Guy Gunaratne
@guygunaratne.bsky.social
writer & other things, author of In Our Mad and Furious City and Mister, Mister
editor @jhalakreview.bsky.social
editor @jhalakreview.bsky.social
20. this is making do with Neasden
January 25, 2025 at 8:49 AM
20. this is making do with Neasden
19. this is barely out the door at 20
January 24, 2025 at 7:15 AM
19. this is barely out the door at 20
18. this is a photograph of my uncles at the drink, at a toast
January 22, 2025 at 9:52 PM
18. this is a photograph of my uncles at the drink, at a toast
16. this is a memory
*text is from a long ago abandoned novel. a dithered image, with achingly slow shimmer burns the photograph using ‘shimmerProbability’ in Processing
*text is from a long ago abandoned novel. a dithered image, with achingly slow shimmer burns the photograph using ‘shimmerProbability’ in Processing
January 20, 2025 at 8:53 PM
16. this is a memory
*text is from a long ago abandoned novel. a dithered image, with achingly slow shimmer burns the photograph using ‘shimmerProbability’ in Processing
*text is from a long ago abandoned novel. a dithered image, with achingly slow shimmer burns the photograph using ‘shimmerProbability’ in Processing
13. this is a study in opacity and lines
January 17, 2025 at 8:37 PM
13. this is a study in opacity and lines
12. this is a moiré
a phenomenon that occurs when two patterns with repeating elements overlap or interfere with each other. the interference creates an additional pattern that appears as ripples, waves or distorted shapes.
a phenomenon that occurs when two patterns with repeating elements overlap or interfere with each other. the interference creates an additional pattern that appears as ripples, waves or distorted shapes.
January 17, 2025 at 9:56 AM
12. this is a moiré
a phenomenon that occurs when two patterns with repeating elements overlap or interfere with each other. the interference creates an additional pattern that appears as ripples, waves or distorted shapes.
a phenomenon that occurs when two patterns with repeating elements overlap or interfere with each other. the interference creates an additional pattern that appears as ripples, waves or distorted shapes.
Reposted by Guy Gunaratne
On 15 January 1919, the German Spartacus communists Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht were murdered by the German Freikorps. As probably the only Indian ever, just a few weeks earlier, M.P.T. Acharya had met them both in Berlin.
www.hurstpublishers.com/book/anarchy...
www.hurstpublishers.com/book/anarchy...
Anarchy or Chaos | Hurst Publishers
The first biography of an extraordinary political thinker at the heart of India's struggles against colonial and domestic oppression.
www.hurstpublishers.com
January 15, 2025 at 7:21 AM
On 15 January 1919, the German Spartacus communists Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht were murdered by the German Freikorps. As probably the only Indian ever, just a few weeks earlier, M.P.T. Acharya had met them both in Berlin.
www.hurstpublishers.com/book/anarchy...
www.hurstpublishers.com/book/anarchy...
10. this is another study of flow fields
January 15, 2025 at 7:55 AM
10. this is another study of flow fields
09. this is a study of a sense of brown
*learning about flow fields and perlin noise algorithms
*learning about flow fields and perlin noise algorithms
January 13, 2025 at 7:57 PM
09. this is a study of a sense of brown
*learning about flow fields and perlin noise algorithms
*learning about flow fields and perlin noise algorithms
08. this is a study of Palestinian novelist, poet and politician Ghassan Kanafani
January 12, 2025 at 7:49 PM
08. this is a study of Palestinian novelist, poet and politician Ghassan Kanafani
07. this is two portraits two years apart
January 11, 2025 at 2:05 PM
07. this is two portraits two years apart
this is a clip of a dancer
January 10, 2025 at 10:50 PM
this is a clip of a dancer
this is a prince
a sketch a day, every day.
8th January 2025
a sketch a day, every day.
8th January 2025
January 8, 2025 at 11:39 AM
this is a prince
a sketch a day, every day.
8th January 2025
a sketch a day, every day.
8th January 2025
Just bumping this
I’ve been working on a short film for exhibition alongside artist Mahtab Hussain. We need some help from our South Asian, and in particular Muslim, siblings.
Send us your home videos and old photographs. It’s for something truly special.
Send us your home videos and old photographs. It’s for something truly special.
January 8, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Just bumping this
this is a filament
a sketch a day, every day.
a sketch a day, every day.
January 8, 2025 at 9:35 AM
this is a filament
a sketch a day, every day.
a sketch a day, every day.
I’ve been working on a short film for exhibition alongside artist Mahtab Hussain. We need some help from our South Asian, and in particular Muslim, siblings.
Send us your home videos and old photographs. It’s for something truly special.
Send us your home videos and old photographs. It’s for something truly special.
December 20, 2024 at 7:34 PM
I’ve been working on a short film for exhibition alongside artist Mahtab Hussain. We need some help from our South Asian, and in particular Muslim, siblings.
Send us your home videos and old photographs. It’s for something truly special.
Send us your home videos and old photographs. It’s for something truly special.
Jeff Wall at @whitecube-official.bsky.social
December 20, 2024 at 7:19 AM
Jeff Wall at @whitecube-official.bsky.social
Reposted by Guy Gunaratne
Hello Bluesky, who are we and what do we want? 👋🏽👋🏾👋🏿
Well, let us introduce ourselves. We are a collective of workers across all areas of the books and publishing industry.
For over a year, we have been organising in solidarity with Palestine and against fossil fuel finance and investment.
Well, let us introduce ourselves. We are a collective of workers across all areas of the books and publishing industry.
For over a year, we have been organising in solidarity with Palestine and against fossil fuel finance and investment.
December 16, 2024 at 12:54 PM
Hello Bluesky, who are we and what do we want? 👋🏽👋🏾👋🏿
Well, let us introduce ourselves. We are a collective of workers across all areas of the books and publishing industry.
For over a year, we have been organising in solidarity with Palestine and against fossil fuel finance and investment.
Well, let us introduce ourselves. We are a collective of workers across all areas of the books and publishing industry.
For over a year, we have been organising in solidarity with Palestine and against fossil fuel finance and investment.
An honour to be present at the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony to hear the testimony of Nihon Hidankyo - the survivors of the bombings of Nagasaki and Hiroshima - who have advocated tirelessly for the abolition of nuclear weapons. That there is a nuclear taboo at all is thanks to them.
December 11, 2024 at 5:27 PM
An honour to be present at the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony to hear the testimony of Nihon Hidankyo - the survivors of the bombings of Nagasaki and Hiroshima - who have advocated tirelessly for the abolition of nuclear weapons. That there is a nuclear taboo at all is thanks to them.
book readings forced to take place clandestinely due to far-right threats - in 2024.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Anti-racism campaigner’s London book events cancelled amid threat of far-right violence
Freedom of speech groups alarmed after events to promote book by Hope Not Hate employee are called off
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2024 at 11:41 AM
book readings forced to take place clandestinely due to far-right threats - in 2024.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Reposted by Guy Gunaratne
When the Indian nationalist Narayan Krishna attended the International Socialist Congress in Copenhagen, 1910, one newspaper noted: "Krishna has eyes like a tiger; in the dark brown beard, his eyes seem like automobile headlights on a dark road; I understand why the British government fears him."
November 22, 2024 at 6:51 AM
When the Indian nationalist Narayan Krishna attended the International Socialist Congress in Copenhagen, 1910, one newspaper noted: "Krishna has eyes like a tiger; in the dark brown beard, his eyes seem like automobile headlights on a dark road; I understand why the British government fears him."
Reposted by Guy Gunaratne
Exciting news, not just for Fosse fans, but for literary translators working with Norwegian! www.nb.no/fosse-lecture/
The Fosse Lecture and the Fosse Prize for Translators
In December 2023, it was announced that the government will honor Nobel Prize in Literature winner Jon Fosse by establishing an annual Fosse Lecture and a Fosse Scholarship for translators, organized ...
www.nb.no
November 19, 2024 at 4:19 PM
Exciting news, not just for Fosse fans, but for literary translators working with Norwegian! www.nb.no/fosse-lecture/