Continue Reading L’Shanah Tovah Tomorrow begins the New Year so I’ll be posting my wishes today. As a variation on the sweetness of and I’ll offer this wish…
Continue Reading Castelleto Miramare His last words were, “I forgive everyone, and I ask everyone to forgive me.” Know who I am talking about? Archduke Ferdinand…
Continue Reading Polder Holland “Without cows the Dutch cultural landscape is drowsily boring.” The cultural landscape? Or the landscape per se? I mulled over this sentence found…
Continue Reading Heavy Metal “I’m interested in cultural phenomena that symbolize oddness and excess. Currently I’m looking at competitive table-setting competitions, home decorating in the…
Continue Reading Mihrab “My art focusses on the power of women – to remind myself I have power.” I heard this sentence in an interview with…
Continue Reading Spellbound “Trying to understand superstition rationally is like trying to pick up something made of wood by using a magnet.” This sentence by Philip…
Continue Reading Modes of Transportation I got to Europe, how else, by airplane. The worst ecological footprint imaginable. What I found in Holland, of course, were bikes. All…
Continue Reading Grafitti – the Old Fashioned Version Painting on public surfaces is nothing new – I don’t have a clue to when we can date back the earliest frescos,…
Continue Reading Urban Aesthetics (Ljublijana) You can find a lot of art, both curated and spontaneous, in the streets of the old city center of Ljublijana. (And…
Continue Reading Urban Aesthetics (Vienna) Vienna was recently ranked, for the umpteenth time, the most livable city in the world. One of the ranking factors concerns the…
