ARCHIVE August2017
From Venezuela to Australia – an artistic renaissance for Jorge González
“There is no intentional message in my pieces and my expressions in general other than to admire and contemplate beauty, the complexity of details. Maybe if we analyse them from a logical viewpoint, we could say that my mind is fascinated by human intervention on nature.”
Guadeloupe: a French island somewhere between paradise and desperation
As soon as you leave the airport, you might be excused for thinking you are in metropolitan France: the cars have French number plates, the European flag above the F. The architecture of the terminal and other buildings are typically Gallic, as if all materials had been directly imported from France.
Cultivate confidence
The key principle where health and body image are concerned seems to be straightforward on the surface. Let’s say that you happen to be a busy man or women and over the course of a year you gain a few kilos in weight. As a result you start to lose confidence in your body image and in yourself. It might not affect your work and your relationships, but at some level this lack of confidence starts to drag you down.
LES EUROSCEPTIQUES RUSSOPHILES
Les journaux eurosceptiques se sont attardés longuement sur la présence des groupuscules et des nationalistes de l’ouest de l’Ukraine sur la place Maidan.
ODESSA : L’HÉDONISME UKRAINIEN & L’ÉCHEC RUSSE
La politique de Vladimir Poutine s’est révélée fructueuse à court terme car elle a sapé le moral des Ukrainiens mais elle reste désastreuse à long terme pour les relations entre les deux pays car elle a déclenché un sentiment russophobe auprès des Ukrainiens russophones. L’agression militaire russe a entraîné non seulement la fin des échanges culturels et touristiques entre la Russie et Odessa mais aussi le déclin des investissements économiques russes.
LE SABLE ET LA SURVIE DE L’HOMME
Multinationales et organisations mafieuses pillent le fond de nos océans pour répondre à la folie des grandeurs des monarchies du Golfe devenues insatiables, il faut tant de béton armé pour bâtir des gratte-ciel sans âme et des îlots pour des milliardaires fantômes.
London’s Shubbak Festival
The first festival took place in June 2011 and on that occasion was opened by the Mayor of London. It was originally conceived in 2010, as a one-off platform to show the riches of contemporary Arab culture and to highlight London as a globally connected city.
Odessa, Ukrainian Hedoism… and Russia’s failure
Once downtown, my first impression is that Odessa has regained a certain pre-war joie de vivre, the one of the early 2000s. European, Turkish, Georgian, Israeli and even Belarusian tourists are already present in large numbers even this early in the season. The cafes and restaurants are full and the Ukrainian flag, blue and yellow, floats peacefully everywhere. There are no longer soldiers on the streets, roadblocks or pro-Russian graffiti. The s