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I saw it with mine eyes
January 20, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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I spoke to the stars of Fallen Leaves, one of my favorite films of the year, about why this droll Finnish comedy feels so vital
www.nytimes.com/2023/11/26/m...
November 26, 2023 at 2:45 PM
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Ashton Canal, dusk #Manchester

#photography
November 13, 2023 at 5:30 PM
Elokuun yö (An August’s Night) by Alfred William Finch (1854-1930)
November 14, 2023 at 9:57 PM
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Celtic Month of the Reed begins today.
🖼️ Swans in the Reeds,
Caspar David Friedrich, c.1820.
October 28, 2023 at 5:17 PM
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Still Life with Orange and Lemon
October 22, 2023 at 6:33 AM
Photo by Pentti Sammallahti (Solovetsk, Vienan meri, 1992)
October 21, 2023 at 10:42 AM
Dawn at Helsinki airport.
October 20, 2023 at 8:40 AM
"Ilmatar" by Joseph Alanen (1885–1920). #Kalevala
October 16, 2023 at 9:09 PM
Tile Number 30, ”Forest Dwellers” - Alan’s Lee’s contribution to the Art on the Tiles charity auction to repair the roof of the Curzon Clevedon cinema in 2019. For more works, all painted on local 1920s tiles, see: facesofclevedon.com/2019/12/01/a...
October 14, 2023 at 4:16 PM
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A Public Garden with People Walking in the Rain, 1886 https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/13892
October 12, 2023 at 9:39 PM
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October 11, 2023 at 9:47 PM
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Yes I know them, we went to Twitter together.
September 21, 2023 at 1:27 PM
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These astonishing autochromes were taken by Mervyn O’Gorman in 1913 at Lulworth Cove in Dorset. They feature his daughter, Christina wearing red, a colour the autochromes process is able to reproduce vividly.
October 9, 2023 at 9:34 PM
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Today I bring you Tove Jansson’s actual flower crown from *that* pic. And yes it was plastic; wild flowers aren’t always to be found on a rocky outcrop in the Finnish archipelago, y’know. From the excellent Houses of Tove exhibition in Paris.
October 5, 2023 at 7:29 AM
‘I am fascinated by the way nature reclaims spaces that were, essentially, only ever on loan to humans.’

-Kai Fagerström

www.nhm.ac.uk/wpy/gallery/...
October 9, 2023 at 7:26 PM
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Photograph by Ismo Hölttö ‘Woman and teenage girl’ 1967 Hakaniemi, Helsinki, Finland.
October 9, 2023 at 4:12 PM
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In Japanese folklore, yogen no tori is a bird of prophecy that resembles a two-headed crow with one white head and one black head. These yokai have the ability to speak, and appear as messengers of the gods to deliver important information to humanity, including warnings about epidemics.
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October 6, 2023 at 11:31 AM
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today is a good day to learn about the Finnish "formally neutral but informally reverential pronoun, that in spoken use is almost exclusively used sarcastically to communicate that this person actually is not respected" (often used for pets)
allthingslinguistic.com/post/6720397...
October 8, 2023 at 12:27 AM
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— TS Eliot, The Dry Salvages, The Four Quartets
October 7, 2023 at 6:42 AM
Fairy Maidens of the Waters, 1919–1920 by Joseph Alanen (1885–1920). The Kalevala-inspired work shows Aino - having drowned herself rather than marry old Väinämöinen - with water goddess Vellamo’s daughters in the background.
October 7, 2023 at 9:38 AM
Kalevala-collector Lönnrot was Finland's 19th century Renaissance man yle.fi/a/3-7114585
October 6, 2023 at 4:09 PM
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"One of my favourite pictures of this time is Top Withens on the Yorkshire Moors (1945). I was then trying to photograph the country which had inspired Emily Bronte..."
Bill Brandt
October 4, 2023 at 7:46 PM