Here is an excellent site about the craft of mail making. There is some history of mail, links to interesting websites, FAQs and much more. Check out their patterns’ area, which shows how Europians, Japanese, Persians, and others were different in making mail.
Margot Quan Knight photography website was the one that impressed me today. Check it out. I especially recommend ‘fabrica’ series. Great ideas and excellent execution.
Vladimis has sent me this link to the Cyprus Mail article which describes the conflict, or rather misunderstanding, that a guy had with some cabaret staff.
I don’t know how is it in other countries, but in Cyprus cabarets are actually the places where prostitutes work. They are called a million different names with dancers and actresses being the most common, but I have yet to see one descent show. None of those I saw could dance or entertain. Everyone knows it. Sex is the reason people go to the cabarets in Cyprus. That, of course, invovles money. Since prostitution is illegal, money are paid in different ways – for example, drinks for the lady ($10 USD orange juice will solve all your menhood problems at once). Still, the guy from the article seems to not know this, although he is a pretty old local gentlemen. On the other hand, maybe he wanted some free service. Go figure.
My mother was so persistent for the last few days, that today I finally took her to the Wine Festval. Nothing changes in there in years – same wineries, same wine, same food, same kiosks, same music, same souveniers. It was pretty interesting for her, since she was for the first time. I used the walk as a photo opportunity.
Pictures turned out to be the same as pictures from everyone else from any other year. The results are here if you are still interested.
And yet another downtime occurred today. Reason: power failure in the region. This is getting really interesting. Never ever did we have any problems with electricity. I don’t even have an UPS. Slowly, I am rethinking my position. The question is if that will help. Today, the power was cut for almost 3 hours (roughly from 12:00 until 15:00).