Antipodes

This morning, I admired the first Gamone daffodils. It's still winter. The flowers have jumped the starting blocks. Global warming? Mayb...

The Internet has changed genealogical research in both good and bad ways. First, the bad news. For me, it's summed up in the names of tw...

Gavroche is a male pygmy goat. Often, male goats are called bucks or billies, just as female goats are called does or nannies. In my early ...

In my blog banner, the man and a woman walking on their hands symbolize, of course, the antipodean theme of an upside-down world. This engr...

In the valley below my property, alongside the road that runs down to the village of Pont-en-Royans, there's a small stone quarry that w...

For me, it's moving to observe the statuesque facial features and intense melancholy regard of this young man with an unusual Old Wo...

When my Swedish cineast friend Eric M Nilsson visited me in December 2006, he shot a few images of me talking about Gamone, first in English...

The engraving known as The Holy Face was produced in 1649 by Claude Mellan [1598-1688]. This masterpiece is composed of a single spiraling...

The Swedish group H&M has called upon Kylie Minogue to launch a new collection, and 10% of profits will go to a charitable British org...

I hesitated a little about an appropriate theme for the hundredth post of my Antipodes blog, but I finally decided to dedicate it to a bril...

It's likely that the title of this post doesn't ring a bell with anybody. In its original French, L'arroseur arrosé is the titl...

The Bush administration has just filed terrorism charges against David Hicks, who has already been detained without trial for more than five...

I'm becoming so enthusiastic about Google services and offers that, sooner or later, people are likely to accuse me of being either a fo...

In French, people who know how to handle personal events in an elegant fashion are said to have l'art et la manière . In other words, no...

Yesterday, people throughout the world were startled to hear about the Hollywood-style treatment of mysterious stone boxes that might have c...

While awaiting reactions to the amazing story of the possible bones of Jesus, I've been engaged—by chance—in an unexpected but delightfu...

There's a story about a priest leading pilgrims through the church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. Following his presentation of the...

Thirty years ago, in 1976, the Internet and the Google search engine did not yet exist. But my French-language book on artificial intelligen...

We can speak of culture transfer when people of one society borrow cultural fragments from another. Maybe " sharing " would be a ...

Looking at recent posts, Freudian readers of my blog might conclude that I've got some kind of a fixation for women in white. Now, that ...