February 2012
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January 2012
2 posts
December 2011
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Percebeiros (Sea Bites) by enpiedeguerra
Short documentary (10 min.) on Galician goose barnacle fishermen, known locally as percebeiros. In Spanish/Galician.
October 2011
2 posts
September 2011
3 posts
August 2011
2 posts
Once upon a life: Paul Farley | The Observer →
I was in trouble. It was one of those deep underground stations with a passenger lift, the kind that used to have a booth inside for the guard. I flashed my pass to the man, and he frowned. “Show me that picture again,” he said. I did. He frowned harder. “They’re looking for that guy. They’re looking for you.” He pointed, glared, and then broke into a huge...
July 2011
5 posts
SUSUMU YOKOTA / Painted Room Key (by Fallon Films)
June 2011
8 posts
George Shaw talks about The Sly and Unseen Day (by South London Gallery)
Psychopomps (from the Greek word ψυχοπομπός (psychopompos), literally meaning the “guide of souls”) are creatures, spirits, angels, or deities in many religions whose responsibility is to escort newly deceased souls to the afterlife. Their role is not to judge the deceased, but simply provide safe passage. Frequently depicted on funerary art, psychopomps have been associated at...
Crane.tv visits artist Kate MccGwire in her barge studio in Hampton.
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A great chocolate-coloured pall lowered over heaven, but the wind was...
– Robert Louis Stevenson, Jekyll and Hyde
Holy Other ‘Yr Love’
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Brennan Stasiewicz, ’Daphne Guinness: Undressed’
May 2011
2 posts
In 2008, her ex-boyfriend Angus Fairhurst hanged himself. Lucas believes that...
– The Saturday interview: Sarah Lucas | The Guardian
April 2011
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March 2011
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February 2011
5 posts
I long for the days of disorder. I want them back, the days when I was alive on...
– Don DeLillo, Underworld
If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
– Web of Misleading Things | Tomorrow Museum
January 2011
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December 2010
3 posts
There is a way to master silence. Control its curves, inhabit its dark corners....
– Paul Bowles
November 2010
3 posts
As Ann Beattie once wrote, “Pain is relative.” For some writers, exploring...
– The Nervous Breakdown (via Blog of a Bookslut)
October 2010
5 posts
After the Luftwaffe had laid waste to much of east London during the blitz, the...
– Weeds by Richard Mabeyewed, reviewed by Bella Bathurst | The Observer
September 2010
2 posts
Flotsam and jetsam
In maritime law, flotsam, jetsam, lagan and derelict describe specific kinds of wreck. Historically the words had specific nautical meanings, with legal consequences.
There is a technical difference between the two most commonly-known terms, Flotsam and Jetsam: * Flotsam describes goods that are floating on the water without having been thrown in deliberately, often after a shipwreck, while *...
August 2010
2 posts
Idaho-Scrawny (by John Powell)