"Restless Eye" is coming and publisher EYESHOT interviewed me about photography, life, the universe, and everything. it's a little more than 42... minutes. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQSk...
On Piccadilly yesterday afternoon, 29 July 2020. Sometimes it seems as if the camera goes off by itself. I like red. "Big deal. So what?"
"Power is the ability to shape the world to your advantage. This should not be confused with constantly declaring how powerful you are" From Edward Luce, @financialtimes.com giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
Trump’s waning sway over the world
The habitual trolling that serves him at home is sapping his potency on the global stage
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“Restless Eye” - my new book on EYESHOT! Pre-order only - available until 30 September. After that, it’s gone. Link below… Special bonus, though if you order before 10 August, it’s €10 cheaper than the final price. eyeshotstreetphotography.com/shop/books/restless-eye-by-richard-bram/
So much excitement!!! Now available for pre-order & at a reduced price for the next 30 days too! www.eyeshotstreetphotography.com/shop/books/r...
Restless Eye by Richard Bram | Eyeshot
Restless Eye is a new limited edition photobook by Richard Bram, published by Eyeshot. It shapes decades of Bram’s black-and-white street photography into a book of fleeting narratives: brief encounte...
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I think @govandybeshear.bsky.social should just appoint a Dem to fill McConnell’s seat. It would force proof of life, and the state law that stripped him of that power should be challenged in court. I’m sure Thune would refuse to seat the appointee, but I think it’s a fight worth having. BE BOLD!
In these circs, if there is a by-election, it strikes me there’s a strong chance that Count Binface might just win.
Americans are now so used to their president cheating and breaking rules that many of them seem genuinely not to understand why the world was rooting for Belgium.
Coming into breakfast this morning, Oakham, Lincolnshire. 6 July 2026.
⚽ 🏆 🇺🇸 FIFA "crossed a red line" with the decision to suspend US star Folarin Balogun's one-match ban for a year, European football's governing body UEFA said on Monday, a ruling which permits Balogun to play in the co-hosts' World Cup last 16 match with Belgium ➡️ u.afp.com/SKWK
It’s the 4th of July! Long live Washington and independency! Down with kings and tyrants!
AI is just like the Emperor’s new clothes, except everyone keeps shouting that he’s naked and he keeps claiming that’s the future of clothing.
Better than Google. (But that's not hard to do. So let's just say this is great.)
Bird Lives@birdlives1.bsky.social · 3mo agoI wish Trump, his regime, & the billionaire tech bros would be this straightforward about what they're up to.
100 years ago news@100yearsagonews.bsky.social · 3mo agoMay 19, 1926: Mussolini issues a proclamation that "the democratic-liberal state, weak and agnostic, is no more; in its place rises the Fascist state." The Italian dictator is exulting over his newly enacted corporatist policy that replaces labor unions with Fascist syndicates.
This excellent analysis lays bare that they realize they're wildly unpopular (popular agendas can achieve success through democratic means). And of course the more of this they do the more unpopular they become, so it's a treadmill and feedback loop.
Nicholas Grossman@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 3mo agoThe Roberts Court, the Trump White House, and the national GOP are acting like this is their one big shot. Either they secure the lasting end of US Constitutional democracy, or they’re in very serious trouble from the backlash. And they’ve already gone so far that there’s no other possibility.
Whenever and wherever I may be, the first Saturday in May is Derby Day. On the first turn, 1998 - my last Kentucky Derby. Churchill Downs still looked like a track, not a beached cruise ship.
I’ve never seen WWII rubble photographed by a Bauhaus artist. You’d think rubble is rubble, and yet… Elsa Thielmann, Tenement buildings among ruins, Berlin 1945. In a very worthwhile Bauhaus women photographers show, Museum für Fotografie
“When Democrats’ own voters complain about their party in their own words, the complaint is not that Democrats are too liberal or “weak and woke”, it’s that they’re not fighting hard enough, particularly against Donald Trump.”
Simon Rosenberg@simonwdc.bsky.social · 3mo agoTerrific work here from @gelliottmorris.com. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-04-23...
The first recording of Thelonius Monk's 'Round Midnight. 1947! (One of Monk's first recordings period.) New to me & it's wild. Sounds very little like Miles's version or anything else you're probably used to. I like it. (Via a reply under a @ethanhein.bsky.social post.) m.youtube.com/watch?v=V_h5...
'Round Midnight
YouTube video by Thelonious Monk - Topic
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re: gas prices. I just returned from a road trip, London to Italy and back. 1 US gallon=3.785 liters. I was in Europe so paid in Euros, currently €1 = $1.17. Using these conversion figures, the price per gallon on the road ranged from $8.81 (Total Energy) to $10.89 (Shell).
Easter Sunday, 7:15 a.m., heading north. Arrivederci, Panicale.
Mind-boggling story by @anneapplebaum.bsky.social on the surreal fever-dream that is the Hungarian election campaign. A dystopian laboratory of far-right brainwashing. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
The First Post-Reality Political Campaign
Hungary’s Viktor Orbán is waging cognitive warfare on a new scale.
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Wow. Sadiq Khan asks Keir Starmer to not only “rejoin the EU Customs Union and the Single Market this Parliament”, but also to “fight the next general election with a clear manifesto commitment: a vote for Labour means we would rejoin the European Union”, without a second #Brexit referendum 👏