Monday, 7 February 2022

Nightmare Alley

Bradley Cooper, Guillermo del Toro

Good stuff.
mix between Jericho and ... some other dust-bowl film or book
Mechanique?


Sunday, 6 February 2022

Annie Louisa Swynnerton - paintings

Painting when it wasn't really "done" for women to do so. 

Painted people honest


From Hollie McNish' book "Slug"; Annie was apparently one of only a few painters to paint real depictions of working-class wome looking genuinely pissed off and bored with their work and childcare chores, at a time when the majority of the art wold preferred rosy-cheeked romanticisations of back-broken labourors. Annie also beautifully emphasised women's wrinkles in almost all of the paintings, which wasn't very fashionable in the late nineteeth and early twentieth centuries in which she worked, especially in portraits of women


https://artuk.org/discover/stories/annie-swynnerton-artist-and-activist

Teake Zuidema - Pittsburgh, under a bridge

wonderful photos

https://www.teakezuidema.com/225470310/four-mile-run-pittsburgh

Marcus Hamblett - "Nocturne" (and others)

Intriguing instrumental guitar play, perhaps a bit nervous at times.


Bob Dylan - "False Prophet" – wonderful blues-y almost parlando