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[4 Feb 2011 | One Comment | ]
Floating and looping in Venice

As a little boy, I remember watching one day, this this fascinating documentary about city of Venice. Beside visual aspects, I memorized idea of never being able to travel there, as it’s supposed to be sinking very soon. (I learned by now, that such estimations usually don’t hold any truth…) In late 2009, I realized my forgotten by then dream, to see it with own eyes. Unlike any other location to date,  city consisted in a labyrinth of streets, which in their own bizarre nature, I found impossible to hold …

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[8 Sep 2010 | No Comment | ]
Facebookless and proud

It took me three hours to manually archive all data from maintained for nearly 4 years account. I still can’t believe how worthless my collection is. I was hoping to build some sort of personal diary from this period. But sadly, today I need to admit – there is nothing to take from it and my archiving procedure had purely sentimental reasons. My personal updates, links to articles of great importance, today mean nothing. Considering time spent on facebook – I would surely expect better return on my investment. Is the website to …

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[2 Sep 2010 | 2 Comments | ]
Rewinding old tapes: Modern Times

“Modern Times” is a serious social commentary in rather trivial frames of light comedy. Alike over sixty years ago – film is still relevant today and unless world changes drastically in the future – it will continue to be even more scary and less funny. Film essentially presents the story of a simple but extremely kind man caught in the traps of industrialized society. Despite Chaplin’s enormous success and wealth, he never forgot where he came from.
Resembling legendary Metropolis – opening scene – which compares workers boarding the subway to a …