My Attempts

Here is a partial catalog of my (feeble) attempts at becoming more than what I am today. I doubt I will ever succeed but I hope I will never stop trying.

Attempts at E-mail Journalism

• On the Island of Corfu (in Russian): PostScript or PDF)
• I-House Diaries
• Cities and Memory (after Calvino)
• Berkeley's Longest Paths (by far the most useful chapter of my dissertation)
• Tales of Oxford

Attempts at Photography

• Water Colors in Boston (August 2000)
• Upstate New York (Summer 2001)
• My Flickr Page

Attempts at Music (1998)

Attempts at Pottery (2002)

Attempts at Discovery

2000
• Quint Buchholz
• Caravaggio
• Andrew Manze
• Astor Piazzolla
• Alain Resnais
• Sergey Schepkin

2001
• Jorge Luis Borges
• Italo Calvino
• Julio Cortazar
• Mark Rothko
• Wong Kar Wai

2002
• Pablo Neruda
• Giovanni Antonio Pandolfi
• Luigi Pirandello
• Eric Rohmer
• Peter Shaffer
• Yann Tiersen

2003
• William Byrd
• Robert Doisneau
• Aki Kaurismaki
• Domenico Scarlatti
• Alexey Tikhonov
• Addresses of St.Petersburg: Journal for Cataloging of Eternal Values

2004
• Mario Benedetti
• Eva Hoffman
• Haruki Murakami

2005
• Nathan Milstein
• late Nabokov (American period)

2006
• Jacob do Bandolim
• Pink Martini
• Rachel Podger
• Felix Vallotton

2007
• Elena Frolova
• El Mundo (baroque group)
• Ira Glass
• Jack Kerouac
• Jacques Rivette
• Shel Silverstein

2008
• Adam Gopnik
• Cezanne (again!)
• Christian Constant
• Cote d'Azur
• French
• Marie Laforet
• Promenade plantee

2009
• Jacques Brel (again!)
• Antonio Caldara
• Alexander Calder
• Henri Cartier-Bresson (finally)
• Alessandro Scarlatti
• mousse au chocolat (making of)