This video is fairly short but serves well to introduce both the Watches supplement to the 2002 Vogue Russia, and the work of Eric Traoré. What I noticed recently, going through different fashion and ...
There are diverse and sundry initiatives happening across the English-speaking Internet with the help of blogs. Blog Action Day, various BlogCatalog appeals, Amnesty International… Add to this t...
When I was little, on the 7th November my mother and I once went to see my gran’s sister. Back in 1980s, this day was celebrated as the day of the Great October Socialist Revolution. In the even...
Just to what extent can you take things seriously? There is certainly a limit to the amount of tears one can shed over a particular issue. In Moscow, to my knowledge, people aren’t being given c...
A Student Lamentation, originally uploaded by loscuadernosdejulia. I think one of the biggest differences that struck me upon coming to study in England in 2003 was an almost complete absense of graff...
D. H. Lawrence, Scent of Irises (from Amores, New York: 1916). A faint, sickening scent of irises Persists all morning. Here in a jar on the table A fine proud spike of purple irises Rising above the ...
Following on from Max Ernst who peeked on Our Lady punishing the Child – here are two instances of attitude to corporal punishment. The poem Nieman kan mit gerten by the Middle High German lyric...
Parsonage Gardens, originally uploaded by loscuadernosdejulia. Just as we are bracing ourselves in preparation to winter and Christmas, a glowing flower is bravely withstanding the Mancunian wind in P...
The question of art is not a question of spontaneous feelings. It is not a question of emotionality, but of the knowledge of how to make things, how to realise something consciously. Everything functi...
The Thames nocturne of blue and gold Changed to a Harmony in grey: A barge with ochre-coloured hay Dropped from the wharf: and chill and cold The yellow fog came creeping down The bridges, till the ho...