Vahram muratyan biography of williams brothers

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James reflects on his longtime quest to find a psychological theory of the second wind and examines what carries us over this initial plateau of fatigue.

Bobo opposed to hipster. Tracking gentrification, urban evolution and contemporary paradoxes through tiny-but-telling cultural aspects, Paris versus New York is the result of a life spent mostly in Paris, and several years wandering in New York, either for work or on vacation. The east to west momentum could only carry him on to New York, a city he discovered when he was just a child.

I also learned English very young, and I was always curious about American culture. Hardly anything was more exciting for me than crossing the Atlantic. And in I witnessed the panic after the fall of Lehman Brothers, with all the bankers and traders in the streets with their cardboard boxes. A few of his drawings express true artistic genius—for example, the minimalist comparison of film directors Jean-Luc Godard and Woody Allen—nearly identical pairs of glasses with different eye expressions, delineated in just four dots.

Others show a real comprehension of the social mechanics of urbanism, like the mixed maps of New York and Paris, where each city is presented with the corresponding neighborhoods of the other. Soon realizing that the drawings were worth sharing, Muratyan started a blog in October —less a website than an online travel journal. But, he says, he never imagined it would become so widely buzzed-about.

But suddenly, one weekend, I had more than 5,!

The collection currently holds over books on a wide range of topics, available to borrowers at the AFICS/NY Office.

Then there was a buzz on Twitter and Facebook, and the blog became a popular gallery. Publishing a collection of the images, as well as a few posters on demand, was the next logical step. We often say that Parisians are obsessed with New York, but it is also true on the other side. You could endlessly list the best cities for quality of life—say, Vancouver or Stockholm or Munich—but in the end, the cities you keep dreaming about are New York and Paris.