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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rosa rosam rosa rosarum rosae...

Valentino

The best dressed for the occasion was the veiled lady who went for Valentino red...

Ben Gurion

The ceiling of the aiport is a cemetery of escaped balloons...

Tintin

An Art Deco jewel in the heart of Jerusalem...

(Belgium's magnificent diplomatic spot)

Helmut Newton

At "Sol Y Sombra" a young photographic talent. Helas! she might be destined to be a future paparazzi feeding the ever more greedy prensa de corazon.

Madonna

To escape going on wandering in the streets of an icy-cold Madrid night we enter the first spot which looks alright. A club of a peculiar sexual persuasion, in fact. The music was funky and the video screens were all over the place.

David Brown

The beauty of an Aston, the DB9 ...

Fidel Castro

Relax, be cool, have a cigar..

Enjoying a "Petit Robusto" from Hoyo de Monterey is a gesture of utmost civilized silent Ghandi-esque resistance against the anti-tobacco jihadists... we have to be secularists in what pertains to smoke... public displays of smoking are not to be encouraged.. but in the privacy of our gentlemanly castles a cigar puff is our quiet answer to the State smoke-free harassment outside...

Edward Pace

Zebra cross-dressing..

"An attempt by troopers of the East African Mounted Rifles.. (...) "

in Edward Paice's "Tip and Run: The Untold Tragedy in Africa".

In last week's "Spectator", on a review for a book on the First World War in Africa, this delicious photo on the art of camouflaging a pony, to make it a zebra at the eyes of the enemy's low-tech military spying.

As the reviewer speaks about the "heroic uselessness of the Portuguese, marinated in saudade and patriotism (...)" in Tanganyka's near-abroad, I suppose I'll have to read the book...

Franciscus Sylvius

"Castellana, Ocho", ex-Jazzanova

( Gin was invented, for medicinal purposes, by 17th-century Dutch physician named Franciscus Sylvius, who added juniper berries, spices and other botanicals to distilled spirits )

Helen Mirren

An unusual stand for my Casanova wig...

Earl of Proença-a-Velha

Praia Grande, a semi-sovereign State with a unelected monarch we all are loyal to...

Françoise Hardy

The character in "Plataforma" wich has no speaking role, yesterday at the Teatro de Bellas Artes, during and after the performance...

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

New-born babies listening to either Mozart or Vivaldi ( "El Mundo", today)

Coco Chanel

"L'Arroseur Arrosé"... The photo of the object next to its own photo.. (Shop-window in Calle Villanueva)

Aung Sang Suu Kyi

A 1m x 1m canvass with a gigantic pair of silk sleepers.. Sorry for not quite delivering the 3D stuff..

Charle-Edouard Le Corbusier

An interesting evidence of architectural decay...

Ernest Hemingway

A boulevard in Paris under the blizzard...

Even in Winter, Paris is always a moveable feast... This photo was e-mailed to me, as Christmas card, by Ms Vera Undritzova, a Paris-based photographer who was born in Moscow not long ago... Best e-Xmas card received so far...

Stelios Haji-Ioannou

Comics-like graphism in use at an airport near you...