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Summer
After exhausting itself with white dust on the roads and bilberries in the wood, great summer, disarrayed and weak, is pulled in through the roof, through its wicker hall shaped…
Nat Pinkerton
The blue glasses, found in an elevated railroad car, belong to the victim, Lady Morton. But Nat and the coroner, misled to the black windows in depots, re-enact the daily…
The Candle
The soup with jonquils that's eaten at the fairies' house, a dull little spoon gave me the recipe. One evening it lured me under its raincoat. In the dark, against…
The Bell’s Dress
She's morning's residence. She's as clear as she is invisible, as tranquil as forgotten lands. Her hair is golden, her smooth windows exchange glances. She appears in bold alluring colors,…
Merisette
What was it a question of? A hair's breath, in all. A tree was catching fire, a pond was sulking, a dew sprinkled maid-servant was lulled to sleep by currant…
The Clouds
When the dawn's heart begins to beat, the high little clouds come down to breakfast in the trees. * Behind the masked clouds playing the big drum, real clouds, still…
Schooldays
Thursday is always pleasant with frost and a naked girl on the country's palm. The merchant of clouds counts the precious stones of the amazing house: an inviting lamp. The…
Learn to read music and how to stay in time
How often do we sit down and listen to a piece of music, and only to wish that we could play as good as that? And yet to read the…
Introduction. What is Music?
We are often talking about music, but what it really is? Just look, what various sources tells: "an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a…
Medieval European music
Medieval European music is music from the European middle ages, which is generally divided into two periods: the Ars Antiqua and the Ars Nova. Characteristics of the time are styles…
Authentic performance
The authentic performance movement is an effort on the part of musicians and scholars to perform works of classical music in ways similar to how they were performed when they…
Traditional Japanese Music – Beginnings
Some of the earliest musical devices found in Japan date back to the Yayoi period--prior to AD 250. The most import instruments found from this era are the bells, or…
Ethics: Photograph or Photo Illustration?
A discussion of ethics in photojournalism and editorial portraiture. This morning, I photographed a teacher who had recently won a national mentorship award. Due to time constraints, I had to…
Beginnings of Photography
The First, the name. We owe the name "Photography" to Sir John Herschel, who first used the term in 1839, the year the photographic process became public. (*1) The word…
HowTo Make a Good Seapix
While there are quite a few tips and tricks I can suggest, these are the six "cardinal" rules that I think every underwater photographer should know. Even though there are…
The Lord of the Rings: The two towers Lights up screens around the world
UK release date December 18, 2002. New Line Cinema's The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, the central film in Peter Jackson's epic trilogy based on the Tolkien classic,…
This Date In Cinema History
by EdwardHavens October 30. The night before Halloween. Depending on your level of film geekness, this date either means absolutely nothing to you or is one of the seminal dates…