Monday, January 25, 2010

Barclay de Tolly


Logistics were paramount. Feeding the horses turned out to be the crucial strategic skill....
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Sunday, January 17, 2010

Unknown Artist (tbc)


Narguileh Den...


A smoking establishment in Jaffa. The contacts of the artist were promised for next Saturday...

Prince Piotr Bagration


The battles around Borodino


I had to find a Russian coffee-table book on "Bá-rá-di-nô " to get some diagrams of the battles to make sense of the otherwise excellent book by Dominic Lieven "Russia against Napoleon"...





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Friday, January 15, 2010

David Lynch


CSI Jerusalem...


A car slices a curve, control is lost and accident follows. Pilot and second passenger look fishy. Cars passing by don't stop. Half a hour later suspects leave and nothing could have make us imagine something had happened. Point is the Blogger turned into paparazzi cum private investigator and took photos. Creepy like a David Lynch film...



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Fausto Zonaro



ORIENTALIST STREET PAINTING



The outside wall of a bakery in Jaffa in 2010। Refusing the all pervasive neon lights, the owner resorted to old style advertising। Does not the Right Honourable Read share with this Blogger of Yours that the colours and the composition evoke the technique of orientalist paintings (like Zonaro) ? ...

Monday, January 11, 2010

Orlando Figes

Night Life in Beirute...

Some photos taken with a NOKIA E-71 during incursions into the BO18 and the MusicHall... Reminded one of Moscow nights, maybe the blend of "East" and "West", but from distinct approach angles. Moscovites are Westerners influenced by the (Central Asian)East, Beyrouthins are (Middle)Easterners influenced by the West.



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