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The indescribable feeling when an article is almost finished
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Happy first month of winter!
Cinema · Observations · People · Humour
The real name of Cary Grant was Archibald Leach
"Everybody wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant" Archibald Leach (the real name of Cary Grant)
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Good Morning
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Compressed car by César Baldaccini and anti-form by Vasily Kononov-Gredin
An Evening Dialogue of the Arts: Two Works of Art Made from a Mercedes Car Body. The first is a sculpture by César Baldaccini, or simply César, created by the method of compression: the French sculptor simply placed a car from a scrapyard into a hydraulic press, and then signed
NB! · Architecture · Observations · Rome
Cutaway reconstruction of the Colosseum showing the arena, underground chambers and seating
The Colosseum in cross-section. I adore diagrams like this
Art · Books · Observations
What a Beauty!
A collection of poems by Bulat Okudzhava in German translation, with colour silkscreen prints by the artist Maurice Goetze. The book was published in 1991 in an edition of only 100 copies
In the Press · Cinema · Observations
If you haven't yet got round to my series on Wink, you can add my new video on Amediateka to your watchlist
Coming Up · Books · Observations · Humour
Who Else Suffers From the Same Ruinous Addiction, Comrades?
Who else suffers from the same ruinous addiction, comrades? Shall we all run, in a body, to a specialist? From the programme of the twenty-fifth Non/fiction International Intellectual Literature Fair for 30 November. Leaving aside the wording of the theme, one must admit that all the participants in
Aristocracy · Archive · Observations · Mores · People · Humour
Stephen Tennant in Cecil Beaton's photographs, an aesthete famed for his appearance
In Cecil Beaton's photographs: Stephen Tennant, perhaps one of the most elegant people of the twentieth century, or at the very least one of the best-known aesthetes of the last one. Yet he became famous not for his lineage (though he came from the privileged class), nor
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