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Notes on Foucault’s Pendulum by Umberto Eco
(Pictured: Rhodes Cemetery, Greece. A rose cross monument dedicated to the Knights of Rhodes – I think)It’s unfair that people compare Foucault’s Pendulum to Ulysses. Ulysses is a novel that spans an entire day but some take years to finish.…
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Cimitirul Bellu nu are legătură cu Barbu Bellu
De vreo două luni am cercetat subiectul Cimitirului Șerban-Vodă (numit popular Bellu). Inițial nu voiam decât să aflu adevărul despre istoria acestuia, pentru că toate site-urile și toți “experții” se contraziceau, sau pur și simplu nu se pupau datele între…
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Photo Set 4/2026 – Rhodes
I’m too rubbish to bother with RAW files, I’d rather just have fun and snap quickly, so these are all SOOC with a few Fuji recipes.
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“I, for one, welcome our new AI overlords” (it’s mandatory to do so)
Thinking about this a couple of weeks ago I had another point I wanted to make about AI, namely how it’s like smoking 100 years ago – damaging but presented as a great addition to your life. Now, as this…
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New old gear – Carl Zeiss Jena DDR Sonnar 135mm f/3.5 M42
Yesterday I posted an old lens I had lying around. I said it’s new but the only thing new is that I’m using it. Well, here’s another one. This is new in the sense that it’s new to me… Other…
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New(ish) old gear – Helios-44
A few years ago I was messing around with film photography. I had my grandpa’s old cameras and a Canon I bought at a flea market. A friend gave me a very sturdy Pentax camera he wasn’t using and after…
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Photo Set 3/2026
New gear starting this month, a sweet Fujifilm X-T30 III that I can’t wait to take around town for photos. My photography skills are a bit rusty, and the gloomy February weather didn’t help with the light, but it was…
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Cultural Dispatch Ed. 2
1. Record This year has started out with an absolute bang. On New Year’s night I discovered, quite by accident, my new favourite band. It’s rather annoying because the more I looked into them I found they played Glastonbury and…
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Photo Set 1/2026
It’s not a Daily Photo project, like Andrei used to do, but this works out nicely to try to get back in the photography habit. Sort of a lo-fi photo journal.
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Infraordinary Fieldnotes (1)
(Pictured: Georges Perec)Approches de quoi (Approaches to what)That is the title of Georges Perec’s 19731 essay that first mentioned the infraordinary. In different ways, and with different levels of confidence, we are both trying to get our bearings through writing,…
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33 bits of unsolicited advice
Since I’ve turned 33 recently, I thought I’d lay out some thoughts, if not in pen and paper, then at least here as a random piece. This isn’t too well thought out so I wouldn’t call it wisdom or anything…
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Cultural Dispatch Ed. 1
Welcome to the First Edition of the Cultural Dispatch. Let’s go. 1. Record – Sanah – Kaprysy First section is dedicated to off-beat music, stuff that’s not mainstream and I’ve loved recently. I don’t appreciate the music that’s pushed by…
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Dust off
Well the internet’s gone downhill and let itself go. Not only you’re getting screwed every which way off-line financially and socially and so on, but what used to be a fun and open and labyrinthine place of expression and socializing…
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