here’s a story of a funny business

i don’t know how you stand on things downloads, copyright and “piracy”. here is a quick test: megaupload. sounds familiar?

up in the air, read this, not that

on airplane reading, from a sufferer to a goner, in one click and a 5 minute read.

anything. a-ny-thing.

my bro turns 19 today, and yet i got nothing to wish him on his birthday. … Read the rest

a sitdown with Saddo and Aitch: about life and death and 30 skulls

this prolific couple bring together no less than 30 artists for their new show, Cranium, opening today, and we rush to ask them things now and eternal

here’s something special…

…to make you warm these long snowed-in cuddle-up-inside evenings:

a collection of Disney comics,… Read the rest

love is to be shared

Robert Montgomery confessed this to Dazed:  … Read the rest

the audacity to speech

i might just be thinking out loud but: people don’t want to be led because they are stupid or ignorant, people want to be led because they don’t want tot do the leading per se. they have much better … Read the rest

malcolm x for romania, the bullet or the ballot

there’s no way you can write about this and not stir a shit storm, so here goes nothing.

for almost ten days now, romania is in a turmoil. uprising of the many, some call it revolution, re-revolution, protests, even trash. … Read the rest

andrei fantana x a camera

here in romania we have a solid community of game developers. namco, vivendi, e.a., ubi, are all here representing. beside the giants with couple hundred strong teams of coders, testers and designers we have an emerging market of boutiques, smartphone … Read the rest

people like ryan.

i was in taxi, on my way to the airport, when i opened this short email from Barna.

he wished me a good flight and added:

uite (“look” in Romanian), no one goes to the airport like ryan gosling. no

… Read the rest

the source of the power, the beans to an end

when a bearded man talks, you listen. you do so for many reasons but mainly because of his beard. the same way samson had hair on his head for a reason, the bearded man draws power from his facial … Read the rest

oana vasilache x a camera

oana is tier 1 in the romanian styling community. right now she is fashion director for glamour magazine, but we never know what’s next, we only know what was. name the magazine, she styled for them in the past. if … Read the rest

this is an event

we didn’t have “an event” category here before – we kinda said we want to stay out of current stuff, and be able to sit back and reflect on whatever, whenever – but i guess it’s time to announce the … Read the rest

don’t be an asshole

during winter vacation you give yourself a full break.  everything is allowed.  even watching Hancock, among other.  between Xmas and NYE, no remorse.  whatever be.

so there i was, after this silly movie, amending my 2012 resolution with an … Read the rest

done in sixty seconds

this pretty blonde girl runs out of a car. she is running from her father, from her past. she hides in a small out of sight village. the folk there treat her very bad. i mean really bad. the artistic … Read the rest

what makes a gentleman

the web is full of gentleman advice.

to every established glossy trying to make a decent man out of you for some time now, over the last years there have bloomed hundreds and hundreds of online destinations exploring the New … Read the rest

The Avocado Affair

On how popular culture can easily be perceived as “the truth”… Read the rest

Mihai Dobre x a Bucharest

“Hello, I am … and this is my Bucharest.”

in a phrase, that is what our new project is all about.

if you’ve been following our posts since recent (soft) launch, you might have noticed that we exercise a particular … Read the rest

your mornings will never be the same*

(*guaranteed!)

who am i to talk about waking up.  i am exactly the patient in (Dr.) Barna’s case study:  i put my alarm clock for 8 AM, then leave it on snooze every 15, finally turning it off 9 … Read the rest

man created the ring

let’s get one thing straight: man created the ring. it wasn’t a woman that picked up the husband’s hammer and let it fall on the anvil to produce a hollow piece of metal. it was the man. the dude of … Read the rest

igu x a camera

i am not sure that Igu, the man behind your daily web staple on all things cool and now www.feeder.ro, needs a lot of introduction.

so here are just 3 random little-known facts about him, a page exclusive, … Read the rest

occupy 1st of december, or our best national interest parade

folks, i love myself a nice parade. it’s provocative and gets the people going. also, i get mushy at all opportunities to celebrate and brag in a symbolic and theatrical way – it’s just so heart-warming. but people, we are … Read the rest

A bit of context about the economy!

why everyone should buy DoR & some industry protectionism

it really doesn’t matter why i like DoR magazine.

it doesn’t matter that they are local, authentic, extremely literate people who generate content in a city/country we think has nothing more to say.

it doesn’t matter that they organize … Read the rest

razvan crisan X a camera

You snooze, you lose and some ringtone etiquette

the first thing you should do well when your day begins is to wake up properly. and the snooze is your enemy.

the biggest mistake would be to put your alarm earlier than needed. you think you will somehow trick … Read the rest

major league people

surprise, surprise:  we need better parents.

Thomas Friedman reminds the obvious – and hence, often forgotten:   whatever problems the educational system faces (he speaks of the U.S. but let me extend), and however long we debate for a rethink … Read the rest

Razvan Botez x a camera

Some develop a special relationship with their barbers, others with their tailors, and a lucky few with their gardeners,  when us three, we seem to agree that no one in our times can underestimate nurturing a good, trustful relationship … Read the rest

Fast tracking the dum-dum remake

hesse and others wrote on how the work of an artist takes a life of its own and wonders the world, many times swallowing its own author. look at the above painting of goya. imagine that one fighter is the … Read the rest

Andreea Vasile X a camera

Andreea Vasile is a journalist and enthusiastic learner, who has always poked the norm and convention.

Her world is never black and white:   she seems to have a special radar for seeing the good in things, in spotting color and … Read the rest

cooking and beyond

sometimes a random read takes you million places.

here’s where “Are Apps Making Cookbooks Obsolete?” transported me:

1) the moment of iPad is now.

i am not that much of an early adapter of gadgets.   far from … Read the rest

Gabi Dobre X a camera

Trained as a nuclear physicist, Gabi Dobre still just couldn’t contain his natural curiosity.   So he applied it to journalism, instead.   Funny enough, you can see it in Gabi’s work, when he discretely, methodically, persistently, and with great precision breaks … Read the rest

Design Around The World

Smaranda Nicolau X a camera

Smaranda is 25, lives in bucharest and is a close friend of ours. in her early life, she ventured into philosophy and communications and is now once again a student in acting school, at our very own UNATC. between … Read the rest

a camera (new project at a page)

here at a page, we are very visual people.

we love the process of our mind when it frames the abundant flux of content into images. when a conscious decision is made to border what our eyes see on all … Read the rest

the apple eve took a bite of

folk, people of this world, apple (as in the company) is our civilizations apple. just like the western-judeo-christian-civilisation-proto-woman eve had hers. and it’s been proven that if we bite out of the apple things change. and this is not obama-change-you-can-believe-in … Read the rest

Lo-Lee-Ta

here’s a short line of thought. i was browsing and i found this picture. it took about a fraction of a millisecond to think of lolita. to me, for that moment, she was lolita. the impression was almost instant. then … Read the rest

If it looks the same, feels the same, sounds the same then it must be the same!

My feeling was that the newly launched French publication “The Good Life” is an identical copy of, the by now veteran, Monocle magazine. However it is not the same! 

Yes it is in French and it has a bit of … Read the rest

what would (i) do?

when i was a high school exchange student in the U.S., i remember seeing lots of kids with WWJD wristband.   hm?  i asked.  What Would Jesus Do,  a constant reminder.

you know them well

i think for advertising folk (and … Read the rest

football, eh, bloody hell

If I lose control of these multimillionaires in the Manchester United dressing room, then I’m dead. So I never lose control. If anyone steps out of my control, they’re dead.

says Sir Alex Ferguson, in a piece in T Magazine.… Read the rest

tree of life and freud’s study

kant was born in konigsberg, prussia, and he never left his home town. ever. but he took everyday walks, precisely at 3.30. people used to set their clocks by him. anyway, newton had his famous apple, kant had his tree. … Read the rest

Antipa Grand Multiplex

it was last weekend when i was driving my mom around the city and i saw the queue at antipa for the second time. i told her that this sight makes me feel good, it makes me happy, seeing all … Read the rest

Razvan is too modest, so I will.

Persistence is not about doing the same thing over and over again. Persistence is about having the same objective. And the tools and routes and resources can very. The objective is one.

Some never try, some give up fast, some … Read the rest

An Education

like all average white boys, i went to school at the proper age of 6. so started my adventure in the education industrial complex. when i reached 5th grade the first shift in the system happened. a new roaster of … Read the rest

Free tips for Bucharest City Hall 2

For quite a long time, although unintended, Bucharest had a open air horror museum right in the center.  Filled with all the excitement that comes from putting your life at risk crossing the city center by foot was almost certain … Read the rest

sitting on the top of the world…

… is which capital?

at a page, you see us quite interested in the subject of urban living.   we travel, lots, and we constantly connect to people from all around the world, which stimulates well this curiosity and analysis:   … Read the rest

I’m normally not a praying man, but if you’re up there, please save me Superman

speed of light made me an old school skeptic. one night i was looking at the stars with my dad when he told me that we don’t know if those stars are even there anymore. that the light that we … Read the rest

Paris is Old

i was in paris for 11 days. wasn’t my first trip so i did not indulge in tourism. wasn’t my second trip so i did not indulge in contemplation. neither my third so i was not ventilating to see the … Read the rest

Rumor control, here are the facts: Colbert & the Radiohead Effect

nation, it is no secret that i am a colbert admirer. he grew on me after jon steward’s half hour didn’t quench the thirst of pundit satire anymore. anyway, sometimes, when i travel i don’t always get to see the … Read the rest

the portrait of a library as a posibility

what i always loved ab Bogdana is that she always brings a different, uniquely her perspective.

following our essays (Barna’s, Razvan’s, and mine, incl a post-event review), in effort to re-imagine the library, … Read the rest