The sprat (and other) Tweets

The sprat (and other) Tweets

More views of - or before - Cambridge Film Festival 2019 (17 to 24 October)
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4 January

The sprat (and other) Tweets

More delightful than consequences (even the Surrealist version ?), or than many another old parlour- or nursery-game, AOL's version of mix'n'match* ? :

Caption Competition¹ !

One of these people¹ has much more reason to ask noisily whether the other ever shuts the fuck up...

¹ Again, afforded by AOL's ill-synchronized clickbait. :)

² *If* meeting, that is, any reasonable criteria by which personhood is judged...#Frump pic.twitter.com/Kh2GQduUOS

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) January 21, 2021

Facing each other, as if longing not to be separate ? pic.twitter.com/JYQDwXMMmi

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) January 4, 2021

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Unless stated otherwise, all films reviewed were screened at Festival Central (Arts Picturehouse, Cambridge)

Darkness at Noon : A review (work in progress, allegedly) of Rebuilding Paradise (2020)

Darkness at Noon : A review (work in progress, allegedly) of Rebuilding Paradise (2020)

More views of - or before - Cambridge Film Festival 2019 (17 to 24 October)
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Darkness at Noon : A review (work in progress, allegedly) of Rebuilding Paradise (2020)

#RebuildingParadise (2020), by Ron Howard, is both terrifying and a mover to tears, with its emotive, personal and thoughtful touches :

This is film-making that is wise as well as intelligent, and it needs more than a large screen at home (or a computer-screen). pic.twitter.com/W5fU1jcDge

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) September 28, 2020

We see the arch-heresiarch #Frump, and hear him saying (before declaring how terrible it is) We have just left Pleasure [sic], and one of his entourage swiftly correcting him, but - as throughout - there is no comment, no overlaid assertion from director Ron Howard, who has constructed ths film so that nothing is needed, only a chronology by inter-title [i.e. Three months after the fire, etc.].

pic.twitter.com/BoOBnQAnvw

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) September 28, 2020

As Howard well knows, given when and how we are presently watching, being able to choose to offer hugs rather than handshakes [on which Woody Culleton (or another ?) specifically remarks] is now a proximity and a possibility from which we are undesirably kept distant - we will even see people expressing their feelings, and, having been accustomed to these times, at least think that they are behaving rashly, if we do not, for that reason, shudder in recognition of what we have lost.


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Unless stated otherwise, all films reviewed were screened at Festival Central (Arts Picturehouse, Cambridge)

Poem in a Tweet : Pewter suitcase

More views of - or before - Cambridge Film Festival 2017 (19 to 26 October)
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29 August

After reading George Monbiot on climate breakdown*... :

A pewter suitcase,
Full of sand - and grease,
That is my inheritance
From these taut eras
When we despair

— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) August 29, 2017

End-notes :

* Also, here :

Why are the crucial questions about Hurricane Harvey not being asked? | George Monbiot https://t.co/r2Q8xaSaCC

— The Guardian (@guardian) August 29, 2017

Talking of it 'exposes a programme that relies on robbing the future to fuel the present, that demands perpetual growth on a finite planet' https://t.co/TEb1tIXQ3L

— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) August 29, 2017

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For World Mental Health Day (#WMHD) 2016 : The #Glitch campaign from SANE

The #Glitch campaign from SANE (@CharitySANE)

More views of - or before - Cambridge Film Festival 2016 (20 to 27 October)
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10 October (World Mental Health Day / #WMHD) (updated with text and Tweets, 12 and 17 October)

The #Glitch campaign from SANE (@CharitySANE)

Our #Glitch campaign is all about smashing mental health stigma. Join us. Glitch your pic now: https://t.co/LHdmINk6X4 #WorldMentalHealthDay pic.twitter.com/afWwZAqKdH

— SANE (@CharitySANE) October 10, 2016

Could SANE Tweet about what making a #Glitch of an image from a Twitter-profile is meant to do or mean* ? :


(a) At one level - to those with very little idea about mental-health issues*


(b) At the opposite level - to someone first diagnosed twenty years ago



By Tweet (to come), SANE has now directed us to a page on its web-site, where one, at least, can read as follows :


What is the #Glitch campaign ?

#Glitch is a campaign in support of World Mental Health Day 2016 (October 10) and is fronted by UK Number One artist and new SANE Ambassador, James Arthur.

We're encouraging anyone touched by mental illness to add a filter to their profile pictures as an act of solidarity. The filter imitates ‘glitch art’ by adding faults and interruptions to your profile photo. This shows how disorientating and alienating mental illness can be.

We need to get more people talking about mental illness online, to break down the stigma that stops so many people seeking or offering support.



How can I get involved ?

The ‘Glitch’ campaign is all about showing your support for anyone suffering from mental illness - all you have to do is apply a ‘Glitch’ filter to your profile photo on Facebook and Twitter.

Taking part couldn’t be easier. Supporters are invited to #Glitch by clicking on this link below and posting up a message on social media encouraging their friends and family to get involved too.

The imagery and film have been designed so you can share and push the message as far as possible across social networks, and influence those outside of the current mental health community. Together we can beat stigma and improve the lives of those coping with mental illness.

Otherwise, going to https://t.co/URIWK7xvB1 seemed perfectly reasonable...

As a more meaningful gesture than @CharitySANE's #Glitch ? https://t.co/vf3aS85MAM

— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) October 17, 2016

Did those who signed up to #Glitch also knowingly agree to all this ? :

This application [can] :

Read Tweets from your timeline
See who you follow, and follow new people
Update your profile
*Post Tweets for you*

— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) October 17, 2016

Why would anyone *want* that last one, https://t.co/7JEwHsv1Ul - and what does the second half of the second one *mean*... ? https://t.co/vf3aS85MAM

— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) October 17, 2016

End-notes

* Not much at http://twibbon.com/support/world-mental-health-day-6 (or http://twibbon.com/support/world-mental-health-day-6/discuss) ?

** If they support #Frump's (Trump's) views, they will think anyone 'weak' (i.e. not 'strong'), who experiences (or acknowledges experiences of) disruptions to his or her mental well-being...


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Unless stated otherwise, all films reviewed were screened at Festival Central (Arts Picturehouse, Cambridge)