David Graux: L'Echo d'un Songe

David Graux: L'Echo d'un Songe

(http://gerhardsblog.blogspot.com/2009_01_01_archive.html)

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His main subject is the beauty and mystery of woman, evoked both through his sensual nudes and through the symbolic richness and Oriental motifs of his colorful backgrounds. His paintings are, in effect, forms of tangible poetry.

(Claudia Moscovici)


And here is a

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A Little Bit About Kannada

Ferdinand Kittel (1832-1903)

image from 1854

source: Heidrun Brückner [u.a.]: Indienforschung im Zeitenwandel. Analyse und Dokumente zur Indologie und Religionswissenschaft in Tübingen

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Kittel,_Ferdinand_%281832-1903%29.jpg)

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Tomorrow is November 1st, and my Indian friends celebrate Karnataka Rajyotsava, commemorating

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Claude Verlinde: Les Marottes

Claude Verlinde, Les Marottes, 1989

oil on canvas mounted on wood

(posted on Facebook by The Macabre And the Beautifully Grotesque)

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The English title of this painting is Jester's Baubles, the German one, Die Narrenstäbe. I found it on Facebook, also in a blog of eigene Lyrik mit ausgewählten Bildern (own poetry with selected images) - the blog of a

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Claude Verlinde

Claude Verlinde
(http://www.conservapedia.com/Claude_Verlinde)

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Looking at the works of Claude Verlinde, the first name that came to my mind was Remedios Varo. Both can be considered as Magical Realists, while there is a difference between them, that lies, I would say, in the sense of enigma. Each work of Remedios Varo brings an enigma, and the same is true

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NY Times: Reports from Syria

NY Times correspondent C.J.Chivers reports from Syria.




video from NY Times




(Zoon Politikon)

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On Domenico Scarlatti's Birthday

Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti

portrait by Domingo Antonio Velasco, around 1739

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Domenico_Scarlatti_%28azul%29.jpg)

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Domenico Scarlatti was born in 1685 (the same year with Bach and Handel), on October 26. So it's his birthday exactly today.

Scarlatti's 555 keyboard sonatas are single movements, mostly in binary form, and

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Dorothea Lange: Country Store from North Carolina, 1939

Dorothea Lange: Country Store from North Carolina, 1939

(posted by Edelina Stoian on Facebook)

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The old American images that Edelina Stoian finds and shares with us on Facebook are extraordinary. I also like her stories about old Vienna and old Prague, about pastries you can find in Venice and about dolls who can play tricks to dreamers. I would like to

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2012 Presidential Debate SPOOF- Rap Battles (ROUND 3)

(video by alphacat)



(Alphacat)

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How To Write a Story

(http://books.google.com/books?id=yIRnMyM7lcMC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false)

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This is a story about how to write a story. It has a totally different title: it's named A Conversation with My Father, and is by Grace Paley, part of a collection published in 1974, Enormous Changes at the Last Minute. I found the story

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Grace Paley: Suddenly There’s Poughkeepsie

Mid-Hudson Bridge as Seen from Vassar Hospital - Poughkeepsie

(http://members.virtualtourist.com/m/b6528/cd92f/)

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Grace Paley released the poem shortly before her death.

Suddenly there's Poughkeepsie / except for its spelling / an ordinary town - great phrase - there is also anonther one in this poem - Lorldly Hudson - she was embracing all, mockery and

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Grace Paley

Grace Paley

(1922 - 2007)

(http://gothamist.com/2007/08/24/grace_paley.php)

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She was describing herself as a somewhat combative pacifist and cooperative anarchist.


...(if) you have a habit of looking at each day as a whole day -- unless you drop dead at noon or something -- then every day you live something interesting. It's interesting because you

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Jhumpa Lahiri

(Click here for the Romanian version)


Firstly I saw the movie made by Mira Nair, The Namesake. Then I found in bookshops the novel written by Jhumpa Lahiri. It was her second book, coming after a collection of short stories with an intriguing title, Interpreter of Maladies.

A very few words about who Jhumpa Lahiri is: born in London, where her parents had come from Calcutta, they moved to the

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The Music of Ron Carter

Ron Carter

(http://musicians.allaboutjazz.com/musician.php?id=5580#.UIPcaWfRUQY)

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I just got on Facebook a great gift from my friend Vali Nas, and I am eager to share it with you all: a video with Ron Carter. For Vali, Ron Carter is his preferred bass-player, and the amazing Piccolo LP one of the great jazz albums (the song on the video below is from

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Let's Meet Alex Blake

Alex Blake at Jazz Standard, NY, 2007

photo: Dmitry Scherbi

source: Alex Blake, Jazz Standard, March 2007

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Alex_Blake_photo_2.jpg)

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Says Marcia Bujold, if you like jazz, check this guy Alex Blake out. He is incredible! I've never heard anyone play a bass like that! Not just plucking strings, but also using the strings

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2012 Presidential Debate SPOOF- Rap Battles (ROUND 2)

(http://www.wild1063.com/pages/babygirl1.html?article=9292309)

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(video by alphacat)



(Alphacat)

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Strada General Nicolae Dona

(Bucuresti)

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Casa de pe Strada Astronomului

Strada Astronomului este foarte scurta, vreo trei case de o parte si de alta. Leaga strazile Putul cu Plopi si Luigi Cazzavillan, foarte aproape de intrarea in Cismigiu de pe Stirbei Voda. In copilarie mi se intampla sa trec destul de des pe acolo. Era o casa pe strada Astronomului al carei aspect ma impresionase. O asociam cu numele strazii si imi imaginam ca este fie locuinta vreunui

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Palatul Kretzulescu

Construit in anul 1902 dupa planurile arhitectului Petre Antonescu, palatul a apartinut mai intai Printesei Elena Kretzulescu. Se afla langa intrarea in Cismigiu de pe strada Stirbei Voda. Coborand treptele spre marea gradina, palatul te insoteste majestous, impreuna cu sera amintindu-ti de dragostea Printesei pentru natura si flori. Odata ajuns la capatul treptelor, esti intampinat de un

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The Buzz-Word of the Week: Malarkey

published in the DCist

(photo by number7cloud)

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You'd say it's some kind of Big Bird or something, coming to let you know that he's all for VP Biden. It could be, what means that Sesame Street is to be found some place near Dupont Circle. Anyway, malarky seems to be the buzz-word of the week. Well, according to the Free Dictionary, malarky (or rather

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Gordon Parks: Mary Macado, Mother of Isabeli Lopez, and Family

published in Artlog

by courtesy of International Center of Photography

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(Gordon Parks)

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Gordon Parks: Alabama, Untitled

Untitled, Mobile, Alabama
published in Artlog

by courtesy of Howard Greenberg Gallery

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Untitled, Shady Grove, Alabama
published in Artlog

by courtesy of Howard Greenberg Gallery

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(Gordon Parks)

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Goordon Parks: Husband and Wife, Sunday Morning

published in Artlog

by courtesy of Howard Greenberg Gallery

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(Gordon Parks)

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Fighting Racism with a Camera: Gordon Parks

Gordon Parks

(http://aftm.wordpress.com/2010/02/06/gordon-parks/)

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Photographer, musician, writer and film director, Gordon Parks remained best known for capturing the trials and joys of African Americans, in his photo-essays for Life magazine. I had known poverty firsthand, he once said, but there I learned how to fight its evil—along with the evil of

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