Yesterday's Broke and Bookish Top Tuesday's meme is more than appropriate: Top 10 Authors and Books I'm Thankful for. While compiling this list it occurred to me: wouldn't it be nice to meet these authors one day and thank them in person? But for now, here's my virtual thanks: 5 Books I'm thankful for: 1) Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupery I begin with one of my childhood...
The Calumny of Appelles by Botticelli (click on the image to enlarge) A little bit of history Date: 1494 Located in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy In Ancient Greece, there was a famous painter called Apelles. You might never heard of him because none of his paintings or even copies of his paintings survived. Apparently, before he died he was working on a...
That's it, I've had it with lame movies. You know you've reached a cinematic rock bottom when you're watching What Women Want just because, hey, Mel Gibson is in it. So now I'm focusing on classics, because you can't go wrong with them. And one of my favorite classic actors is James Stewart. I discovered he made over 90 movies and I've only...
Some people manage to read on crowded buses and on the dentist's office. Even though a lot of times we are forced to adapt to our environment in order to do some reading, there’s no reason why we shouldn’t have a comfy environment for reading in our homes. On weekends, when I have more time for reading, I like to set the mood to...
"Amish Barn" by Jack Jeffers, 1980 The more I think about it, the more I realize photography is a complicated business – philosophically speaking. The other day I went to an exhibition called "End of an Era: The Photography of Jack Jeffers" where the picture above called my attention. Its title is “An Amish Barn” and, apparently, the people who owned the barn in the...
The classy, not-creepy predecessor of Black Swan. I watched The Red Shoes a couple of years ago when I was really into ballet. I wonder how many guys who hate ballet watched it only because Martin Scorsese vouches for it. This 1948 classic follows the career of a promising young ballerina, Victoria Page. She entered the most prestigious company in the world under the direction...
