@joejp.bsky.social
All about art, music and gothic literature. Things that go bump in the night. Rambles around Dublin and beyond. Aun Aprendo.
A fascinating insight into the Basque people.
The Basque History of the World by Mark Kurlansky.
Here's something people outside of Ireland definitely haven't encountered previously. A short film on the Irish sport of road bowling.
Forget ten pin bowling or lawn bowling. This is where it's all happening.
youtu.be/goZ6agHlirM?...
Take care and keep on going. With you all the way.
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Here's an interesting article fron the New York Times entitled, "Stumbling Upon Greatness: Discovering Sergio Larrain."
www.nytimes.com/2021/07/23/a...
Well there I was feeling quite proud of myself after writing 5 days a week for the last 20 weeks. That's me put back in my box.
03.08.2025 11:35 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Chilean photographer Sergio Larraín
02.08.2025 08:55 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Goodnight Hookland pleasant dreams.
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Charlton Heston by Stump.
Still putting his vest on.
youtu.be/yWa3ouFWwJs?...
Fumio Kitaoka, from the series "The Face of Tokyo".
#woodblockprints
Like me my edition of Lives of the Artists by Giorgio Vasari is bruised, battered and all the worse for wear. Both of us however are still full of wonders.
#art
Recorded just a few weeks ago in the Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris Lara Marlow interviews Irish author Paul Lynch.
www.centreculturelirlandais.com/en/cci-onlin...
An animation film: "How Wing are Attached to the Backs of Angels".
youtu.be/NRHVzbJVx8I?...
Isn't growing old terrible. That last post should read: "that draws you in."
17.07.2025 18:51 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
An utterly compelling read the draws you in. Hagstone by @sineadgleeson.bsky.social
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There is so much I can relate to on buying books and reading. From @gabino.bsky.social
substack.com/@gabinoigles...
Icy Sedgwick and the ghosts and spirits of Dublin.
youtu.be/riU-QiA4YZk?...
From the series "One Hundred Views of Tokyo in the Shõwa Era" by printmaker Koizumi Kishio.
12.07.2025 17:34 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Srebrenica 1995, Gaza 2025.
Nothing but the same old story.
Genocide.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Lankum - Go Dig My Grave
youtu.be/qhqpQiXnFx0?...
On @talkscaredpod.bsky.social there's a great interview with Rose Keating author of Oddbody.
Irish horror is currently having a moment. A certain emerging from the shadows.
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/2...
The Solidaridad Bookstore in Manila is up for sale. What happens next to the place known as the best little bookstore in Asia?
#Philippines #books
www.spot.ph/arts-culture...
Josef Sudek. Czech photographer known as the Poet of Prague.
03.07.2025 09:57 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0A short film by Duncan Whitley entitled "Between the Orange Tree and the Lime". It features the late flamenco José Pérez Blanco.
The film focus is on the saeta sung during Seville's Semana Santa.
duncanwhitley.net/entre-naranj...
Augenblick - Xmal Deutschland
Some 80's gothic for a Saturday.
youtu.be/tJwJSphAh_g?...
With Tomorrow- Francis O'Toole
#art #irishart
A fantastic collection of gothic uncanny short stories by Irish author Tracy Fahey.
The Unheimlich Manoeuvre by Tracy Fahey.
#horrorfiction
Girl with a Cat - Daniel O'Neill
#art #irishart
A short documentary about the artist John "The Map" Callanan from Sligo.
youtu.be/M0vpZgpZyt8?...
"When God hammered Crow
He made gold
When God roasted Crow in the sun
He made a diamond."
From Crow's Song of Himself, part of the collection Crow by Ted Hughes.
Just reread this for the first time in years. It's excellently dark.
#poetry
From the colleection Siren City, Photographs of Naples by Johnnie Shand Kydd
#photograph
