Without shelter I am wandering about From home to home I am wandering Without you I am always wandering with woe Around the crowd You are my only love, My whole existence Without you, meaningless is my poetry and song Oh my country, Exhausted from the constant chase...
“A Clockwork Orange”: Book VS Movie
The earliest version of pop culture was definitely influenced by Stanley Kubrick’s “A Clockwork Orange”, a said to be a genre-less film made in 1971. The movie received interesting critiques and is considered by a lot till today a cinematic masterpiece. However, few...
A basic guide to Pop Culture
It is that one thing that is all around us, yet we don’t really understand what it is exactly or how it started. We are talking about ‘pop’, as in pop art or pop music. It is a movement which includes the arts, entertainment or style and has its roots in the mid-20th...
The vintage awning
It’s been some time now that I wanted to write something about perspective and expectations. How we perceive our surrounding environments and how something seemingly insignificant can affect, or to phrase it better, distort our view. The truth is that I had a lot of...
Studio Ghibli Films: A Friendly Guide
I am pretty sure that the name “Studio Ghibli” rings a bell. It is possible that at some time in your life you got a glimpse of the Ghibli World and got fascinated by the vibrant colors and the realistic representation of nature. But even if you didn’t, now is the...
The Orwellian prophecy
“The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.” ― George Orwell Englishman Eric Arthur Blair was the man behind the famous and beloved writer George Orwell. Even though he died early, at the age of 46, he managed to write two widely known books....
Procrastination 101
How many times did we sit down, made a nice long list of our tasks of the day and ended up not doing anything? It happens frequently, especially when we are not in the mood of studying, or cleaning up, or getting out of bed…It is the widely known state of...
Going Dark… Going Academia
Picking a theme as far away as I could from the pandemic, I stumbled on a trend going on TikTok, Tumblr and for a while now, Instagram. The Dark Academia Aesthetic. What’s an aesthetic? The philosophical study of beauty and taste, usually connected...
Diving into anime
Hail to the anime community that grew bigger and stronger during the quarantine. Anime series and movies can always keep us company whenever we feel like it. A whole different world from what we are used to, the anime (and manga) world has many many different shows,...
Written and Directed by Quentin Tarantino
No, this article was neither written nor directed by Quentin Tarantino. But this title suits the article well, because today we’re going to talk about one of the greatest American filmmakers and recommend a few of his movies. Quentin Tarantino started becoming popular...
Oh my country, who sings now of your woe: from Afghanistan to 2021 Greece
Without shelter I am wandering about From home to home I am wandering Without you I am always wandering with woe Around the crowd You are my only love, My whole existence Without you, meaningless is my poetry and song Oh my country, Exhausted from the constant chase...
“A Clockwork Orange”: Book VS Movie
The earliest version of pop culture was definitely influenced by Stanley Kubrick’s “A Clockwork Orange”, a said to be a genre-less film made in 1971. The movie received interesting critiques and is considered by a lot till today a cinematic masterpiece. However, few...
A basic guide to Pop Culture
It is that one thing that is all around us, yet we don’t really understand what it is exactly or how it started. We are talking about ‘pop’, as in pop art or pop music. It is a movement which includes the arts, entertainment or style and has its roots in the mid-20th...
The vintage awning
It’s been some time now that I wanted to write something about perspective and expectations. How we perceive our surrounding environments and how something seemingly insignificant can affect, or to phrase it better, distort our view. The truth is that I had a lot of...
Studio Ghibli Films: A Friendly Guide
I am pretty sure that the name “Studio Ghibli” rings a bell. It is possible that at some time in your life you got a glimpse of the Ghibli World and got fascinated by the vibrant colors and the realistic representation of nature. But even if you didn’t, now is the...
The Orwellian prophecy
“The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.” ― George Orwell Englishman Eric Arthur Blair was the man behind the famous and beloved writer George Orwell. Even though he died early, at the age of 46, he managed to write two widely known books....
Procrastination 101
How many times did we sit down, made a nice long list of our tasks of the day and ended up not doing anything? It happens frequently, especially when we are not in the mood of studying, or cleaning up, or getting out of bed…It is the widely known state of...