I love Cole Porter and this interpretation Caetano Veloso did of "Get out of Town" is very beautiful.Hope you like it and have a great weekend.Get out of townBefore it's too late my loveGet out of townBe good to me pleaseWhy wish me harmWhy not retire to a farmAnd be contented to charmThe birds off the treesJust disappearI care for you much too muchAnd...
Saturday, February 27, 2010
Thursday, February 25, 2010
"Smoking is like being tobacco’s slave" - fanaticism has no limits
This is a French anti smoking prevention campaign by the "Rights of Non Smokers" (Les Droits des Non-Fumeurs).The photographies are by Thomas Geffrier and the text "Fumer c’est etre l’esclave du tabac" translated in English means “Smoking is like being tobacco’s slave”.I wonder where the rights of ...
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Link Exchange is Healthy
we must make a relation ship with link exchange. for our blog health. please leave comment in the bottom of this post..i will give link exchange back. thank...
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Monday, February 22, 2010
50.000 visitors!
I want to thank all of those who came to this site and I cannot even believe that this number was achieved.Image by María at Flic...
Saturday, February 20, 2010
Bambi in real life - Tanja Askani
I received an e-mail from Herrad with these pictures. She sends amazing pictures by e-mail and I thought this collection deservesAskani to be seen.These are photographies by Tanja Askani who takes pictures depicting tenderness among animals. You can see more photographs by her here.Thank you Herrad!Have...
Friday, February 19, 2010
Gustave Courbet - The Beautiful Irish Woman
The Beautiful Irish Woman, 1866, CourbetThis was the painting I was looking for when I came across with the work of the post below. I have a tiny copy at my desk among other tiny copies that are part of my... private collecti...
Courbet, lesbianism, voyeurism, friendship, Barbies and Christian censorship
Sleepers by Gustave Courbet is one of the themes that artists depicted that is stitl causing scandal nowadays.I was searching for another of his paintings and came across with Kristine Milde's "Sleepers after Courbet" at this site dedicated to Barbie in many way. I also found at this site Courbet's...
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Matisse - Painting, rules, time... "Notes of a painter", 1908
Henri Matisse and his model 1939You can download the .pdf file of Matisse's "Notes of a Painter", 1908 here. I think that at this paragraph, the last one, he approaches some important issues that are still being discussed nowadays:"Rules have no existence outside of individuals: otherwise a good professor...
Sunday, February 14, 2010
Saturday, February 13, 2010
Attenti al Lupo - Lucio Dalla "Living together"
Unfortunately I can't find a translation for this Italian song that is simple and beautiful. It is a popular song and a little old and maybe not very interesting for Italians but it's very cute for those who know little of the Italian language. I will dedicate this post to an Italian blogger that I like Tommaso Evagelista at Emgrammi. His blog has...
Friday, February 12, 2010
drinking beer can make bones stronger
Large amounts of alcohol becomes a poison that affects every cell of the body. However, drinking beer taste any good, one of which is to strengthen the bones.According to the National Institutes of Health, beer containing soluble silicon in the form orthosilici acid (OSA) is believed to be essential...
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
The Lunch on the Grass by Manet and Picasso's version
The Lunch on the Grass (left) is one of the most Manet's painting. When first exhibited it was a scandal just like Olympia.Although it has references to old masters:"The Lunch on the Grass is a painting with several overlaid themes: - the reference to the old masters, Manet having taken his inspiration...
Saturday, February 6, 2010
V-J day in Times Squares Alfred Eisenstaedt photography and J. Seward Johnson sculpture
V–J day in Times Square, a photograph by Alfred Eisenstaedt, was published in Life in 1945 with the caption, In New York's Times Square a white-clad girl clutches her purse and skirt as an uninhibited sailor plants his lips squarely on hers. Unconditional Surrender by J. Seward Johnson often...
Friday, February 5, 2010
An American in Paris - some scenes to remember
I have already published the love scene of the ballet of The American in Paris movie.These are some scenes for those who also like the movie or for those who have not seen it.Have a great February...
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Music, painting and photography - music power
I am learning to play guitar from the first lesson. The tip of the left fingers aches and you have to exercise to create callus and it is strange to start losing sensibility and the muscles of the left hand have to adjust itself to make the chords.It is a little bit boring at the beginning since you...
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