Sunday, 12 December 2010

Advent in Wien








Freedom Fight



Empty frontpages of two weekly cultural magazines against the planned new media-policy of the rightist government which aims to control the freedom of speech and press in Hungary.

View from my Window


Winter Dusk in Budapest

Friday, 26 November 2010

Thursday, 25 November 2010

Layers


in Moscow


of memory


and birds

in the paintings of 
Anna Parkina

Sunday, 14 November 2010

Fragments




"None sings as purely as those in deepest hell;
it is their singing that we take for the singing of angels."

Tuesday, 2 November 2010

Autumn



"Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower."

Wednesday, 20 October 2010

Ombra Mai Fu


Ombra mai fù

di vegetabile,
cara ed amabile,
soave più.

A shadow never was
of any plant,
more dear and lovely,
more gentle.

Handel: Xerxes - Cecilia Bartoli

Egg - Bud




Tuesday, 19 October 2010

Christ vs Apollon




"There is something about the entire crucifixional tradition that strikes me as a mean, as backward, as medieval in the worst sense... Greece provided a better civilizational idea than Judeo-Christianity... Hellenism as an alternative to Christianity... was the sole vision of the good life... When Hellenism failed... humanism went bankrupt."

""Whenever I shut my eyes I see Jesus on the cross." [Her son David, 4 years old]
It's time for Homer, I think. The best way to divert these morbid individualized religious fancies is to overwhelm them by the impersonal Homeric bloodbath."

Saturday, 2 October 2010

My Hero Anfione





Anfione doesn't want power any more. The vision of heaven threatens him, frightens him. He is praying to the spheres to help him to put in motion what stays and give it a harmony.

Monday, 27 September 2010

Embrace



"To reach an agreement in a conflict ... you need more than justice: you have to be willing to embrace the other ... one needs to maintain the boundaries of the self, but also keep the boundaries porous."
Miroslav Volf: Exclusion and Embrace

Saturday, 18 September 2010

Nope Pope


There is a controversy in deeply secular Britain around the papal visit as after some funny demonstrations thousands marched in central London yesterday in the biggest protest of his 5-year papacy.
Child abuse scandals around the world, labelling gay people "evil", telling Africans that condoms "increase the problem" of HIV, the church faces its deepest crisis in history.

Men in woman's dress with sinful secrets, their eyes turned on the sky with bad conscience, giving sermons while abusing young altar-boys in the sacristy, banning women out of their world - it is time for the church to open their stained glass windows and let in some fresh air.
Invite women to be priests and priests to marry, banish criminal priests - it may help the church to survive.

Tuesday, 14 September 2010

Bébi 1994 - 2010


"...the limitations most of us encounter in our relations with other animals reflect not their shortcomings, as we so often assume, but our own narrow views about who they are and the kind of relationships we can have with them... So open your heart to the animals around you and find out for yourself what it's like to befriend a nonhuman person." J.M.Coetzee: The Lives of Animals

Thursday, 26 August 2010

Redhead Nightmare


"when you have red hair people look at you like you are a monster"

Wednesday, 25 August 2010

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