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January 7, 2015January 8, 2015 toniArchitecture, art history

Chartres Cathedral Make-Work Scheme

It’s a trend…   Chartres Cathedral Make-Work Scheme A Columbia University trained architectural historian, Martin Filler, has reported (A Scandalous Makeover at Chartres) his great shock when visiting Chartres Cathedral […]

November 20, 2014November 20, 2014 toniArt, art history, Europe, historical figure, painting, Place

Michelangelo’s disintegrating frescoes

“Without having seen the Sistine Chapel one can form no appreciable idea of what one man is capable of achieving.” —Johann Wolfgang Goethe, 23 August 1787, The article, and title […]

November 4, 2014October 30, 2017 toniEast Asia, ethnic or cultural, Event, film, history, military, Science, social, US, video

Gojira, what Godzilla is in the words of the Japanese

“Godzilla represents the complicity of mankind in its own destruction.” Godzilla does not feel emotion…Godzilla is emotion ~ Jun Fukuda, director Godzilla could not be defeated by the weapons that […]

September 29, 2014June 12, 2018 toniethnic or cultural, Europe, history, Middle East, music, religion spirituality, social, video

Medieval Sephardic Music | performance

Contents1 Medieval Jewish music of  Spain.  Beautiful.2  Music History3 Explore the Music Online4  Architecture5 Religious Art Medieval Jewish music of  Spain.  Beautiful. Exotic to our ears, ethereal and rhythmic. Above […]

September 9, 2014September 22, 2014 toniEast Asia, Health, history

Cha Qu 茶趣: How water affects the taste of tea

Chinese see everything in the world as a manifestation of either a male or female principle. For example, water is female, which means tea must be male. A funny thing is that […]

August 29, 2014 tonipoet, quote, religion spirituality, sage - thinker, social

This Moment

“Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the earth revolves – slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future. Live the actual moment. Only […]

August 20, 2014September 10, 2014 toniPhotography, US, writer

Whitman in color

  A stunning piece.   A colorized portrait of Walt Whitmanm.   So well done, long surpassing the pink color of past works.   Very life-like, especially the transparent blue […]

August 17, 2014September 12, 2014 toniArchitecture, US

Frank Lloyd Wright master work

Spectacular, sweeping, graphic animation tour of the house in Fallingwater over Bear Run  organically emerging from the ground to form a beautifully completed structure and a visual tour.   Fallingwater over […]

August 8, 2014 toniEastern Europe, Personality, portrait, social

Portrait of a Living Saint

I love portrait photography.  This one is striking and of an interesting man.  He is Dobri Dobrev,   a 100-year-old beggar shown here in a threadbare coat. “Grandpa” Dobri, is already celebrated […]

May 28, 2014September 20, 2014 toniAfrica, anniversary, death, ethnic or cultural, film, historical figure, music, Personality, poet, political, sage - thinker, social, writer

farewell great lady

We celebrate Maya Angelou’s life, cherish her wisdom, and learn from her words.  But we will do so without her now, 28 May, 2014.   “Listen to yourself and in that […]

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