11 mayo 2006

Chiarezza

...e nessuno se ne accorse mai. Mi piace il lato oscuro nascosto dietro alle apparenze piú superficiali. Mi piace scoprire l'abisso di bellezza, fragilitá e inquietudine celato da un sorriso rubato o uno sguardo furtivo.

09 mayo 2006

a land not mine

A land not mine, still
forever memorable,
the waters of its ocean
chill and fresh.

Sand on the bottom whiter than chalk,
and the air drunk, like wine,
late sun lays bare
the rosy limbs of the pine trees.

Sunset in the ethereal waves:
I cannot tell if the day
is ending, or the world, or if
the secret of secrets is inside me again.

— Anna Ahkmatova

by romanlily on 12 Jan '05, 4.15am CET.

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Stereo revolution


Guatemala 1996-2000

A Guatemalan youth stands among candles set up to form the words "Enough Already," in reference to human rights abuses.

by Wrath of god on 14 Apr '06,

eBay fraud

WN: In the case of the fake Diebenkorn, you even went so far as to make up this whole story around it. What was the effect you hoped it would have?
Walton: I realized there were a lot of art buyers out there who were looking for naïve sellers who didn't know the value of what they had.

My description of the Diebenkorn painting was just a complete fable to make me look like a hapless everyman rube who found this painting in his garage, didn't know it's by Diebenkorn and puts it up and there's these letters in the corner but he doesn't know to mention and they just happen to appear in the corner of one of the photographs.

Movie tickets

Wagner, who with Mark Cuban runs 2929
 Entertainment, said movie tickets represent only 13 percent of a Hollywood studio's revenue, the rest coming from DVD, merchandise and other streams.

07 mayo 2006

futuro

C. S. Lewis: "El futuro te llega a 60 minutos por hora".