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What's wrong with today's movie industry?

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There's only one pilot for every movie and that it is, of course, its director. I've seen quite a few movies already and I respect them enough as individual art works. But there's been something nagging me for decades now already. What's wrong? It...

The Rubens landscapes

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Art brings oneself to higher plains alright. Just think of the Rubens landscapes. For me personally, they represent well my county of Flanders. The nature and sense of being Flemish that is. During his long career, being much more than a mere...

Lingerie trends this year so far

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Again, underwear as outerwear Right colour and texture is in, funny enough Comfortable underwire lingerie. Always a godsend And sustainability. Maturity setting in

Sad, bad and awfully good

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How are you? To be really honest and deeply personal for once, I've tried for decades almost anything to get myself out of a hole. The villain of the piece isn't really big star depression as such, because there's much more going on, but then again...

Is God a person?

Perhaps you have difficulty with the concept of 'love'? Why should one love one's neighbour? Why shouldn't one just accept there's a God? Interesting questions. But how about is God a person? Does that settle the argument why there's a concept of...

Don Rickles, shoot

What do you really think of the humor of Mr. Warmth? "If Don Rickles insults you, that's a violation. But at the same time, there's the artifice of being in a comedy venue," Brian Malow added. "You know he doesn't mean it, he's playing with you —...

Does one need a significant other?

I wonder about the concept of a significant other. Does family, society, the Bible drive us all into that dilemma of chosing for a life partner or rather the one person to love? Isn't that the real reason why were actually not feeling as being...

Question: cry for help or just carry on regardless?

One hears a lot about burn out. What do you think about people who owe up that they have difficulty at the workplace? When they've own up for example that they have dyslexia? Does one need to carry on regardless and keep quiet? Or does one need to...

Question: does one keep instances of losing it to oneself?

Today's society is stressful. But what do you do about it? Keep it all private and try to find an outlet for it? Try to renew yourself each time before going back or coming back from it? Is anyone actually still pushing back on this? Or is the fright...

Trump and Kubrick

Oh yes, perhaps Trump did master the Kubrick Stare, the so-called cinematic pose made famous by Jack Nicholson and Malcolm McDowell. So what? Now I've been wondering for years when it will ever end. After all a Kubrick movie would have ended by now...

The Avatar - A five minute rant

Somehow I got force fed The Avatar this afternoon. I didn't like the movie and I still don't. Can I explain my dislike? Sure, I'll get back to you with more than five minutes of typing it down next time. Now I got onto the internet quickly and...

The art that I love - 7

According to James Stourton, biographer of Kenneth Clark, Clark astonished “the crew during the filming of one of the early episodes when he carried the medieval Cross of Lothar up to the altar of Aachen Cathedral, and burst into tears.” It's is a...

The art that I love - 6

In Episode 6 (“Protest and Communication”) of Cilivisation, A Personal View, Kenneth Clark lays out his four requisites of civilisation: intellectual energy; freedom of mind; a sense of beauty; and a craving for immortality. He adds, in speaking...

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Monument to Balzac (1892-97) is a sculpture by Auguste Rodin in memory of the French novelist Honoré de Balzac. According to Rodin, the sculpture aims to portray the writer's persona rather than a physical likeness. Kenneth Clark considered it...

The art that I love - 4

Since its completion in 1563, Paolo Veronese's 32-foot-long painting The Wedding Feast at Cana has been a true object of admiration. Firstly, an image with religious resonance for the Benedictine monks of Venice's San Giorgio Maggiore Monastery, on...

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Auguste Rodin's The Burghers of Calais (1884-1889) represents the idea of freedom from oppression. It tells the story of the siege of Calais in 1347, during the Hundred Years War. One full year ahead the town had already been surrounded by English...

The art I love - 2

Altarpiece of the Holy Blood (1499-1505) in the St. Jakobskirche, Rothenburg ob der Tauber It's a glorious masterpiece of woodcarving created by Tilman Riemenschneider. The reliquary is a metal cross with a rock-crystal capsule at the center that...

The art I love - 1

Supper at Emmaus (1601) Hughes on Caravaggio: "Popular in our time, unpopular in his. So runs the stereotype of rejected genius."

God, the Holocaust and Etty Hillesum

One rather shocking question is why did God let the Holocaust happen. Let me now try to answer the question. Your views may not be mine but atleast we'll have thought about it :) Firstly, while the Holocaust was by no means Christian, the shocking...

I'm crashing headlong into the deep hole yet again. The brakes are still in place so I'm not going to hurt myself, but my mind is going absolutely crazy. I have such problems both at work and at home. They seem unsurmountable. Perhaps it's a temporal...

God on Trial is a 2008 television play written by Frank Cottrell-Boyce. The play takes place in Auschwitz during World War II. The Jewish prisoners put God on trial in absentia for abandoning the Jewish people. The question is whether God has broken...

Keep the all loving shepherd always in mind

Barbara Bonney sings "He shall feed his flock like a shepherd" from Handel's Messiah

Life is a funny old thing

Devil worship for a Christian shouldn't be something that one just lets pass by. When a member of ones congregation is upsetting ones worship by introducing non-worship songs in the middle of ones church service, when one experiences them laughing...

Françoise Hardy

J'aurai quelqu'un qui m'aime

Don't you have a sense nowadays that there's a lot missing or even lost? I like to start off this by sharing a picture, and asking what's not there any more :)

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