Romania
I'm a writer from Bucharest, Romania, working in English and specializing in web content writing. I also write poetry and short stories and have two books in the Amazon Kindle Store.
December 27, 2015 · 6:30 pm I was interviewed by fellow author Mercedes Fox on her blog. Click to read. December 23, 2015 · 12:49 pm NOTE: I haven't posted a story here in a very long time, so here's a short and fresh one.
Hidden Animals - Kindle edition by Anca Rotar, Cristina Ştefan. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Hidden Animals.
Before It Sets You Free - Kindle edition by Anca Rotar, Laura Livia Grigore. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Before It Sets You Free.
One of my many bad habits is that I stay up late and find excuses not to go to sleep, even when I know I really need it. Last night - or, rather, this morning - I stayed up playing some silly game on my phone.
Punk is a major influence in Harajuku street fashion. However, Japanese punk clothing brands are different from what you might expect. It's not London punk or New York punk (though it does take inspiration from them) but a unique mix not to be found anywhere else in the world.
Vintage items make up an important part of any trendy Tokyoite's wardrobe. But if you're a budget fashionista rummaging through the goodie piles of Harajuku's vintage stores, you might find even those prices to be a bit forbidding. Even second-hand, pretty much everything costs over 5,000 yen.
Cyborgs - entities that are part organic and part machine - are a major theme in the science fiction genre, be it fiction or visual arts. However, when one thinks of artistic depictions of cyborgs, the first image that pops up is usually of a sexualized female cyborg with bolt-on breasts.
Being a fan of the short story format almost feels like something shameful in an age when people no longer read short stories, and the word "book" is automatically assumed to refer to a novel. If, once upon a time, brevity was considered the soul of wit, now our novels have to have at least ...
Art critic John Berger really hit the nail on the head when he said, referring to the depictions of female bodies in Western art, "Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." This idea is illustrated in a clever and intriguing way in Edouard Manet's 1863 work, Le Déjuner sur l'Hèrbe ("Luncheon on ...
National Gallery, London You ask me why I've sat down to readin front of an El Greco painting.You find it strange that I keep so still,breathing shallowly,to take in only the air that I need,and no more,that my hand moves ever so slowlywhen it turns a page.Listen, El Greco's figures
They feel like they don't belong and find it hard to identify with the temperament and values that are prevalent in the community they were born into. Such people can't even remember a time when they felt differently and, instead, their memories, right up to the earliest ones, are infused with a strange sense of nostalgia for something they can't even define.
In Ancient Roman statuary, heroic (nude or armored) sculptures of the Emperor and other public figures were only partially portraits. More specifically, the heads alone were portraits, while the bodies were serial products that represented the Classical ideal. When the two were put together, the image that emerged was one of a godlike person, an ...
Lately, we've all heard of many young people dying. For many months, the media has been full of stories of children being murdered and refugees dying in search of a new life. On October 30th, a nightclub fire in Bucharest, Romania, killed 27 people on the spot, and 33 more died in hospitals.
If we were to come up with a top three of the attributes that best describe so-called civilized society, I think "busy" would occupy the top position. And the second. And the third. Being a city dweller is great - you get to be in the middle of the action, interact with many different people ...
Peasant girl. Mad. Woman soldier. Saint. Loved by a murderer. On speaking terms with angels. Her heart did not burn, but the only portrait drawn of her from life was lost. The closest thing is one from 1485 where her hair is drawn from her stylized face.
In Greek mythology, Hermes plays a rather doubtful role as the patron of thieves, merchants and travelers alike, in an association which can only be to the disadvantage of the latter. However, this is just one of his many facets. Messenger to the gods, he is also a god of illusion and transformation.