De man ging voor de spiegel staan en nam zichzelf op van top tot teen. Voor iemand van bijna 50 zag hij er goed uit, vond hijzelf. Hij draaide zich...

For Theodor Lessing, insight was attained through suffering, and knowledge was pain.

639 jaar John Cage: In Halberstadt klinkt een stuk van John Cage dat 639 jaar duurt. Om de paar jaar is er een wisseling van klank. Zaterdag verdween de ‘gis’, een eenzame, onopgemerkte noot.

On suffering, and not.

review from the new yorker

I have made, for reasons of survival, a commitment to the uncertain nature of the world. This is where my heart lies. I suspect it always has.

Mary Ellen Mark's skill was “to be able to pull things from reality, to see what’s strange and real”. Her Seattle story focused on a group of teenagers, some as young as 13, who had run away from home and were surviving selling drugs or by selling themselves for sex. She stayed involved with them in different ways. She tried to adopt one 13-year-old girl, Tiny, a sex worker, to remove her from the place; when that did not succeed, Mark worked with her husband, film-maker Martin Bell, to make a documentary that drew attention to these children’s lives. She stayed in touch with Tiny and the other kids throughout her life.

not february

one of the things i do is collect things, in both the analogue and the digital realm. when i was an artist i could pretend that these were materials that i could use to make artworks with one day but what’s my excuse now? one thing i collect is pictures of people who have killed themselves. it is a particular genre of photography which you could write a book about but i don’t have time. there is a particular kind of picture that is beloved by editors of newspapers to accompany the story of someone’s suicide, they have to look happy, and if the dead person is a young woman she has to look beautiful and happy. how could this beautiful happy young woman kill themselves? she had everything to live for! but no one knows what it feels like to be a person in the world who is not yourself, and even if it is yourself you might not know.

i fucking loved this doco.

wtf is with taking a fucking pangolin hostage and demanding a ransom?

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