Brían Hanrahan

"I think that there isn't a photograph in the world that has any narrative ability. Any of 'em. They do not tell stories T they show you what something looks like. To a camera. The minute you relate this thing to what was photographed - it's a lie. It's two-dimensional. S the illusion of literal description. The thing has to e complete in the frame, whether you have the narrative information or not.

great opinionated interview with the big man

Garry Winogrand is Interviewed (1982)
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middle aged Garry Winogrand standing on a street corner, wizened face, curly hair, light jacket & shirt, camera on a strap around his neck

Winogrand in action

GB stamp 1972 commemorating 50 years of the BBC, including a variety of microphones from that period

DDR microphone stamp 1961, white and black on red

Brazilian stamp 1986 celebrating the federal radio broadcasting system, featuring a lone microphone standing against the silhouette of a city

1979 Guinea stamp celebrating the visit of Giscard D'Estaing shows him standing reading from a sheet of paper in front of a number of microphones

microphones on stamps

small concrete building painted white with pictures of Duff beer and Moe the bartender looking shifty

a Simpsons bar

Kári's expert summary of punctuation marks in Nordic football ⬇️⬇️⬇️

ah that warms my heart!

Great answer! I would have loved to read it on their site

you should post more about football on here 🙏 I'm always happy to see your astute & funny takes on the MBMs

App showing details of a football match: Bodø/Glimt 3 Sporting Lisbon 0 in the first leg round of 16 Champions League 2025-6

Bodø/Glimt forward-slashing their way to victory

yeah, a folk hero... until you read what they actually did

from the Wiki page it seems his daughter is still alive, she must be extremely old

Verses 93-95 and a monochrome xylograph showing 1 dead & 2 living police (Jerónimo Suárez) 93 Manoel Ferreira, 0 "velho" era o nome do marido, de Joana, a Nanã, (sua esposa tinha morrido) estava portanto, viúvo, livre desempedido. 94 Veja só a confusão que acabou acontecendo, Pois Maria assim ficou, da irmã, enteada sendo, esta por sua vez por madrasta aparecendo. 95 Era sogra da irmã e também do enteado, de quem era ainda cunhada nesse caso complicado, pois também sua irmã tinha o sogro por cunhado. J

160 verses long

sepia color pamphlet "LAMPIAO Origens de familia e primórdios guerreiros do famoso cangaceiro" by antonio amaury corrêa de araujo, showing a photo of the bandit with wide brimmed hat and small glasses

the life and adventures of Lampiāo
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I hope you can. It's a lot more full of people than it used to be but many v beautiful places

cheers Ian

abandoned house, Co. Wicklow

les mots et les choses

carved wooden key rack, shaped like a handgun

keep my gun by the door

"take what you need and you leave the rest"

Kafka im Bus
andyamholst.com/2014/11/07/1...

some people do seem to have a lot of strong emotions they are just waiting to unload 🤔😵‍💫

all entirely true, alas, except for the Musk part

this post attracted a surprising number of aggressive US-Americans who informed me I was a Musk fanboy, that I hated Books and Writing, was a philistine, a shallow moron, etc. 🤔🤔

The first excerpt from The Coast of Everything to be published is up now at the wonderful 3:AM Magazine. Many thanks to them and to @andrewgallix.bsky.social

www.3ammagazine.com/3am/what-is-...

The lower half of a manuscript page, featuring a marginal figure dragging a portion of text encircled with a rope into place.

A marginal figure drags an omitted portion of text into place in this copy of Thomas Hoccleve's Regiment of Princes (Arundel MS 38).

extract from Deluxe/Guattari, What is Philosophy (1991/94) We require just a little order to protect us from chaos. Nothing is more distressing than a thought that escapes itself, than ideas that fly off, that disappear hardly formed, already eroded by forgetfulness or precipitated into others that we no longer master. These are infinite variabilities, the appearing and disappearing of which coincide. They are infinite speeds that blend into the immobility of the colorless and silent nothingness they traverse, without nature or thought. This is the instant of which we do not know whether it is too long or too short for time. We receive sudden jolts that beat like arteries. We constantly lose our ideas.

extract from Deluxe/Guattari, What is Philosophy (1991/94) We constantly lose our ideas. That is why we want to hang on to fixed opinions so much. We ask only that our ideas are linked together according to a minimum of constant rules. All that the association of ideas has ever meant is providing us with these protective rules—resemblance, contiguity, causality—which enable us to put some order into ideas, preventing our "fantasy" (delirium, Madness) from.crossing the universe in an instant, producing winged horses and dragons breathing fire.

an amazing passage: the acute distress of irretrievably forgetting an idea, losing track, losing your train of thoughts

Stupidology | William Davies The challenge posed by this political crisis is how to take the stupidity seriously without reducing it to a wholly mental or psychiatric, let alone genetic, phenomenon. Stupidity can be understood as...

Really enjoyed this piece by @will-davies.bsky.social on Trumpian "stupidity", which thrives when judgement is outsourced to financial markets and digital platforms, and makes the panicked 2016 discourse about post-truth politics seem altogether quaint www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/pol...

lines from Hardin, Tribute to Hank Williams Hardly nobody knew that night how soon they'd be crying Hardly nobody knew that night hank williams was dieing

"hardly nobody": beautiful construction

🙏 cheers P nice to see you back :)

ah go on, give it a try, you might enjoy it

DOUGLAS KEARNEY Runaway Tongue broken black gone, broke to the canebrake? get it! gẹt it? get it! get it? get it get it? get it get it! get it? selit? get it? the canebrake's english ®'chu expect2! get iget it! breaking brokered a welwet coach gette by the cane breaking open the broken's brains? for coonilingus? get it? the black's broke english what? brooks break-ins on the breakers' english braking breakers' breaking. • what i meant when i say what i had say was get it? get it! get it? get it! get ift it? get it? av get it? get it? 20 get it! aS •N keen black When get it? tongues keen ant what they can ken, canny. canines can't so the futile get it! scan they lines through tongues' fen. blacks break t.u.gitive? get it! get it? get it. open. get it? get it? BREA

dogs them in the break

- Douglas Kearney, “Runaway Tongue”

two people, one on a ladder, painting a football goal with a tree overhanging and a colorful fence beside them

painting goals

Marguerite Yourcenar being interviewed, quoting Jean Cocteau

"What would you take away if the house was on fire? I would take the fire."
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