How do you imagine Holden Caufield? What do you think Emma Bovary (and her husband's childhood hat) look like? Does Gatsby look more like Leonard diCaprio or Robert Redford? The other day I came across The Composites, a website that uses a sketch software and book descriptions to make mug shots of literary characters. It's funny because the result is very realistic but...
Are modern artists substituting talent for social criticism? It happened again. I saw the painting above, didn’t particularly like it, but then I heard an amazing explanation for it. In the audio guide explanation, the artist himself, Luis Gordillo, said things like: “Man has become an infantilized clown (…), man sits in an alien environment that gives us television and magazines, like that’s...
Don’t let the bawdy miniseries The Tudors fool you. If you are anything like me all the knowledge you have about Henry VIII’s reign comes from the show The Tudors and the movie Elizabeth (perhaps a little from Mark Twain’s “The Prince and the Pauper” too). Of course a better source would be some actual history studying, but may I suggest the...
Dear Mr. C. S. Lewis, I'm writing you to apologize for having caved and watched The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader instead of finishing the book. I hope you don't get upset but I just wanted to get off that boat. But don't worry, I won't do this again. Firstly, because in those two hours of the movie I...
Forest in autumn Original title: Waldweg bei Plankenberg in Herbst Emil Schindler was an Austrian landscape painter from the end of the 19th century. His paintings focus on the change of the weather and its influence on the landscape. This form of Austrian impressionism received the name of "Stimmungsimpressionismus", which means sentimental or mood impressionism. Steamboat station on the Danube Original title: Die Dampfschiffstation...
The movie Night at the Museum wanted to be It might sound strange to hear that Terry Gilliam - member of Monty Python and director of movies like Brazil, Twelve Monkeys and The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus - once made a movie for kids. And here's the beauty of it: it's a great kids movie and it's also a great Terry Gilliam movie. All the...
