Ikar

The Belgrade Phantom

Passing Notes.....

I didn't expect you to flatter me so well
In a manner which I think only I could tell
When so few words leave your lips
The words you sent me were magic tricks

You grew strange and your hair grew long
I think you've probably stopped playing that song
I heard with closed eyes in the sunny grass
About a woman swinging down from a tree branch

But even from the nowhere I imagine you own
Where you have your kingdom, which you don't rule alone
When sleep takes hold and turns you out of her arms
I think you remember some of my charms.

by Senka Kovacevic

Karen Yurkovich

Couldn't Resist

Albert Kahn's autochromes of the Balkans.

The Wonderful World of Albert Kahn

In 1909 the millionaire French banker and philanthropist Albert Kahn embarked on an ambitious project to create a colour photographic record of, and for, the peoples of the world. As an idealist and an internationalist, Kahn believed that he could use the new autochrome process, the world's first user-friendly, true-colour photographic system, to promote cross-cultural peace and understanding.

Kahn used his vast fortune to send a group of intrepid photographers to more than fifty countries around the world, often at crucial junctures in their history, when age-old cultures were on the brink of being changed for ever by war and the march of twentieth-century globalisation. They documented in true colour the collapse of both the Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman empires; the last traditional Celtic villages in Ireland, just a few years before they were demolished; and the soldiers of the First World War — in the trenches, and as they cooked their meals and laundered their uniforms behind the lines. They took the earliest-known colour photographs in countries as far apart as Vietnam and Brazil, Mongolia and Norway, Benin and the United States.

At the start of 1929 Kahn was still one of the richest men in Europe. Later that year the Wall Street Crash reduced his financial empire to rubble and in 1931 he was forced to bring his project to an end. Kahn died in 1940. His legacy, still kept at the Musée Albert-Kahn in the grounds of his estate near Paris, is now considered to be the most important collection of early colour photographs in the world.

The 72,000 photographs have remained unpublished and relatively unheard of until recently.

Pretty Maids All In A Row

Pretty Maids All In A Row

The film is set in "Oceanfront High School", a fictitious American high school in the height of the sexual revolution. The movie was notorious at the time (1971), for its sexual content in the form of the young female high school students who are being targeted by an unknown serial killer. The film centers around the sexual frustrations of Ponce (John David Carson), a male student who is surrounded by a seemingly unending stream of beautiful and sexually provocative female students.

The film's other star, Michael "Tiger" McDrew, is played by Rock Hudson. Tiger is the high school's football coach and guidance counselor. Early in the movie the audience is introduced to another aspect of Hudson's character. He is quite fond of sexual encounters with young, attractive female students in the school. Tiger befriends Ponce and tries to help Ponce deal with his sexual frustrations by encouraging him to seek the affections of a substitute teacher, Miss Smith, played by Angie Dickinson.

In the course of the movie, one young girl after another turns up dead. A police detective captain, Sam Surcher (Telly Savalas), investigates the deaths but never makes an arrest. Tiger is suspected, but never caught red-handed. At the end of the film, we learn that Tiger has moved to Brazil.

Raymond Martin