A post election day poem
From the guys at reasons to be cheerful
God Bless America
Trump is poised to win. How did that happen? I guess the world is just so badly fucked that anything is possible. Clinton’s great mantra was "it’s the economy, stupid’. That still holds but is combined with a narrative about who controls reality, and who can put out enough lies and make gullible people believe …
London 27 Oct 2024
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Van Gogh: poets and lovers
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Now you see us …
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From The New Yorker
Does anybody really know you? It’s a question that arises at odd moments—sometimes, perversely, when we’re surrounded by people who know us well. Suddenly, we become conscious of an inner sanctum they’ve never breached. We might perceive ourselves as lost, abandoned, as though we’re passing through the world unnoticed. We feel many variations of a …
London Street Photography 28th September 2024
EW 65: Genius and Contentment
Introduction: Eyecatching’s new direction You may have noticed that I’ve become erratic of late, for which I apologise (particularly to those of you who like structure and like to stick to it). But the fact is that what I want to say and how often I want to say it is not really something that …
The Watts’s genius
4th March 2024 A visit to Watts gallery in Compton (Surrey that is, not California) reminded me that the legacy was about both George Watts and his second wife Mary, more than thirty years his junior. That legacy was primarily aesthetic and spiritual, and not merely painterly. But it was also proto-socialist as the Watts …
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