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Selected photos and materials from the studio of Francis Bacon.
Exhibition view "Francis Bacon and Existential Condition in Contemporary Art", CCC Strozzina, Palazzo Strozzi, Firenze
© photo Martino Margheri
The kit and its assembly:
This fictional tank model came to be as a classic what-if, based on the question “what could have been a successor of the Soviet ZSU-57-2 SPAAG?”. Not an existential question that comes to your mind frequently, but it made me wonder – also because the real-world successor, the ZSU-23-4 “Shilka”, lacked the ZSU-57-2’s range and large-caliber firepower.
From this conceptual basis I decided to retain the 57mm twin guns, add an RPK-2 radar and mount these into a fully enclosed turret. The latter became a leftover M48 turret, which was suitably bulky, and the gun mount was taken from a Modelcollect E-75 SPAAG. However, both were heavily modified: the gun mount lost its boxy armor protection, just the brass barrels and the joint at the base were retained, the rest was scratched from styrene bits and wire. To accept the much taller weapon mount, the turret front had to be re-sculpted with putty, resulting in a boxier shape with steeper side walls – but the whole affair looks very organic. A simpler commander cupola was used and the whole radar dish arrangement on the rear roof was scratched, too.
The hull came from a Trumpeter T-62, just for the reasons explained in the background: the T-54/55 had a relatively small turret ring, and this caused severe development problems, because the MBT could not take a bigger turret and with it a more powerful cannon. Since this SPAAG would have been developed a couple of years later than the T-54/55, its successor, the T-62, appeared logical, and the “marriage” with the M48 turret worked like a charm. Even the turret’s adapter had the same diameter as the hull opening, I just had to modify the notches that hold it in place! The hull itself remained unmodified.
Painting and markings:
I wanted to place this SPAAG into the Afghanistan theatre of operations, and this was historically not very easy since I had to bridge some fifteen years of service to make this idea work. However, I found a story for the background, and the model received an appropriate paint scheme, based on real world vehicles around 1980 (actually from a BMP-1 operated in northern Afghanistan).
The camouflage consists of three tones, a pale/greyish sand, an olive drab tone and some contrasts in a dark, dull brown – it reminds of the US Army’s more complex MERDC scheme. The paints became Humbrol 167 (Hemp), Tamiya XF-62 (Olive Drab) and Humbrol 98 (Chocolate), even though the green appears darker than expected due to the high contrast with the sand tone.
The model received an overall washing with dark brown, highly thinned acrylic paint, and some dry-brushing with cream, faded olive drab and light grey. The few markings/decals were taken from the T-62 kit, and everything was sealed with matt acrylic varnish before the lower areas were finally dusted with a greyish-sand brown mix of artist pigments, simulating dust.
Annegret Soltau
Exhibition view "Francis Bacon and Existential Condition in Contemporary Art", CCC Strozzina, Palazzo Strozzi, Firenze
© photo Martino Margheri
Adrian Ghenie
Exhibition view "Francis Bacon and Existential Condition in Contemporary Art", CCC Strozzina, Palazzo Strozzi, Firenze
© photo Martino Margheri
Adrian Ghenie
Exhibition view "Francis Bacon and Existential Condition in Contemporary Art", CCC Strozzina, Palazzo Strozzi, Firenze
© photo Martino Margheri
Had a slight existential crisis and unfortunately backed away from Tiona for a while. But a couple of days to myself and an attempt at being girly again has got my mojo back
Only counting books I read (or soon-ish will have read) in their entirety…
Below are starting dates, titles, authors, and some quotes / comments that I could think of. :p Hopefully I have not typo-ed up the quotes too badly.
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22-Jan-2025: 1. Högt bland Saarijärvis moar (a.k.a. Under the North Star #1) by Väinö Linna
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26-Feb-2025: 2. The precipice: Existential risk and the future of humanity by Toby Ord
Weeeee: Morbidly fascinating disaster scenarios. Deep time. Mindfucks. Toby seems like a kind guy really, but -
Meh: A pronatalist position (unsurprisingly, heh), though he acknowledges the existence of antinatalism. Sometimes TTFMDA (Too Technical For My Dumb Ass).
“[The] passage of a star through our Solar System could disrupt planetary orbits, causing the Earth to freeze or boil or even crash into another planet. But this has only a one in 100,000 chance over the next 2 billion years.”
“On average, mammalian species last about one million years /.../ What can happen over such a span, ten thousand times longer than our century?
Such a timescale is enough to repair the damage that we, in our immaturity, have inflicted upon the Earth. In thousands of years, almost all of our present refuse will have decayed away. If we can cease adding new pollution, the oceans and forests will be unblemished once more. Within 100,000 years, the Earth’s natural systems will have scrubbed our atmosphere clean of over 90% of the carbon we have released, leaving the climate mostly restored and rebalanced. So long as we can learn to care rightly for our home, these blots on our record could be wiped clean, all within the lifespan of a typical species /.../
About ten million years hence, even the damage we have inflicted upon biodiversity is expected to have healed. This is how long it took for species diversity to fully recover from previous mass extinctions and our best guess for how long it will take to recover from our current actions.”
“But there is an alternative approach to population ethics according to which human extinction might not be treated as bad at all. The most famous proponent is the philosopher Jan Narveson, who put the central idea in slogan form: ‘We are in favor of making people happy, but neutral about making happy people.’ Many different theories of population ethics have been developed to try to capture this intuition, and are known as person-affecting views. Some of these theories say there is nothing good about adding thousands of future generations with high wellbeing – and thus nothing bad (at least in terms of the wellbeing of future generations) if humanity instead went extinct.”
“Investigate possibilities for making the deliberate or reckless imposition of human extinction risk an international crime.”
Me in margin: “Prison is better than breeding.” :D
NB: My non-breeding is extremely deliberate. Human extinction is a feature, not a bug, of my non-breeding. (Although I would remain childfree even if I knew Homo sapiens would “never” die out.) No, you can’t have my eggs for growing humans in vats. No, you can’t have my uterus after I die.
“Cosmologists believe that the largest coherent structures in the universe are on the scale of about a billion light years across, the width of the largest voids in the cosmic web. With the accelerating expansion of the universe tearing things apart, and only gravity to work with, lifeless matter is unable to organise itself into any larger scales.
However, there is no known physical limit preventing humanity from forming coherent structures or patterns at much larger scales – up to a diameter of about 30 billion light years. We might thus create the largest structures in the universe and be unique even in these terms. By stewarding the galaxies in this region, harvesting and storing their energy, we may also be able to create the most energetic events in the universe or the longest-lasting complex structures.”
...
Me in margin: “WOW! But, eh, meh, personally I kind of just want to upload photos and drink Monster.”
Toby: *disappointed noises*
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2-Mar-2025: 3. Sunnanäng by Astrid Lindgren
Collection of 4 Swedish fairytales, all of which begin with ”A long time ago, in the days of poverty…”
- Sunnanäng
- Spelar min lind, sjunger min näktergal?
- Tu tu tu!
- Junker Nils av Eka
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8-Apr-2025: 4. Röde Orm by Frans G. Bengtsson
Fave! Viking novel. Archaic language (as in, from the early 1900s or something…) and a number of Cool Girls^TM, but pretty funny. Also, they make a trip to Ukraine. :O
“Svarte Grim, hans fader, satt grinande i stor belåtenhet; han sade att han själv stundom känt sig lagd för skaldskap i sina unga dagar, fast annat kommit emellan.
- Men likväl är detta ett märkligt ting, sade han; ty pojken är folkskygg, och allra räddast är han när det finns flickor i närheten, fast han gärna själv ville ha det annorlunda.
- Dem behöver han inte vara rädd för nu längre, tro du mig, Grim, sade Ylva. Ty nu, sedan han visat att han är skald, komma de att hänga om halsen på honom, så många det finns plats till. Mer än en gång hörde jag min fader säga, och han var full av vishet i alla ting, att liksom flugorna kretsa kring all slags föda, och villigt smaka på allt, men lämna allt annat när de få lukt på honungskrukan, så är det också med ungmör när en skald kommer i närheten.”
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18-Apr-2025: 5. The fifth gospel by Ian Caldwell
Audiobook read by Jack Davenport, who has the second most beautiful voice in the world. (After Alan Rickman… D’: ) Haven't finished the book yet. I only listen to it at home where I can hear and fully concentrate on THE VOICE. :q
“On the bottom floor of our apartment building is Vatican Health Services. When Simon and I were boys, American priests would fly back to New York for their checkups rather than risk a trip to the Vatican doctors. Horror stories have followed every pope for half a century. Fifty years ago, Pius XII came down with recurring hiccups, so his doctor prescribed injections of ground lamb brains. Another papal doctor sold Pius’s medical records to newspapers and embalmed his dead body using an experimental technique that made the pope’s corpse bubble and fart like a tar pit while pilgrims queued up to view it. Ten years later, Paul VI needed his prostate removed, so Vatican doctors decided to perform the operation in his library. His successor, John Paul I, died thirty-three days into his papacy because our doctors didn’t yet know he took pills for a blood condition. So you might think our Vatican morticians would be world class, considering all the practice they get. But there’s no such thing as a Vatican mortician, and no such place as a Vatican morgue. Popes are embalmed in their apartments by volunteer undertakers from the city, and the rest of us settle for the back room at Health Services.”
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5-May-2025: 6. Superbugs: The race to stop an epidemic by Matt McCarthy
Fave!
“[It] turns out that humans have been consuming antibiotics for millennia, whether they knew it or not. Significant levels of tetracycline, a broad-spectrum antibiotic still used today, have been found in the skeletal remains of Sudanese mummies dating back to AD 350 to 550. (Beer brewed at the time appears to have been the source.) And in Egypt, samples taken from femoral bones of skeletons from the late Roman period at the Dakhla Oasis also show traces of tetracycline. (It’s unclear if booze was served there.) Not surprisingly, the rate of infectious diseases documented in these disparate populations has been exceedingly low.”
“[Henry Beecher] noticed that nurses were able to calm injured soldiers with injections of saline when they were administered as if they were shots of morphine. A single infusion of salt water enabled young men to tolerate agonizing surgeries without anesthesia, and it introduced the young doctor to the power of the placebo effect.”
“The FDA recently announced that there was insufficient evidence to recommend over-the-counter antibacterial soaps over washing with plain soap and water.”
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23-May-2025: 7. Radicalized by Cory Doctorow
Fave! A collection of 4 dystopian novellas. Short summaries from the book sleeve or whatever it’s called:
“If you want a better future tomorrow, you’re going to have to fight for it today. Here are four urgent stories from author and activist Cory Doctorow, four social, technological and economic visions of the world today and its near – all too near – future.
- ‘Unauthorized Bread’ is a tale of immigration, toxic economic stratification and a young woman’s perilously illegal quest to fix a broken toaster.
- In ‘Model Minority’ a superhero finds himself way out of his depth when he confronts the corruption of the police and justice system.
- ‘Radicalized’ is the story of a desperate husband, a darknet forum and the birth of a violent uprising against the US health care system.
- The final story, ‘The Masque of the Red Death’, tracks an uber-wealthy survivalist and his followers as they hole up and attempt to ride out the collapse of society.”
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27-May-2025: 8. Butcher by Joyce Carol Oates
Fave!
“It was rare that I did not closely consult with a husband, a father, or a brother after having examined a female patient of a genteel background, before revealing my diagnosis to the patient; where coarser females seemed to wish to be confronted with the truth, more genteel females shrank from it, as from a blinding light. Every detail of the genteel woman’s treatment was with the approval of a husband or a male relative, of course, for it would be he who would be paying my fee, & it would be his satisfaction I would have to provide, particularly in the case of certain “controversial” surgeries with which I began to be entrusted: requests by husbands of women concerned for their well-being, whether extreme agitation in the woman, or lassitude; manic laughter, or helpless tears; “frigidity” of the lower body inhibiting conjugal relations, or, perversely, an unnatural “avidity” of the lower body during conjugal relations – all these, forms of hysteria.”
“Removal of the ovaries was frequently prescribed in medical journals for the cure of neurasthesia; in more extreme cases, the removal of the entire uterus (thus, “hysterectomy”) was advised; in other cases, the surgical removal of the vaginal “clitoris,” like the appendix a functionless part of the female body described in Galen as hypersensitive to any touch, with a propensity to exacerbate excitation, anemia, sleepwalking, hyperventilation, overeating, anorexia, morbid thoughts, migraine, insomnia, atheistical tendencies, madness, & certain unspeakable habits of a degenerate nature more often associated with the adolescent male of the species.”
“(Indeed, it should be noted here, how, if they were well enough, the Laboratory patients cared for one another; a feature of female patients in general, that, in dire situations, in which they themselves might well be afflicted, they will set aside their own discomfort, to care for others more in need. Thus it has long been recognized by the medical profession, that females are natural-born nurses, midwives, & caretakers; & much of this labor is out of pure charitable instinct, with no need for financial remuneration.)”
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29-May-2025: 9. Monstergeschichten by Cornelia Neudert & Betina Gotzen-Beek
Kiddy book in German…
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14-Jun-2025: 10. Upp, trälar (a.k.a. Under the North Star 2: The uprising) by Väinö Linna
“Björkdungarna hade fått en lätt rodnad. Vattenfåglarna skriade på sjön och Varg-Kustaa dök trumpen och sturande upp vid den ena dörren efter den andra med ett vidjefång präktiga gäddor i näven. Han bytte dem mot bröd hos kvinnfolket. Aldrig hände det att han själv sa hur mycket han ville ha för en gädda. Kvinnorna kämpade med sig själva där de stod i skafferiskrubben och gjorde i ordning brödknytet:
- Bord man lägg dit ett till . . . så int han blir arg.
Kustaa tog knytet utan att se åt innehållet, morrade någonting och gick sin väg.”
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24-Jun-2025: 11. Im Labyrinth der Finsternis by Fabian Lenk
Kiddy book in German.
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18-Jul-2025: 12. The future of life by Edward O. Wilson
Fave! And a re-read.
“[The] human population exceeded Earth’s sustainable capacity around the year 1978. By 2000 it had overshot by 1.4 times that capacity. If 12 percent of land were now to be set aside in order to protect the natural environment, as recommended in the 1987 Brundtland Report, Earth’s sustainable capacity will have been exceeded still earlier, around 1972.”
“Is the Sumatran rhino dying of old age? Has its time come, like Great Aunt Clarissa on her deathbed, and should we therefore just let it slip away?
No, absolutely not, ever. Banish the thought! The premise of such a notion is demonstrably and dangerously false. The Sumatran and every other species that disappears typically dies young, at least in a physiological sense. The idea that species pass through natural life stages is based on an erroneous analogy. An endangered species is not like a dying patient whose care is too expensive and futile to prolong. The opposite is true. The great majority of rare and declining species are composed of young, healthy individuals. They just need the room and time to grow and reproduce that human activity has denied them.”
“In 1997 an international team of economists and environmental scientists put a dollar amount on all the ecosystem services provided humanity free of charge by the living natural environment. Drawing from multiple databases, they estimated the contribution to be $33 trillion or more each year. This amount is nearly twice the 1997 combined gross national product (GNP) of all countries in the world, or gross world product, of $18 trillion. Ecosystem services are defined as the flow of materials, energy, and information from the biosphere that support human existence. They include the regulation of the atmosphere and climate; the purification and retention of fresh water; the formation and enrichment of the soil; nutrient cycling; the detoxification and recirculation of waste; the pollination of crops; and the production of lumber, fodder, and biomass fuel.
The 1997 megaestimate can be expressed in another, even more cogent, manner. If humanity were to try to replace the free services of the natural economy with substitutes of its own manufacture, the global GNP would have to be raised by at least $33 trillion. The exercise, however, cannot be performed except as a thought experiment. To supplant natural ecosystems entirely, even mostly, is an economic and even physical impossibility, and we would certainly die if we tried.”
“Today about 10 percent of the land surface protected on paper. Even if rigorously conserved, this amount is not enough to save more than a modest fraction of wild species. /.../ At the risk of being called an extremist, which on this topic I freely admit I am, let me suggest 50 percent. Half the world for humanity, half for the rest of life, to create a planet both self-sustaining and pleasant.”
“Ranching and mining also commonly benefit from perverse subsidies. In Germany government support for coal mining is so high that it would be more economical to close all the mines and send the workers home at full pay.
In an analysis published in 1998, Norman Myers and Jennifer Kent of Oxford University placed annual subsidies worldwide at $390 billion to $520 billion in agriculture, $110 billion in fossil fuels and nuclear energy, and $220 billion for water. All these and other subsidies combined exceed $2 trillion, much of which is harmful to both our economies and our governments. The average American pays $2000 a year in subsidies, giving the lie to the belief that the American economy runs in a truly free competitive market.”
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2-Aug-2025: 13. Veterinary technician’s manual for small animal emergency and critical care by Christopher L. Norkus
Textbook that I bought for school ca 2017, but I only read the 1-2 chapters we were told to read. Now I’m gonna read the whole thing. Slowly. I hope it isn’t 100% outdated. Anyway, I don’t see a shitload of emergency cases at work, but it isn’t a huge book and I’ve vaguely been meanin’ to read it because I suck and… Anyway, I haven’t finished it yet, unsurprisingly. :p
“Acknowledgment:
A special thank you is necessary to my best friend Mark Holloway for his superior IT support in rescuing a majority of this book off of my dead laptop after I clumsily spilled soda on it.
C.L.N.”
(DO YOUR BACKUPS, PEOPLE, AND KEEP ONE COPY OF YOUR COMPUTER ON THE OTHER SIDE OF TOWN IN CASE OF A HOUSE FIRE)
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15-Aug-2025: 14. Pope Joan by Donna Woolfolk Cross
Fave! And a re-read.
“In Winnemanoth, Gisla was married to Count Hugo. There had been some difficulty finding a date suitable for the immediate consummation of the marriage. The Church forbade all marital relations on Sundays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, as well as for forty days before Easter, eight days after Pentecost, and five days before the taking of communion, or on the eve of any great feast or rogation day. In all, on some two hundred and twenty days of the year sexual intercourse was prohibited; when these, as well as Gisla’s monthly bleeding time, were taken into account, there were not many dates left to choose from. But at last they settled on the twenty-fourth of the month, a date that pleased everyone save Gisla, who was impatient for the festivities to begin.”
“’Your brother is skillfully attended, I trust?’
‘He is surrounded night and day by holy men offering prayers for his recovery.’
‘Ah!’ There was a silence. Both men were skeptical of the efficacy of such measures, but neither could own his doubt openly.”
“Rebuilding the aqueduct would be a monumental, perhaps impossible, undertaking, given the sorry state of engineering of the day. The books which had preserved the accumulated wisdom of the ancients regarding these complicated pieces of construction had been lost or destroyed centuries ago. The parchment pages on which the precious plans were recorded had been scraped clean and written over with Christian homilies and stories of lives of saints and martyrs.”
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13-Sep-2025: 15. Something happened by Joseph Heller
Fave!
“I know so many people I want to be mean to, but I just don’t have the character.”
“I have this constant fear something is going to happen to him. (He’s the kid who gets stabbed to death in the park or falls victim to Hodgkin’s disease or blastoma of the eyeballs. Every time I know he’s gone swimming. Every time he’s away from the house. Every time I know my daughter is driving in a car with older kids I expect to be told by telephone or policeman of the terrible automobile accident in which she has just been killed. There are times I wish they would both hurry up and get it over with already so I could relax and stop brooding about it in such recurring suspense. There are times I wish everyone I know would die and release me from these tender tensions I experience in my generous solicitude for them. /.../
I think about death.
I think about it all the time. I dwell on it. I dread it. I don’t really like it. Death runs in my family, it seems. People die from it, and I dream about death and weave ornate fantasies about death endlessly and ironically.”
“[Human dicks] are such fractional parts of the total construction they might easily be overlooked if we did not dwell on them. They are arrogant and absurd in their haughty, sniffing, pushy, egotistical pretensions. (We let them get away with an awful lot.) They can’t even hold their lordly pose for half a day a week. What a feeble weapon indeed for establishing male supremacy, a flabby, collapsing channel for a universal power drive ejaculated now and then in sporadic spoonfuls. No wonder we have to make fists and raise our voices at the kitchen table.”
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2-Oct-2025: 16. The showman: The inside story that made a war leader of Volodymyr Zelensky by Simon Shuster
Fave!
“For the moment, Zelensky had not attained enough confidence or experience as a wartime leader to override the decisions of the military brass. His role had less to do with the war itself than with the way it was perceived, and he had the skills to play it well. At the same time, he seemed to treasure the opportunity not only to witness history but to shape it. Many of his aides felt the same way; one told me that he derived a kind of ‘masochistic pleasure’ from his life in the bunker and the vantage it afforded onto world-shaping events. Zelensky rarely talked about these feelings. But he also found it gratifying to be in this singular position of power and influence. Despite the danger and the stress, the separation from his family, the weight of the responsibility he bore, and the horrors he witnessed each day, the president felt privileged, even happy, to do the job that fate had put in front of him. Even on the hardest days it gave him a profound sense of purpose, and it made him feel alive.
‘My life today is beautiful,’ he said at the end of the press conference, when a reporter asked how he was holding up. ‘I feel that I’m needed.’ The previous week, as horrifying and tragic as it had been for him and his country, was also among the most exciting and fulfilling of his life. He would not trade it for any of the comfort and security he knew in his old life as a movie star. ‘I think the main purpose in life is to be needed, not just to be a blank space that breathes, walks, and eats. But to live, to know that certain things depend on your being alive, and to feel that your life matters to others.’”
“The battle of Kyiv, which raged through the end of March 2022, had a greater impact on the course of European history than any since the end of World War II. Had it ended differently, the Kremlin could have replaced Zelensky with a marionette and pushed the edge of Moscow’s dominion right up to Poland’s eastern border, effectively erasing Ukraine from the map. Instead the defense of Kyiv shattered Russia’s image as a military powerhouse, an image that had shaped the balance of power in Europe for generations.”
“[Olena Zelenska] set up training programs for Ukrainian trauma counselors and hotlines to make their services widely available. Convincing Ukrainians to seek psychological support turned out to be a major challenge. When we talked about it, Olena borrowed the English phrase ‘mental health’ because the concept is hard to describe in Ukrainian. ‘We have a particular distrust for terms that include the word psycho,’ she said. The term psychotherapy often evokes images of state-run asylums in Ukraine, places that are designed to isolate the ill from society. A lot of that stigma, Zelenska told me, has its roots in the Soviet Union, where generations of Ukrainians were raised to deal with trauma by hiding it away. The attitude, she said, was: ‘Deal with it, get over it, and if you complain, you’re weak.’
/.../ The Ministry [of Health] estimated that /.../ a third of the population, or fifteen million people, would require some form of mental health care. Olena and her husband were no exception. ‘You absorb it,’ she said of the war. ‘Each of us, including myself, have felt that our psychological state is not what it should be.’ Four months into the invasion, she said ‘None of us are okay.’”
“A special forces commando turned spymaster, [Kyrylo] Budanov cut a dramatic figure, appearing frequently on television to issue vague threats and dark hints of his plans. /.../ He promised to hunt down and ‘physically exterminate’ the perpetrators of the Bucha massacre, and he said it gave him pleasure to hear Russian propaganda refer to him as a terrorist. His deputy later declared /.../ that GUR agents were plotting to assassinate Putin and a long list of his lieutenants, including the heads of the Russian military-industrial complex.
GUR’s handiwork soon became the subject of fervent speculation, which earned Budanov a kind of cult following in Ukraine. In the early months of the invasion, explosions and fires often ripped through Russian military sites and fuel depots in the regions closest to Ukraine, and Russian officials blamed these incidents on Ukrainian drone strikes or saboteurs. At least twice in April, low-flying helicopters swept across the border and struck targets in the Russian region of Belgorod. Ukraine denied responsibility for these attacks, and the Kremlin tended to downplay them to avoid embarrassment. At the end of summer, as President Zelensky and his team grew impatient for the start of a major counteroffensive, these covert strikes became more daring and dramatic. They reached deeper into Russian territory, while official denials of responsibility from Kyiv became halfhearted, routinely accompanied by a wink and a mischievous smile.
Oleksiy Arestovych, a former officer of the GUR and an adviser to Zelensky at the start of the invasion, mentioned some of these attacks when we met in early August. Then he leaned back in his chair, looked at my audio recorder, and silently mouthed the words: That was us.”
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31-Oct-2025: 17. Bröderna Lejonhjärta by Astrid Lindgren
Fave! And a re-read. Swedish kiddy novel. Some dark shit. Just like the above book, it’s about a really brave, young, handsome guy who stands up to a psychopathic old tyrant with nukes. Wait, what -
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8-Nov-2025: 18. Die Brüder Löwenherz by Astrid Lindgren
The above book in German… :B Thanks to having read it in Swedish so recently, I didn’t have to look up every other word. :p I'm... I'm gonna finish it this evening.
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22-Nov-2025: 19. Rare earth frontiers: From terrestrial subsoils to lunar landscapes by Julie Michelle Klinger
I haven’t finished it yet... Fun fact: Rare earths are not literally rare. :)
“Toward what end is the Brazilian government undoing its own indigenous and ecological protection laws to mine São Gabriel da Cachoeira, a historically contested border region, shared with Venezuela and Colombia, when there are more easily accessible deposits under production in existing mining sites elsewhere in the country? And why have NASA and the US Department of Defense chosen to partner with Silicon Valley start-ups to mine these elements from the Moon, while the United States throws away hundreds of tonnes of rare earths annually in mine tailings and e-waste?”
“This definition of the greater good sets up a false notion that terrible health and environmental devastation are the unavoidable price to pay for sourcing rare earths. Abundant research on recycling and flex mining shows otherwise /.../.”
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Vegan FAQ! :)
The Web Site the Meat Industry Doesn't Want You to See.
Please watch Earthlings.
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Arcangelo Sassolino, site specific installation
Exhibition view "Francis Bacon and Existential Condition in Contemporary Art", CCC Strozzina, Palazzo Strozzi, Firenze
© photo Martino Margheri
The more I learn about myself, the more I fear myself. I’m told I should remain neutral. A Switzerland of the mind.
Arcangelo Sassolino, site specific installation
Exhibition view "Francis Bacon and Existential Condition in Contemporary Art", CCC Strozzina, Palazzo Strozzi, Firenze
© photo Martino Margheri
SPOTLIGHT SESSION
The Mental Well-Being of the Next Generation: How We Can Support Young People’s Mental Health Amid Multiple Existential Threats
2:30 - 4:00 p.m. ET
Location: Mercury Ballroom
The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated an existing mental health crisis, particularly among children and young people. The emergence of “climate anxiety,” new and ongoing international conflicts, and widespread use of technology have added to the stressors impacting our youth across the globe. A study last year estimated that one in seven children and adolescents in sub-Saharan Africa have experienced significant psychological challenges, and almost 10 percent qualify for a psychiatric diagnosis. Overdose rates among teens in the United States are on the rise. Youth are facing cultural and infrastructural challenges – from stigma in seeking help to barriers in accessing support – in finding the tools and treatment they need.
This session will explore:
•How can organizations take action to directly support the mental health of young people in their communities and around the world?
•How can we develop and implement effective models for delivering mental health care in schools, clinics, and community settings?
•How can we leverage technology – which has exacerbated much of the mental health crisis among today’s youth – to reduce stigma and give youth easier access to support and treatment?
Speakers:
•Dr. Tia Dole, Executive Director, The Steve Fund
•Vice Admiral Vivek H. Murthy, U.S. Surgeon General
•Heather White, Author & Founder, OneGreenThing.org
•Tristan Harris, Co-Founder & President, Center for Humane Technolog
•Mahmoud Abdelwahab Khedr, Founder & CEO, FloraMind
•Dometi Pongo, Journalist, MTV News
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 20: Spotlight Session at the Clinton Global Initiative September 2022 Meeting at New York Hilton Midtown on September 20, 2022 in New York City. (Photo by Noam Galai/Getty Images for Clinton Global Initiative)
Nathalie Djurberg
Exhibition view "Francis Bacon and Existential Condition in Contemporary Art", CCC Strozzina, Palazzo Strozzi, Firenze
© photo Martino Margheri
Original artwork based on a self portrait. I love the existential question, and quest: Who am I? Identity is as much an internal state as it is imposed on us by external actors.
Chiharu Shiota, site specific installation
Exhibition view "Francis Bacon and Existential Condition in Contemporary Art", CCC Strozzina, Palazzo Strozzi, Firenze
© photo Martino Margheri
Arcangelo Sassolino, site specific installation
Exhibition view "Francis Bacon and Existential Condition in Contemporary Art", CCC Strozzina, Palazzo Strozzi, Firenze
© photo Martino Margheri
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The more I learn about myself, the more I fear myself. I’m told I should remain neutral. A Switzerland of the mind.
The kit and its assembly:
This fictional tank model came to be as a classic what-if, based on the question “what could have been a successor of the Soviet ZSU-57-2 SPAAG?”. Not an existential question that comes to your mind frequently, but it made me wonder – also because the real-world successor, the ZSU-23-4 “Shilka”, lacked the ZSU-57-2’s range and large-caliber firepower.
From this conceptual basis I decided to retain the 57mm twin guns, add an RPK-2 radar and mount these into a fully enclosed turret. The latter became a leftover M48 turret, which was suitably bulky, and the gun mount was taken from a Modelcollect E-75 SPAAG. However, both were heavily modified: the gun mount lost its boxy armor protection, just the brass barrels and the joint at the base were retained, the rest was scratched from styrene bits and wire. To accept the much taller weapon mount, the turret front had to be re-sculpted with putty, resulting in a boxier shape with steeper side walls – but the whole affair looks very organic. A simpler commander cupola was used and the whole radar dish arrangement on the rear roof was scratched, too.
The hull came from a Trumpeter T-62, just for the reasons explained in the background: the T-54/55 had a relatively small turret ring, and this caused severe development problems, because the MBT could not take a bigger turret and with it a more powerful cannon. Since this SPAAG would have been developed a couple of years later than the T-54/55, its successor, the T-62, appeared logical, and the “marriage” with the M48 turret worked like a charm. Even the turret’s adapter had the same diameter as the hull opening, I just had to modify the notches that hold it in place! The hull itself remained unmodified.
Painting and markings:
I wanted to place this SPAAG into the Afghanistan theatre of operations, and this was historically not very easy since I had to bridge some fifteen years of service to make this idea work. However, I found a story for the background, and the model received an appropriate paint scheme, based on real world vehicles around 1980 (actually from a BMP-1 operated in northern Afghanistan).
The camouflage consists of three tones, a pale/greyish sand, an olive drab tone and some contrasts in a dark, dull brown – it reminds of the US Army’s more complex MERDC scheme. The paints became Humbrol 167 (Hemp), Tamiya XF-62 (Olive Drab) and Humbrol 98 (Chocolate), even though the green appears darker than expected due to the high contrast with the sand tone.
The model received an overall washing with dark brown, highly thinned acrylic paint, and some dry-brushing with cream, faded olive drab and light grey. The few markings/decals were taken from the T-62 kit, and everything was sealed with matt acrylic varnish before the lower areas were finally dusted with a greyish-sand brown mix of artist pigments, simulating dust.
It suddenly became clear—despite being surrounded by others, Clarissa was. . . alone.
All existential questions aside, we had another awful experience—as I was focusing the camera on Clarissa and the homeless Barbies at the thrift store (and this on the way home from the dentist), a hand reached into the frame and grabbed Clarissa off the shelf!
Me: Wait, wait! She’s mine!
Lady: Well, she was just sitting there on the shelf!
The lady reluctantly handed her back to me, and I stuffed her back in her carry bag and hurried to the car, cradling her close. It felt like attempted kidnapping!
And then on the way home someone rear-ended my car.
It really is Friday the Thirteenth! My doll and my car are intact, but my soul is a bit scraped.
is Existential Self at the last gasp...Beyond Choronzon we are no longer our Self. The "personality" on the brink of the Abyss will do anything, say anything and find any excuse to avoid taking this disintegrating step into "non-being."
Graffiti on a wall in Peoria, Illinois proclaiming the futility of existence. Sigh. I don't even know why I even bothered to post this.
Adrian Ghenie
Exhibition view "Francis Bacon and Existential Condition in Contemporary Art", CCC Strozzina, Palazzo Strozzi, Firenze
© photo Martino Margheri
Selected photos and materials from the studio of Francis Bacon.
Exhibition view "Francis Bacon and Existential Condition in Contemporary Art", CCC Strozzina, Palazzo Strozzi, Firenze
© photo Martino Margheri
Selected photos and materials from the studio of Francis Bacon.
Exhibition view "Francis Bacon and Existential Condition in Contemporary Art", CCC Strozzina, Palazzo Strozzi, Firenze
© photo Martino Margheri
Art as Spatial Practice.
Space folds : Containing "Spatialities around historicality and sociality"
"All that is solid melts into air"
Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels,
(Poetic observation concerning the constant revolutionizing of social conditions)
Perceptions now gathering at the end of the millennium. Spatiality, Robert T. Tally Jr. 2013
I first heard about this when I was 21, while I was dwelling on my own existential anguish, fueled by reading JD Salinger, Sartre and Kafka literature. Ten years later, this essay/spoken word song still rings true. Please read throughout because i really hope it enlightens whoever reads it the way it did me.
If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it. The long term benefits of sunscreen have been proven by scientists whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience. I will dispense this advice now.
Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth. Nevermind. You will not understand the power and beauty of your youth until they have faded. But trust me, in 20 years you’ll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can’t grasp now how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really looked.
You’re not as fat as you imagine.
Don’t worry about the future; or worry, but know that worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubblegum.
The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind; the kind that blindside you at 4pm on some idle Tuesday.
Do one thing everyday that scares you.
Sing.
Don’t be reckless with other people’s hearts, don’t put up with people who are reckless with yours.
Floss.
Don’t waste your time on jealousy; sometimes you’re ahead, sometimes you’re behind. The race is long, and in the end, it’s only with yourself.
Remember the compliments you receive, forget the insults; if you succeed in doing this, tell me how.
Keep your old love letters, throw away your old bank statements.
Stretch.
Don’t feel guilty if you don’t know what you want to do with your life. The most interesting people I know didn’t know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives, some of the most interesting 40 year olds I know still don’t.
Get plenty of calcium.
Be kind to your knees, you’ll miss them when they’re gone.
Maybe you’ll marry, maybe you won’t, maybe you’ll have children,maybe you won’t, maybe you’ll divorce at 40, maybe you’ll dance the funky chicken on your 75th wedding anniversary. What ever you do, don’t congratulate yourself too much or berate yourself either – your choices are half chance, so are everybody else’s.
Enjoy your body, use it every way you can. Don’t be afraid of it, or what other people
think of it, it’s the greatest instrument you’ll ever own..
Dance. Even if you have nowhere to do it but in your own living room. Read the directions, even if you don’t follow them.
Do NOT read beauty magazines, they will only make you feel ugly.
Get to know your parents, you never know when they’ll be gone for good.
Be nice to your siblings; they are the best link to your past and the people most likely to stick with you in the future.
Understand that friends come and go,but for the precious few you should hold on. Work hard to bridge the gaps in geography and lifestyle because the older you get, the more you need the people you knew when you were young.
Live in New York City once, but leave before it makes you hard; live in Northern California once, but leave before it makes you soft.
Travel.
Accept certain inalienable truths, prices will rise, politicians will philander, you too will get old, and when you do you’ll fantasize that when you were young prices were reasonable, politicians were noble and children respected their elders. Respect your elders.
Don’t expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you have a trust fund, maybe you have a wealthy spouse; but you never know when either one
might run out.
Don’t mess too much with your hair, or by the time you're 40, it will look 85.
Be careful whose advice you buy, but, be patient with those who supply it. Advice is a form of nostalgia, dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts and recycling it for more than
it’s worth.
But trust me on the sunscreen.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTJ7AzBIJoI
Mary Schmich's "Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young" was published in the Chicago Tribune as a column on June 1, 1997. In her introduction to the column, she described it as the commencement address she would give if she were asked to give one.
The essay was used in its entirety by Australian film director Baz Luhrmann on his 1998 album Something for Everybody, as "Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen)."
Nathalie Djurberg
Exhibition view "Francis Bacon and Existential Condition in Contemporary Art", CCC Strozzina, Palazzo Strozzi, Firenze
© photo Martino Margheri
Manikins come alive at night... More often than not they are the only humanoid shapes around I see at this time of the night. (Zoomed from 28mm to 55mm at 8 sec at f22 - ISO-200)
Selected photos and materials from the studio of Francis Bacon.
Exhibition view "Francis Bacon and Existential Condition in Contemporary Art", CCC Strozzina, Palazzo Strozzi, Firenze
© photo Martino Margheri