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Gap Week (January 24, 2025)

Hey, folks. As much as I hate doing it, I have to pull a ‘gap week’ this week, as the second part of the Gracchi series (on the younger brother, Gaius Gracchus) isn’t done yet and I have some academic travel that I need to prepare for which is going to demand most of my … Continue reading Gap Week (January 24, 2025) →

13 hours ago 8 votes
Antigone

Storms and Tyrants

15 hours ago 4 votes
Where Do You Put the Camera? Every Frame a Painting Presents Insights from Famous Directors

Whether or not we believe in auteurhood, we each have our own mental image of what a film director does. But if we’ve never actually seen one at work, we’re liable not to understand what the actual experience of directing feels like: making decision after decision after decision, during the shoot and at all other […]

21 hours ago 3 votes
The Sun by Frans Masereel, A Story Without Words – 1919

“One discovers the light in darkness, that is what darkness is for; but everything in our lives depends on how we bear the light,” – James Baldwin, Nothing Personal      The Sun (1919) by Frans Masereel (1889–1972) opens with an artist resting his head on his desk beneath an open window beyond which we … Continue reading "The Sun by Frans Masereel, A Story Without Words – 1919" The post The Sun by Frans Masereel, A Story Without Words – 1919 appeared first on Flashbak.

20 hours ago 3 votes
The Mad Duchess Lives

The Mad Duchess Lives JamesHoare Fri, 01/24/2025 - 09:10

21 hours ago 3 votes