Imagine yourself lying on the sand at the beach. When you get up and leave, there will be a trace left that resembles you in shape ( Read more... )

Давно собирался излить свои мысли по поводу отношений интеллигенции и "простого народа". Мешало, кроме лени, нежелание пачкать блог политикой - а как написать на эту тему, политики не касаясь? Сейчас, вроде, решился - толчком стал просмотр выпуска "школы злословия" с O. Седаковой.
( немного доморощенной философии )

When I curl up, I dream of Jiyugaoka

Was it the understanding that I have to work hard over the weekend to catch up with the pace of the project ( Read more... )

I like long-distance flights. There's always a feeling of international and ultra-modern about them. This time, it was British Airways, in fact, my first experience with the airline. The in-flight "Business Life" magazine featured a story about a clothes chain owner's typical week: "On Monday, I wake up just before 6 a.m. in my house in Monte-Carlo ( Read more... )

psychedelic sunset on the way from Grenoble to Lausanne

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"In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love; they had 500 years of democracy and peace - and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."
--Orson Welles as Harry Lime in "The Third Man" (1949).

when i was a child, the most frightening nightmare would go as follows: i am somewhere with my mom, and i know that something indescribable and evil will happen very soon. i am crying, and mom doesn't know, she's relaxed and smiling, telling me that everything is fine and asking why am i crying ( Read more... )

i wonder if after a year of my silence someone still sees this :)
( a sketch of my tokyo life for the past 1.5 months - a mobile phone pic collection )