Pure Art

Pure art in and of itself has no value unlike objects we buy and services we pay for. I’d go one step further to say as an object it does not exist at all. Instead, there’s one active mental process of making it by the artist (poet, composer, writer) what we generally call “creativity”, and…

Soviet Life in Cabbages

Art. Soviet Life series. Internet. JPEG. 960×568. Somewhat mandatory “Kolkhoz” duty. For those unfamiliar, “Kolkhoz” can be loosely translated as a Collective Farm. With one important addition that often half-drunk inhabitants of the farm couldn’t keep up with the farming itself. With no illegal migrant workers present (USSR didn’t have this problem), the government summoned people…

Conspiracy. Simple.

Interesting to note that we still don’t know for sure who killed JFK, and why. I am not talking about the man who pulled the trigger and got killed shortly after in the police station. Why do I mention this? All the speculations on the matter are generally treated as a conspiracy theory, and therefore…

In Corn We Trust

“I’m going to Kansas City, Kansas City here I come” (liturgy best performed by John and Paul) What do people who haven’t been to Kansas City think of it? Coming here from a different country some 20+ years ago, settling down, living for 15, moving to California and occasionally coming back I must say they…