toy theorist of art
I came across this while browsing podcasts on graphic novels on YouTube. While Lars Martinson spent 13 years productively and doggedly finishing Tonoharu, learning about his afterthoughts in the form of these 4 time-saving tips is a boon for someone battling ADHD and perfectionism-related procrastination.
I had heard about Leila in a Newslaundry interview of Madhu Trehan by Manisha Pandey. It’s interesting that all three, including Prayaag are journalists. As for the topological camouflage in Leila, the language has the ability to camouflage, as much as it has the ability to reveal.While journalism is mostly about direct communication of what …
Stephen Graham Jones, Earthdivers Vol 2: Ice Age, (IDW) nominated for best writer at Eisner 2024. — One wonders if the pre-Columbian Americas had a “classical” literary culture. The U.S. before Columbus invasion had indigenous cultures like Mississippian, Pueblos (Anasazi), Iroquois, Hopewell, Hohokam. — Stephen Graham Jones is not referring to any particular indigenous culture, …
Miranda July’s “Roy Spivey” in The New Yorker:The Writer’s Voice podcast A fictional work, dotted with humour that ends on a sad note, can be devastating, as David Sedaris, who read the story in the podcast, tells Deborah Treisman, the New Yorker fiction editor. Life is Beautiful, film by Roberto Benigni — was heart-wrenching precisely …
As a B1 FLE student, I searched for a French comedy on Netflix India and found Pourris Gâtés (spoiled brats). The millionaire dad who pretends to be broke to reform his spoiled brat children, the plot itself is very humorous, and the film lived up to my expectation. As a genre, it looks like an …
At the film’s end, there is an arresting final image of the Rifle Club as a collective protagonist. It dawned on me when Unni Vlogs pointed out in a review that there is no one particular “hero” in the film, despite the unassuming jovial figure of Avaran, the secretary of the Rifle Club. The film …
In The Vegetarian, it’s the same set of events, Yeong-hye’s decision to be a vegetarian, but from the perspectives of three close relatives of the protagonist: her husband, her brother-in-law, her sisiter. It’s only when reading part three, from Yeong-hye’s sister’s perspective—in the third person narrative— that it occured to me that we never heard …
When my cinephile friend Akhilesh Sreedharan (from my JNU days), recently suggested the film White God on Mubi, I was immediately curious. I have never seen an art house film like White God, that has moved me so much. I was literally in tears, by the end of the film. The feeling was similar to …
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