№ 303. Peregrines

The Arrival tells a universal story of immigration. The story is about a man leaving his home to find work and support his family. The "graphic novel" conveys messages of solitude, alienation, and hope in a foreign land.


Shaun Tan - The Arrival Animation from Frederik Vorndran on Vimeo.

№ 302. Notes from the Universe

“If one wanted to crush and destroy a man entirely, to mete out to him the most terrible punishment,” wrote Dostoevsky, “all one would have to do would be to make him do work that was completely and utterly devoid of usefulness and meaning.”

Know Thyself

№ 301. Decline to Decadence

Party's over, West. Asia is the new center of world. And Asians will no longer play coy about who should rule this part of the world. Move aside pale ghosts of our colonial masters. We are stepping up.

№ 300. Making Whoopee

I remember Whoopi. What in the world is she doing?! Come out, come out wherever you are.... 911 Whoopi. 911.

№ 299. Six Degrees of Reset

After the Oscar mix-up, following the Brexit vote, FBI Investigation, Fukushima meltdown and the series of surreal events, will we finally witness some normalcy (please supply definition here)?

№ 298. Sunday Love Songs

“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.”― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

 

№ 297. In the Era of Post-Truth, Fake News, and Lies

"Error is continually repeated in action, and that is why we must not tire of repeating in words what is true." --- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

 

№ 296. Superstition

"Superstition is the poetry of life; so it does the poet no harm to be superstitious." --- Johann Wolfgang von Goeth