A Syrian woman cooks at a refugee camp on the northern Greek border point of Idomeni: photo by Petros Giannakouris / AP, 11 May 2016
The feeling that life is essentially inadequate to the human spirit,
and
yet that a good life must avoid saying so, is naturally at home with
most versions of pastoral; in pastoral you take a limited life and
pretend it is the full and normal one, and a suggestion that one must do
this with all life, because the normal is itself limited, is easily put
into the trick though not necessary to its power. Conversely any
expression of the idea that all life is limited may be regarded as only a
trick of pastoral, perhaps chiefly intended to hold all our attention
and sympathy for some limited life, though again this is not necessary
to it either on grounds of truth or beauty; in fact the suggestion of
pastoral may be only a protection for the idea which must at last be
taken alone.
William Empson: from Some
Versions of the Pastoral, 1935
William Empson: Let It Go
It is this deep blankness is the real thing strange.
The more things happen to you the more you can't
Tell or remember even what they were.
The contradictions cover such a range.
The talk would talk and go so far aslant.
You don't want madhouse and the whole thing there.
William Empson (1906-1984), Let It Go, from Collected Poems (1949)
It is this deep blankness is the real thing strange.
The more things happen to you the more you can't
Tell or remember even what they were.
The contradictions cover such a range.
The talk would talk and go so far aslant.
You don't want madhouse and the whole thing there.
William Empson (1906-1984), Let It Go, from Collected Poems (1949)
A Palestinian family sit next to their luggage as they wait to enter Egypt through the Rafah border crossing: photo by Khalil Hamra / AP Photo, 11 May 2016
Palestinian children sit at the window of their family house in the east of Al Shejaeiya neighborhood, east of Gaza City near the border between the Gaza strip and Israel: photo by Mohammed Saber/EPA, 6 May 2016
Palestinian children sit at the window of their family house in the
east of Al Shejaeiya neighborhood, east of Gaza City near the border
between the Gaza strip and Israel: photo by Mohammed Saber/EPA, 6 May 2016
The renowned Russian conductor Valery Gergiev led a triumphant concert performed by the Mariinsky Symphony Orchestra in the ruins of the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra, once terrorized by the Islamic State group, even as an airstrike on a refugee camp in the north left dozens of people dead and dozens wounded, including many children: photo by Olga Balashova/AP, 6 May 2016
The renowned Russian conductor Valery Gergiev led a triumphant concert performed by the Mariinsky Symphony Orchestra in the ruins of the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra, once terrorized by the Islamic State group, even as an airstrike on a refugee camp in the north left dozens of people dead and dozens wounded, including many children: photo by Olga Balashova/AP, 6 May 2016
The renowned Russian conductor Valery Gergiev led a triumphant concert performed by the Mariinsky Symphony Orchestra in the ruins of the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra, once terrorized by the Islamic State group, even as an airstrike on a refugee camp in the north left dozens of people dead and dozens wounded, including many children: photo by Olga Balashova/AP, 6 May 2016
Russia's Mariinsky Theatre performs at the amphitheater of the Syrian city of Palmyra, Syria in this picture provided by SANA: photo by SANA/Reuters, 5 May 2016
A long-exposure photograph captures a Russian serviceman as he takes part in a rehearsal for the Victory Day parade to mark the 71st anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany in World War II in Red Square in Moscow, Russia: photo by Sergei Karpukhin / Reuters, 5 May 2016
A boy sits on a tank on display at the Armored Corps memorial, before a ceremony marking the annual Memorial Day for soldiers and civilians killed in more than a century of conflict between Jews and Arabs, in Latrun near Jerusalem, Israel: photo by Ariel Schalit/AP, 11 May 2016
U.S. servicemen wait for an opening ceremony of U.S. led joint military exercise “Noble Partner 2016″ in Vaziani, Georgia: photo by David Mdzinarishvili/Reuters, 11 May 2016
Indian policemen try to detain supporters of the Indian Kashmir politician, Engineer Abdul Rashid Sheikh, during a protest in Srinagar: photo by Farooq Khan / EPA, 19 April 2016
Women gather at the base of the Tower of Juche Idea listening to songs in Pyongyang, North Korea. North Korea is marking the ‘Day of the Sun’, celebrating the day of birth of the country’s founder, Kim Il-sung. The Day of the Sun is a national holiday.: photo by Franck Robichon/EPA, 15 April 2016
The portraits of the late North Korean leaders Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il are illuminated on the side of a building in Pyongyang, North Korea. North Korea on Friday opened the first full congress of its ruling party since 1980.: photo by Wong Maye-e / AP, 6 May 2016
Russian cadets share jokes as they wait for the start of a commemorative action ahead of Victory Day in the Victory Park Memorial complex at the Poklonnaya Hill in Moscow: photo by Yuri Kochetkov / EPA, 6 May 2016
Russian WWII veterans lay flowers at the Eternal Fire in the Victory Park Memorial complex at the Poklonnaya Hill in Moscow, Russia on the day of memory of Saint Georges the Victorious, the heavenly patron of Moscow and warriors: photo by Yuri Kochetkov/EPA, 6 May 2016
Russian WWII veterans lay flowers at the Eternal Fire in the Victory Park Memorial complex at the Poklonnaya Hill in Moscow, Russia on the day of memory of Saint Georges the Victorious, the heavenly patron of Moscow and warriors: photo by Yuri Kochetkov/EPA, 6 May 2016
Bulgarian veterans from World War II attend a military parade at the Alexander Batemberg Square in Sofia, Bulgaria to celebrate Day of Bravery commemorations: photo by Vassil Donev/EPA, 6 May 2016
Bulgarian veterans from World War II attend a military parade at the Alexander Batemberg Square in Sofia, Bulgaria to celebrate Day of Bravery commemorations: photo by Vassil Donev/EPA, 6 May 2016
A Macedonian police officer guards the Public Revenue Office in Skopje after it was targeted by protesters with water guns filled with paint, during a protest dubbed the ‘Colourful Revolution’: photo by Georgi Licovski / EPA, 11 May 2016
A doll of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary
Clinton is seen in the back pocket of a person as he waits for her to
make a campaign stop at the Douglass Park Gymnasium in
Indianapolis, Indiana: photo by Joe Raedle, 1 May 2016
Iraqi women walk past a damaged car following a twin
suicide-bombing attack, claimed by ISIS, in the southern Iraqi city of
Samawah: photo by Haidar Hamdani / AFP, 1 May 2016
Catholics participate in festivities in honor of the day
of the Holy Cross, in Santiago Nonualco, 48 kilometers south of San
Salvador. The inhabitants of Santiago Nonualco offer
fruits to the Holy Cross in gratitude for the harvest obtained in the
year and the beginning of the rainy season.: photo by Marvin Recinos / AFP, 3 May 2016
Marzuki, a sulfur miner, carries baskets of sulfur as he
climbs up from the crater of Mount Ijen in Banyuwangi, East Java,
Indonesia. Mount Ijen draws tourists by day and hundreds of sulfur
miners by night. More than 9,000 feet above sea level, the men descend
into the volcano's crater to dig out slabs of bright yellow sulfur,
enduring toxic fumes, and back-breaking loads to earn $10 a day
delivering a substance used to bleach sugar and vulcanize rubber.: photo by Binsar Bakkara / AP, 6 May 2016
Christopher Chin blows vapor from an e-cigarette at Gone
With the Smoke Vapor Lounge in San Francisco,
California. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced new federal
regulations on electronic cigarettes that will be the same as
traditional tobacco cigarettes and chewing tobacco.: photo by Justin Sullivan, 5 May 2016
A woman is carried away on a stretcher by medics after
she was rescued from six days of being trapped in the rubble of a
collapsed building, in the Huruma area of Nairobi, Kenya. After discovering the woman alive and conscious, rescuers
administered an IV and oxygen but then had to work for a number of hours
to free her from the rubble before taking her away to a hospital.: photo by Ben Curtis / AP, 5 May 2016
Uh Laremy Tunsil just tweeted then deleted this: image via The REAL OG @oscargambler, 28 April 2016
Laremy Tunsil still waits in the green room: image via NFL on ESPN @ESPNNFL, 28 April 2016
Laremy Tunsil Posts Weird Gas Mask Pipe Smoking Twitter Video: image via Black Sports Online @BSO, 28 April 2016
"I just know I got hacked. We're tying to find out who did it." Laremy Tunsil on video posted to Twitter account.: image via Sports Center @SportsCenter, 28 April 2016
Lutz Bachmann, a co-founder of the right-wing Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the West (PEGIDA), arrives in court in Dresden, Germany with his wife, Vicky: photo by Jens Meyer / Reuters, 19 April 2016
Laremy Tunsil still waits in the green room: image via NFL on ESPN @ESPNNFL, 28 April 2016
Laremy Tunsil Posts Weird Gas Mask Pipe Smoking Twitter Video: image via Black Sports Online @BSO, 28 April 2016
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"I just know I got hacked. We're tying to find out who did it." Laremy Tunsil on video posted to Twitter account.: image via Sports Center @SportsCenter, 28 April 2016
Lutz Bachmann, a co-founder of the right-wing Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the West (PEGIDA), arrives in court in Dresden, Germany with his wife, Vicky: photo by Jens Meyer / Reuters, 19 April 2016
An Indian woman tries to collect drinking water after
climbing down a dried up well at Bhakrecha Pada in Thane district in
Maharashtra state, India. Much of India is reeling under
a weeks-long heat wave and severe drought conditions that have
decimated crops, killed livestock, and left at least 330 million Indians
without enough water for their daily needs.: photo by Rajanish Kakade / AP, 4 May 2016
Kashmiri Muslims pray as an unseen custodian displays a holy relic, believed to be a hair from the Prophet Muhammad’s beard, during celebrations for Miraj-Ul-Alam (ascension to heaven) at Kashmir’s main Hazratbal Shrine in Srinagar this morning: photo by Tauseef Mustafa, 5 May 2016
Kashmiri Muslims pray as an unseen custodian displays a holy relic, believed to be a hair from the Prophet Mohammed’s beard, during celebrations for Israa wal Miraj at Kashmir’s main Hazratbal Shrine in Srinagar: photo by Tauseef Mustafa / AFP, 5 May 2016
Jury members taste a dish during the European Final of Bocuse d'Or cuisine contest in Budapest, Hungary: photo by Tamas Kovacs/MTI/AP, 11 May 2016
A participant in the ”Bread Procession of the Saint” takes part in a ceremony in honour of Domingo de La Calzada Saint (1019-1109), in Santo Domingo de La Calzada, Spain. Every year during spring season, ”Las Doncellas” (White Virgins), hold a basket on their head covered with white cloth while they walk along this old village in honor of the saint.: photo by Alvaro Barrientos/AP, 11 May 2016
Boris Johnson and fellow Vote Leave campaigner Gisela Stuart MP enjoy an ice cream while in Charlestown, Cornwall, during a Vote Leave campaign visit: photo by Stefan Rousseau/PA, 11 May 2016
Nigerian Presiden Muhammadu Buhari listens at the start of a conference to tackle corruption at the Commonwealth Secretariat in London: photo by Leon Neal/AFP, 11 May 2016
Indian activists from the right-wing organisation Hindu Sena perform
Hindu fire rituals in support of US Republicans presidential candidate
Donald Trump in New Delhi, India: photo by Rajat Gupta/EPA, 11 May 2016
An attendee wears campaign buttons before the start of an event for Hillary Clinton, former Secretary of State and 2016 Democratic presidential candidate, in Louisville, Kentucky: photo by Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg, 11 May 2016
An attendee wears campaign buttons before the start of an event for Hillary Clinton, former Secretary of State and 2016 Democratic presidential candidate, in Louisville, Kentucky: photo by Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg, 11 May 2016
Actress Anna Kendrick, a self-described lifelong RBF sufferer: photo by Jason Merritt via The Washington Post, 25 April 2016
Justin Timberlake and Anna Kendrick hit the star-studded red carpet for #Cannes Opening Gala: image via JustJared dot com Verified account @JustJared, 11 May 2016
Kristen Stewart of “Twilight” fame, often considered the poster girl for RBF: photo via The Washington Post, 25 April 2016
Kristen Stewart was one gentle breeze away from a red carpet nip slip at #Cannes: image via ELLE Magazine (US) Verified acccount @ELLEmagazine, 11 May 2016
#Cannes 2016 le clic-clac du jour de #KristenStewart #CafeSociety
#WoodyAllen #photocall: image via Yan Bernard-Guilbaud @_yan_bg, 11 May
2016
Première photo de la journée @CarltonCannes Woody Allen et Kristen Stewart lounge VIP Madame Monsieur #cannes2016: image via Cannes69 @cannes69, 11 May 2016
serious case of womencrushwedesday! #cannes: image via Maria Estefanía Bello @estefaniabello, 11 May 2016
Swooning over these #redcarpet looks. #Cannes never disappoints. #Cannes2016 #france #glitz #glamour #fashion: image via
Swooning over these #redcarpet looks. #Cannes never disappoints. #Cannes2016 #france #glitz #glamour #fashion: image via
The cast and director of CAFE SOCIETY on the top of the red carpet earlier this evening #Cannes2016: image via Cannes Film Coverage @CannesCoverage, 11 May 2016
@RonanFarrow pens blistering essay about dad Woody Allen and the media for THR: image via Hollywood Reporter @THR, 11 May 2016
Cannes: Woody Allen Gets Modest Standing Ovation at 'Cafe Society' Premiere: image via Hollywood Reporter @THR, 11 May 2016
#photographe #shooting #photo #studio #seancephoto #seancephotohomme #monaco #nice #cannes: image via Graphic Emotions @EmotionsGraphic, 2 May 2016
This artist’s concept depicts select planetary discoveries made to date by NASA’s Kepler space telescope: photo by W. Stenzel/NASA/Reuters, 11 May 2016
Great photos Tom, who can say what's going on at Cannes -- in light of everything else that's going on elsewhere . . .
ReplyDeleteWoody's Twilight Saga, that's what.
ReplyDeleteIt was hard to select from among the wondrous photographic homages flowing forth from Cannes. I thought to stick with the RBF sufferers. That one who's featured in the new woody... it was always going to be a collision of irresistible force with immovable object, when RBF hit the red carpet. Oh the sunshine smiles then, chasing off the RBF pout for a day!!
ReplyDeleteFinal score: Paparazzi 27,198, RBF, 0. It is this deep blankness which is the real thing strange.
Woody of course is still the adorable romantic fool and all that, as he so helpfully and repeatedly explains in every one of these bought interview situations... The Hollywood Reporter hired his only biological child to report on the festival, and published the report synchronous with the lovable glowing woody premiere. The son wrote that woody is a child abuser reigning over a gang of obedient journalistic ballwashers. The "press" was then regaled briefly with the woody's royal presence and warned in advance not to ask questions about THAT subject. The bogus bilge world of The Movies needs an eminent and honourable senior figure so badly it has created one out of... THIS guy?
And the forever inconvenient Polanski, who unlike woody may once have actually made an interesting film... meanwhile totally non grata.
But you've got to hand it to those world leaders. The Anti-Corruption conference, quite a shindig, featuring the Nigerian President and David Cameron, he of the notorious offshore portfolio. Seems there was a bit of a flap when a microphone was left on... and captured "private" remarks in which Cameron declares that the two most corrupt places in the world are Afghanistan... and Nigeria.