World is crazier and more of it than we think, incorrigibly plural.
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A day late to revisit one of my pandemic blog-posts. In honour of yesterday's birthday of Joseph Merrick, and my 2020 revisit to David Lynch's The Elephant Man.
Sad to hear about Lynch's emphysema too.
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The 'Snake from Under the Table'! :-)
The physics of this 'snake shot' by Sweden's Truls Möregårdh in table tennis at the Olympics final
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Today I realised that adulthood is mostly about eating more or less what you like unless you go to someone else's
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Nothing can prepare you for the interior of this small Norman Church at Garton-on-the-Wolds. Blown away 😯
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Not content with taking over even more of Finsbury Park, this year @Krankbrother's massive fence runs right along the New River, evicting the Mallards from their home. More evidence, if it were needed, that @haringeycouncil is not fit to run our park @FinsParkFriends
This opening ceremony is putting me in mind of the River Caves at Blackpool. #OpeningCeremony
Caravaggio's final painting, on display at the National Gallery at the moment. And some thoughts on Netflix's Ripley. And how Caravaggio painted mouths in the last few months of his life.
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It's been pointed out to me, that there's another terrifyingly empty, black mouth in the very same room as 'The Martyrdom'. Also, included alongside that painting, is 'Salome With the Head of John the Baptist'.
Scenes from a seemingly non-stop rainy July.
Also, bonus point if you can name the band and song I’m alluding to.
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An education secretary telling school staff, support staff and kids well done on their work on their SATS, and then telling them they're worth so much more than their SATs. Wonderful.
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‘Walter Benjamin once remarked that the memory of oppressed ancestors is more catalytic of rebellion than any dream of liberated descendants; Käthe Kollwitz seems to agree.’
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Things that didn’t make it into the John Singer Sargent blogpost (2).
A glimpse of the off the shoulder Madame X in a preparatory sketch, and a close up of the flash of blue in the inner elbow.
Things that didn't make it into the John Singer Sargent blogpost (14).
The Countess of Rocksavage (Sybil Sassoon). Look at those pearls and that brooch.
