pure Abstraction). She writes haiku, art criticism and essays (http://www.bigbridge.org/BB14/BIO3.HTM). I had the pleasure to meet her several times, and I would say she is the way her poetry is: smart, subtle and gracious.Even Loop Poem(A Life in Books)

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(http://www.tribes.org/web/2010/05/14/waltzing-in-quicksand-poets-in-collage/)she tell’s me that my new erotic poem is too cleanthat i’m too cleani tell her that i don’t know how to write erotic poemsthe sax player bends over & grabs her horni pat her ass & tell her that i just don’t knowhow to write erotic poemsthat i really don’t even want to writeerotic poemsbut that my new poem’s a good poem

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(http://fluxjazz.canalblog.com/albums/10_12_03_john_tchicai___steve_dalachinsky/index.htm)John Tchicai (alto saxophone) - Steve Dalachinsky (poet), Paris, December 2010(video by dolphy00)(Steve Dalachinsky)

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(http://www.alchemicalwedding.com/mailart/honoringtheshadow.html)I met Steve Dalachinsky several times and each one was memorable. Firstly we met at a party, in an apartment near Washington Square. Eve Packer was the hostess, it was also my first encounter with her. The place was full of artists (it seemed that I was the only person there with an engineering background), wine and beer were at

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Viktor Vasnetsov - Four Horsemen of Apocalypse, 1887(http://www.wikipaintings.org/en/viktor-vasnetsov/four-horsemen-of-apocalypse-1887) Turning and turning in the widening gyreThe falcon cannot hear the falconer;Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhereThe ceremony of innocence is drowned;The best lack all

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Bartolomeo Ammanati (1511-92): Leda and the Swan(http://ledaofgreece.blogspot.com/2009/10/leda-and-swan.html)A sudden blow: the great wings beating stillAbove the staggering girl, her thighs caressedBy the dark webs, her nape caught in his bill,He holds her helpless breast upon his breast.How can those terrified vague fingers pushThe feathered glory from her loosening thighs?And how can body,

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Far up the cold mountain the stony path slopes:Where the white clouds are born there are homes of men.Stop the carriage, sit and enjoy the evening in the maple wood:The frosty leaves are redder than the second month's flowers.(translated by Angus Charles Graham)Tu Mu ((803-852) is most admired as a master of Chueh-chu, the New Style quatrain with an AABA rhyme scheme.(http://

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image posted by Sachin Kelkar(Blogosphere)

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Badende Hirten in einem WaldKunstsammlung der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen(http://www.bildindex.de/obj15501904.html#|home)An artwork that stayed in a private collection in Dresden until 1864, then traveled to Leipzig, then to Munich (auctioned by Karl & Faber) where it remained till 1967, when it entered in a private collection in Oberlin, Ohio. Since 1980 it belongs to the Art Collection

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Willem Claeszoon Heda - Still Life with Pie, Silver Ewer and Craboil on canvas, 1658Frans Halsmuseum, Haarlem(http://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/html/h/heda/stillpie.html)A Painting by Johann Sebastian Bach?

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(image: Ileana Ene-Giusca)Parintele Simion Erofei dela Biserica de Rit Vechi din Mahmudia.Intamplarea face sa fi cunoscut, cu ani in urma, un alt parinte fara simbrie, pe care il chema tot Simion. Era batran, slujea la cimitirul Bellu si nu cerea niciodata bani. Eram vaduv, la patruzeci de ani, si el mi-a slujit de fiecare data la mormantul primei mele sotii, aproape sapte ani. In al saptelea an

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mentalitate de ciumpalac(http://www.cugetari.com/2010/02/despre-barbati/#more-265)Cf. 123urban (colectie de termeni si expresii care desi nu si-au gasit locul in dictionarele traditionale, umbla libere si nestingherite in limbajul colocvial), ciumpalac inseamna ghertzoi. Bine, bine, dar ce inseamna ghertzoi, ne putem intreba. Mergem la acelasi 123urban (care dupa cum vedem continua acolo unde s-a

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pusca si cureaua latace barbat eram odata(Bancuri, Glume & Fun)Se petrec chestii zilele astea, unii o iau pe coaja, altii isi fac visuri. Mergem inainte, ca tot inainte era... Vai de capu' nostru! Thanks Mircea, you are the guy!(video by DJVLADUL)(A Life in Books)

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Ravi Shankar in Delhi, 2009(http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ravi_Shankar_2009.jpg)A Facebook friend, Andras Laszlo, shared with us this great video: the digital remastering of a famous LP album of Hindustani music from 1968, performed by Ravi Shankar.The tracklist:An Introduction to Indian MusicDádráMáru-BihágBhimpalásiSindhi-BhairaviEach track is preceded by a short explanation presented

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From the blog of David Ensign, the minister of Clarendon Presbyterian Church (Progressive ... Inclusive ... Diverse):Jesus goes to the lakeshore -- to that limit place where the water meets the land -- and there he meets his first followers to whom he utters the famous and enigmatic invitation, follow me and I will make you fishers of people... The beginning of a new year is a good time for

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(http://artofpetry.blogspot.com/2010/11/dineu-cu-prosti.html)S-a jucat in seara aceasta la Teatrul National din Bucuresti. à bon entendeur, salut! (mai jos un video care prezinta un fragment din spectacolul dela Teatrul National din Targu Mures din stagiunea 2000-2001).(video by Marinela Popescu)(A Life in Books)

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(http://verovers.wordpress.com/2011/09/05/anexa-la-o-fotografie-pentru-martanul-din-viata-mea/)In curand cele doua nepoate ale mele, Bianca si Daria, vor primi in dar o pisicuta. Tatal lor (si fiul meu totodata) se tot opunea, dar pana la urma a cedat. Nu poti ignora la nesfarsit rugamintile Biancai si Dariei.Va intra o pisicuta in casa lor, deci. Si va sta acolo multi ani, si va deveni si ea

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(http://campaign.r20.constantcontact.com/render?llr=i9rhibdab&v=001S22Ky2nkF8b5xFReeR5zu6ns_Kd_it7QM6cGIdAU9nTNP518Sic_B3eBs3uuuKT1IBOnhD0sGj9V-HY-6-vYep5R7d443Dz4vPUGLSfx0Ense_i6awiY4Y8iSR6oQeKtQzhWriJk-PI%3D)Where there is no vision, the people perish ...I found this in the blog of David Ensign, the minister at Clarendon Presbyterian Church (Progressive ... Inclusive ... Diverse)(Church in

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(http://eves-reel-life.blogspot.com/2011/09/book-to-movie-in-lonely-place.html)In a Lonely Place, made in 1950 by Nicholas Ray, is a classic noir, with Humphrey Bogart in one of his finest creations. Louise Brooks would write that this role came closest to the real Bogart she knew: a fascinatingly complex character whose pride, selfishness, drunkenness, lack of energy stabbed with lightning

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@ Switch Yard Media, Inc.(http://realestate.msn.com/-weve-got-you-surrounded-cities-within-cities#5)Surrounded by the city of Bellevue, WA, Beaux Arts Village was founded as an artists' colony in 1908. The town's 124 homes sit on tree-lined, one-lane streets with addresses marked by white pickets in front. There are 299 inhabitants in all.(http://realestate.msn.com/-

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Chao Li Chi in Meditation on Violence(http://kyberia.sk/id/1630621/3)A 12 minute long movie: a young Asian dancer with bare torso moving on the sound of a Chinese flute, inside an empty room, the sound of a Haitian drum comes in, the flute is vanishing, the man advances toward a terrace, now he is dressed with a tunic and has a sword, some movements of a sword dance; the music stops suddenly

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Pablo NerudaCien sonetos de amor, 1959(http://prof-de-rien.blogspot.com/2009/03/pablo-neruda-no-te-amo.html)Soneto XVIINo te amo como si fueras rosa de sal, topacioo flecha de claveles que propagan el fuego:te amo como se aman ciertas cosas oscuras,secretamente, entre la sombra y el alma.Te amo como la planta que no florece y llevadentro de sí, escondida, la luz de aquellas flores,y gracias a tu

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image from Dragos Mirsanu, Discipulus Simplex(http://discipulussimplex.wordpress.com/2008/03/09/am-scris-iubire-iarta/)Din Ultimele Sonete inchipuite ale lui Shakespeare in traducere imaginara(Shakespeare’s Last Fancied Sonnets in Imaginary Translation)Am scris iubire? Iarta...citeste: adorare...Sus, pan’ la tine, unde ravneste al meu dor,Cuvantul e omida cand eu il vreau condor,Sa spintec vremi,

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(http://andreimituca.wordpress.com/2009/03/21/marin-sorescu-noi-cute/)O lunga pregatire pentru moarteE viata -ntreaga. Pentru marea clipa,Cand sufletul, un fulg dintr-o aripa,Lin se desprinde si te ia departe.Unde? Nu stii. Precis, in alta parteSi toata pamanteana ta risipaSe sterge ca o vorba dintr-o carteSi-o alta vorba-n loc se infiripa.Asa ca geamantanul fa-ti si du-te,Uitandu-ti geamantanul

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(http://vimeo.com/13869261)The first name that comes to mind is Ozu (as all great film directors came out from the Late Spring), I thought also at Maya Deren's Meditation on Violence, as the timing of this short made by Matthew E Carter is perfect. Well, Mattie builds on Ozu and on Maya Deren, but, I must say, he is here totally original. It's the science of Ozu in the details, the science of

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(http://www.acadiamagic.com/bar-harbor-17.htm)Edna St. Vincent Millay was born and grew up in Maine and remained enamored with the savage beauty of the Cadillac Mountain - where the sun first hits the American coast. I planned once to go there to Bar Harbor and to climb the mountain, it didn't happen.I found on the web this sonnet and I dedicate it to my good friends from Maine, to Jay and

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photo by Nicu Iftimie - fotonicu(http://nicuiftimie.blogspot.com/2009/02/expozitia-lacustra.html)De-atatea nopti plouand,Aud materia plangand ...Sint singur, si ma duce-un gandSpre locuintele lacustre.Si parca dorm pe scanduri ude,In spate ma izbeste-un val -Tresar din somn, si mi se pareCa n-am tras podul de la mal.Un gol istoric se intinde,Pe-aceleasi vremuri ma gandesc ...Si simt cum de atata

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(http://theendofcinema.blogspot.com/2011/12/spanish-earth.html)The Spanish Earth (Tierra de España), made in 1937 by Joris Ivens, with a remarkable team of screenwriters: Lilian Hellman authored the story based on which John Dos Passos and Ernest Hemingway wrote the English narration (read in voice-off by Orson Welles - then Hemingway decided to use his own voice, replacing Wells, who remained

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still from Pour le Mistral(http://www.sensesofcinema.com/2009/feature-articles/joris-ivens-witness-to-the-20th-century/)One of Joris Ivens's most poetic films is his first attempt to film the wind. With a beautiful photography, a powerful editing and a poetic commentary the film tries to make the wind visible and tangible. It starts in black and white, continues in color and ends in cinemascope

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Joris Ivens(http://arditodocumental.kinoki.es/joris-ivens-de-la-pluma-al-fusil-1927-1933/)Regen of Ivens - Autumn in Varsovie of LigetiDe Brug (followed by Philips-Radio)The Spanish EarthPour le Mistral(Filmele Avangardei)

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Hipnotizat de-adanca si limpedea luminaA boltilor destinse deasupra lui, ar vreaSa sfarme zenitul, si, -nnebunit, sa bea,Prin mii de crengi crispate, licoarea opalina.Nici valurile noptii, nici umeda perdeaDe nouri nu-i goneste imagina senina;De-un stralucit albastru viziunea lui e plina,Oricat de multe neguri în juru-i vor cadea…Dar cand augusta toamna din nou il înfasoaraIn tonuri de crepuscul,

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helenelagonelle: Wiesław Wałkuski’s poster for Un Chien Andalou (via dontbehasty)(http://carov2.tumblr.com/post/2178333413/helenelagonelle-wieslaw-walkuskis-poster-for)What could be said about Un Chien Andalou that hasn't for now been said? The woman's eyeball cut with a razor came from Buñuel, the man's hand crawled by ants from Dalí; which of them had the idea of moving the hair from the

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(http://misterpaint93.blogspot.com/2010_04_01_archive.html)E-o noapte uda, grea, te-neci afara.Prin ceata – obosite, rosii, fara zare –Ard, afumate, triste felinareCa intr-o crasma umeda, murdara.Prin mahalali mai neagra noaptea pare,Sivoaie-n case triste inundara,S-auzi tusind – o tusa-n sec, amara –Prin ziduri vechi ce stau in daramare.Ca Edgar Poe ma reintorc spre casaOri ca Verlaine topit de

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illustration published in Amori da Lontano - Posta del Cuore(http://postadelcuore.myblog.it/archive/2008/02/28/erstr6.html)Pace non trovo e non ho da far guerrae temo, e spero; e ardo e sono un ghiaccio;e volo sopra 'l cielo, e giaccio in terra;e nulla stringo, e tutto il mondo abbraccio.Tal m'ha in pregion, che non m'apre nè sera,nè per suo mi riten nè scioglie il laccio;e non m'ancide Amore, e

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(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Affair_%281932_film%29)I wrote here a couple of days ago about a movie from 1939, Love Affair, with Charles Boyer, a love story famous in the history of cinema, followed by remakes, as celebrated as the original version had been, with the fatal lover impersonated in 1957 by Cary Grant and in 1994 by Warren Beatty.Actually there was another Love Affair in 1932,

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(http://www.zazzle.com/barack_obama_bling_bling_25322_obama_is_yo_mama_tshirt-235666723406419686)(video by Alphacat)(Blogosphere)

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(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Love_Affair.jpg)...The rights for this movie belong to RKO Radio Pictures, or just anyone else but me...(click here for the English version)Mai intai am vazut You've Got Mail, comedia romantica facuta de Nora Ephron in 1998, jucata de Tom Hanks si Meg Ryan. Nu stiam atunci ca era un remake: am gasit dupa zece ani o copie DVD a lui The Shop Around the Corner,

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(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Love_Affair.jpg)...The rights for this movie belong to RKO Radio Pictures, or just anyone else but me...(click here for the Romanian version)Firstly I saw Nora Ephron's You've Got Mail, the 1998 romantic comedy played by Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan. I didn't know by then that it was a remake: after ten years I found a DVD copy of The Shop Around the Corner, the

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(photo: Cristina Dan)(Bucuresti)

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photo by Angela Pan(http://dcist.com/2011/12/saturday_pretty_photo.php)Says Martin Austermuhle, driving out of DC earlier today, it wasn't hard to notice how bright and clear the morning sky was: today's pristine sunrise... this shot by Angela Pan says it all... blues and oranges shimmering in the Potomac like cosmic clouds, the sky seemingly brushed in by hand.(Washington, District of Columbia)

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(http://www.skytrip.ro/casa-memoriala-vasile-voiculescu-din-judetul-buzau-ob-264.html)Cat despre literatura romana, ea il are pe V. Voiculescu, cel din Ultimele sonete inchipuite ale lui Shakespeare in traducere imaginara de...Folosind procedeul ambiguitatii artistice, poetul isi construieste ciclul celor nouazeci de poeme revendicandu-si modelul shakespearian, dar in realitate el se calauzeste,

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(http://tnayer.blogspot.com/2008/10/george-bacovia-pen-name-of-george.html)Rar(http://fantasypieces.wordpress.com/)Singur, singur, singur,Intr-un han, departe -Doarme si hangiul,Strazile-s desarte,Singur, singur, singur…Ploua, ploua, ploua,Vreme de betie -Si s-asculti pustiul,Ce melancolie!Ploua, ploua, ploua…Nimeni, nimeni, nimeni,Cu atat mai bine -Si de-atata vremeNu stie de mineNimeni, nimeni,

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George Bacovia(http://www.observatordebacau.ro/2011/04/07/sarbatorindu-l-pe-bacovia.html)PlouaSonetLacustra(A Life in Books)

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(http://www.rador.ro)Din Ultimele Sonete inchipuite ale lui Shakespeare in traducere imaginara(Shakespeare’s Last Fancied Sonnets in Imaginary Translation)Sonet CLXXXI(publicat de Elésynepe http://elesyne.blogspot.com/2009/10/vasile-voiculescu-sonete.html)Oricat de dragastoasa ti-e iscusita limba,Stiu cand ma minti, cu toate ce-mi spui si faci pe plac,Neasteptat culoarea privirilor se schimbasi

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(http://www.audiocite.net/livres-audio-gratuits-poesies/arthur-rimbaud-ma-boheme.html)Ma Bohème- Fantaisie -Je m'en allais, les poings dans mes poches crevées ;Mon paletot aussi devenait idéal ;J'allais sous le ciel, Muse ! et j'étais ton féal ;Oh ! là là ! que d'amours splendides j'ai rêvées !Mon unique culotte avait un large trou.- Petit-Poucet rêveur, j'égrenais dans ma courseDes rimes. Mon

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(http://poetic.ro/archives/1333)CLV (Ultimele Sonete inchipuite ale lui Shakespeare in traducere imaginara)Nu-mi cerceta obarsia, ci tine-n seama soiul,Gusti fructul, nu tulpina, chiar aur de-ar parea…Stramosii-mi, dupa nume, au invartit tepoiul,Eu manuiesc azi pana de mii de ori mai grea.Dovada cea mai pura a-nnobilarii meleEsti tu si-ngaduinta de-a te lasa iubitMai mult ca un prieten, cu

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Jeroen DiepenmaatPour des dents d’un blanc éclatant et saines, 2005courtesy Miami Art Museum(http://artlog.com/posts/269-museum-highlights-2012?utm_source=MadMimi&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Museum+Shows+to+See+in+2012&utm_campaign=Museum+Shows+to+See+in+2012&utm_term=READ+THE+FULL+ARTICLE)(Contemporary Art)

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Vasile Voiculescu impreuna cu sotia, Maria(http://www.jurnalul.ro/arte-vizuale/un-martir-vasile-voiculescu-543850.htm)CCXL(Ultimele Sonete inchipuite ale lui Shakespeare in traducere imaginara)Sa-mi vindec dorul, altor dureri cer lecuire:O boala grea cu alta potrivnica s-alina;Te uit… Uitarea numai de tine mi-este plina…Si departarea-i inc-un adaos la iubire.Pentr-un ragaz de-o clipa ma-ncatus

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Photo: Robert F. Bukaty / AP(http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/45615612)(Blogosphere)

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(http://favi-aruba.org/tournement-quotes-by-arthur-rimbaud/)Par les soirs bleus d'été, j'irai dans les sentiers,Picoté par les blés, fouler l'herbe menue :Rêveur, j'en sentirai la fraîcheur à mes pieds.Je laisserai le vent baigner ma tête nue.Je ne parlerai pas, je ne penserai rien :Mais l'amour infini me montera dans l'âme,Et j'irai loin, bien loin, comme un bohémien,Par la nature, heureux comme

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(http://bookaholic.ro/de-sezon-rimbaudiada.html)IOn n'est pas sérieux, quand on a dix-sept ans.- Un beau soir, foin des bocks et de la limonade,Des cafés tapageurs aux lustres éclatants !- On va sous les tilleuls verts de la promenade.Les tilleuls sentent bon dans les bons soirs de juin !L'air est parfois si doux, qu'on ferme la paupière ;Le vent chargé de bruits - la ville n'est pas loin -A des

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(http://chatlibre.blog.lemonde.fr/2006/11/10/reve-pour-lhiver/)L’hiver, nous irons dans un petit wagon roseAvec des coussins bleus.Nous serons bien. Un nid de baisers fous reposeDans chaque coin moelleux.Tu fermeras l’oeil, pour ne point voir, par la glace,Grimacer les ombres des soirs,Ces monstruosités hargneuses, populaceDe démons noirs et de loups noirs.Puis tu te sentiras la joue égratignée…

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(Bucuresti)

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Christopher Hitchens1949 - 2011(http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Christopher_Hitchens_crop.jpg)A friend told me about an article from NY Times, authored by Ian McEwan (who wrote Atonement), and talking about a consummate writer and brilliant friend: Christopher Hitchens. It was their last encounter. Very ill, Christopher Hitchens didn't want flowers or grapes; he wanted conversation and

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Is Santa scary? Only for Kids who Weren't Good(http://brooklyntrout.com/node/414)(video by Alphacat)(Blogosphere)

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Artur Grottger - Pohod na Sybir(http://www.halat.pl/poland3a.html)Am citit undeva ca Vasile Alecsandri a fost inspirat de pictura aceasta, cand a compus poezia sa, Pohod na Sibir.Un unchi, care a cazut prizonier la rusi in timpul razboiului, mi-a povestit ca, escortati spre lagar, in extremul nord, romanii se asteptau la orice. Nu stiau ce ii astepta la capatul drumului, puteau fi impuscati. Si

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ilustratie de Maciek(http://statekkosmiczny.pl/niewinni-czarodzieje/)Mędrce dawnych wiekówZamykali się szukać skarbów albo lekówI trucizn - my niewinni młodzi czarodziejeSzukajmy ich, by otruć własne swe nadzieje.(Adam Mickiewicz: DZIADY - cz. I, in http://mickiewicz.kulturalna.com/a-7214.html)(click here for the English version)Niewinni Czarodzieje (Inocentii Fermecatori), un film facut in

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(http://www.frenchtoday.com/poem-analysis-reading/poem-ode-a-cassandre-ronsard-audio)Ronsard was 20, Cassandre was 13. It was in April 1545. They met at a royal reception. He was conquered by her freshness. The remembrance of their encounter became a poem.Mignonne, allons voir si la roseQui ce matin avoit décloseSa robe de pourpre au Soleil,A point perdu cette vespréeLes plis de sa robe pourprée,

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Pierre de Ronsard - Quand Vous Serez Bien Vieille(http://moissan-premieres.eklablog.com/ronsard-sonnets-pour-helene-quand-vous-serez-bien-vieille-a745879)Lucienne Boyer singing the sonnet of Ronsard(video by holdabaum)G.R. Tejada-Flores translated it in country style (Candlelight Blues, 1961):When yore gitten old at candlelightSittin’ at the fire gonna spin all night,You’ll say sorta marvelin’ as

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illustration by Maciek(http://statekkosmiczny.pl/niewinni-czarodzieje/)Mędrce dawnych wiekówZamykali się szukać skarbów albo lekówI trucizn - my niewinni młodzi czarodziejeSzukajmy ich, by otruć własne swe nadzieje.(Adam Mickiewicz: DZIADY - cz. I, in http://mickiewicz.kulturalna.com/a-7214.html)(click here for the Romanian version)Niewinni Czarodzieje (Innocent Sorcerers), a movie made in 1960,

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Walenty Wankowicz, Mickiewich na Judahu skale, 1827-1828(Mickiewicz on the cliff of Judah)oil on canvas, Muzeum Narodowe w Warszawie(http://neveryetmelted.com/2010/05/26/pan-tadeusz/)Only a few words here about Dziady (Forefathers' Eve), the Opus Magnum of Adam Mickiewicz. It would deserve much more than just a few words, as it played an important role in keeping the Polish national conscience:

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(http://www.bing.com/travel/content/search?q=Decked-Out+Hotels%3a+Gaylord+National+Resort%2c+Oxon+Hill%2c+Md.&FORM=TRSSPG)I visited several times Gaylord, the huge hotel complex on Potomac border, across Alexandria. It was always an enjoyable experience. They know what it means to make it big, these guys! Well, if you ask me, the Gaylord in Texas (some place near Dallas) is even bigger, which

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(http://www.musicstack.com/records-cds/joseph+schmidt)(click here for the English version)Aveam vreo 15 ani cand am vazut Un cantec strabate lumea, un film german din 1958 care povestea viata lui Joseph Schmidt, una din vocile de aur ale anilor treizeci. Numele nu imi era necunoscut. Doamna Paranici, o prietena a parintilor, se nascuse in Bucovina, care era si regiunea natala a lui Joseph Schmidt

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(http://www.musicstack.com/records-cds/joseph+schmidt)(click here for the Romanian version)I was about fifteen when I saw Ein Lied geht um die Welt, a German movie made in 1958 that came in the Bucharest theaters a couple of years later. It was telling the life of Joseph Schmidt, one of the great voices of the 1930's. The name was not unknown for me. Frau Paranici, a good friend of my parents,

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Jean Baudrillard1929 - 2007(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ef/WikipediaBaudrillard20040612-cropped.png)I will take here again a fragment from a previous blogpost, as I think a term that was used there needs explanation.The fragment is a quote from Zygmunt Bauman's Intimations of postmodernity (1992):In its practical implementation, communism was a system one-sidedly adapted to

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(http://www.dreamtreemg.com/illustrations.html)(video by Alphacat)(Blogosphere)

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the original Starbucks store at 1912 Pike Place, Seattle, WAphoto by deymos(http://local.msn.com/slideshow/slideshow.aspx?cp-documentid=31257880)The first Starbucks opened in 1971 at Pike Street Market in Seattle. Back then the store, named for the first mate of the Pequod in Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick, specialized in fresh-roasted whole bean coffees. That original outlet is still there.(http://

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the original Starbucks store at 1912 Pike Place, Seattle, WAphoto by deymos(http://local.msn.com/slideshow/slideshow.aspx?cp-documentid=31257880)The first Starbucks opened in 1971 at Pike Street Market in Seattle. Back then the store, named for the first mate of the Pequod in Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick, specialized in fresh-roasted whole bean coffees. That original outlet is still there.(http://

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In December 1999 I was in New York visiting my two half-sisters Jill and Pola and their mother Marjorie. We were to meet one evening for a dinner: an Indian restaurant some place in East Village. They all adored Indian cuisine, for me it was the first time. I met with Marjorie one hour earlier in front of a gas station on Houston Street and she suggested to enter a bookstore nearby. It was a

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(David Croitor)

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(David Croitor)

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(David Croitor)

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(David Croitor)

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(David Croitor)

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David CroitorDavid Croitor, a Romanian visual artist who lives in Vatra Dornei, a small city in the North of the country. His works have some kind of elegiac beauty.Winter StoryCopper AutumnHouseholdDecember in Old BucharestSunset(Contemporary Art)

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(http://www.crestinortodox.ro/diverse/baraganul-campia-deportatilor-127218.html)Am citit azi pe forumul web CrestinOrtodox.ro (Baraganul, campia deportatilor) un articol care mi-a trezit amintiri dureroase. Mama primei mele sotii a fost deportata in Baragan. Locuia in satul Izvoru Barzii de pe langa Turnu Severin. Romania comunista era in dusmanie cu Iugoslavia comunista, Tito avusese curajul sa

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(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/55/Maresiev.jpg)Story of a Real Man (Повесть о настоящем человеке), released in 1949 is based on the novel written by Boris Polevoi. It is a true story. In 1942 Soviet ace Alexey Maresyev was shot down over a region occupied by German troupes. Though badly injured he succeeded to return to Soviet controlled territory. It was an 18 days journey

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Umeda Sky Building, Osaka(http://patokallio.name/photo/travel/Japan/)Yoko filmed this at Umeda Sky building (梅田スカイビル, Umeda Sukai Biru) in Osaka.　The building was designed by Hiroshi Hara. He designed Kyoto Station too.梅田スカイビル(video by HANAFUBUKI)music by Naoki TohdoIt's gorgeous, and, more than that, I think, for Yoko it's a daring new way of exploring the world. I am thinking now at all her

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published in Eppur Si Muove: Revisiting Panentheism(http://eppursimuov3.wordpress.com/2010/10/16/paths-from-science-towards-god-9-revisiting-panentheism/)Firstly let's make the distinction between Pantheism and Panentheism. Pantheism equates Cosmos (Nature, Universe) and God (maybe we should say rather Godhead).Panentheism keeps the immanence of Godhead, while adding to it a transcendental

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Once upon a timeA girl with moonlight in her eyesPut her hand in mineAnd said she loved me soBut that was once upon a timeVery long agoOriginal Broadway Cast Recording of the Musical All-American(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_American_%28musical%29)A beautiful, sad, love song, Once Upon a Time. It was written for All American, a Broadway musical from 1962, created by Mel Brooks. Charles

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I I walk through the long schoolroom questioning;A kind old nun in a white hood replies;The children learn to cipher and to sing,To study reading - books and histories,To cut and sew, be neat in everythingIn the best modern way - the children's eyesIn momentary wonder stare uponA sixty-year-old smiling public man.III dream of a Ledaean body, bentAbove a sinking fire, a tale that sheTold of a

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credit: jesusandmo.net---------------SOCRATES: Then what do we say about piety? Isn’t it what is loved by all the gods, according to your definition?EUTHYPHRO: Yes.SOCRATES: Just because it is pious, or for some other reason?EUTHYPHRO: No, because it is pious.SOCRATES: So it is loved because it is pious, not pious because it is loved?EUTHYPHRO: It seems so.SOCRATES: But it is because a thing is

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(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pelagius.jpg)A 17th century Calvinist print depicting Pelagius. The text under the image is condemning him unequivocally ( Accurst Pelagius with that false pretence, and so on): a condemnation that follows the tradition inaugurated by Augustine. Recent studies have defended Pelagius as a misunderstood orthodox.Here are some very quick notes. An introduction to

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French Quarter, New Orleans© Colin D. Young(http://realestate.msn.com/what-does-it-cost-to-live-in-an-iconic-neighborhood#3)Jazz was born in this place, where American, French, Spanish and Creole cultures live together and confuse each other. In the early 20th century Buddy Bolden and Jelly Roll Morton were honing in bars and strip joints here a style of rag-time music, later known as jazz. Louis

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Reverend Steve Heyduck(http://noncon.wordpress.com/about/)Steve Heyduck is a United Methodist pastor who currently serves as the Chaplain of the Methodist Children’s Home in Waco, TX, plus some other similar tasks there. He considers himself a postmodern, possibly emergent Christian.I found his blog by chance. The blog has an impressive title (Everyday Theology, from a nonconstantian, postmodern

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photo courtesy of Wajimacallit(http://local.msn.com/slideshow/slideshow.aspx?cp-documentid=31257880)Now hip-hop is an essential part of the global culture (or global counter-culture, matter of perspective). It started in the Bronx, more precisely at 1520 Sedgwick Ave. The community room on the first floor was hosting evening parties and a guy named Clive Campbell was the DJ. Well, people knew him

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photo courtesy of McDonald's Corporation(http://local.msn.com/slideshow/slideshow.aspx?cp-documentid=31257880)In 1940, Dick and Mac McDonald opened their McDonald's Bar-B-Que restaurant in San Bernardino, CA, and in 1949 they replaced the potato chips on their menu with French fries.(http://local.msn.com/slideshow/slideshow.aspx?cp-documentid=31257880)We have a McDonald's franchise in walking

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The vintage album cover for the soundtrack of American Graffitiphoto by Richard Goerg(http://local.msn.com/slideshow/slideshow.aspx?cp-documentid=31257880)American Graffiti, directed by a pre-Star Wars George Lucas and produced by a post-Godfather Francis Ford Coppola, was a coming-of-age story released in 1973 but set in 1962. It launched a boom in oldies music and revitalized the career of

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photo courtesy of J Steven Conn(http://local.msn.com/slideshow/slideshow.aspx?cp-documentid=31257880)Harland Sanders, born in 1890 outside Henryville, IN, opened his first restaurant in Corbin, KY, in 1930. The restaurant, situated in the front room of a gas station, was called Sanders Court & Café. One of its most popular dishes was fried chicken. In 1936, Kentucky's governor made Sanders an

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© Prudential Douglas Elliman Real Estate(http://realestate.msn.com/10-most-expensive-zip-codes#7)This six floor, 30,000-square-foot TriBeCa townhouse has a private gym and basketball court in the basement and a high-end showroom on the ground floor. Not bad!(New York, New York)

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(http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/poetry/so-much-depends-upon-a-red-whe-1.html)It all began in a small Parisian bookstore, in the Marais. An English language bookstore with some out of print titles you can probably find only there and nowhere else.Well, maybe I'm exaggerating a little. There are a few other spots like this one, and to say here only about such places that I visited in the US, in DC

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(http://www.blackcountrycinema.com/)Black Country Cinema is a collective of four young British filmmakers from the West Midlands. Drawing from influences such as Ozu, Kiarostami, Miyazaki, Hitchcock and Jennings, they are blurring the lines between documentary and fiction. What they look for in their films is honesty, authenticity and minimalism (I'm quoting from their artistic statement).I

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photo: Norman Triantafilos(https://picasaweb.google.com/109222702440853621644/FriendsNeighbors#5160641650729436770)Here is Bill Habhab who lived next to Peggy Lou on Blake Road. He is since deceased. Bill built the florndale tap on Dombey Road which is now the junkyard bar and ran it for many years. Bill & his wife Florence Flo and his sons Bill & Tony & Greg all lived in the woods at the end of

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(image: Stephen Coles in http://stewf.tumblr.com/post/354368889/suomi-hand-script)You could ask what makes this poem, well, a poem. William Carlos Williams gave once the answer, mockingly, it has to be a poem because it goes that way. Metrically speaking, there should be no complaint. If we go now to Cliffs Notes, an excellent website about seemingly everything, American poets of the 20's century

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passport photo, 1921http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/fd/William_Carlos_Williams_passport_photograph_1921.jpg(source: Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University)He is the master of succinctness and subtle interactivity, this defines him perfectly. It's a comment I found in a blogpost dedicated to the most famous poem of William Carlos Williams. I will speak some other time

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(http://www.jewlicious.com/tag/jerusalem/)Jay Norwalk sent me this. It is a 7 minute segment of Jerusalem, an IMAX movie scheduled for release in 2013: a low level flight over the Holly Land.Jerusalem | Filmed in Imax 3D from JerusalemTheMovie on Vimeo(Filmofilia)

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Firstly I found the poem in Portuguese. It was on a splendid blog having as motto a quote from Montaigne: Filosofar é aprender a morrer.O ser humano é uma casa de hóspedes.Toda manhã uma nova chegada.A alegria, a depressão, a falta de sentido, como visitantes inesperados.Receba e entretenha a todosMesmo que seja uma multidão de doresQue violentamente varrem sua casa e tira seus móveis.Ainda assim

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Detroit, MI. 2009. 2010(http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2011/newphotography/doug-rickard/)Doug Rickard (American, born 1968) studied US history and sociology, before moving to photography. He has drawn on this background in research for his series A New American Picture, which focuses on places in the United States where unemployment is high and educational opportunities are few. On

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Liviu Ciulei directing Spring Awakening at Juilliard in 1977(image: Bob Glass/The New York Times)Ms. Marica Solomon signaled me the presence of a great article in the October 27 issue of NY Times on the life of Liviu Ciulei.Mr. Ciulei (whose name was pronounced LEEV-you CHEW-lay) made films in his native Romania, but in the United States he was best known for his provocative interpretations of

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