Coco Chanel, the fashion icon of modern age and a role model for a contemporary woman did not ignite only fashion revolution, but a switch in role of a woman in society. Fabulous and unique, her path was not always the easiest one, but thanks to her stubborn persistence and dedication, she has greatly contributed to…
Can We Really Trust Ourselves? The Art of Lust
We all know it… the whip of lust, adrenaline rush of wanting all at once or, as was seductively described by Maureen Medved in The Tracey Fragments… “One day you fall for this boy. And he touches you with his fingers. And he burns holes in your skin with his mouth. And it hurts when you…
Are We Free? The Lie We Live.
A powerful short documentary film created by Spencer Cathcart and published in January this year has almost immediately become viral, spread worldwide and is subtitled to many languages already. It exposes, in a witty and critical way, the truth about our corrupt world, and raises some important questions as well. “At this moment you could…
Secret Love Two Centuries Away: Ludwig van Beethoven
It is July 6th and 7th, year 1812. Love letters, addressed to the “Immortal Beloved“ were safely placed in a drawer, to be found, unsent, in the composer’s estate after his death. Love and longing are almost tangible in each word he puts down, and we all, familiar with love’s pains and…
The Secret of Happiness – Quantum Physic’s Perspective
Someone once said, and could not have been more right: We are all the same. We are all looking for happiness. What might differ, though, is every individual’s idea on what happiness actually is. Ephemeral as it is, musing on true nature of happiness is an unlimited source of inspiration and – hopefully – discovery….
The Art of Love: Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West
Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West have met on a dinner party in 1922, dinner party then being a Bloomsbury equivalent of hipster’s house party which is nothing but booze and sex disguised by surface sophistication. What started as a work relationship – Virginia offered Vita to publish her novel with her small press – soon developed into a…
The Power of Music: Saturday Night Fever
On this day, December 14, 1977, Saturday Night Fever was released. It hit the blockbusters and has become one of the most influential movies of the time, propelling disco out of the underground and skyrocketing disco fever to bliss of stardom. Based on an almost innocent article published in New York Magazine on June 7th,…
Understanding Life: John Lennon on Art, Love and Peace
At 10:50 PM on Monday, December the 8th 1980, with three shots to the chest, John Lennon was assassinated at the Dakota building in New York. Desperate attempts of a doctor in the ER, who was holding his heart in attempt to bring life back to it, bore no fruit. That distant December over twenty years…
Don’t Be Fooled: It Is Not Only Humans Who Do Sex For Fun
Meet bonobo apes: along with chimpanzees human’s closest relative, the three species sharing 99% genome. chimp & bonobo & Darwin image credit: National Geographic Bonobos and chimpanzees diverged some 2 million years ago and have developed in quite different directions. While chimps are male dominated, strictly patriarchal society with alpha males and increased aggressiveness, bonobos…
What Albert Einstein Can Teach Us about Time
Time is Too Slow for those who Wait, Too Swift for those who Fear, Too Long for those who Grieve, Too Short for those who Rejoice; But for those who Love, Time is not. Henry van Dyke. Music and Other Poems In an inspirational episode, Does Time Exist, first aired on June 22, 2011,…
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