Outstanding debut by Julian Schnabel, Basquiat is a glimpse in a quirky mind, one less understood at the time, but highly famed, no matter what. I never liked the color specification referring at Jean-Michel Basquiat as the most famous American black painter of all times. Some of this is also diluted somehow in the movie as well, in fictional interviews, with fictional characters, fictional happenings and dialogues. [source for both pics: imdb.com] Basquiat - Plot Here, Basquiat is … [Read more...]
Last Season of Mad Men
A few days ago, on Sunday, April 5'th 2015, just started the last installment of Mad Men franchise, one of the best TV shows ever aired. It is a general conclusion that it is one of the best because of the high professionalism of people involved and the awards it received up to this moment. I wanted to make an article after it ends, but there are still six more episodes to be seen from this final season, the seventh. [source: nbcnews.com] All actors were excited to meet again, they claim … [Read more...]
Shantaram, a Magnificent Novel
"Shantaram" is one of the best novels I have ever read, only that there are many novels I read and I liked a lot and considered of high quality. It is huge, but Vikram Seth's "A Suitable Boy" is huger. They both are so "readable" that you regret every time you put any one of them down. "Shantaram" reminded me of "Papillon", or better said, "Banco", the second in Henry Charriere's series of adventures, but the only resemblance is that the heroes, the authors themselves, were convicts and have … [Read more...]
James Clavell’s Noble House
I have recently re-read this huge novel, in an edition spread on over fourteen hundred pages and I liked it a little bit less than the first two readings. I found it entertaining but dull and less credible, more like a South American telenovella, where rarely a character is other than black or white, never shady, nor mixed. The good is very good, the bad is bad. [source - imdb] The action takes place in Hong Kong, and flashily evolves during a week, starting with a pair of newly rich … [Read more...]
The Art of Circle Sharing
I hope you know what I want to describe on this post, which is another homage to Google Plus and it's wonderful users. I think that after some years of using social sites, starting with myspace, for sample, I made an idea of how to mingle, contribute or even become popular on them, without artificiality. Myspace was the first social media site I took seriously, otherwise, I was on Yahoo 360, or ICQ before that, like everybody else :). My favorite was Twitter, succeeded by Pinterest, very close … [Read more...]
The Art of Wet Shaving
This short essay was intended more like a pictorial. After the pics, I added the words. The words are dedicated to kids who's fathers weren't near to show them the art of a real shaving. The ancient Egyptians are known to have shaved their beards and heads, a custom later adopted by the Greeks around 330 BC, during the reign of Alexander the Great and Romans after them. The practice was encouraged as a defensive measure for soldiers, preventing the enemy from grasping their hair in … [Read more...]