Kafka on the shore

Kafka on the shore

Prologue
Well it's easy to immerse yourself in Haruki Murakami's world: a fantastic journey into a subconsciously unknown destination, a labyrinth, and a library. Yes, ...

 
continue... 08 May 2011 // Books
 
José Luis Fariñas – Skirting the Apocalypse Exhibition: Not to be missed

José Luis Fariñas – Skirting the Apocalypse Exhibition: Not to be missed

José Luis Fariñas’s 2011 series of detailed watercolors is reminiscent of masters Hans Bellmer and Hieronymus Bosch, but more delicate and… avian? Skirting the ...

 
continue... 19 January 2011 // Art
 
Pieter Bruegel the Elder

Pieter Bruegel the Elder

Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1525 –1569) is generally considered the greatest Flemish painter of the 16th century.

He developed an original style that uniformly holds narrative, or ...

 
continue... 23 December 2010 // Art
 
Inside the terror of Matsui Fuyuko

Inside the terror of Matsui Fuyuko

Matsui Fuyuko's work is highly sensitive, violent and self-contradictory. However, when conveyed through a clear-cut classical format, her personal trauma is sublimated into something universal. ...

 
continue... 20 December 2010 // Art
 

Visionary textual based art

William Blake (28 November 1757–12 August 1827) a poet, painter, and printmaker. His prophetic poetry and his visual artistry produced a diverse and symbolically rich corpus, which embraced the imagination as "the body of God" or "Human existence itself".

Considered mad by contemporaries for his idiosyncratic views, Blake is held in high regard by later critics for his expressiveness and creativity, and for the philosophical and mystical undercurrents within his work.  His reputation ...

 
continue... 06 December 2010 // Art
 
colour, shape, form…

colour, shape, form…

Cromer developed his adult imagination through text rather than image, becoming a librarian and receiving a master’s degree in creative writing. In 1998, feeling frustration ...

 
continue... 05 December 2010 // Art
 
Looking for Snails on a Sunday Afternoon by Rudolf Kurz

Looking for Snails on a Sunday Afternoon by Rudolf Kurz

`The prints depict fantastic scenes of erotic masquerades and anthropomorphic animals, sometimes fanciful and sometimes frightening. Published by the Porcupine's Quill, known for its excellent ...

 
continue... 21 November 2010 // Books
 

what matters is that we embark

Ed: You know that quote in the beginning where Kane says, it might be fun to run a newspaper?
Well I think that’s how Orson Wells approached this; it might be fun to make a movie. He didn’t know what he was doing, yet he did something that was perfect. Makes you think what’s possible.

Leonard: Hah. Maybe this is it.

Ed: What?

Leonard: White medicine: movies. ...

 
continue... 17 November 2010 // Movies
 
 
 
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