July 30, 2012

Watching watching



A few years ago, I posted about the Russian shortfilm "Ten Minutes Older", which presents a bunch of kids watching some movie. It interesting to watch them watching a movie.

Yesterday, the parents of an American gymnast were filmed while suffering during their daughters routine. It looks as if were they playing some video game.


July 29, 2012

Roof fashion: Firenze, Paris


Pucci (1966)


Pucci (1966)


Alexander McQueen (2012)


Dive: Helmut Newton, Herb Ritts



Miami (1978)


Richard Gere – Poolside (1982)


July 26, 2012

Orange uniforms


A few days ago, somebody mentioned an "Orange uniform of...", and then I added: "Guantánamo?". No, "The NASA". Until then I hadn't thought that much about the similarity of these uniforms. Then, my head went like crazy thinking of orange stuff: street cleaners, Buddhist monks, the amok James Holmes, football players...


 Luke Skywalker


NASA astronaut Richard Husband


Guantánamo prisoner


 
Amnesty International, Guantánamo protester


 
 Yogi Rishi Swami Ramdev

Buddhist monks


Cleaners at Mecca


 Cantinflas, El barrendero


 Berlin's BRS street cleaning service


Rio de Janeiro's carneval, Renato Sorriso no Sambodromo


 
 Milla Jovovich, The Fifth Element


Wilma Flintstone


 
 Amok James Holmes


Sacha Baron Cohen as Dictator in Cannes


Lady Gaga by Terry Richardson

 Iryna Shayk


Nicole Kidman


 Fanta girl



 
m&m's girl


 
 Holland fan


Robben


 
Didier Drogba


Ronaldinho, Barcelona's uniform 2006



 
Patrick Dempsey, race car driver


 Keith Galloway


 
Baltimore Orioles


Miami Marlins


San Francisco Giants


Philadelphia/Vancouver Blazers


Dissecting wild cats



Halloween



 
Fred Flintstone



 
Tigger



Chester Cheetos



 Juicy Vita



 
 Naruto Uzumaki




Velma (Scooby Doo)

July 25, 2012

July 24, 2012

Hair vs Beard: Tagore & Einstein



In July 1930, Tagore visited Einstein in his place, in Caputh, close to Berlin. They talked about cience, human being, Beauty and Truth. They had met four years before for the first time.

Tagore said of Einstein:

''His shock of white hair, his burning eyes, his warm manner again impressed me with the human character of this man who dealt so abstractly with the laws of geometry and mathematics ... There was nothing stiff about him -- there was no intellectual aloofness. He seemed to me a man who valued human relationship and he showed toward me a real interest and understanding.''

About Beauty and Truth, Einstein said:

If there would be no human beings any more, the Apollo of Belvedere would no longer be beautiful. I agree with regard to this conception of Beauty, but not with regard to Truth. I cannot prove scientifically that Truth must be conceived as a Truth that is valid independent of humanity; but I believe it firmly. I believe, for instance, that the Pythagorean theorem in geometry states something that is approximately true, independent of the existence of man. 

A bit later, they met again, and talked about music and art:

E: The same uncertainty will always be there about everything fundamental in our experience, in our reaction to art, whether in Europe or Asia. Even the red flower I see before me on your table may not be the same to you and me.

T: And yet there is always going on the process of reconciliation between them, the individual taste conforming to the universal standard.








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