Somesh Roy
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A Detective Story, from the Animatrix Anthology, directed by Shinichirō Watanabe, Studio 4 °C. Private eye Ash, Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe combined, follows the white rabbit through breathtaking snowflakes, searching for Trinity. Steampunk Lewis Carroll, Max Payne-ish.
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October 12, 2025 at 5:00 PM
A Detective Story, from the Animatrix Anthology, directed by Shinichirō Watanabe, Studio 4 °C. Private eye Ash, Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe combined, follows the white rabbit through breathtaking snowflakes, searching for Trinity. Steampunk Lewis Carroll, Max Payne-ish.
tinyurl.com/redqueenalice
tinyurl.com/redqueenalice
August 30, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Obsolescent sentiment from Charlie Mackesy’s The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse, Ebury Press, 2019.
August 11, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Obsolescent sentiment from Charlie Mackesy’s The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse, Ebury Press, 2019.
A clip from the animated short, directed by Peter Baynton and Charlie Mackesy in 2022.
August 11, 2025 at 3:24 PM
A clip from the animated short, directed by Peter Baynton and Charlie Mackesy in 2022.
Simone Weil wrote, in 'Void and Compensation', 'It is impossible to forgive whoever has done us harm if that harm has lowered us. We have to think that it has not lowered us, but has revealed our true level...To know this is forgiveness.' For Nussbaum, it's unconditional love.
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tinyurl.com/ytsenma
July 20, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Simone Weil wrote, in 'Void and Compensation', 'It is impossible to forgive whoever has done us harm if that harm has lowered us. We have to think that it has not lowered us, but has revealed our true level...To know this is forgiveness.' For Nussbaum, it's unconditional love.
tinyurl.com/ytsenma
tinyurl.com/ytsenma
‘I do not think misery is more profound than happiness…I happen to believe in the beauty of simple things.’ A clip from In No Great Hurry: 13 Lessons in Life with Saul Leiter, 2012, by Tomas Leach.
July 9, 2025 at 2:49 PM
‘I do not think misery is more profound than happiness…I happen to believe in the beauty of simple things.’ A clip from In No Great Hurry: 13 Lessons in Life with Saul Leiter, 2012, by Tomas Leach.
In Regarding the Pain of Others, Susan Sontag noted the grand scale of human suffering in Sebastião Salgado’s migration pictures that invited the viewers ‘to feel that the sufferings and misfortunes are too vast, too irrevocable, too epic’ to be ever redeemed. Bit unfair.
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tinyurl.com/Salgadopic2
May 24, 2025 at 6:33 PM
In Regarding the Pain of Others, Susan Sontag noted the grand scale of human suffering in Sebastião Salgado’s migration pictures that invited the viewers ‘to feel that the sufferings and misfortunes are too vast, too irrevocable, too epic’ to be ever redeemed. Bit unfair.
tinyurl.com/Salgadopic2
tinyurl.com/Salgadopic2
Every leaf is different from another, Nietzsche wrote in 1873, but we tend to erase these differences, imagining leaves as ‘woven, drawn, delineated, coloured, curled, painted, by a clumsy pair of hands.’ Robert Mapplethorpe, in 1989, photographed one, single leaf, as an example .
May 19, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Every leaf is different from another, Nietzsche wrote in 1873, but we tend to erase these differences, imagining leaves as ‘woven, drawn, delineated, coloured, curled, painted, by a clumsy pair of hands.’ Robert Mapplethorpe, in 1989, photographed one, single leaf, as an example .
April 19, 2025 at 11:04 AM
April 19, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Gifts are impossible.
March 31, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Gifts are impossible.
Every crystal is a masterpiece of design, and Wilson Bentley noted, 'no one design was ever repeated'. A plate from Israel Perkins Warren’s book, Snowflakes: A Chapter From the Book of Nature (1863).
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March 11, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Every crystal is a masterpiece of design, and Wilson Bentley noted, 'no one design was ever repeated'. A plate from Israel Perkins Warren’s book, Snowflakes: A Chapter From the Book of Nature (1863).
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Isaac shares a tender moment with Rusty, his family horse. Photographed by Carolyn Kaster, for Associated Press.
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February 28, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Isaac shares a tender moment with Rusty, his family horse. Photographed by Carolyn Kaster, for Associated Press.
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Richard Dawkins converses with ChatGPT where, among other things, they discuss the terrible idea that shows of compassion and empathy can be performative. Hunger can be feigned too, not just faked, but in its etymological sense, created, invented.
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February 22, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Richard Dawkins converses with ChatGPT where, among other things, they discuss the terrible idea that shows of compassion and empathy can be performative. Hunger can be feigned too, not just faked, but in its etymological sense, created, invented.
richarddawkins.substack.com/p/are-you-co...
richarddawkins.substack.com/p/are-you-co...
February 22, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Scholasticide.
Why Israel’s Raid on a Palestinian Bookshop Matters
The real threat posed by detained booksellers Mahmoud and Ahmad Muna is their willingness to engage with Jewish-Israelis amid a state narrative that presents all Palestinians as terrorists
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February 17, 2025 at 4:46 AM
Scholasticide.
Heart of Nature by Arun Mitra
At this old age I am saying to the tree
Sit the sun on your broken branch
Ha ha I am saying to the tree…
It is dark now and I am saying to the river
Dance the fairy on your dead bed
Ha ha I am saying to the river…
At this old age I am saying to the tree
Sit the sun on your broken branch
Ha ha I am saying to the tree…
It is dark now and I am saying to the river
Dance the fairy on your dead bed
Ha ha I am saying to the river…
February 15, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Heart of Nature by Arun Mitra
At this old age I am saying to the tree
Sit the sun on your broken branch
Ha ha I am saying to the tree…
It is dark now and I am saying to the river
Dance the fairy on your dead bed
Ha ha I am saying to the river…
At this old age I am saying to the tree
Sit the sun on your broken branch
Ha ha I am saying to the tree…
It is dark now and I am saying to the river
Dance the fairy on your dead bed
Ha ha I am saying to the river…
The path to wisdom is subjective, and deeply personal. psyche.co/ideas/wisdom...
February 3, 2025 at 2:05 PM
The path to wisdom is subjective, and deeply personal. psyche.co/ideas/wisdom...
A BBC School Radio adaptation of the tragic tale of The Little Mermaid. downloads.bbc.co.uk/schoolradio/...
The original, translated by Jean Hersholt, a Danish actor who translated all of Andersen's tales collected in six volumes, can be found here: andersen.sdu.dk/vaerk/hersho...
The original, translated by Jean Hersholt, a Danish actor who translated all of Andersen's tales collected in six volumes, can be found here: andersen.sdu.dk/vaerk/hersho...
February 3, 2025 at 2:02 PM
A BBC School Radio adaptation of the tragic tale of The Little Mermaid. downloads.bbc.co.uk/schoolradio/...
The original, translated by Jean Hersholt, a Danish actor who translated all of Andersen's tales collected in six volumes, can be found here: andersen.sdu.dk/vaerk/hersho...
The original, translated by Jean Hersholt, a Danish actor who translated all of Andersen's tales collected in six volumes, can be found here: andersen.sdu.dk/vaerk/hersho...
Reposted by Somesh Roy
‘Uncomfortable truths’: controversial film challenges authorship of famous photo
‘Uncomfortable truths’: controversial film challenges authorship of famous photo
The Stringer, which premiered at Sundance, alleges that an incorrect credit was given for iconic ‘Napalm Girl’ picture
A controversial new documentary that premiered at the Sundance film festival on Saturday night disputes the authorship of one of the…
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January 26, 2025 at 9:35 PM
‘Uncomfortable truths’: controversial film challenges authorship of famous photo
‘Reserving judgements is a matter of infinite hope.’ F Scott Fitzgerald, *The Great Gatsby*, 1926
January 24, 2025 at 2:24 PM
‘Reserving judgements is a matter of infinite hope.’ F Scott Fitzgerald, *The Great Gatsby*, 1926
A bestiary of loss, 'a resource for collective mourning, a means to visualize the scale of loss, and perhaps a spur to action.' The Anthropocene epoch.
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A Bestiary of Loss
To mark Lost Species Day, images of 39 recently extinct animals and their stories — from the aurochs to the ivory-billed woodpecker.
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January 24, 2025 at 2:20 PM
A bestiary of loss, 'a resource for collective mourning, a means to visualize the scale of loss, and perhaps a spur to action.' The Anthropocene epoch.
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A woman and a child enjoying an afternoon in Bangladesh. This should have been the photograph for the first quarter of this century, but it isn't. Mohammad Ponir Hossain, for Reuters.
January 24, 2025 at 2:09 PM
A woman and a child enjoying an afternoon in Bangladesh. This should have been the photograph for the first quarter of this century, but it isn't. Mohammad Ponir Hossain, for Reuters.
This photograph by Thomas Peter, for Reuters, of a Ukrainian commander just about sums up the first quarter of twenty-first century. Revenge on one hand, and hate on the other.
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January 24, 2025 at 1:47 PM
This photograph by Thomas Peter, for Reuters, of a Ukrainian commander just about sums up the first quarter of twenty-first century. Revenge on one hand, and hate on the other.
www.reuters.com/investigates...
www.reuters.com/investigates...