They say that the tickets to Slavoj Žižek ‘s lectures sell out almost as quickly as those to the pop stars’ concerts. The lecture at the University of Leeds on 18th of March was free, and ...
A year ago I wrote about Women in Art, an artwork by the American digital artist Philip Scott Johnson (aka Eggman913). The artwork has taken the Internet by storm, producing a string of posts, analyse...
I think it was 1988 when in my district in Moscow they began to lay lines. Naturally, everyone was curious, but the answers were vague: it seemed those were the lines for a cable TV channel. Indeed th...
In August 2007 Robin Hamman reported on the BBC Manchester Blog about an earthquake in Manchester. He was rather surprised that very few of us, Manchester bloggers, noticed it. I didn’t notice i...
facebook advertisement Originally uploaded by robinhamman This entire post very closely relates to the phenomenon of social media. Thanks to a good Italian friend of mine, last year I’ve discove...
The text below was written in May 2005, and was the first article I wrote in English, so in essense this was the first non-academic text in English that I ever composed. And it is striking even to me ...
As wonderful as it sounds, there is no guarantee that the snow I saw outside my house this morning will stay for a substantial period of time. On the other hand, for the second year running the winter...
Those of you who followed my Flickr have undoubtedly noticed just what a surge in my passion for photography came from this trip to Wales. What I wanted to share in this chapter is one particular expe...
The Great Orme is the dramatic backdrop to Llandudno, as well as the starting point of the history of the place. Hardly anything can be more impressive than to walk in Mostyn St, the central thoroughf...
I arrived to Llandudno at about 5pm on Friday, 28th of December 2007. The wind and rain met me at the station, as well as two lines of taxis, with no drivers inside. Turned out, my train arrived earli...