Autumn Rhythm (number 30) by Jackson Pollock, 1950 Surrealist painter René Magritte once wrote in a letter to André Bosmans that: “All the abstract paintings reveal only abstract painting, and absolutely nothing else. (…) I cannot share an interest in what abstract painting is able to say, which was summed up once and for all by the first abstract painting.”1 Well, if it isn't...
A while back Fernando from Committed to Celluloid posted his favorite actors that were born on the same year as him. I thought this was very interesting and looked for actors who share my birthday. Unfortunately, I didn't find many actors I like that were born in 1986. Though some very popular names appeared such as Twilight's Robert Pattison, Gossip Girls' Leighton Meister and...
I have to be honest here: Macbeth scared the hell out of me. The witches, the ghosts, the brutal murders, the madness, the blood... Visualizing the three witches saying "Fair is foul and foul is fair" gave me goosebumps. I'm not sure which is more horrifying, the witches or the doublespeak. Now, many of Shakespeare's plays have violence. Othello strangles Desdemona, Cornwall plucks out Gloucester's eyes in King...
Waiting in the hotel room by James Hart Dyke Even though I am a sucker for all things James Bond, I am less than excited about the new Bond movie, Skyfall. (True story: today I eagerly checked Youtube for Skyfall's trailer just to realize I had already seen it weeks before - talk about lasting impression). Meeting an agent by James Hart Dyke This...
I rarely talk about movies that I don't like, but I really hated The Boy in the Stripped Pajamas. The movie is about Bruno, an 8 year-old boy whose father is a Nazi officer in charge of a concentration camp. One day, Bruno discovers the camp and becomes friends with Shmuel, a Jewish boy his age who is a prisoner at the camp....
I am once again posting a day ahead schedule to take part on Broke and Bookish's meme Top 10 Tuesday. Today the topic is free so I chose Top 10 Favorite Words. 1) Revival Meaning: "a process in which something becomes active or strong again" I've been obsessed with this word lately. I find myself saying: a Tudor revival house, an Art Deco revival in...
