I compiled a small gallery of stills from the 1953 Yasujirō Ozu film, Tokyo Story. I simply took screenshots when the camera stayed put on some detail or setting, free from dialogue. These shots are simply but beautifully framed and together would not be out of place as a photobook or exhibition. The cinematography of…
There’s little to match the potential incrimination of video footage. A camera sensor cannot lie; it offers a view so much more objective than the darts of our biased theorizing eyes as they read scenes and situations by projecting out a lifetime of fears and expectations. The camera is a grid of light-sensitive pixels that…
June 23rd: with little to no rain and generally no wind, conditions were perfect for this year’s National Rubbish Burning Night. Despite a downturn in the tradition over recent years, there was still a large turnout all over the country, particularly in smaller communities where specimen rubbish items tend to be hoarded away in old…
“I laid my heart open to the benign indifference of the universe”. To feel the incongruity of the book’s situation, you have to feel what Mersault seems to refuse to: empathy. With a reader’s empathy you follow his thought and actions with a sense of understanding, and allow yourself to be as confused and blinded…
Is the need for people to be secure not undermined by their right to buy guns? It is happening again. Another unhinged slaying of innocents. Another school, another young man unleashing a shocking expression of hate and anger. A scarily familiar news story emerging in its horrible details that resolve from vague guesses to real…
