15 of my favorite feelings: part one

PICTURESQUE: 48 HOURS IN LJUBLJANA (IN PHOTOGRAPHS)

I spent last weekend in the capital of Slovenia, lovely (and very clean) Ljubljana.

Here are few of my favorite places in photographs.

MOVING PICTURES: Stories about love (part two)

Read the first part  here.

Five new movies from my favorites list in which love story takes an unexpected turn, described in a sentence, without spoilers.

PICTURESQUE: PIRELLI CALENDAR 2016

Close to the end of the last year Italian tire company Pirelli presented his annual publication known for its long history, limited availability and artistic photography of beautiful, underdressed models- Pirelli calendar.

This year’s calendar presented quite an admirable change in its aesthetic approach and diversity of the subject matter, change that Pirelli, according to Annie Liebovitz, the photographer of this year’s calendar, wanted to make for quite a few years. It took the right moment and the right people to make that shift.

MOVING PICTURES: STORIES ABOUT LOVE (part one)

There are countless stories about that one great love, that one great meeting and that instant connection between a beautiful girl and equally good looking boy told through the moving pictures. I am guilty of watching too many of those kinds of films, more than I am willing to admit. Their storylines have been the same since I can remember. Boy meets girl. They fall in love. Something tears them apart. They realize that they are meant for each other, that they are soul mates, if you will. They live happily ever after.

Farewell came (more than) a month too late

(LONG) PROLOGUE

In the blurriness and the coldness of the winter days, January has come and gone by so silently that I barely noticed. Now, more than a month too late, it’s time to rewind last year, choose the best bits and put them in the imaginary memory box with turning ballerina on it. Yes, all my imaginary boxes have turning ballerina on them and that same well known melody.

The end of the beginnings

You can think of it as a new beginning, but after oh so many new beginnings, it is time to put the pressure of that great, life-changing, blank page, clean slate, new and fresh start behind us and call it an end.

Paris, je t’aime

A month has passed since the light of his night was covered with darkness. A month has passed since the never ending mélodie was replaced by the hopeless weep. A month has passed since the day the beauty of his streets was forgotten. Many lives were taken, even more were changed and will never be the same.

Neither will Paris.

WEDNESDAY WISH LIST: ROOKIE YEARBOOKS

Quite a few years ago I saw a picture of Alexa Chung and little girl with a huge bow on her head in the corner of the page in Cosmopolitan magazine. She seemed and looked different, especially sitting with all the fashionistas in the front row of Dior runway show. There was no doubt. Her personality and her creativity were as large as that pink bow.

PICTURESQUE: Camera solo by Patti Smith

“Sometimes, if I crave silence I turn to my Land 250. The experience of taking Polaroids connects me with the moment. They are souvenirs of a joyful solitude.” – Patti Smith