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some nice shots from Hiromi Nakashima's new photobook In Memory of Haru no Taki

Brussels 2024

Great analysis from the great @thelincoln.bsky.social, with bonus inclusion of some of the most extravagantly awful writing imaginable.

Rev. Jesse Jackson's "I *am* somebody..." remains one of the all-time great pieces of 20th century rhetoric / agitprop And he could deliver it at a Black separatist meeting, the Democratic National Convention, or on god-blessed Sesame Street (see below 🥹) RIP to the Voice of the Voiceless

Marty Supreme's a really good movie, and I liked reading @naomialderman.bsky.social's thoughts about it: naomialderman.substack.com/p/look-at-me...

Oooh, wow – Valknee's done a track with Chinza Dopeness www.youtube.com/watch?v=16sJ...

For those who like audio, & short stories, 3 of mine are repeated this week - mon/tues/wed - they are linked & tx goes A, Andria, B, Boris, C Chiara - on Radio 4 Extra - today, 15.45 I GOT THE DOG www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...

first green bud of the year is out. life continues in 2026.

victims' names couldn't be more symbolic. fascism kills what's good and beautiful.

Stan's the best

Ted Turton, the painter who co-founded the Galway Arts Festival, wrote a lovely memoir about his adventures with the legendary Footsbarn Travelling Theatre. I had the pleasure of copy-editing it, and it's on sale at @kennysbookshop.bsky.social: www.kennys.ie/shop/my-trav... [1/2] tedturtonart.com

9 yr old kid I played table tennis with yesterday kept calling me Eddy. He'd misheard my name as Eduardo. Thinking of going with that name in the future.

This is AMAZING.

get to it

"In Dreams of Another, I wanted to depict a world of dreams that’s unstable, ever-changing, and hazy" ~ Baiyon https://www.creativebloq.com/3d/video-game-design/how-abstract-art-graphic-design-and-point-cloud-tech-combine-in-unique-indie-game-dreams-of-another

Flann says hi

You either love false dichotomies or you don't.

read a bit in my copy of The Essential June Jordan & was struck by this one in particular, Something Like A Sonnet for Phillis Miracle Wheatley. googling i found a long article written by Jordan about the poem, and its subject, Phillis Wheatley, and the poetry she wrote, in the US in the mid 1700s.

Is there – could there even be – any better single song off a 1980s new wave Roland Barthes concept album? www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEDr...

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

shots fired

first time i know of that a thing i've done was cited in a footnote

dreamt that i played my saxophone differently, like a flute, and that it worked

Couldn't recall why I'd saved this picture, Image search reminds me it's a photograph taken by Tokugawa Yoshinobu (the last Tokugawa shogun) of his cat, Han. It is perhaps Japan's oldest pet cat photo.

i just remembered last night i dreamed about decimal letters in between the alphabet that could be used to describe the world in more detail

Ah hey, Arte uploaded a 2020 concert by Sebastien Tellier to youtube Link timestamped directly to L'Amour et la Violence: www.youtube.com/watch?v=470X...

hey if you have a chance to see Weathering by Faye Driscoll, by all means go see it. apparently theyre touring to Paris next. one of the best works of art ive seen in a while.

i translated two of five* texts included in this Thames & Hudson book featuring the photos from Daido Moriyama's first four photobooks www.thamesandhudson.com/products/mor... *(pretty sure it's 5 texts, but not 100% sure // i did the translations ca 2018 & 2019, originally for different editions)

what is scrivener using 'significant energy' for. don't dream too big, little scrivener, we're only doing words today, as always.

made this cute lil loaf of bread just now

Robert Redford, one of two Roberts I was named after.

Nile Koetting's new piece Blossoms – Fulfilment: v good. see it if you're in tokyo. www.terrada.co.jp/en/news/8426/

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i need tony morris to perform in tokyo www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZCg...

been in japan for precisely 13 years right about now / a little more than a third of my life

not that i'd claim any kind of authority on the matter, but having performed on theatre stages for a little over two years now i feel like i've found a good way to balance acting (what goes on inside) and performing (what i show outside), as well as own ideas + taking directions. fun thing to learn.

This is such a funny paragraph of a BlueSky-style "well actually" in real life. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Ah, Larkin - yes, he’s glum and moody, but also comic, sweet, and sincere; alive to life’s humiliations and redemptions, neither of which are experienced on any grand scale. there is just the fleeting view from a train; the light of dawn around the curtains; the hedgehog dead in the mower

Ach Ach

drop nineteens kinda day www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4oC...

Always trust John Self's book recommendations.

Reminder that Randall is a very good novel which deserves many readers.

sung "raindrops keep falling on my head" in cat speech to one of the cats while preparing lunch earlier, putting ever more vibrato on the line-ending meows, to little notice (not to speak of appreciation) by the audience

one goal in life is to find a way to wear a pencil moustache with seriosity. i'm not quite there yet.