Autumn comes this year with a magic, Verdena’s latest album, Volevo Magia / I Wanted Magic. Over those years they released their first three records, — not without a certain … Continue Reading I Wanted Magic / Volevo Magia
It’s the fruit par excellence, since Adam and Eve. The fruit of original sin, the poisoned one eaten by Snow White, the falling one which inspired Isaac Newton about gravity, the … Continue Reading Apple
Literally “little matron”, Matryoshka is a diminutive form of Russian female first name “Matryona” — Матрёна — or “Matryosha”. Since 1890, it is the commonly used name of a set … Continue Reading Matryoshka
I had an Astrid Kirchherr poster and one of her Beatles photos in the bedroom for most of my childhood and adolescence. I loved the refinements of her reflected face … Continue Reading Goodbye, Astrid
And now it turns out the virus is putting songs like R.E.M.’s It’s the End of the World As We Know It on charts. We hadn’t thought about it — … Continue Reading Pandemic Playlist
Apparently started by Guardian journalist Ben Beaumont-Thomas, when he simply pointed out how some of the best photos around resembled classic Italian paintings, the Accidental Renessaince seems to have become … Continue Reading Accidental Renaissance
In St. Etienne, an old French industrial town with drab facades and cracked sidewalks ripe, a man walks and pastes his drawings everywhere so as to bring smiles to passers-by … Continue Reading Oak Oak
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