Happy Thanksgiving to all American readers, and happy birthday to Billy Connolly! As the end of the year nears, I thought I’d share with you a family collection of Zodiac signs postal cards. The...
In case you’re a fan of Malevich, this post is not about how a dog can paint with its tail or ears. Malevich had a donkey paint with its tail for one of the exhibitions, but the story is very di...
A South Coast beach A view on the North Coast I already told you how I came to love the seaside, and in early July when the weather was nice and hot I longed to travel to the east coast. In nearly six...
Cofani Funebri 2011 (Italy) Last year I contemplated the appropriateness of publishing the photos of dead people. And in the last two days I’ve come across something that I find culturally distu...
I wrote the essay below in the early 2006 when I worked as a researcher for one British company. While I’m thinking of the different ways to “add value” to the text, I wanted to shar...
Exegi Monument, originally uploaded by loscuadernosdejulia. My parents and I went recently to Kuskovo, a Moscow residence of the famous noble family of the Sheremetievs. The father, Pyotr, and his son...
In a post I wrote in Russian I reflected on the fact that in one superstore in Moscow city centre the till operator didn’t even attempt to give me change. It was only 10 kopeks, one tenth of a r...
The film after Stephen King’s novel is counted by many as a favourite for a good reason. Shawshank Redemption is the metaphor for the will to live, the power of focus, the ability to create the ...
Moscow tube map with “proper names Considering that Bloggers Portraits are being shot in the studio located on the lower ground floor, that is underground, the theme of “alternative”...
I‘ve said before that, when I came to England, the thing that stood out the most was the absence of books anywhere on display in the house. The majority of houses I visited had books shelved som...