Modern civilisation should always look to the ancient Roman city of Pompeii for a lesson on humility and destruction.
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Look to Pompeii
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Valentino Who? The Royal Chambers fashion pieces in Dresden would inspire any fashionista. Intricate couture looks fashioned for royalty displayed are an eye full of rich materials and details. The Schloss museum located in the historic center of the Baroque city is worth a style visit.
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2022 Cannes Gets HEAVY
The 2022 Cannes Film Festival went with heavyweights this year unveiling a star studded line up. Competition for the Golden Palm include features from directors David Cronenberg and Claire Denis along with sixteen other works.
Big Hollywood titles unspooling on the French Riviera include TOP GUN sequel MAVERICK and Baz Luhrmann’s ELVIS.
Cannes Film Festival starts May 17th.
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A Design Influence on Me.
Bauhaus Museum Weimar opened in April 2019. Its collection houses pieces from the 1920’s to the present. Focusing on design, art, dance, and architecture, the Museum narrates the history of Bauhaus over 3 floors.
Side Note: The Black and Paper logo was influenced by the Bauhaus movement. We incorporated some of the graphics in our face shield design.
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Second Day in Weimar
Exploring the cultural city offerings on my staycation. Still inspired and strolling around the city. It’s easy to see why Weimar has appeal. On the second day, I saw the dramatic and elegant.
Classic Anna Amalia Library 
Modern Anna Amalia Library 
Anna Amalia LibraryRussian-Orthodox Chapel 
Garden Park 
Top View 
Top View 
Bauhaus Style 
Goethe House 
For my first travel in the New Normal I decided on a staycation. As if I had a choice. Nothing is flying these days. Where to go? The city of Weimar, located in Thuringia, a 3 hour drive from Berlin. I knew little about the city.
Classy, compact, and elegant the former Grand Duchy Capital is a Unesco Heritage Site. A centre for culture for 2 centuries, many German intellectuals called Weimar home. The giants in the city mythology are writer Goethe, poet Schiller and composer Liszt. Each man contributed to the Artistic and Intellectual Movements of the 19thcentury. The Weimar Republic period of Germany started here with a 1918 Congress declaring the country a republic after World War 1.
The uproar the early 20th century produced the Bauhaus Art School headed by Gropius and Kandinsky. (Stay Tuned for the feature on the new Bauhaus Museum).
It is easy to fall for the charm of Weimar form its small square to strolling the parks and small cobblestone streets. Mercifully, the center was spared bombings during World War 2 and the cheap architecture of the Communist regime.
Arriving not expecting much. Sometimes it’s nice to be proven very wrong. Casual, not overloaded, take time to enjoy Weimar. There are many museums and exhibits. Or just take a stroll. On my stroll meter: 8.
More coverage coming.
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Staycation Weimar
In Weimar. All the details coming soon.
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#ThisBerlinale18
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Auteur Inspired
Berlinale is around the corner, I attended a warm up event, Hellas Filmbox Berlin is an annual Greek Film Festival held to showcase New Greek Cinema. On the program is a series of up and close conversations with filmmakers titled “Box Talks”. I attended the first with German Auteur Volker Schlondoff had an influence on me would be an understatement. His 1979 film “Tin Drum” left a mark on me. I watched it on the den floor late night on cable televison. It blew me away! A whole new world of cinema opened. The characters and the narrative shocked an impressionable young teenager use to old Hollywood films.
What made a doctor’s son leave the comforts of a middle class life for Paris? Mr. Schlondoff was incredibly affable doing the conference. Telling the audience his stories on how he became a filmmaker working under Louis Malle in the French New Wave Movement and later in the New German Cinema were inspiring along with his memories of conversations with Nicolas Ray, Joseph Von Sternberg, and Billy Wilder. It was an inspiring talk for filmmakers and film lovers.
Greek Filmmaker Yannis Sakaridis shared the stage speaking about the present experience and challenges of producing feature films in Greece in current economic and social climate.
Hellas Filmbox Berlin runs through January 28th . For more information go to:http://www.hellasfilmbox.de/en/