It’s a Magical World indeed

 [This is a posthumous post -as every other one published here by Arishej after August 13th, 2016-. It was published, almost exactly a year ago: 31st december 2015, on a social network, as a New Year’s greeting . It’s well worth a re-posting now when we are close to begin a new year.] There is…

Stately walking down a tree, like an elf

It’s not Lothlórien, of course, and these are not Mellyrn-trees, and the model is not Galadriel, but this is a photo without tricks or hoax; the girl elvishly walked down the trunk, barefoot, in part with the aid of a flexible branch that she was handling. When I shot her here, she was some 2.70…

The ardent acceptance of Leda – or maybe her rape

 [This is a posthumous post –like every other one published here by Arishej after August 13th, 2016–. Partially it was posted on G+ months ago, and this is an extended version by me, adding a paragraph to the introduction, the work by B. Cellini and the Roman bas-relief.] – The myth of Leda and the…

A bitter-sweet appraisal and some nice frames from “Der Himmel über Berlin„

 [This is a posthumous post -as every other one published here by Arishej after 13-August, 2016. The drafts (there were two -put together now-) date from January 2016] . Wim Wenders’ “Der Himmel über Berlin„ (1987) [English version: “Wings of Desire”] is a film that I admire in spite of do not liking it much…

Death will stare at me with your eyes

Verrà la morte e avrà i tuoi occhi [Death will come and will have your eyes] Cesare Pavese – 1950 . For each of us death has a face; for me it will be Ari’s face – Beyond everything, she is still looking at me. All the time – So, I know that when death…

Beautiful legs and feet – like a heart

It is common to figure a symbolic heart with the fingers of both hands, but not as common to do it with the legs -and not as easy either, if they are very long and straight, like Ari’s. But here is a double try… (Notice that the feet are supposed to figure a smaller heart…

Music for Ariel – A strayed recording, by Gould and Bernstein, of Bach WV 1052

[Posted in part on G+ by Ariel herself on 9th November 2015] “Here is an immaculate and glorious interpretation of the Concerto in D minor, BWV 1052 (sadly, only the first movement is available in video as far as I know). The sound is not good, and the image, quite bad (dating from the very early…

Music for Ariel – with several linked memories

Shostakovich – Piano Concerto No 2 in F major, Op 102,  by Denis Matsuev and Valery Gergiev When I and my daughter discovered Shostakovich’s Second Piano Concerto, watching the movie Fantasia 2000 by Walt Disney, Ariel did know it already from years ago and had different versions of it in her CD collection -like many…

The Music of my life – Glenn Gould playing J. S. Bach

  Glenn Gould’s (rather) complete Bach recordings Just to begin with… now that we both have all the time. [The compilation is not really complete, but anyway very representative.] Soli Deo Gloria ! (… aside of J. S. Bach, and you via Music for Ariel – Glenn Gould’s Bach — INVISIBLE FORMS Save