Books & Life Entropy | 06 Feb 2010
All that matters is Love & Work.- Freud
I usually refrain from reading books about alleged business Management and autobiographies of success stories. Most of them are self styled, self congratulatory, recipe manuals packaged with toxic doses of marketing.
Nevertheless, instinctively I bought Simply Fly -A Deccan Odyssey by Captain Gopinath which is refreshing, unpretentious, candid and [...]
Books & Economic Behaviour Entropy | 08 Jan 2010
The discipline of economics is not what it used to be. Over the last few decades, economists have begun a revolutionary reorientation in how we look at the world, and this has major implications for politics, policy, and our everyday lives. For years, conventional economists told us an incomplete story that leaned on the comfortable [...]
Books & Music Entropy | 18 Dec 2009
The music is a bridge across the abyss, it is often the final means of human connection, our closing form of comfort. It is what we have when we have nothing else.
In this brief video the writer-doctor/ Neurologist Dr. Oliver Sacks discusses his book, Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain an investigation into [...]
Architecture & Design & Books Entropy | 07 Dec 2009
In continuation to my previous post about the book, New York – Line by Line by Robinson, I wish to introduce the work of an architect, illustrator and author, Matteo Pericoli.. who wrote its foreword ..
NEW YORK: LINE BY LINE by Robinson
Foreword by Matteo Pericoli..
A line isn’t just a line. Lines do not exist in [...]
Architecture & Design & Books Entropy | 03 Dec 2009
A recovered treasure of punctilious joy.
In 1967, a German illustrator going by the single name Robinson published a collection of pen-and-ink drawings called New York. Like so many non-natives before and after him—Hart Crane, E.B. White, Tom Wolfe—Robinson, whose given name was Werner Kruse, was able to see the city with uncommon clarity, and a [...]
Books & Music Entropy | 26 Nov 2009
This important new biography restores the great Satchmo to his deserved place in the pantheon of American artists — as a dazzling innovator and pioneer, who indelibly shaped the emergence and evolution of jazz. -
Pl read this Book Review By NYT Books Critic Michiko Kakutani
Louis Armstrong, a k a Satchmo, a k a Pops, was [...]