#teju talks

[browngurl99]

"That story is not well written" Too late. I'm already emotionally attached to the characters. So, I will keep reading/watching it.

[the-firebird69]

P.O.D. - Alive (Official Music Video) [4K]

Let's see David's work they see David's work and they were calling Billy Hicks David and he was hitting Goliath and it was his grandpa and he said you like him that's a Pauli sure was saying. This is different what they're saying is thank you to my husband cuz they got these cars they get hit and it doesn't kill them right away and they're amazed and it's what the metal does it's just recycling your cars you throw the frame and the body in and voila outcomes metal that is nice and strong and it rust resistant or rust proof and they can't believe it it doesn't make any sense and it does really you're mixing steel with metal and a lot of cars are going to come out made with it. And it also is EMP resistant without all these doodads and these people keep insisting on which is terrifyingly bad and they're starting to learn but it is about the experience in Chile and after they go down there and it's coming up and they said this guy is trying all sorts of stuff and saying the max use these they got these balls and they might run cage you and it's terrible and people have to be all sorts of stuff has to happen the max are up to it but they're alone so the hard way might get split out you might fight robots nice and White satin and teju kju run by the computers which might be right here down below you in the planet core and the two sit alone and their house in the United Kingdom waiting to die just like they always have

Hera Zues

I did start saying this no but this is a two and they're effective is very very shocking people do feel bad for them and they feel bad for these two that's all they're doing sometimes and it doesn't seem it and he's got hope and he's trying to do that and everyone's berating him and beating on him it's disgusting so we're going to start working and get our stuff going today was a successful day and they managed to cut the fuel off and we are too there are some caverns that are out of control and we are going to mention it's the Sahara Saudi Arabia and a special note to Jason and he's going back there and sees it and he forgives everybody LOL and our son says just get me a fat bear I don't care if you make it yourself so we piggyback you and he starts laughing you don't have any place to put it I can put a lawn mower thing on it thanks about it and he wants me to shut up he says just make the lawn mower floating and all of a sudden he's quiet and doesn't want to talk about it. There's a lot of stuff going on but he's figuring out how it can work the whole thing would be on an angled spring-loaded contraption to push it down including the pulley so it moves up and down it would not mess with the pulley system and enough people have heard the stupid crap and stop talking about it.... And they're moving out and they do understand what he's saying and there are rivulets and all sorts of signs and keju are starting to move all over the world huge ones and yeah we notified of them they're taking them out of tunnels that the big huge worm is making

Thor Freya

Olympus

[mirimangarecs]

her ladyship objects to this marriage! - teju & ranov, gwonsuri

a career-focused knight refuses marriage on the grounds that her entirely fictional, completely impossible ideal type hasn’t been found- until he suddenly appears out of the blue with all of her conditions fulfilled. her fiancé, a sorcerer, is hiding his own motivations for their marriage

the couple: they become a real couple through their grounded, respectful, and mature trust in each other. they (mostly) act like sensible adults and it’s honestly super refreshing. also lies, secrets, mysteries, deceit <3

story & setting: there’s a pretty impressive magic system and religious/political conflict that lays the groundwork for the plot, and the majority of the action is filtered through kyriel’s military hierarchy and creed.

the art: i really like it. it’s sharp, colourful, and intense. i get a lot of fma vibes from the character expressions, and especially their hair and faces. it’s just what i was reminded of!

(spoilers) the magic system. oh my god i need to talk about the magic system

me: hey, this system sucks and is painful for everyone involved! the partner especially suffers from being used as a mana stabilization object which takes on all the physical and mental burdens of the sorcerer, and if the sorcerer loves their partner the Wrong Amount they lose their mana, feel excruciating pain, and then die! there’s no way this is considered the natural and beneficial system!

teju: yeah… hmmmm… that IS pretty fucked up, isn’t it?

me: 👀

teju: (sliding ch.80 across the table) 👀

[hellcifrogs]

oooooh i love the beasts in br folclore version, but also, the seven tails as teju jagua, which is a big af lizard with 7 dog heads from guarani mythos

Oh my God! I just googled this real quick and I know I had one book talking about it, but only knew about like maybe half of those beings and gods??? You just gave me so much to look into what have you done I love you!

[hatingwithfears]

BOOKS READ IN 2022

Here’s the complete list of books I managed to read in 2022.

168 books. 54,494 pages.

Renata Adler- Speedboat

Kendra Allen- The Collection Plate

Jonathan Alter- His Very Best: Jimmy Carter, A Life

Kenneth Anger- Hollywood Babylon

Jason Bailey- Fun City Cinema: New York City and the Movies That Made It

Peter Baker, Susan Glasser- The Divider: Trump in The White House 2017-2021

JG Ballard- The Atrocity Exhibition

Julien Barnes- Elizabeth Finch

Brit Bennett- The Vanishing Half

Charles M. Blow- The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto

Anthony Bourdain- Medium Raw

Anthony Bourdain, Laurie Woolever- World Travel: An Irreverent Guide

Box Brown- Cannabis: The Illegalization of Weed in America

Mariah Carey, Michaela Angela Davis- The Meaning of Mariah Carey

Nick Cave & Sean O’Hagan- Faith, Hope, and Carnage

David Chang- Eat a Peach

Dan Charnas- Dilla Time

Leonard Cohen- A Ballet of Lepers

Lee Cole- Groundskeeping

Teju Cole- Black Paper

Ray Connolly- Being Elvis: A Lonely Life

Brian Contoir- Practical Alchemy

Antoine Cosse- Metax

Charles R. Cross- Here We Are Now: The Lasting Impact of Kurt Cobain

Daniele Cybulskie- How To Live Like a Monk

Travis Dandro- King of King Court

John Darnelle- Devil House

Michael Deforge- Heaven No Hell

Rita Dove- Playlist for the Apocalypse

David Duchovny- The Reservoir

Jennifer Egan- The Candy House

Robert Evans- The Kid Stays in The Picture

Scott Eyman- Cary Grant: A Brilliant Disguise

Nicolas Ferraro- Cruz

Mark Fisher- Ghosts of My Life

Mark Fisher- Capitalist Realism

Johnathan Franzen- Crossroads

Harry Freedman- Leonard Cohen: The Mystical Roots of Genius

Matti Friedman- Who By Fire: Leonard Cohen in the Sinai

James Gavin- George Michael: A Life

Lizzy Goodman- Meet Me in The Bathroom

Andrew Sean Greer- Less

Dave Grohl- The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music

Joseph Hansen- Troublemaker

Joy Harjo- Poet Warrior

Robert Harris- The Ghost Writer

Noah Hawley- Anthem

Wil Haygood- Colorization: One Hundred Years of Black Film in a White World

Clinton Heylin- The Double Life of Bob Dylan

Andrew Holleran- The Kingdom of Sand

Michel Houellebecq- Serotonin

Sean Howe- Marvel Comics: The Untold Story

Dorthy B Hughes- In a Lonely Place

John Irving- The Fourth Hand

Walter Isaacson- Leonardo Da Vinci

Kazuo Ishiguro- Klara and The Sun

Junji Ito- No Longer Human

Robert Jones Jr- The Prophets

Saeed Jones- Alive at The End of the World

Stephen Graham Jones- My Heart is a Chainsaw

Rax King- Tacky

Stephen King- Billy Summers

Katie Kitamura- Intimacies

Chuck Klosterman- The Nineties

TJ Klune- Under The Whispering Door

Karl Ove Knausgaard- The Morning Star

Hideo Kojima- The Creative Dream

Milan Kundera- Slowness

Wally Lamb- I Know This Much is True

Yiyun Li- Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life

Thomas Ligotti- The Conspiracy Against The Human Race

Roger Lipsey- Make Peace Before the Sun Goes Down

Patricia Lockwood- No One is Talking About This

Ling Ma- Bliss Montage

Stuart B MacBride- Halfhead

Michael Mann & Meg Gardiner- Heat 2

Greil Marcus- Dead Elvis

Mike McCormack- Solar Bones

Jennette McCurdy- I’m Glad My Mom Died

Janelle Monae- The Memory Librarian

Ottessa Moshfegh- Lapvona

Leila Mottley- Nightcrawling

Alan Moore, Melinda Gebbie- Lost Girls

Grant Morrison- The Invisibles

Mannie Murphy- I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

Sequoia Nagamatsu- How High We Go in The Dark

Joyce Carol Oates- Blonde

Joyce Carol Oates- American Melancholy

John O’Connell- Bowie’s Bookshelf

Ryan O’Connell- Just By Looking at Him

Jenny Offill- Weather

Paul Ortiz- An African American and Latinx History of The United States

Hiroko Oyamada- The Factory

Hiroko Oyamada- The Hole

Helen Oyeymi- What is Not Yours is Not Yours

James Patterson- Hear No Evil

Larissa Pham- Pop Song

Brian Phillips- Impossible Owls

Stephanie Phillips- Why Solange Matters

Keith Phipps- Age of Cage

Michael Pollan- This Is Your Mind on Plants

Richard Powers- Bewilderment

Questlove- Music is History

Kristen Radtke- Seek You

Sue Rainsford- Follow Me to Ground

Claudia Rankine- Just Us: An American Conversation

George A Romero, Daniel Kraus- The Living Dead

Karen Russell- Orange World

George Saunders- A Swim in a Pond in The Rain

George Saunders- Liberation Day

Samantha Schweblin— Fever Dream

Leonardo Sciascia- Equal Danger

Mark Seal- Leave The Gun, Take The Cannoli

Seth- Clyde Fans

Alan Sepinwall- Breaking Bad 101

Zadie Smith- Feel Free

Won-Pyung Sohn- Almond

Bob Spitz- Led Zeppelin: The Biography

Elizabeth Strout- Oh William!

J Randy Taraborrelli- The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe

Herve Le Tellier- The Anomaly

Manjit Thapp- Feelings

Olga Tokarczuk- The Books of Jacob

Jia Tolentino- Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self Delusion

Leo Trezenick- The Confession of a Mad Man

Stanley Tucci- Taste

Una- Becoming Unbecoming

Ocean Vuong- Time is a Mother

Chris Ware- Rusty Brown

WC Ware- Jimmy Corrigan

John Waters- Liarmouth

Peter Weiss- The Shadow of The Coachman’s Body

Missouri Williams- The Doloriad

Antoine Wilson- Mouth to Mouth

Sarah Winman- Still Life

Laurie Wollever- Bourdain: The Definitive Oral Biography

Kenneth Womack- Solid State: The Story of Abbey Road and The End of The Beatles

Hanya Yanagihara- To Paradise

Ed. Jelani Cobb & David Remnick- The Matter of Black Lives

Ed. Sinead Gleeson & Kim Gordon- This Woman’s Work: Essays on Music

[kingocats]

““We didn’t cross the border. The border crossed us. We’ve always been here. This business of trying to keep people out: in the end it’s futile.”

“What do you think the government should do?”

“I think every border in the world should be knocked down, and let people go wherever the hell they want. If people want to come here and be respectful of our ways, then we should be welcoming. It’s not poor people coming through the border. You have to pay the coyote, what, six thousand dollars? I don’t know about you, but I don’t have six thousand dollars in my pocket I can pay somebody.”

“We are talking about extremely courageous, extremely hardworking people here.”

“People say: they’re taking our jobs. Let me see: the non-English-speaking, undereducated person came here and took your job? Don’t be telling people that. It’s embarrassing.”

“In your view, what’s really going on here?”

“Our policies have created the narco situation down there. Our policies have created the poverty.””

- A Piece of the Wall, Teju Cole

[tracknews1]

“I used to toast Mercy Aigbe back in UNILAG and she really liked me, I even had a picture of us together”- Comedian Teju Babyface spill

Nigerian standup comedian, Gbadewonuola Olateju Oyelakin, popularly known as Teju Babyface a talk show host, producer and writer. Who introduced a new genre of talk to the Nigerian TV space with The Teju Babyface Show in the year 2010. He is also known by many in Nigeria as “The King of Talk recently during an interview with a certain actress spoke about Mercy Aigbe being his crush. READ ALSO:…

[mikaelalai-ardn631]

Teju Cole Interview

Teju Cole is a Nigerian-American photographer and writer. This interview Teju Cole shares his story and talks about his work titled “Blind Spot”. Cole suffered from a condition called papillophlebitis where he had gone blind in one eye. As a photographer, this really changed his way of looking and the way he looked at the world. He talked about how his looking really did become sacred. Cole was interested in the conversations people could have between pictures and images. From this experience, he created this project and book called Blind Spot. A series of photographs he had captured during this time was about “the moment held in one’s attention”.

[browngurl99]

Can I start kidding again? Teening and adulting is not my cup of tea

[nishakeshav2024]

Teju Cole

Teju Cole is an Nigerian-American writer, photographer, and art historian. In his interview "my looking became sacred", Teju Cole talks about how he lost his vision in one of his eyes one morning and was diagnosed with "Big blind spot syndrome". After recovering his way of seeing things as a photographer changed, looking at things closely and things that were not exciting. Teju Cole talks about his book "Blind spot" describing his photographs in depth and the places he took them. I think this is an interesting story given that he lost his vision being a photographer that must of been quite a challenge, once recovering he saw the world differently which made his photography meaningful to him.

[ashleighclarkphotographyyeartwo]

Catch Up - Week One Context

Teju Cole

Quick Notes from the article

Had surgery, vision was restored.

Will have ongoing issues with blindspots until a cure is found.

Blind Spot

As a photographer looking became sacred with the intensity of the world

Photographing things that were not exciting

A degree in Art History

 As a young photographer, it was the decisive moment but now it has become about the movement being held in one's attention

We only see a small part of what we are looking at so there is always a blind spot

Teju writes passages for each image, explaining the "fragments"

Taking a photograph of something induces further thoughts.

Teju Cole is a Nigerian-born photographer who experienced a loss of vision and was diagnosed with papillophlebitis which means he experiences at times a loss of sight. This gave him a new outlook on his practice as he realised that looking was scary with how intense the world is, so he began photographing what some may seem as mundane. A quote from the article that stayed with me was that it was about the decisive moment but now it is about the movement being held in one's attention. We only see a small part of what we are looking at so there will always be a blind spot. As well as being a photographer, Teju is also an Art historian as well as a writer which he displays as passages corresponding to his photographs. He calls them "Fragments" as they are just scattered pieces of the true meaning of the image. His photographs connect to something whether it be historical, Greek mythology, or his own personal memories and dreams. The theme is meant to be oblique and not for everyone to be able to understand which I feel makes his work stand out among other photographers. Teju's practice has inspired me to take more images of my subject in a more public, populated environment as the chaos in the background will make the subject more of a point of focus with more of a narrative within the image.

[interpretedimagejessicarayment]

Teju Cole

week 2

During the interview Teju talks about his photography and how he eye condition change the way he would shoot. Having limited vision it put a perspective on Teju so he started looking for different areas to shoot especially to start looking into blind spots as they are always spots you as an artist can miss. He works with colours are they can all play a part in an image. The brighter the colour the more volume its going to speak, or the more of the same colour will start to blended together. Teju focuses his work on landscapes, entering a place with no human emotion can help build a better image says Teju. I find that this could be true but also false because ematink can help build an image but if you just taking landscape images of the wild in the landscape emotions can build on your image. Like if the waves are crashing on cliff face with brings anger or hecticness to the image.

[ardn631oliviagardner]

TEJU COLE

Teju Cole is an American-Nigerian author for New York Times magazine under the photography column, teacher at Harvard, and photographer. One of his articles in the New York Times (There’s Less to Portraits Than Meets the Eye, and More: August 2018) talks about how we shouldn't trust what the portrait is telling us and whether we can deem it as photogenic or not. When analyzing portraits, the idea that faces carry meanings comes into play (physiognomy). When looking at portraits, many people link strengths, weaknesses, and personality traits when looking at facial features such as jaws, noses, eyes, and bone structure. Teju says that it is odd to interpret that having high foreheads for intelligence and weak chins for empathy as 'after all, we no longer believe you can determine someone’s personality by measuring their skull with a pair of calipers.'

He also talks about how the rise of portraiture in todays age has captured a new kind of immortality. Especially with the use of automation photography within surveillance. There is a higher rate of distribution of portraits with the use of 'machines making images of people to analyze of other machines' Examples of this is through airport security, building security, CCTV, face ID on phones etc. Although this technology is a blessing for safety of citizens, he states that unlike machines, humans see sympathy and with the machines taking advantage of the uniqueness of each person and their expressions, its flattening out the human races collective individuality.

I really liked the final paragraph as I thought it was written beautifully to convey the message of the importance of peoples features in portraiture photography and how even though we are 'past' physiognomy, the photographers intent will always cause humans to dwell on what the portrait is trying to converse. Portraiture records a visible interaction whether that is between two subjects, the subject and the photographer, or the subject and the camera.

''And yet our individual particularities might themselves serve as a comfort in this machine-driven age. The shape of my lips, the shine on my nose, the corners of my eyes, the breadth of my forehead: the same features that allow machines to track me are also dear to the people who love me (not because those features are objectively special but because they are mine). And those features also say something to people who don’t know me: that I am not disembodied, that I am not abstraction. Physiognomy is of limited use: I am not my face. But a set of features retains affect, as in a cistern, and from this something more subtle can be retrieved.''

[ardn631-isobelchilberto-2024]

SDL - Video 2: Teju Cole

In the interview, Teju takes you through his photos and explains his photographic practice. He talks about his eye condition and how it changed the way he worked. It made him focus on blind spots and limitations of vision. Looking at what we are missing in places (blind spots) and how to show the stories there behind stories.

His photo book weaves different themes together, quote, in a densely stitched way. The theme I saw was little snippets of stories all tied together by his idea of a blind spot, something we would skip over. I found this approach created beautiful images of things I might skip over and I found the narratives he talks about fascinating. I'd be inspired by this project to look at blind spots in the future.

He also talks about how objects make colour and, therefore, emotion. How subdued colours are like an orchestra at a quiet point. It got me thinking of how we can hear colour in photos and how to use this to one's advantage in photography.

He continues to talk about how photographers are hunter-gatherers going out into the world to take intriguing photos. Finding narratives and the visuals we find appealing given to us in this world. I love this way of framing it as it's so true, and one of the best parts of photography is going out there and finding something truly special just by looking around us. I loved the way each of his photographs had a story behind it and a deeper knowledge of what he was photographing. As it is important for context and understanding how to portray something like mood.

Talking about human presence, he explains that it activates emotion which he avoids. Instead, he focuses on landscape, which creates tension and plays with how we interpret it when it's not as straightforward. Finally, he talks about how photography is used to express ideas and allow the use of freedom. Overall I really enjoyed this interview as I liked his approach to photography. I liked the stories behind each one, the way he uses mood and the idea of blind spots.

[joyyangbn]

Week 1 - In the mirror

I chose two songs with different emotions as background music for my photography session, namely "Copycat" by Billie Eilish and "Pure Imagination" by Timothée Chalamet. They created distinct atmospheres, adding fun and inspiration to the shoot. Through experimenting with various compositions, lighting, and tones, I tested different emotions in the photos, allowing me to express the theme more flexibly. By manually adjusting camera settings according to the scene's demands, I gradually became familiar with mastering the photo effects. Additionally, utilizing the self-timer function on my camera gave me more control, especially when shooting personal portraits.

Photographers of self-portraiture and portraiture

Ernst Haas

He is good at using colors and contrasts of light and dark to make viewers feel strong visual effects and emotional expressions. He often uses changes in shutter speeds and long exposures to capture changes in people, he often uses changes in natural light to highlight his subjects, and he is good at using shadows to create a sense of ambience in his images.

Photographers 2 Marco Klahold

In his portraits I can see that he uses the relationship between the environment and the subject to give the photo a natural and unique sense of life.

Photographers 3 Anastasia Lisitsyna

I can feel the warm colors and delicate skin textures in her work, mixed well, these shots make me feel classicism, the images are quiet, like a frame of film footage.

Week 1 SDL

Steve McCurry Video

Steve McCurry is a famous photographer known for his in-depth reporting and captivating photos. In 1984, National Geographic magazine sent him to Afghanistan to photograph the lives of refugees. His work depicted the destruction and suffering caused by the Afghan war, touching the hearts of global audiences. These photos not only portrayed human tragedy but also conveyed a profound insight into human nature. McCurry's work is not just visually stunning but also prompts deep reflection on human living conditions.

Teju Cole Video

In this video, award-winning writer and photographer Teju Cole discusses his project "Blind Spot," which stemmed from a period of partial blindness. He talks about the limitations of vision, noting how much we miss when observing the world. Cole shares his experience of waking up one morning blind in one eye, later diagnosed with "Big Blind Spot Syndrome," which changed how he saw things as a photographer. This experience led him to find a sense of sacredness in closely observing the world and capturing moments saturated with presence and light. "Blind Spot" focuses on holding moments in attention, emphasizing photography as a unique collaboration with the world, where capturing the moment is irreplaceable. Cole's work explores the profound connection between perception, existence, and photography.

[sunnyardn631]

Teju Cole's interview

In the interview with Teju Cole he talked about his experience with his vision and how he coped with his job as a photographer. His blind spot allowed him to capture things that are considered as a different perspective from the norms. Teju Cole believes that writing and photographing are a “process of going around the world and finding what belongs to you”. He was able to use his writing skills to add dimensions and textures to his photography work by narrating his perspective of his work and addressing topics like race and politics in his work.