NB! · Observations · Humour

I Want a Photo Like Pope Benedict's

A high-rise tower under construction, with a crane, behind a glass building above city rooftops under a cloudy sky.

NB! · Architecture · Observations

Reflections on the tastes of people who admire modern high-rise architecture

When I see buildings like this, I wonder what guides the people who find them beautiful. Which books have they read, what did they dream of as children, what films do they love?

NB! · Humour

Citizen, Come Along With Me

NB! · Humour

Every Age Gets the Elegance It Deserves

NB! · Art · Books · Observations

An outstanding cover, I consider, for the 1981 edition of the Zadonshchina, designed by Ilya Glazunov

NB! · Observations · Paris

Paris, je t'aime

NB! · Observations

Good Morning and Have a Good Day

Miniature: an angel in a blue robe and a nude man at left face a dark winged dragon with a red tongue; small figures struggle in the blue water below.

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Angel and a nude figure before a dragon above water, medieval miniature

NB! · Heritage · Society · Paris · Humour

Memorial to the Victims of the First World War in Paris's 15th Arrondissement Adorned with Dustbins and a Compact Rubbish Dump

The memorial to the victims of the First World War in Paris's 15th arrondissement has been adorned with dustbins and a compact rubbish dump. This is what they fought for

NB! · Faith · Society · Rome · Humour

The Vatican has issued a very strange coin to promote vaccination

NB! · Faith

Mother of God, Protect Us

View from above of a stairwell with a blue wrought-iron railing, a white figure sculpture hanging on a cable and a hand reaching towards it.

NB! · Observations · Humour

Sculpture suspended in a stairwell, described as a victim of shopping

A victim of shopping. But there is nothing to be done for her now