Finally, still in the Melk Abbet (Austria), you can find a nice little garden pavillon (transformed into a quiet little pub) whose baroque painted decor is worth a few minutes. The exotic animals reminded me of wildlife safari photo trips…
Category: Culture
Melk Abbey Church (Stift Melk)
The abbey church in Melk can be visited and photographs are allowed (provided that you are polite enough not to use your flash, of course). Here are some of those I collected during my recent visit to Melk Abbey. Stift Melk wbe site.
Stift Melk / Melk Abbey
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melk_Abbey (German: Stift Melk) is a Benedictine abbey in Austria, and among the world’s most famous monastic sites, where I stopped by during a trip to Vienna and Austria a few weeks ago. I grabbed a few photos while I was there.
Scottish sounds
So, usually, they’d say that Americans language is gibberish deformed by a slang accent which makes Shakespeare cry. Sometimes, they’d say that Texans are the worst. But these Scottish people are really great. So utterly impossible to understand that their verbal exchange seems poetic and stripped of any useful meaning. Some kind of automatic writing…
The sea of pianos
I recently received an email from Tom Wrigglesworth inviting me to have a look at a recently published video. Usually, I let such requests go by (if they are not just caught and dumped by my anti-spam filter). Sometimes, I have a look at them. Today, I was stopped by the sheer simplicity of this…
Sex ed – 2 conflicting options
I am unsure which one is the best approach to teenager sex education… YouTube link YouTube link from Miss Lovecraft
The woodpecker book
Woodpeckers are birds which are often superb and specially pleasant to watch and photograph. But picidae (the family of most birds we group under the generic name of woodpeckers) also have their illustrated monograph. ‘Monographie des Picidées’ @ Harvard University Library {volumes II + III}. This is the result of digitization of a reference book…
Symetry
Symmetry from Everynone on Vimeo.
Indigen – Animation short movie
Man against Nature. Wildlife in Africa. YouTube link