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This is a small film of snatched moments from late-night screenings of Italian documentary archives, in the courtyard of Castello Risolo at the Cinema del Reale festival in Puglia last week.

I like the old music and the whispering people, and the little girl [...]

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There was an artist called Jamie Livingstone who took a Polaroid photo every day for 18 years, right up until the day he died of cancer in October 1997. The whole collection has been put online here.
 
I’ve been taking a lot of Polaroid photos recently. [...]

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Ah, England…
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Friday night
Saturday morning

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Don’t ask why, after two months of revising for exams, my first Saturday night of freedom ended up in front of an oversized television watching the results of the Eurovision Song Contest come in. For those of you who missed it (and honestly, I only [...]

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I staple my documents together I get out my notepad I hang up my washing I complain about the train being delayed I make myself coffee I start my revision I worry about my exams I hear the traffic and I see the people walking [...]

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Just to get us ready for Bucharest, this the beautiful voice of Gabi Lunca, a Roma gypsy/folk singer. She sings songs such as ”Omul Bun n-are noroc” (The good have no luck) and “Superata sint pe lume” (I am sad in this world), though in the tradition of [...]

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Yesterday I heard a report on the radio that stopped me completely in my tracks.
The report details the violence continuing in the East of the Democratic Republic of Congo, despite a recent ceasefire, and in contrast to plans for the UN to reduce their peace-keeping [...]

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Things I have done today to avoid doing work:
1. Introduced myself for the first time to the downstairs-flat neighbour, in an attempt to find out why the hell the water was turned off and our shower refused to shower anything but a useless dribble of [...]

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