Peter Pan

I don't know why this is one of the Disney's production that I liked the most when I was a child. I still have some scenes on my mind and can recall the enchantment of being carried away by a fantasy world. It was pure and simple magic and it is good that sometimes it can be experienced again...

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The teacher dog

"Did you understand? I can repeat it all over again if you have any doubt."*This is what one of my favourites teachers used to say from time to time. Hi Thomas! You also: "porte des lunettes et je les irais revoir. A bientôt."Third of the "Dogs with human professions serie...

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George Orwell's square in Barcelona

How ironic!Right photo by Mario Fernan...

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Somalia's Famine: Saudi Arabia, Western Intelligence and Oil

I just read Somalia:The Real Causes of Famine by Michel Chossudovsky and I had to share it because it is too hard to see that all that is at the mainstream media are not the entire truth and that people means nothing to governments and the elite that rule the world.I was puzzled because we know that...

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Sandra Bullock in "The Proposal" and Mary Steenburgen in "Tender is the night"

I watched this movie yesterday and if I remember correctly she replies... "Hence..." in a sarcastic way. Now I will have to see it again just to check it and if it is not this way I'll start thinking that I create scenes that doesn't exist. It will be quite strange. Anyway...Sandra Bullock's strongest...

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The Constant Gardener: clinical trials and pills that kill

This is the book that inspired Fernando Meirelles to adapt it to the movie of the same title.It is about the search for the reason of the death of a woman whose husband, a British diplomat, think was because she knew too much about the clinical trial of a medicine.In reality clinical trials are being...

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Amazing 3D images animated by David Pope

I found these great pieces by David Pope. Visit his page and you will find more great wor...

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Balloons and the mind of the beholder

Balloons at the sky is an image that is known all over the world as a celebration of a happy occasion and at the moment someone looks at the sky and find them out it will be a brief moment of joy.In June, 18 2010 balloons released into the sky by a kindergarten sparked a security alert when the country's...

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Amy Winehouse at the 27 Club: R.I.P. Amy

I just got the news Amy but I do not want to read anything because speculations and moralist judgments will be everywhere.You are 27 and it is the age that great musicians and singers like you, especially those who were revolutionaries, died: Janis Joplin, Kurt Cobain, Jimi Hendrix, Jim...

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Rembrandt: A Young Girl Leaning on a Window-still

Two reproductions of A Young Girl Leaning on a Window-still, 1645, so that you can see how different they are as I stressed on the post bel...

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Roger de Piles anecdote about Rembrandt

Right: Girl at an Open Half-Door, 1645Left: A Young Girl Leaning on a Window-still, 1645The art critic and art dealer Roger de Piles wrote this anecdote in his book "L'Abrégé de la vie des peintres" (The Art of Painting and the Lives of the Painters, 1699):“Rembrandt diverted himself one day by making...

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Two Calder's sculptures missing since 1984 in Rio de Janeiro

As today Calder would have celebrated his 113th birthday I cannot help remembering that Rio de Janeiro's city hall took these two works by Calder from the park where they were for restoration but in November, 1985 they disappeared. Nobody knows what happened and they are missing till today 26 years...

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On the Decay of the Art of Lying by Mark Twain

"No fact is more firmly established than that lying is a necessity of our circumstances, -- the deduction that it is then a Virtue goes without saying. No virtue can reach its highest usefulness without careful and diligent cultivation, -- therefore, it goes without saying, that this one ought to be...

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The hypnotic dancers

"You do something to mesomething that simply mystifies me. Tell me, what would it beyou have to power to hypnotize m...

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Murdoch's NoW WhistleBlower Sean Hoare murdered?

If you are searching for explanation or a detailed article about Sean Hoare's death you will not find it anywhere.However due to the strange circumstances surrounding this case some people think that he might have been murdered. Some people have no doubts.Of course that every discussion...

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News of the world: Murdochs in Parliament and death of hacking whistleblower Sean Hoare

I'm watching Mr. Murdoch father, "This is the most humble day of my life.", and son answering the MPs and came to write some remarks but came across with the Sean Hoares death last Monday. Anita Singh did a good article at The Telegraph:Phone hacking: Profile of Sean Hoare, the News of the World journalist...

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Two paintings by Caravaggio

Right: Judith beheading Holoferne, 1599.Left: The conversion of Mary Magdalene, 1598.I love Caravaggio but I never read too much about his life that was very difficult because of his temper.At this site you can find good reproductions and his biography. I took this excerpt because it is important to...

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Rebekah Brooks was arrested: then what?

I'm following the Murdoch scandal but did not publish anything here but now Rebekak Brooks was arrested. According to the British Metropolitan police:"At approximately 12.00 hrs a 43-year-old woman was arrested by appointment at a London police station by officers from Operation Weeting together with...

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A brief flying

I found this picture at Acidcow.com and found it amazing. I wonder how does it feel during these seconds while the body is apart from the bike and is almost flying....

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Threatened snow leopards found in Afghanistan

By Denis D. Gray - Associated Press"A healthy population of snow leopards, elusive big cats threatened across the mountain ranges of Central Asia, has been found in one of the few peaceful areas of Afghanistan, a wildlife group said.Camera traps documented the secretive, usually solitary animals at...

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July, 14 French National Day

I just realized that today is July, 14. Since 1880 this date is celebrated in France remembering the storming of the Bastille prison that started the French revolution.I lived in France but the France I knew doesn't exist anymore. I hope that the revolutions that are taking place today in some countries...

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David Hockney, Homage to Van Gogh and wisps

Left: Homage to Van Gogh, 1988.Right: Moving wisps. 1995.It is a party of colors. The right is at a private collection and I feel very sad that such a great painting, that makes our eyes move to one texture to another, is not available to the public.In the left Hockney homages Van Gogh by recreating...

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Botticelli's Madonna of the Pomegranate and Gregorian Chants

Gregorian Chants by Anonymous This is a detail of Botticelli's Madonna of the Pomegranate, 1487. I added the Gregorian Chants because it helps quieting my mind and I wanted to share it with you. About the Madonna:"Botticelli painted many images that include the Virgin, the Child and the angels. In this...

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Confession in WWW times

Copyright: Stan Eales. You can send E-greeting cards with cartoons at Cartoonstock.com. They have numerous great pieces. I just sent one to... no, no, no... I fear the priest.As the priest is myopic I can confess that I sent one for my greatest enemy....

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Image of the devil on the hair of the Queen: Pareidolia

Last month I published about pareidolia, when an illusory image is perceived, and the example was the Canadian dollar bill that was taken out of the market because people saw the devil at the Queen's hair.This picture shows in red what is seen.&nb...

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