Blindfolded

 

The Three Crosses

 

By Rembrandt who kept darkening this image to the point the cross on the right is barely visible. An earlier state of this etching below:

Great Swimmer

A man was considered a great swimmer, and he even considered himself one too - which was fair enough, he had even won Olympics medals - but, however it happened, he found himself alone, dropped into the middle of an ocean, and it turned out he wasn’t great enough.

Non-existence of Death

Something I’ve previously written here ages ago, but this is how it irrefutably goes:

Death is non-existence. Non-existence doesn’t exist. Therefore death does not exist.

2 more figures

 

bleu

 

finished state

 The finished state of something I’ve had lying around for a good while.

2 figures

 Not that I’m too fond of it, but here it is.

trying to sort

 

 Something out of which messy initial state I’ve at least been trying to see if I could sort out and turn  into a proper piece.

iron out

 Something quick  I came out with earlier, and which I’m now trying to iron out into . . . whatever.

Reliable

 A generally reliable insider, embedded within the very guts of the entertainment industrial complex, has revealed that the Corporate Whore franchise has begun working on a new series, a perhaps more cerebral affair than we are used to, and appealing perhaps more to the intellectuals amongst us, titled: Corporate Whores Embark on a Career in Journalism and Discover that the Far Right is Everywhere. 

Radio

 “There was this radio, and however it happened it was endowed with or attained self-consciousness.”

“That sounds amazing.”

“Maybe so, but the interesting thing was, whatever station it would be tuned to, it would immediately be convinced the thoughts uttered there were its own. If, hypothetically speaking, someone for instance tried to explain to the radio that it was merely the medium by which these utterances were being transmitted, this for it would have been an incomprehensible notion. ‘These are my thoughts, and that’s all there is to it,’ it would more or less have responded.’”

“Interesting.”

Secret Army

 I recently watched on YouTube the Colditz tv series from the early 1970s, based on, at least somewhat, the book of that name by P.R. Reid, centred on the Colditz prisoner of war camp during World War Two, specifically used to house Allied military, particularly given to escaping from prisoner of war camps! As said, it is an excellent series, and especially brilliant and sensitive is the performance of an actor Bernard Hepton, who plays the German commandant in charge of Colditz. 

Well, in the back of that and some viewwpers’ comments, I checked out another series from the same BBC production team (back when the BBC could better justify its existence) called Secret Army, based again, at least loosely on truth, and this time focused on a Belgian resistance movement in that war, helping return Allied airmen to the United Kingdom. The fact that Bernard Hepton again is central meant it was at least worth checking out, and allowing it some leeway for a pretty humble budget and minor flaws, I thought overall it was really superb and addictive. The final series of three, is like Colditz, a bit of a diminishing in standards, especially with the sidelining of Bernard Hepton due to other acting commitments, but anyway, below is a link to the series. 

Though dating to the late 1970s, it seems to be a surprisingly active target for the copyright police on YouTube, so this is the means I thankfully found to watch the series: 

Secret Army

Valerius de Saedeleer

 

A couple of paintings by a Belgian artist I’ve only just come across.

dancer

 

Great

“You know what I thought the best thing was about Covid?”

“How it brought us all together?”

“No. The vaccines.”

“They were the ones that didn’t stop you getting Covid?”

“Yeah. I thought they were great.”