夾鏡鳴琴 35. Double Reflections And The Sound Of A Lute 'Forty Scenes Of The Yuanmingyuan'

vesi on Flickr.

Latvian photographer Gunārs Janaitis was just 14 years old when he secretly took this photo of train leaving for Siberia labour camps on 25th of March, 1949. The animal wagons carried people captured by Russian authorities. The deportations were based on allegations for being either: 1) a nationalist; 2) a kulak (Soviet term for a relatively wealthy farmer). On this day in 1949, 42 125 people were deported from Latvia: 13 248 families, 11 316 men, 19 822 women, 10 987 children. Almost all of the deportees (95%) were Latvians.

to keep warm by Sandy_Vdo on Flickr.

Meursault does not find–as a humanitarian would–that other people's lives are as important as his own, but, on the contrary, that his life is as unimportant as that of anyone else's. He thus reaches the state of self-detachment, coupled with love of life, advocated in Sisyphus, and becomes a true hero of the absurd, conscious of being an outsider, the hate-free target of everybody's cries of hate. ... "the only Christ we deserve."

Lev Braun Witness of Decline

untitled by hannahelisabeth on Flickr.

September 2017

Finnish bread advertisement, hinted to me by anonymous submitter. “Only in this country you can avertise bread this way.” This piece has no subtitles but here’s translation:

Father: “Well are you hungry or not?” KOVAA KUIN ELÄMÄ (HARD AS LIFE)

(And if you’re interested in the last part the guy says that you can get jälkiuunileipä or after-oven-bread in smaller bits too)

Think rich, look poor.

Andy Warhol

National #demo2012 #6 by Marc Fairhurst on Flickr.

The cultivation of Ideas   -   René  Magritte  1927

 Belgian  1898-1967