Category Archives: Art
Wiki loves Romanian monuments
“Wiki loves monuments” is a photography contest organized by the Wikimedia foundation. It “started in 2010 as a photo competition in one country (Netherlands) and turned into a European competition in 2011. 18 countries participated in the organization and over 165.000 photos were contributed by over 5000 (mostly new) users. Of these 160.000 photos 169 [...]
Twosome
Posts on this website come in two categories: “Vlad-Toma” means Vlad started the drawing and Toma finished it. “Toma-Vlad” means Toma started the drawing and Vlad finished it. The cool thing is if you move your mouse over the picture you can see the original “challenge” drawing. It won’t work here, do it on their [...]
Bucharestless
Appropriate title. Trailer looks promising. Looking forward to the movie:
The color of hay
They still publish lush photography books, even if it sometimes takes 10 years to publish them. Kathleen McLaughlin’s “The Color of Hay” depicts people and their lives in a region called Maramureş, in Northern Transylvania. The book “is a culmination of 10 years of hard work and the result is a beautifully designed and printed [...]
A Romanian idea for an Oscar movie
Since primary school Romanian kids read, learn and study an old legend, a story that can be a good subject for a Hollywood horror movie. It is about a builder in an impossible mission: Manole, a well known professional, promised the king to build the most beautiful and impressive monastery in a place where bad [...]
Today’s Google logo (Feb 19)
Check out the Google logo for today: They celebrate Constantin Brâncuşi‘s birthday – chapeau, Google! More on Constantin Brâncuşi, probably Romania’s greatest world class artist of all times, here.
Romanians SOUND good
This time it is not about the Romanian modern music with its dance stars and singers. Inna is another story, O-zone is in the past and the Eurovision competition is a lovely memory (to some). This time it is about sacred music, a heavenly beautiful music: SOUND is the name of a Romanian choir which [...]
The Pappbrille
One day Cantemir Gheorghiu, known as “Cante”, a young Romanian-born designer living in Berlin, had fun cutting a pair of glasses out of a piece of colorful cardboard, and wore it in a club instead of a “fashionable” pair of horn-rimmed glasses. The bar-tending girl liked it so much that she offered him a free [...]
Deep in the Carpathians, Painted Parables
“WHEN the Moldavian prince Stephen the Great won his first decisive victory against the Turks five and a quarter centuries ago, he decided to mark the occasion with a grand monastery and adorn its walls with the colorful work of artisans of the day. With his second victory came another monastery. With the third, yet [...]
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