Fiery evening sunlight on rainclouds near Asheville.
Appalachian Sunset 8”x8” oil
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Fiery evening sunlight on rainclouds near Asheville.
Appalachian Sunset 8”x8” oil
#LookAndSee
#MusicChallenge
Ambush In The Night
Bob Marley
youtube.com/watch?v=hcaP...
For #WomenInHorrorMonth, treat yourself to a book written and edited by women, and the incredible cover art was by a woman. The 2000s are in again, look back at the influential horror of that decade. Paperback, hardcover, ebook, and audiobook available.
www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1960...
Rewatch complete of Sammo Hung’s action/comedy classic. The three brothers chemistry is unequalled. The humor works while the action and stunt work are amazing. The finale is an all timer with JC vs Urquidez as one of the greatest fights captured on film. Absolutely jaw dropping!
On February 22, 2026, Naval Ravikant tweeted: "If you're unwilling to defend your country in time of war, then you're a tourist, not a citizen." As of March 3, 2026, the tweet has been deleted.
deleted his tweet as soon as an actual war popped off
As an Indian diplobrat, who still remembers the disproportionate soft power India wielded culturally and diplomatically, the way this moron chaddipanthi squandered over 60years of work of the Indian Foreign Service will never ever stop pissing me of. Just to side with imperialists and colonizers.
Kamal-ol-molk (Iranian, 1848–1940). Corner of Golestan Palace (1885-1886, oil on canvas).
‘Since October 2023 five thousand years of cultural buildings and ancient libraries have been bombed into dust in Gaza with hardly a whisper from the international media or cultural institutions.’
@selmadabbagh.bsky.social on the blog.
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/fe...
Bus Stop (2016)
Art Print: www.inprnt.com/gallery/ryot...
Oil painting as said w deep blue palette and scary sky as only avb can do MFA Boston
van Dyck selfie as Icarus. Daedalus attaching wax wings. Remember it’s Monday… take it low & slow
The blogosphere was fundamentally generous. People would write actual essays, combining personal reflection and the fruits of their reading and put them out for free.
Now, everyone has an inane reaction piece they want you to pay to read on substack.
My painting TIDAL WETLANDS
"The 45-second film, made around 1897, was the first appearance on film of what might be called a robot"
HELL. YES.
Reminds me of this piece I wrote way back, in praise of mending.
aeon.co/essays/its-t...
Painting in progress depicting a mountain landscape. 2 steep, rounded peaks developing, through many layers of colour and texture. Deep shadow in the pass and smaller contours etched into the hills, and a clouded sky above. Palette of new gamboge (ochre), Prussian blue, lap black and warm white oil paint, plus additional scribbles with pigment sticks.
#workinprogress #evolving #landscape #mountains #mixedmedia 🙂
Trust me, as an Indian who watched the transformation of storied and principled newspapers like Indian Express (hello the arc of WaPo) and even more recent outlets like NDTV into regime propaganda in real time, it really really matters. Dictators do propaganda because it works.
Tic Toc…Linocut print. 78cm-58cm. 2016.
#printmaking #linocutprint #adeadesina
#print #linocut
The entirety of the novel, Frankenstein, is a catalogue of things men will do instead of going to therapy.
"Historians of science interested in the 1980s [...] can profitably learn from one another by comparing how scientists of different stripes moved through the greedy waters they swam in."
Joseph Martin's review of Greedy Science: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
I think there is something in this. It is what I was worried about when I wrote this piece in 2021.
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/techno...
The response to this has been interesting. Quite a few Everettians saying things like "This is just Many Worlds" (it really isn't), but little from folks who cleave to other quantum interpretations. I'd like to think some have figured they had better...
www.quantamagazine.org/are-the-myst...
#MusicChallenge
#IsmuasMonthOfMusic
Day 21- A Song You Discovered By Accident
The Police - King Of Pain
The Police were releasing songs when I was living in France and I missed some of their hits. Years later, I heard this song in a bar and I instantly liked it.
youtu.be/tFN5DveQH0o?...
An old comic style of a woman looking out her window at a city skyline. The bubble says, “What a stupid time to be alive.”
My poetry chapbook UNDER KING PEST was written during India's first COVID-19 lockdown. Like almost everything I've written, it is free on the internet archive
archive.org/details/unde...
An essay about something I always find interesting: English writers noticing the war ramping up around them. In this case, it's Virginia Woolf, via her diaries. (Another @longreads.com find.)
lareviewofbooks.org/article/dont...
A narrow pathway with sunlight shining through a ceiling of plants about 8 feet above the trail. It looks like it could be a small slot canyon but it’s actually inside of a fallen tree that has split down the length of its trunk. Taken at Jedidiah Smith Redwoods State Park near Crescent City, California, on 30th July 2023.
A trail down the length of a fallen redwood tree.
🌳 #California #EastCoastKin #Hiking #Nature #Photography #Sequoia #ThickTrunkTuesday #Trail #WestCoastKin
Stephen King villains are a very funny outcome of Writing What You Know because they're so clearly based on assholes he's met in real life, even if that doesn't necessarily make sense in context, so you get shit like the giant baby-eating spider from space inexplicably being an outspoken homophobe.
cathedral of trees form an arch over a small lake/lagoon - two figures sit across the water, facing one another, feeling of expansiveness, divided by a narrow inlet of water, space between, sense of belonging
Tomás Sánchez
Contemplar, 1995
Andersson as Petra the maid in Smiles of a Summer Night
Andersson in Summer with Monika, her stunning film debut
Happy birthday to the wondrous Harriet Andersson, 94 years old today. Star of several great Ingmar Bergman films, including SMILES OF A SUMMER NIGHT, which would be a lovely watch for Valentine's Day; and SUMMER WITH MONIKA, which would not.
Nah, India has 100+ lit fests because there are around 136 writers (or 'writers'), actors, retired police personnel, politicians with lit'ry pretensions, business experts, tech founders, and miscellaneous interlocutors who would otherwise have nothing to do outside the South Delhi social season.