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Vladimir Nabokov Quote
To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute. Vladimir Nabokov Vladimir Nabokov Quote Filed under: Interesting People,...
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Raphael’s ‘School of Athens’ and the Religious themes at the Stanza della...
Stiched panorama of the four walls in the Stanza della Segnatura, painted by Raphael The philosophical and religious discourse that took off in Renaissance Italy is beautifully depicted by Raphael in...
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Epicurus Quote
If we resist the senses, we have nothing left to which we can refer, or by which we may judge, the falsehood of the senses which we condemn. Epicurus Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: Epicurus, quotes
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Digital Photography at the Aegean Center
The new, Spring 2013, semester at the Aegean Center has just begun… Inspiration and love for life, art and the craft of life and of art is already perfuming our air. This will be my 5th semester of...
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William Carlos Williams Poem
“It is difficult to get the news from poems yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there.” verses from the poem “Asphodel, That Greeny Flower” by William Carlos Williams William...
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Celebrating a year of blogging – Celebrating science
The other day WordPress sent me a birthday note, reminding me it’s been one year this blog is up’n'running and it is meant to be growing not ageing. I wanted to celebrate this anniversary and when I...
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Garry Kasparov, “Happy Birthday!!!!!”
I just saw on my dad’s fb that today is Garry Kasparov‘s birthday. How could I have forgotten that? It is a birthday I know all my life. I am also born on the 13th of a different month and I have...
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The Country of Vatican
This is a short, American-style, animated description of the Vatican City, not as a spiritual centre or a world heritage depot, but as a country. Fun to watch and learn: Filed under: video Tagged:...
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Some Poetry, Some Art, Some Borges
The Art of Poetry To gaze at a river made of time and water and remember that Time is another river. To know we stray like a river and our faces vanish like water. To feel that waking is another dream...
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Vonnegut’s 8 points on how to Write a Story
Point 7: “Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.” Kurt Vonnegut Filed under: Art, Interesting People, Quotes,...
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The Vermeer Project
Reblogged from The Chronicle: Actual Projected Image in Camera Obscura (approx. 40x48 cm / 16x19 in) by Jane Morris Pack Have you ever painted upside down in the dark? While visiting Rome this winter...
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In the Realm of Wonder
Mythology, art or science, all dwell in the realm of wonder… The Birth of the Milky Way, by Peter Paul Rubens The term Galaxy is an ancient Greek one. It comes from the word milk, since the cluster of...
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Stephen Fry: Living a Life
When I first went to England to study I was 18 years old, so discovering and exploring new territories was the norm. But one of the long lasting discoveries I made back then was the persona of Stephen...
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Easter in Corfu: My new site is up’n'running
My new site is up’n'running! It is a site dedicated to the Beauty of the Easter in Corfu and it is titled ‘Easter in Corfu // music in the air’. Greek Easter in almost here! Coming from Corfu this is a...
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Giacometti Quote
“The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.” Alberto Giacometti (Thanx Kosta for sharing this quote! I had to post it too..) Giacometti Quote Filed...
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X: The known Origin of an Unknown Factor
This is a short, fun and informative TED talk by Terry Moore about the origin of the symbol ‘x’ as the representation of the unknown (or variable) in algebra. Reminding us, thus, that it is through its...
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Living Outstandingly
For me May Day is a beautiful, extrovert, yet personal celebration. If we have made it so far, if we have managed to spring anew through the dim winter and the tumultuous coming of spring, then we...
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Leonard Cohen: The Poet
”A heavy burden lifted from my soul, I heard that love was out of my control.” Leonard Cohen I started this day by watching a 1965 film...
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Freya Stark Quotes
“These things have an unreal reality, like mermaids, difficult to hold. They exist, but the uses of language fail, because their substance is thinner and finer than words.” “Such was life in the age...
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The Union
Text by Spyros Skordos. Photo by D.Dimoulitsas. EN mag, issue 3 (spring, 2010), pp. 9 and 11 And a bit of Greek on this blog…. Today is the anniversary of the union of Corfu (and the other Ionian...
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