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Late night update

Mon, 30 Sep 2013 22:07:10 +0000

I am quite sure September is one of my favorite months. The heat is finally down, and we are back to human conditions. Today we had the last guests leaving from the place we were renting for my neighbor. It was a German couple, born in 1923…so you do the math. I was shocked how […]

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Day of Green pickled tomatoes

Tue, 17 Sep 2013 17:23:49 +0000

It was raining like crazy all day, but curiously it did not stop me to spend almost all morning rearranging things around the garden. Yesterday I got some lettuce and cabbage seedlings, so was trying to find some extra space in order to squeeze them in somewhere. I have decided to harvest one portion of […]

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Dormant blogger

Thu, 18 Jul 2013 14:08:00 +0000

It seems that if there is more to say, I somehow find myself less motivated to write. Or, summer is just not made for screens. These previous months have been super busy, and I guess I could say very productive. Since spring, the house has been full all the time, either with vagabond couchsurfers on […]

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February photo update

Wed, 27 Feb 2013 20:15:29 +0000

I am alive, if anybody wondered. I have just been very lazy in writing anything. Cyber blockade, one could say. It happens. Well, things were busy, and joyful. For the most part I was outside, preparing for my first planting season. Here is a quick photo tour of the month.

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False spring alarm

Fri, 18 Jan 2013 20:30:46 +0000

This morning I woke up, and boom, snow. I know it has been heavily snowing in the entire country for days, but this is my first snow here. And, I think my first snow next to the sea, ever. It somehow really twists your mind, as for years I have always been here only in […]

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A taste of spring. Kind of.

Wed, 09 Jan 2013 21:11:33 +0000

At the moment, there are a lot of hormones flying in the air on this deserted piece of land. Sola is going through her first heat cycle, and I can just say it is hard to be a female, in whatever world. From the lazy winter indoor atmosphere, since the last week we are at […]

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Koze i ljudi

Thu, 20 Dec 2012 14:35:38 +0000

Jučer je bio jedan gusti, gusti dan. Pun. Sve je počelo kasno. Sunce nije ulazilo u sobu, a Sola mi se kradom uvukla u noći u krevet pod noge, pa je zakazala u ulozi budilice-pijevca, ko inače. I dok smo obavili sve one jutarnje procedure, oko 11 sati dolazi susjed S. pozvati nas na neki […]

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Empire of the Sun

Tue, 18 Dec 2012 16:53:37 +0000

Today was just one of those days without any flavor. Rain, clouds, and general dullness. Then around 4 p.m., the Sun suddenly decided to demonstrate all its glory. Only 15 minutes of pure beauty, and it was all gone, like it was some sort of a mistake and somebody ‘up there’ quickly pressed ‘undo’.

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0 costs, 20 mins to make, endlessly original

Sat, 15 Dec 2012 18:09:14 +0000

If on a personal level this entire project is about, in Fromm’s terms, turning away from ‘to have’ towards ‘to be’, then on a more concrete, every-day, material level, it is definitely about gradually shifting away from ‘to buy’ towards ‘to make’. This applies to food, clothing and shelter. In collaboration with my neighbor S., […]

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Eric Valli’s photography (and more). Or, why you should organize your bookmarks from time to time

Wed, 12 Dec 2012 18:34:45 +0000

A few years ago, while randomly browsing through some Vimeo videos, I came across a short movie Vu du Ciel, which spectacularly captured Paris from the air. It was made by Yann Arthus-Bertrand, a French photographer specialized in aerial photography, who in 2009 also directed a stunning environmental documentary Home. By researching a bit around […]

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