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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]