Andre Lamartin
Nov 28, 2015
Bob Marley´s The Wailers
If life in the big city is such a race to the grave, why push the pace? Sometimes it pays to pause, relax and take stock of your...
Andre Lamartin
Oct 25, 2015
U2 in London
Stephen Hawking once said that we are all time travelers, always traveling headlong into the future. What he failed to mention is that we...
Andre Lamartin
Sep 27, 2015
Andre Lamartin
Sep 27, 2015
Beethoven´s 9th Symphony
It is at our time of greatest weakness that he have a chance to exhibit our greatest strength. Beethoven is a prime example of this moral...
Andre Lamartin
Sep 24, 2015
David Gilmour Live - Pink Floyd
During some of the most introspective and contemplative moments of my life, Pink Floyd was always an inseparable companion. Not so long...
Andre Lamartin
Sep 22, 2015
A Study in Still Life
A visit to the original Madame Tussauds Wax Museum in London proved to be more entertaining than any tourist trap is entitled to be. Here...
Andre Lamartin
Sep 12, 2015
Photograph 51 - Nicole Kidman
Women are never given credit for their manifold contributions to the history of science. Photograph 51 is a play starring Nicole Kidman...
Andre Lamartin
Aug 22, 2015
Swan Lake - Irina Kolesnikova
Albert Einstein once said that “Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination takes you everywhere.” Tonight, watching Irina Kolesnikova’s...
Andre Lamartin
Aug 8, 2015
Casablanca at the Royal Opera House
In the canon of great films, the ones I have not seen are few and far between. Casablanca, however, was a notable exception. I always...
Andre Lamartin
Jul 18, 2015
The Reach of Our Eyes
To be loved solely for who you are, irrespective of any superficial appraisal of your physical appearance is a longing that most human...
Andre Lamartin
Jul 8, 2015
Is Solitude the Price of Freedom?
Is solitude the price of freedom? If so, is freedom not a narcissistic form of enslavement to one's own ego? This is the question....
Andre Lamartin
Jun 22, 2015
The Two Tragedies in Life
“There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.” – George Bernard Shaw
Andre Lamartin
Jun 7, 2015
Freedom Taken for Granted is...
Westminster and Big Ben as seen from the London Eye on a Sunday afternoon. Paying my respects to the institution of parliamentary...
Andre Lamartin
May 25, 2015
National Portrait Gallery
A portrait is a seemingly paradoxical work of art. It captures both the timelessness of the human spirit, in the eyes of the person...
Andre Lamartin
May 22, 2015
An Evening with Al Pacino
Surreal. That is the best way to describe the experience of meeting Al Pacino, the man who is one of the greatest legends of the silver...
Andre Lamartin
May 16, 2015
Far from the Madding Crowd
Because no choice in life is more important than that of the people we let in our hearts.
Andre Lamartin
May 15, 2015
London Breed
I love this great polluted place Where pop stars come to live their dreams Here ravers come for drum and bass And politicians plan their...
Andre Lamartin
Apr 4, 2015
Closer
Ever since I watched the movie “Closer” starring Natalie Portman, Jude Law, Clive Owen and Julia Roberts in 2004, I’ve had this lingering...
Andre Lamartin
Jan 9, 2015
Swan Lake
Never underestimate the lasting power of a humble beginning. When Swan Lake opened in 1877 at the Bolshoi in Moscow, it was so poorly...
Andre Lamartin
Dec 12, 2014
A Black Tie Party
The always quotable Oscar Wilde once said that a cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. Tonight I...
Andre Lamartin
Dec 6, 2014
La Bohème
The word bohemia entered the modern lexicon through Honoré de Balzac, who coined the term in the first half of the 19th century in...
Andre Lamartin
Dec 6, 2014
State of Flow
There is a certain moment when you reach the apex of physical exertion when past and present coalesce into one and all that remains is an...
Andre Lamartin
Nov 28, 2014
Somewhere in Time
One of the central aspects of human existence is that the untrammeled passage of time flows only in one direction. To make sense of this...
Andre Lamartin
Nov 18, 2014
Homesick ®
Returning home is sometimes a bittersweet experience, but not in equal measures. Sweet because I had a chance to see the people and...