Do you remember this passage in Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass, chapter IX ‘Queen Alice’? Sir John Tenniel, A Leg of Mutton At last the Red Queen began. “You’v...
The creators of The Auteurs website listed five questions that got them set up the new social cinema experience: #1: Why can’t you watch In the Mood for Love in a café in Tokyo on your laptop? #2: Why...
Over at People’s Almanac there are several impressive galleries of rare postcards. In a way, there is something for everyone, be it Soviet World War II posters, pin-up girls, or Picasso’s ...
El Greco, Adoration of the Shepherds, 1605 (Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain). A variation on this theme was painted by El Greco in 1610 and is now housed at Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York . &nb...
Liverpool 2009 – 8, originally uploaded by loscuadernosdejulia. I took this photo on my recent visit to Liverpool, and it captures just about everything I’ve ever loved about sunsets ̵...
Tim Difford, Angels in Piccadilly Gardens Angels, originally uploaded by timdifford. Tim Difford who regularly blogs at One Greener Day has taken this lovely photo of angels in Piccadilly Gardens in M...
The Width of the Door, originally uploaded by loscuadernosdejulia. I‘ve never done this before, but this summer during my trip to Wales I had this picture taken. It was quite spontaneous: it jus...
A cover of the Russian edition of tales by Gianni Rodari La Freccia Azzurra (The Adventures of the Blue Arrow in English) is one of the books by the Italian author Gianni Rodari that I adored as a chi...
Alessandro Botticelli, Adoration of the Magi, 1475/76 (Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy) This painting was commissioned to Botticelli by a Florentine Gaspar di Zanobi del Lama for the church of Santa M...
Although the themes of Adoration and the journey of the Magi seem to be more common in the Western tradition in art, they are by no means alien to the Orthodox tradition, and these two works by the R...