Manchester International Festival 2009 – Albert Square, originally uploaded by loscuadernosdejulia. It’s still July 2 in the UK, and therefore there’s still time to make a announceme...
What a Coincidence…, originally uploaded by loscuadernosdejulia. The photo you see was taken in May 2008 during my visit to Manchester Central Library. It so happened that I didn’t visit t...
Creative Staff, originally uploaded by loscuadernosdejulia. Earlier this year someone asked me if I could kindly find them a book of William Turner paintings. I finally did find it, and that saw me si...
At Futuresonic 2009, the visitors to the opening gala performance on 13 May 2009 were treated to a very special project co-commissioned and co-ordinated by the festival and the University of Mancheste...
The beauty of the Internet is that you tend to meet people online before you meet them in person. Craig McGinty, whom I mentioned not once in the past, is the case: I came to know him and his work onl...
I didn’t give it much thought right after the event, but my experience of Futuresonic has so far appeared to always connect to some kind of a festival’s anniversary. Back in 2006, when I a...
And no, it’s not because of some ethical or religious considerations. It is because the world is just too small. I was attending Futuresonic 2009 this year. I was at the fest for the first time ...
Note: the text below was originally written in February 2008, but I delayed publishing it for one or another reason. It is somewhat strange really – because much of what you are about to read wa...
First of all, I have a fair bit of Scorpio in me, astrologically speaking, and so this year I have been creating “Freudian” or otherwise weirdly coincidental situations for my Piscean frie...
The poem A Thank You to the Wonders of Photography is currently one of the Challenge Poems during the National Poetry Month celebrated in the United States throughout the month of April. It could not ...