Wednesday, August 29, 2007

Psyche Revived by Cupid's Kiss


"Oh foolish Psyche, is it thus you repay my love? After I disobeyed my mother's commands and made you my wife, will you think me a monster and cut off my head? But go; return to your sisters, whose advice you seem to think preferable to mine. I inflict no other punishment on you than to leave you for ever. Love cannot dwell with suspicion."

Stories of Gods and Heroes, Lucius Apuleius.
Sculpture by Antonio Canova ( Louvre )

Saturday, August 25, 2007

Heart-shaped traffic lights

Heart-shaped traffic lights on the streets of Brussels and Paris.

Sunday, August 19, 2007

LOVE is a life full of seasons

Here is a nice section out of " The Prophet" a book composed of 26 poetic essays by Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese artist and poet. One of the chapters is dealing with topic of love. Bellow is a small segment that I like.

"But if in your fear you would seek only love's peace and love's pleasure,
Then it is better for you that you cover your nakedness and pass out of love's threshing-floor,
Into the seasonless world where you shall laugh, but not all of your laughter, and weep, but not all of your tears."

Saturday, August 18, 2007

LOVE depends on leaves


I adore this short animation done by late Vadim Kurchevsky.
It brought tears to my eyes when I saw it for the first time, 4 years ago. It is sooooooo poetic and so beautifuly done.
My Green Crocodile abounds in metaphors, which tell of unusual love and the courage of commitment.

LOVE LOVE LOVE

In Fellinis La Dolce Vita Anita Ekberg, who is playing an American movie star named Sylvia, is asked at her press conference what she loves the most in life and she answers ...

"I like lots of things, but there are three things I like most: love, love... and love."


Tuesday, August 14, 2007

The Bridge of LOVE

In 2006, due to a popular romantic novel "I Want You" by Federico Moccia, Ponte Milvio bridge in Rome began attracting couples who use a lamppost on the bridge to hang padlocks as a sign of their love. The ritual involves the couple locking the padlock to the lamppost, then throwing the key behind them into the Tiber.

Friday, August 10, 2007

LOVE in the time of Cholera


Garcia Marquez wrote this beautiful story about unrequited passion so strong that it binds three people's lives together for more than fifty years.

Thursday, August 9, 2007

Dont forget that i LOVE you


his work is great. please, check out his website for all sort of treats.

http://www.misterrob.co.uk/

Thursday, August 2, 2007

The science of LOVE, and the future of women

I saw this talk on the TED website. It is amazingly interesting scientific viewpoint on love by an anthropologist Helen Fisher.
www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/16