Editorial

Gauguin was a renegade. A renegade of his time and age. He raised three wonderful questions through one of his masterpieces.
 
“Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?”
 
Throughout history We tried to come up with answers for these questions focusing mainly on the ‘Origin’ and on the ‘What’.
 
What about our ‘Destination’?
 
Where [...]

What’s Wrong With Thinking?

You might be taking it as one of your subjects or you might not be allowed to take it at all. You might be utterly fascinated by it or you might just not care about such ‘impractical’ things. Recent analyses of educational systems all over the world show how important it is for children to [...]

It’s Easier To Talk To My PC!

In the past 2 weeks I’ve been in a permanent indecision about this column. At first I was thrilled with the idea that I can write about The Mars Volta’s “Bedlam in Goliath” and its ‘Soothsayer’ – the talking board that almost dismantled the band in what is, I might dare to say, the weirdest [...]

Malkovich,Malkovich

Pull The Strings! Don’t be afraid to be whoever you want!
 
Be Me or Be John Malkovich.  Leave your everyday life for 15 minutes. Enter the mind of one of Hollywood’s’ most prolific actors. Then be dumped in the New Jersey Turnpike.
 
“Being John Malkovich” (1999), is my story, Craig Swartz, the looser Puppeteer, and Lotte, my [...]

Fights

Fight Club is a book, it’s a film.
 
Fight Club is a revolution. It’s an attempt to destroy modernity. It’s a terrorist army of enraged anarchists. It’s people condemned by the life routine. It’s the battle with the habitual life, with the fear; it’s about soap and how to make it. It’s about brainwashing and [...]

Four years of poetry. Destruction or transcendence .

      Rimbaud died when he was twenty. At twenty he stopped writing poetry. Then, at thirty-seven he had a physical death. Although the poet died at twenty the man died seventeen years later. That’s everything: destruction or transcendence. Silence or speech. Rimbaud or the nothingness. Sartre couldn’t say it better “existence precedes essence.” Essentially [...]

Poems of The Day

Sensation
Rimbaud
Through blue summer evenings, I’ll go down the pathways,
Pricked by the wheat ears, trampling the short grass:
In a dream, I’ll be sensing, beneath me, the freshness.
I’ll let evening breezes bathe my bare forehead.
I’ll speak not a thing: I’ll think not a thing:
But infinite love will swell in my soul,
And, I’ll go, far, far away, like [...]

Jenny Saville — Angel or Daemon?

Art is usually considered to be a representation of beauty. Since the era of Ancient Greece, the art has been filling our perception with images of battle-winning heroes, like the ones in 300, and flawlessly beautiful nymphs who lead sailors to death with their singing. Pictures of obese female bodies, dead cows and pig corpses [...]

A Personal Paris

“Stroll in Paris”, the photography-essay of a young Hungarian photographer, Juhász Balázs. Following past classical greats, he spent 6 years in Paris, taking walks starting and finishing in the VIth district, the “chic “district of the city. The result was around 200 fabulous black-and-white shots, published in the album “Paris flâneur”  in 2005.
 
Looking for the [...]

The Back Door

This week, I would like to talk about a nation forgotten by most
of the world. I want to talk about the Principality of Sealand. Though it is not recognized as a nation by any countries or international organizations, the Principality sees itself as a sovereign nation, with a flag, a constitution and a Royal [...]