Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme

William Blake, The Parable of the Wise and Foolish Virgins
1822

Tate Gallery, London

source: http://www.humanitiesweb.org/human.php?s=g&p=c&a=p&ID=667

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

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Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom. And five of

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Takaragaike Park in Kyoto

Mount Hiei view from Takaragaike Park in Sakyō-ku, Kyoto

日本語: 宝が池公園から望む比叡山 。所在地は京都府京都市左京区。

source: 663highland

author: 663highland

(http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Takaragaike_Park_Kyoto07s3s4350.jpg)

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A walk in Takaragaike, approaching Lake Biwa and Kamo River... a video of great beauty.





(video by HANAFUBUKI)






(The Thousand faces of

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George Jones passed away

George Jones (1931 - 2013)

(http://www.rollingstone.com/music/artists/george-jones)

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He was the king of country singers.





Who's Gonna Fill Their Shoes

written by: Max D. Barnes and Troy Harold Seals

(video by NedNickerson2010)



You know this old world is full of singersBut just a few are chosenTo tear your heart out when they singImagine life

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Bucharest: Easter is Coming

(Bucharest, Iris Shopping Center)



This year Easter is coming to Romania on May 5th and everybody is trying to get ready, especially bunnies and kids.
























(Bucuresti)

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IOR Park in Bucharest - End of April

(Bucuresti)

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André Sauvage: Études sur Paris (1928)

André Sauvage (1891–1975)

director of Études sur Paris

(http://www.dvdclassik.com/personnalite/andre-sauvage)

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I found this movie on youTube unexpectedly, as I was looking for another one (Les années folles). Unique atmosphere of a Paris in 1928, with a few cars mixed with carts and street dogs.Where is all this world now?

A visual treat, this silent

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To Boston, with Love

Karl Zerbe, Park Street, Boston, 1942

encaustic on canvas

The Phillips Collection, Washington DC

(http://blog.phillipscollection.org/2013/04/16/boston-love/)

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Karl Zerbe, a member of the first generation of Boston expressionists, painted this powerful work shortly after moving to the United States from his native Berlin. Zerbe’s piece captures the

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Lake Anne again

Lake Anne at dusk

(published on Facebook by Café Montmartre)

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Lake Anne at dawn

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Café Montmartre, on Lake Anne border

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(Washington, District of Columbia)

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Warsau: Museum of the History of Polish Jews

(http://blogs.wsj.com/emergingeurope/2012/10/17/polands-jewish-museum-nears-completion/tab/slideshow/#slide/1)

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My friend Jay noticed me this video: the Museum of the History of Polish Jews, built on the site of the Warsaw Ghetto honors thousand years of Jewish life and culture in Poland - this video documents the museum's development from its

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Jon Krakauer

Jon Krakauer

(http://www.newnewjournalism.com/bio.php?last_name=krakauer)

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born in Brookline, MA, in 1954 - his family moved to Corvallis, OR when he was two - at eight his father took him to (unsuccessfully) climb Oregon's ten-thousand-foot South Sister - received a degree in environmental studies from Hampshire College - worked as a carpenter and a

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Robert J. Flaherty: Twenty-Four-Dollar Island (1927)

(http://www.ferdyonfilms.com/2011/the-twenty-four-dollar-island-1927/9374/)

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Dutch traders bought the island of Manhattan from the Native Americans for some trinkets supposedly worth twenty four dollars. And the city grew to thirty dwellings, then to thousand residents, and this went on. By the time Flaherty shot his documentary there were eight million

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Years of Hope

(http://res-dbq.org/)

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The Eastern Church (that I belonged to) will celebrate Easter this year at the beginning of May. The Occident is already in Eastertide. Says my friend David, the minister of the Presbyterian Community in Clarendon, VA, ressurection is a churchy word, while the Greek original word from the New Testament simply means rise up.

And

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John Grierson: Granton Trawler (1934)

still from Granton Trawler (1934)

(http://documentarystartshere.blogspot.com/2010/02/john-grierson-and-eh-anstey.html)

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The second (and last) movie directed by John Grierson. Only 11 minutes long. The fascination Grierson looks with his camera at the seagulls calls in mind his Drifters.



Documentary about the fishing trawler, Isabella Grieg. We follow

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John Grierson: Drifters (1929)

still from Drifters (1929)

(http://www.filmreference.com/Films-Dr-Ex/Drifters.html)

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The days when herring fishing had been an idyll between brown sails and village harbors were long gone when John Grierson started working on his documentary - by then it was already an industry. And that's what Drifters is about: the whole life cycle of an industrial

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Neruda and Eminescu

(http://icelines.blogspot.com/2011/02/tuesday-poem-pablo-neruda.html)

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Neruda left thousands of poems, a handful of which are of such inspired beauty as to justify the very existence of the Spanish language (Ilan Stavans). The same could be said about Eminescu, and about the Romanian language.






(http://fotomuzeu.blogspot.com/2011/02/

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Naomi Klein

Naomi Klein
source: David Shankbone
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Naomi_Klein_Occupy_Wall_Street_2011_Shankbone.JPG)

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Canadian author and social activist known for her political analyses and criticism of corporate globalization (wiki).



(A Life in Books)

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La Plus que Lente (Debussy)

(http://www.classicalarchives.com/work/57294.html)

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Debussy was supposedly inspired for La plus que lente by a small sculpture, La Valse, that he kept on his mantelpiece. The title may be translated as The even slower waltz or, word-for-word, The more than slow. Despite its translation, La plus que lente was not meant to be played slowly; lente, in this

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The Doomed Golden Couple: Zelda and Scott

(Southern Literary Trail)

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Says Nick Wallace-Smith, who didn't read Scott Fitzgerald's A Diamond as Big as the Ritz or The Great Gatsby at university; and not for any Eng. Lit. course but for the sheer Jazz Age excess expressed in the stories; and of course for the delicious writing - like crème brûlée; curiously though, and when I think back, I had no

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The Fitzgeralds

Zelda and Francis Scott Fitzgerald
(http://thegreatgatsbyreadingmap.blogspot.com/p/f-scott-fitzgerald.html)

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Scott was inspired and prodded along in his dissipation by the notoriously eccentric Zelda. As Ring Lardner once put it, Mr. Fitzgerald is a novelist and Mrs. Fitzgerald is a novelty .


(http://www.openculture.com/2012/11/

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Un documentar din anul 1925: Grass: A Nation's Battle for Life

(click here for the English version)


Vreau sa va vorbesc despre unul din primele documentare etnografice din istoria cinematografului: Grass: A Nation's Battle for Life, produs in 1925. Este un film extraordinar, iar povestea filmarii lui este si ea uluitoare.

Totul a inceput cu doi prieteni care aveau ambitia sa produca un film cu care sa egaleze succesul pe care il avusese Nanook of the

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