Home · Turn off Ads · Product Info · Forum · Twitter · Education · Help/Contact · FAQ Register or sign in · Cart · Order status
Loading of ...
  Delay: « »
Best congrats!Dressing the first ladyCrazy with diamondsAfter the performanceDressing the first ladyCreating the dreamsGrande DameDiamonds "Padani"UntitledPurchased on "Sotheby"s"What does a writer need more?PleasureMy ideal readerEverytime You smile.........UntitledMake-up QueenUntitledTzar"s jeweller.Shapes and appearencesAnd... The guestsHave a nice dinner!IntoxicationArt & the bankers.Shlomit Lidor - the General Director of REKAA la carteThe hidden languageAn hour of degustation came...My  solo-show and readingA descendant of princes, valued by Salvador Dali, Marc Chagall & Publo Picasso.Edita Pieha - again!Mysterous,  sensational, bestsellingGolden CockerelCouturierTzar"s jeweller.Secrets of well-dressed ladiesGolden Cockerel

Just with stars

Slideshow by Dr Tao

Here - alas, only a tiny part of my own collection of precious pearls.I am lucky to meet, to communicate, to be in a friendly contact with all those unique persons - stars, celebrities, VIPs Talent is intoxicating! And, may be, due to my incredible meetings with those fantastic people I study a little bit more about the Mystery of this Wonderful Life... *** "There will be time, there will be time To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet... ............................ ..................... Time for you and time for me, And time yet for a hundred indecisions, And for a hundred visions and revisions..." - Thomas S. Eliot

10722 views since April 21, 2007.

Get a link button for this slideshow »

Make and share your own slideshow »

1 of 36

Best congrats!

I am with Mr. Joseph Jackson.

Photo by Dr Tao

Link »

2 of 36

Dressing the first lady

I am with Mrs. Shoshana Ben-Zur, a designer & a dressmaker of Mrs. Gila Katzav ( Israeli president Mosche Katzav"s spouse) and of Mrs. Reuma Weizman (spouse of Ezer Weizman, ex-president of Israel). Shoshana Ben-Zur - a top Israeli fashion-designer N1.

Photo: Fashion-show in Hotel "Accadia", Tel-Aviv.

Photo by Dr Tao

Link »

3 of 36

Crazy with diamonds

Interview with stars & celebrities buttered my bread during a vast period of time! Glamorous Mr. Joseph Jackson is one of the pure diamonds in my own precious collection. My interview with Joseph Jackson (Moscow). It was exciting...

Photo by Dr Tao

Link »

4 of 36

After the performance

Israeli President Mr Moshe Katzav and his spouse Mrs Gila Katzav visited today a perfomance of Moscow dancers.

PHOTO
Mr Moshe Katzav (with his spouse Mrs Gila Katzav) welcomes dancers on the stage of "Heichal ha-Tarbut". 23, October, 2006. Tel-Aviv.

Israeli tour of State Academic Ensemble of Folk Dance under the auspice of Igor Moiseev (Moscow, Russia) .
Taken in "Heichal ha-Tarbut", Tel-Aviv, Israel.
23 October, 2006


Photo by Dr Tao

Link »

5 of 36

Dressing the first lady

I.
Mrs Reuma Weizman - spouse of Ezer Weizman, ex-president of Israel.

II.
Mrs Shoshana Ben-Zur, a designer & dressmaker of Ms. Reuma Weizman ( and now - of Mrs. Dalya Katzav ( Israeli president Mosche Katzav"s spouse)
Shoshana Ben-Zur - a top Israeli fashion-designer N1.

III.
Mrs Michal Modai - President of WIZO (World International Woman Zionist Organisation)

Photo: Israel. Taken in times when Mr Ezer Weizman was an Israeli President...

From my Israeli book "Dress for the first lady"



Photo by Dr Tao

Link »

6 of 36

Creating the dreams

The dance is a celebration of miracle.
-Martha Graham

Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul's weather to all who can read it.
-Martha Graham

We dance for laughter, we dance for tears, we dance for madness, we dance for fears, we dance for hopes, we dance for screams, we are the dancers, we create the dreams.
-Anonymous

Dancing appears glamorous, easy, delightful. But the path to paradise of the achievement is not easier than any other. There is fatigue so great that the body cries, even in its sleep. There are times of complete frustration, there are daily small deaths.
- Martha Graham

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

PHOTO:
Gypsy dance.
Israeli tour of State Academic Ensemble of Folk Dance under the auspice of Igor Moiseev (Moscow, Russia; please, see my notes above - on the photo) .
Taken in "Heichal ha-Tarbut", Tel-Aviv, Israel. 23 October, 2006

Photo by Dr Tao

Link »

7 of 36

Grande Dame

Mrs Raya Jaglom - Grande Dame* of Israeli High Society. .

PHOTO:
Hotel "Carlton", Tel Aviv, Israel
Taken 18 January, 2007.

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

An outstanding Zionist leader, Raya Jaglom, has
long been a standard bearer of the State of Israel
and the Zionist movement throughout the world.
She served as President of World WIZO for twenty-six
years, and is currently the organization's Honorary President.

(For more details, please, see my note on this photo above
as well
)

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

*Grande Dame - a lady of great prestige and ability

Answers.com

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Created with fd's Flickr Toys.

Photo by Dr Tao

Link »

8 of 36

Diamonds "Padani"

Uri Padani - Israeli jeweller N 1!
His diamonds have such world-known stars as Sophi Loren, Sharon
Stone, Bruk Shields etc....

He is a sole representative of "Cartier", of "Bulgari" & etc... in Israel. He has 7
boutiques.

Photo:
Taken in "Padani", Ha- Yarkon, 185. Tel-Aviv, Israel.

From my own book "Dress for the first lady".

Photo by Dr Tao

Link »

9 of 36

Untitled

Feeling myself very happy ....... in one company
with Mrs Liudmila Tihon

PHOTO:

Mrs Liudmila Tihon - spouse of an ex-Chairman of Israeli
Knesset
Taken in Hotel "Carlton", Tel Aviv, Israel.
18 January, 2007

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

What a pretty Sunny & glamorous lady! Besides,
Mrs Liudmila Tichon is one of my most favorite readers.

Well, she had won my book "Gastronomy of pleasure"
on the auction during a special party, dedicated to the presentation of this book....... Since then each time we meet each other (whether
on the Embassy"s receptions, whether on a very elegant Louis Vuitton-party, or on the parties in Hotel"Carlton", in "David Intercontinental" or in "Dan Panorama" hotel) Mrs Luidmila Tichon always says me how strongly she loves my book....... and that she is rereading my book constantly............

"Your book for me is like the most tender & luxurious cream, when I am taking a bath........... So... I do like to reread Your book every time, when I am taking a bath ".................

And those warm compliments �re always told to me in the most elegant manner - in French ............. (BTW, Luidmila Tichon speaks fluently on 6 languages as minimum.She knows brilliantly the World literature,. She is a true gourmet of Life. And she knows pretty well all the best world-known restaurants, chefs, fashion& jewellery designers, trends, ART etc. etc,,,,,,)

Really, I am very glad and honored to have such a pretty warm and kind Soul as a friend (and as my own reader as well)................... WOW! What a enchanting entourage for my own book, indeed.... My most wonderful & glamorous VIP-readers wear "Louis Vuitton" & They are graceful. sophisticated, wise, elegant, warm, successful and...... incredibly enchanting. And they
are a true Connoisseurs of the Art of Life!


--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Created with fd's Flickr Toys.

Photo by Dr Tao

Link »

10 of 36

Purchased on "Sotheby"s"

I am with Mrs. Rivka Saker, director of European "Sotheby"s" (modern art & painting; the impressionists) & of "Sotheby"s"-Israel.

Photo by Dr Tao

Link »

11 of 36

What does a writer need more?

Feeling myself very happy ....... well, one in one like a cheese "Brie", when it was acclaimed by Charles Maurice
de Talleyrand-P�rigord at the Congress of Vienna to be one
of the best among 52 types of the other fine cheeses............
(surely, kidding...........)


PHOTO:

Mrs Lena Tarasov, spouse of Ambassador, Extraordinary
and Plenipotentiary, of Russia in Israel (centre).
Mrs Liudmila Tihon, spouse of the ex-Chairman of Israeli
Knesset (with red flower).
As well very lucky author - me in a very unique
company of my most favorite VIP-readers..........
Taken 20 November, 2006. Herzliya-Pituach, Israel.
Louis-Vuitton party.





Photo by Dr Tao

Link »

12 of 36

Pleasure

People can have many different kinds of pleasure....
- Marcel Proust


PHOTO:
Ms Lisa Young, Louis Vuitton Malletier Regional Manager Southern
Europe. Taken 20 November 2006, Herzliya Pituach, Israel.
Louis Vuitton-party.


Photo by Dr Tao

Link »

13 of 36

My ideal reader

PHOTO: Mrs Lena Tarasova, spouse of Ambassador, Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, of RF

Just absolutely SUNny person!

My first READER! My IDEAL READER and... Of course my favorite woman and ?haracter! Elegant, with totally refined taste, multi-gifted, unique! Really, with the God inside her own Soul!

Mrs Lena Tarasova - initiated and arranged this wonderful "five o"clock" dedicated to my book! (in december 2005) And - my personal solo show with my reading in the Museum of Russian Art, Ramat-Gan, 05.06.2006 as well.


Photo by Dr Tao

Link »

14 of 36

Everytime You smile.........

Have a wonderful Good Day! Be able to laugh and
be funny. Learn to smile. Feel Yourself very comfortable
and relaxed. Well, have a Mind of a Millionaire! So, please,
keep in Your mind forever - You are simply a conduit for
a much larger purpose than you are.
"Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action
of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing."
--Mother Teresa

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

PHOTO:

Mrs Anastassia Michaeli - the star of Israel TV Channel 9.

Exceptionally beautiful ( not in vain she
is in huge vogue among Israeli fashion-designers,
fashion-producers & fashion-agents etc....... Well, first
I just heard her name from "Mrs Shoshana Ben-Tsur),
exceptionally warm, with exceptional Sunny
energy and, besides, so very intelligent person. Yes,
I was really charmed......


Anastassia Michaeli with her husband Itsik.
Taken in "David Intercontinental" Hotel,
Tel Aviv, Israel. 21 February, 2007

***
Surely, photo taken (as well shown on Flickr) in accordance
with kind permission of Mrs Anastassia Michaeli.

(Svp, for more details see my notes on this photo above )

Photo by Dr Tao

Link »

15 of 36

Untitled

PHOTO:

With Mrs Lena Tarasova,spouse of Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of RF


Taken December,2005 - in Herzlija-Pituah, Israel! Presentation of my gourmet-book "Gastronomy of pleasure"/ ??????? ??????. "??????????? ?????. ?????????? ????? ??? ?????????? ???"M., 2005. ISBN 5-7905-3935-1



Photo by Dr Tao

Link »

16 of 36

Make-up Queen

With Ms Pnina Rosenblum - a well-known busness-lady, Israeli cosmetics" Queen. She prefers evening dresses hand-made by Dani Mizrahi.

Photo: Ms Pnina Rosenblum, fashion-producer Ms Ilana Margalit & me. Dani Mizrahi Fashion-show. "Hilton", Tel-Aviv, Israel.

(From my book "Dress for the first lady")

Photo by Dr Tao

Link »

17 of 36

Untitled

With Mr Aleksandr Bovin - the first Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of RF in Israel

=================================================================

Juli Edelshtein, Deputy Speaker of Israeli Knesset. Just a fragment from the Preface to my Israeli book:

" This book is an honest & talanted picture of the country where author"s characters live. The author"s manner is strikingly captivating & simple - and that is a doubtless advantage for the work of non-fiction genre. Not only because every chapter is the
detailed portrait of her interlokuters. Not only because the author finds a new turning-point, a certain peak, which forces the reader to follow the thread as of the author?s conversation with her hero & as of the personal story of this hero by itself. But because out of the dozens of this mini-portraits is gradually assembled the mosaic of modern Israel ? the country geographically too small but surprisingly rich with extremely interesting people".

??????? ??????. ?????? ??? ?????? ????. ISBN 5-93273-060-9
( Dress for the First Lady)





Photo by Dr Tao

Link »

18 of 36

Tzar"s jeweller.

I am with Mr Markus Mor-Meyer, director of "Victor Meyer" Jewellery House, a sole official owner of the tremendous art-name "Faberge" (Pforzhaim, Germany).

Faberge was Romanovs" (a Great Russian Tzar Family!)personal jeweller.
Mr. Markus" grandgrand-father worked as a master in one of Faberge"s workshops.

Photo: "JB-jewellers" - Tel-Aviv, Israel.

Photo by Dr Tao

Link »

19 of 36

Shapes and appearences

"Shapes and appearences change and vary as
You touch them, and doors will open to reveal the
unexpected".
- Frank Meisler

PHOTO:

FRANK MEISLER - a world-known ISRAELI
ARTIST and SCULPTOR (my very good friend) .
Just 2 days since his arrival from London (where
he currently lives) to Tel- Aviv.............

(for more details, svp, see my notes to this photo)

Taken 18 January 2007, Hotel "Carlton", Tel-Aviv, Israel

Photo by Dr Tao

Link »

20 of 36

And... The guests

PHOTO: Israeli representative of "RTVi" TV-Channel (TV-company) - Mr Mark Meerson with his spouse and... with his invariably luxurious cigar.
Hotel "Dan-Panorama". Tel-Aviv. Israel. September 2005.
====================================================

"Israeli representative of "RTVi" TV-Channel" - a story for "Six Words Story"-pool.


Photo by Dr Tao

Link »

21 of 36

Have a nice dinner!

The finest meal in the world - is the table-talking with Your great friends! So... I am very happy to have such dinners...

Dining with Mr. Frank Meisler, the world-known Israeli sculptor

Photo: In a restauraunt of the theater-studio(under the auspices of Oleg Tabakov), Moscow.

Created with Fd"s Flickr Toys

Photo by Dr Tao

Link »

22 of 36

Intoxication

Wishing everyone a great start into a new very Lucky week!

1.
And we should consider every day lost on which we have
not danced at least once. And we should call every truth
false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.
2.
Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but
in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature,
placed alongside thereof for its conquest.
3.
For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist,
a certain physiological precondition is indispensable:
intoxication.
4.
I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more
wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal,
also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he
knows, his "divine service."
5.
We have art in order not to die of the truth.

-FRIEDRICH NIETZCHE

PHOTO:
Gypsy dance.
Israeli tour of State Academic Ensemble of Folk Dance under the auspice of Igor Moiseev (Moscow, Russia; please, see my notes above - on the photo) .
Taken in "Heichal ha-Tarbut", Tel-Aviv, Israel. 23 October, 2006

Photo by Dr Tao

Link »

23 of 36

Art & the bankers.

I am - with Mr. Frank Meisler, a world-known Israeli sculptor & artist(lives in London).

Photo: Restaurant of Oleg Tabakov"s theatre-studio, Moscow.

My favorite aphorism from my favorite Mr. Meisler: "Most of all I prefer to communicate with the bankers. Only with them one can talk about Art".

P.S. Mr. Frank fixed his own exclusive illustrations especially for my book "Dress for the First Lady". He - is my best friend!



Photo by Dr Tao

Link »

24 of 36

Shlomit Lidor - the General Director of REKA

PHOTO:

Dorit Golender (Shlomit Lidor) - General Director and Editor-in-Chief of the State Israel Radio "REKA". "REKA" - Kol Israel Radio Station in Foreign Languages

Dorit shows my gourmet-book! By the way, Dorit is the great gourmet by herself! And can cook - just "lick clean Your fingers"!


"Five-o"clock"-presentation of my Gourmet-book (published in Moscow, september 2005!) Herzlija-Pituah, Israel. December,2005.

Photo by Dr Tao

Link »

25 of 36

A la carte

"Let us go and make our visit.
In the room the women come and go
Talking of Michelangelo.
........................................................................................................................

And I have known the arms already, known them all--
Arms that are braceleted and white and bare
(But in the lamplight, downed with light brown hair!)
Is it perfume from a dress
That makes me so digress?
Arms that lie along a table, or wrap about a shawl.
And should I then presume?
And how should I begin?"

Thomas S. Eliot

===================================================================================================


PHOTO: Taken December, 2005, Herzliya-Pituah, Israel! This day had taken place just unique and beautiful "five-o"clock" - a presentation of my
gourmet book "Gastronomy of Pleasure"! Yes, with VIP-persons, with journalists etc... And - with...

And with degustation of the food, cooked according recipes from my own book! So... What can I say... Hooray!


All delicaces on this photo prepared according recipes from
my gourmet-book "Cooking book for
Rublevo wives. Gastrononmy of
pleasure"/ ??????? ??????. "??????????? ?????. ?????????? ????? ??? ?????????? ???"M., 2005. ISBN 5-7905-3935-1 That"s - 12 different
unique, interesting, unusual or historical dishes!

P.S.
On every plate You can see special cards, where mentioned - the name of the recipe, the chapter from my book and-
the number of the page!
================================================================================




Photo by Dr Tao

Link »

26 of 36

The hidden language

I try to express a people "s character through its dances in the most laconic and convincing manner. I create a single variant out of a huge amount of materials. I include the typical elements and try to cast aside all the thrifles. Grasping the people"s character from its music, history, traditions, and customs, I try to emphasize all characteristic features in order to manifest the people"s character in richer details. It"s a work of a portrait artist who tries to reveal his model"s character: to underline the essential by rejecting the insignificant.
- Igor Moiseev
(From his letter to Andre Soriat - French impressario and friend,
1950s)

Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
-Martha Graham

The physical language of the body is so much more powerful than words.
-Bill Irwin

------------------------------------------------------------

PHOTO:
taken in "Heichal ha-Tarbut", Tel-Aviv, Israel.
23 October, 2006.

Israeli tour of State Academic
Ensemble of Folk Dance under the
auspice of Igor Moiseev (Moscow, Russia) .


Photo by Dr Tao

Link »

27 of 36

An hour of degustation came...

PHOTO:
Herzlija-Pituah, Israel. December, 2005

Presentation of my gourmet-book and tasting (degustation) of dishes, cooked, according the recipes from my book "Gastronomy of pleasure"/ ??????? ??????. "??????????? ?????. ?????????? ????? ??? ?????????? ???"M., 2005. ISBN 5-7905-3935-1

Photo by Dr Tao

Link »

28 of 36

My solo-show and reading

My personal solo-show with my reading had taken place in the Museum of Russian Art, Ramat Gan, Israel. 05.07.2006.
Here can be seen just very tiny fragments, indeed........

Really, this day I had the greatest "head ache" - to make (and not to forget!) a grand speech - about myself and about my own 3books (so different in themes, in epochs, in geography, in cultures and in languages). Alas, I have no even 1 minute to consider taking photos of this event , so important for me....................
Actually, I made a speech more than 2 hours! After that I was signing my books for the readers (who asked me to sign), answering questions, chattering and so on.................

However, we"ve tried to take several shots, at least.......... ahahaha........ well, this is the result........ lol... (For more details please, see my notes to this collage)
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

COLLAGE:
all photos for this collage were taken in the Museum of Russian Culture in Ramat Gan, Israel. 05.06.2006

Photo by Dr Tao

Link »

29 of 36

A descendant of princes, valued by Salvador Dali, Marc Chagall & Publo Picasso.

I am with Mr. Zurab Tzereteli, the most famous modern Russian sculptor & painter. President of the Russian Academy of Arts.

* * *

He is a munion of fortune. He is an aesthete. He is a true worshipper of beauty. Not in vain - a descendant of a well-known ancient family of Georgian princes. He was valued by Salvador Dali, Marc Chagall & Publo Picasso. While Mr. Ezer Weizman (ex-president of Israel) was properly shaken, after seeing the works of a well-known Russian sculptor and painter Zurab Tzereteli...

Photo: Hotel "Dan", Tel-Aviv.

N.B. Please, see notes (on photo) with links to the works by Mr. Tsereteli on Flickr.


Photo by Dr Tao

Link »

30 of 36

Edita Pieha - again!


Photo by Dr Tao

Link »

31 of 36

Mysterous, sensational, bestselling

I am with Mrs. Alla Pugatchova, a top Russian singer & a pop-star N1. By the way she is our pop-star N 1 during just already 20 years!!! She is the most best-selling. ?he most popular. ?he most brilliant. ?he most fantastic. Of course, the most sensational and... At the same time - extremely clever. Intelligent. Even mysterious character in Russian show-biz.. Besides... She has lots of fabuluosly positive energy! Etc. etc...
(photo: After her concert in Tel-Aviv, Israel).



Photo by Dr Tao

Link »

32 of 36

Golden Cockerel

The State Academic Mariinsky Theater (Artistic & General Director, Chief Conductor - Maestro Valery Gergiev). Rimsky-Korsakov. "Golden Cockerel". Red Sea Music Festival. 04 January, 2007. Eilat, Israel.


For more info - please, see my note on the photo above

Created with fd's Flickr Toys.

Photo by Dr Tao

Link »

33 of 36

Couturier

VALENTIN YUDASHKIN: "Elegance - that"s just
a sense of proportion"

PAUL POIRET: "The secret of the well-dressed
lady is - never to follow fashion"

The FIRST RULE of DESIGNER DRESSING:
"the smaller the outfit the bigger the price tag".


PHOTO:
Valentin Yudashkin - member of Paris
syndicate "Haute couture". Internationally
recognized Russian couturier N1.

Taken in Tel-Aviv, Israel, several years ago (from my Archives)





Photo by Dr Tao

Link »

34 of 36

Tzar"s jeweller.

I am with Mr Markus Mor-Meyer, director of "Victor Meyer" Jewellery House, a sole official owner of the tremendous art-name "Faberge" (Pforzhaim, Germany).

Faberge was Romanovs" (a Great Russian Tzar Family!)personal jeweller.
Mr. Markus" grandgrand-father worked as a master in one of Faberge"s workshops.

Photo: "JB-jewellers" - Tel-Aviv, Israel.

Photo by Dr Tao

Link »

35 of 36

Secrets of well-dressed ladies

VALENTIN YUDASHKIN: "Elegance - that"s just
a sense of proportion"

PAUL POIRET: "The secret of the well-dressed
lady is - never to follow fashion"

The FIRST RULE of DESIGNER DRESSING:
"the smaller the outfit the bigger the price tag".


PHOTO:
Valentin Yudashkin, member of Paris syndicate "Haute
couture". Internationally recognized
Russian couturier N1.

Taken in Tel-Aviv, Israel, several years ago (from my Archives)


=================================================

Created with fd's Flickr Toys.

Photo by Dr Tao

Link »

36 of 36

Golden Cockerel

The State Academic Mariinsky Theater (Artistic & General Director, Chief Conductor - Maestro Valery Gergiev). Rimsky-Korsakov. "Golden Cockerel". Red Sea Music Festival. 04 January, 2007. Eilat, Israel.


For more info - please, see my note on the photo above

Created with fd's Flickr Toys.

Photo by Dr Tao

Link »

Tons of fun stuff... Give one of our toys a spin!

Hockneyizer, Map Maker, Wallpaper, Photobooth, Mosaic Maker, Motivator, CD Cover, Badge Maker, Mat, Jigsaw, Cube, FX, Movie Poster, Pop Art Poster, Pocket Album, Magazine Cover, Billboard, Trading Card, Bead Art, Lolcat Generator, Calendar, Framer, Color Palette Generator,

I know, right? It's a lot to take in. Go slow.