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Mardaani 1, 2 and 3
Until now I have not been a fan of Bollywood movies, but I watched Mardaani 1, which came out in 2014, directed by Pradeep Sarkar, and written by Gopi Puthran. I found it full of suspense, informative, quite terrifying and … Continue reading
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Tagged Anthony Howell, Durga, film review, India, Mardaani, Rani Mukerji
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Lakenheath
x It’s all top-secret and ever so strictly prohibited. Making it a cert that this is where Our heat-seeking darts have their arsenals. This must be missile mission-control – Where we go on raids from, with our allies – It … Continue reading
Posted in art, Poetry, Politics, war
Tagged Anthony Howell, Lakenheath, poetry, Silent Highway, war
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Busts on Black
x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x Drawn with 4B pencil on a Musou Black ground. The images alter as you walk past them, since they are dependent on the light that … Continue reading
Nero Explains
Let me count the ways crime actually pays Big time. Once you’re handed the microphone, You can make manifest future realities: Hyperstition obtains by the telling of compelling stories, x Thus it is that prophecies become self-fulfilling. Engineered through media … Continue reading
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Tagged Anthony Howell, Antichrist, Hyperstition, Nero, poetry
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Deep Art’s need for a Reservoir of Chaos
Further Thoughts on Deep Art I like to think of what I do as a departure from modernism. I do what I call Deep Art. I see its precedent in Leonardo da Vinci’s advice to gaze at a wall to … Continue reading
Pleasure and Destruction
A new slideshow on YOUTUBE. The hyper-real becomes more intense than reality. The click-bait goes both ways. War or porn. Which is which? Can they be drawn at the same time?
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Tagged amour and anger, Anthony Howell, Drawing by feel, savage drawing, sensual drawing
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Imaginary Illustrations
x x x x x x x What if one reversed illustration? If the picture came first, and it was up to the viewer to give it a story? A friend points out that this is nothing new. As this … Continue reading
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Tagged Anthony Howell, imaginary illustrations, poems without words, watercolours
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The Vintage to the Dungeon
The Vintage to the Dungeon – a poem by Richard Lovelace I. Sing out, pent soules, sing cheerefully! Care shackles you in liberty: Mirth frees you in captivity. Would you double fetters adde? Else why so sadde? Chorus Besides your … Continue reading
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Tagged poetry, Richard Lovelace, the music of your chains, The Vintage to the Dungeon
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Anatomy of Emptiness
x It is not easy to create emptiness. What should you tip it into? A deserted square, Possibly by moonlight? Time is the perspective Lending it a depth. Here, in an abstracted way, Melancholy toys with metaphysics. Emptiness recalls all … Continue reading
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