Collecting Moments

Автостоп и каучсерфинг в Марокко и Западной Сахаре Мы провели в Марокко девять недель. Вот наш маршрут: Мы останавливались через каучсерфинг в Агадире, Таруданте , Тафрауте , Тиугзе, Эль-Уатии , Буждуре, Дахле, Касабланке и Темаре. Все наши хосты, кроме двух, были местные: берберы, арабы и сахарцы. Мы спали на кроватях, диванах, топчанах, матрасах и на полу. Вместе с хостами мы учились готовить тажин с верблюжьим мясом в Буждуре , кормили бездомных собак в Темаре и варили чай на углях в Тиугзе . Мы обсуждали с ними всё на свете: президентов и королей, мужчин и женщин, свадебные обряды, медицину и работу, религию и отношения. Мы проехали автостопом 2000 километров: От Эс-Сувейры до Сафи От Эс-Сувейры до Дахлы в Западной Сахаре через Агадир, Тарудант, Тизнит, Тафраут, Мирлефт, Тиугзу, Гуэльмим, Тантан, Эль-Аюн и Буждур От Темары до Мекнеса     Опять же, за исключением двух, все наши водители были местные: дальнобойщики, офисные работники, студенты, техники...

It was just an ordinary day in the city. I walked a lot. Along the river, in the lanes, up to the cathedral, down to the market. I’m not a city girl anymore. I hardly visit any museums, galleries, castles or palaces. I’d probably go to an exhibition only if Egon Schiele will be in town. Abandoned derelict places still fascinate me though. That’s why the highlight of my wandering was the Cow Tower. Not much of a ruin (not much of a building either) but still a structure touched by time. But I didn’t realize that I missed urban energy. I was listening to a street musician at the square when that homeless man came up and sat next to me. He was stinky and very dirty. He rolled a cigarette, slowly smoked it, smiled, stood up and walked up to a clean, tidy, well-dressed guy with a big dog. The man started talking to the dog. He talked, the owner ignored him but the dog was listening. And suddenly it jumped on him and licked him. He embraced the dog, caressed it and kept on talking to it like...

Walked 20 km along the Norfolk sandy coast. **************************************** В ракушке слышишь мыслей шум?!

I'm looking at the roads and somehow I miss cows, pigs, horses just wandering around, sleeping in tunnels, walking along with cars and trucks. Rural England is very different from rural Georgia but another type of equality exists here, no worries :)

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День 120. Лондон Tate Modern Claude Monet and Abstract Expressionism Claude Monet's semi-abstract late paintings were not widely appreciated until the 1940s, a time when critics began to recognise their affinities with Abstract Expressionism. American abstract painting of the late 1940s and 1950s was initially considered radically new, emerging from the aftermath of the Second World War and provoking a rupture with all that went before. However, there were important precedents for the innovations of this younger generation in Monet's paintings of the water lily pond in his garden at Giverny. In these large-scale works, which occupied Monet from around 1916 onward, he seemed less concerned to depict a particular motif in the landscape than to capture particular qualities of light and atmosphere. Of especial significance was Monet's 'all-over' technique, in which he rejected traditional means of organising space such as perspective, or providing points of referenc...

День 119. Лондон British Museum. Renaissance drawings exhibitions. Greek marble. Pre-historic art. Ain Sakhri lovers figurine This is the oldest known representation of a couple making love in the world. It was found in a cave in the Judean desert. The pebble depicts a couple face to face. One person has wrapped their arms around the shoulders of their lover in an embrace. The knees of one of the figures bend up over the legs of the other. The pebble has been ingeniously carved so that, whichever way you look at it, the shape of the figurine is phallic but the genders of the couple are not revealed. What was the sculpture used for? The people who made the figurine are known as Natufians and are among the first people to domesticate sheep and goats. Selectively breeding animals required an understanding of the male role in reproduction and the sculpture's phallic shape may reflect their interest in fertility. Was this work of art used for rituals focussed on fertility or is it...