Monthly Archives: February 2020

Pay with a poem!

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Multiple facets
of benevolence, friendship and kindness
have been engraved
on my heart

whose green veins tremble
with happiness and delight
at seeing, reading and admiring
your exquisite words-of-art and flowing imagery
Here…

………………………………………………………………………

Your minds drew letters
Upon my soul
I will wear them always
To humble and subdue
All the shimmers of the world.

This is my modest “payment” for the beauty and joy you have given me through knowing you and your beautiful art and my “currency” in thanking you for reading, appreciating and sharing my words.

Iulia Halatz

I have written this for The World Poetry Day in 2017.

I am reposting in celebration of the opening of the first Poetry Pharmacy in the world – https://www.poetrypharmacy.co.uk/.

Art – Christian Schloe

Shiny love Stories…

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February is the month of shiny love stories.
“Stories … are genuinely symbiotic organisms that we live with, that allow human beings to advance.” – Neil Gaiman.

We write for you stories that allow Love to advance.

We’d love to hear from you. It is fascinating to see what some long tail (stardusted) keywords can create.

Art by Michael Cheval.

Advertising on this website

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The purpose of this website is to share beautiful words and images with the world.
Also, as a brother-of-words myself, I humbly share mine from time to time, words that I inscribe on other barks and layers of light.

Lately I have received loads of comments which link to a company’s website or weblog…
I gladly promote everybody here, as content marketing has never been so powerful.
Nevertheless, if you’d like me to write about the unique, problem-solving magic of your business and what it will empower to do, email me at contact@cursinengleza.ro.

I’d love to hear from you. It is fascinating to see what some long tail (stardusted) keywords can create.

Iulia Halatz
An amazing illustration for The Book of the Long Sun by Gene Wolfe, 1987 by Richard Bober:

Why a gin maker invented its own history

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Why a gin maker invented its own history:
https://www.1843magazine.com/design/brand-illusions/why-a-gin-maker-invented-its-own-history

Hendrick’s gin looks like it has been plucked out of the Victorian era. But the brand was launched in 1999.

All this is a twist on “nostalgia marketing”, a common term in contemporary advertising signifying a brand using its history to excite the imagination of consumers. According to a recent study published in the Journal of Consumer Research, feeling nostalgic “weakens a person’s desire for money” – or, to be more direct, encourages them to buy lots of stuff.
https://www.1843magazine.com/

1,000 True Fans? Try 100

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1,000 True Fans? Try 100
by Li Jin

More than a decade ago, Wired editor Kevin Kelly wrote an essay called “1,000 True Fans,” predicting that the internet would allow large swaths of people to make a living off their creations, whether an artist, musician, author, or entrepreneur. Rather than pursuing widespread celebrity, he argued, creators only needed to engage a modest base of “true fans”—those who will “buy anything you produce”—to the tune of $100 per fan, per year (for a total annual income of $100,000). By embracing online networks, he believed creators could bypass traditional gatekeepers and middlemen, get paid directly by a smaller base of fans, and live comfortably off the spoils.

View the full article: https://a16z.com/2020/02/06/100-true-fans/

Harold Feinstein – Reading Poetry, Paris, 1988