Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, Michelangelo, 1508-1512
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“Four Seasons” – Vivaldi
Not long after my grandfather passed away, my mother, uncle, and I took my grandmother on a trip to her favorite country, Italy. We began in the South, where we visited the little town my grandmother hails from, moved north to beautiful Florence, and finished our trip in Venice. While traversing the Venetian maze, a […]
8/26 Quote: Christopher Isherwood on Living in a Big City
“To live sanely in Los Angeles (or, I suppose, in any other large American city) you have to cultivate the art of staying awake. You must learn to resist (firmly but not tensely) the unceasing hypnotic suggestions of the radio, the billboards, the movies and the newspapers; those demon voices which are forever whispering in […]
“Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good.”
—Thomas Paine ~ The Rights of Man
Steven Soderbergh: The State of Cinema
http://kottke.org/13/05/steven-soderbergh-the-state-of-cinema “But before we talk about movies we should talk about art in general, if that’s possible. Given all the incredible suffering in the world I wonder, what is art for, really? If the collected works of Shakespeare can’t prevent genocide then really, what is it for? Shouldn’t we be spending the time and resources […]