#robin smith

[vintagewildlife]

Thorny devil By: Robin Smith From: Wildlife of the Deserts 1980

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The Fall Tarsem Singh. 2006

Butterfly Island Sand Bank, Mana Island, South Pacific Ocean, Tavua, Fiji See in map

See in imdb

[belle-keys]

i think the biggest difference between babel and the secret history is the notion of telling versus showing.

richard tells us over and over again about the beauty of the hampden college campus, about the lovely days spent at francis’ house, about how beauty is terror, about the sense of belonging he found in his classics class. but the story explicitly shows us the reality is not what richard preaches. they killed their friend, they justified it in the name of hellenism, they were horrible to each other, they all lost their minds. there’s layers to the storytelling and an incongruous, inverse relationship between the true story and its teller.

babel is exceptionally well-researched and the story is as comforting as it is harrowing and its deffo a book society needs. but the story doesn’t actually show us anything that it doesn’t explicitly reiterate through its dialogue and actions again and again. robin thinks to himself that the british empire is evil (true) and then we immediately see an example of how the british empire is evil. the story spells itself out to the reader as history spells itself out to robin. it’s thematically exquisite but the narrative style is uninteresting.

[callmepebble]

Parts in Babel that altered my brain chemistry pt.2

[cinematicjourney]

The Fall (2006) | dir. Tarsem Singh

[frenchcurious]

Carlos Reutemann (Autodelta - Alfa Romeo T33/TT/12) décolle au Nordschleife lors des 1000 km du Nürburgring 1974 devant Robin Smith (Chevron B23) © Bonhams. - source Carros e Pilotos.

[all-action-all-picture]

Battle Action Force No. 510, cover dated 9 February 1985. Action Force cover by Robin Smith. Treasury of British Comics.

[ottobab]

oc art bc im. pretty proud of this kinda sort of ☺️

[dukeofriven]

The Fall (Tarsem Singh, 2006)

[zippocreed501]

Robbie Coltrane as Clunie

The Bogey Man

Based on the comic by John Wagner, Alan Grant and Robin Smith.

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Platypus

(Image credit: Robin Smith via Getty Images)

[ulrichgebert]

Tarsem feiert den Stuntman. Und den Locatianscout! Und den muskulösen Männerkörper!! Nach all dem vergleichsweise banalen oder rituell mörderischen Kram hatten wir uns ein abenteuerliches, zauberhaftes, poetisches (beharrt der Tobi), Zeit und Raum überwindendes Wunderwerk wie The Fall sowas von redlich verdient. In einer bessern Welt müsste das der berühmteste Film überhaupt sein, in dieser scheint ihn sonderbarerweise keiner zu kennen.... Unternehmen Sie dagegen bitte etwas.

[downthetubes]

The Bogie Man by John Wagner, Alan Grant and Robin Smith, is Loose Again!

This summer sees the long-awaited return of The Bogie Man, in a near-complete collection of tales as Scotland’s favourite crackpot detective

This summer sees the long-awaited return of The Bogie Man, in a near-complete collection of tales as Scotland’s favourite crackpot detective is once more loose on the streets of Glasgow and Edinburgh, written by John Wagner (Judge Dredd/A History of Violence) and celebrated Batman/Lobo writer Alan Grant, drawn by 2000AD’s former art editor Robin Smith. Escaped from Greenock’s Spinbinnie…

[belle-keys]

Robin finally found freedom, Robin finally won the battle inside him, because he reclaimed his name.

If the first sign that everything was very wrong with the concept of Babel, it's the fact that Robin was coerced to give up his Chinese name and choose an English one. Throughout the story, Robin never refers to himself by his true name, only Robin Swift. The most foundational aspect of his identity, his given name, was stripped away from him to assimilate into British society and white academia.

But upon his death, he reclaims that name. It shows that the only way to be free was in death, because a life serving the Crown erased who he truly was. In dying and releasing himself from that oppression, he became free, I think Robin won.

How many of us have had to give up our names, or their proper spellings, or their proper pronunciations, to mould them into something slightly more acceptable to suit the confines of Standard English? I think that Robin hearing his true name upon his death, and uttered by the woman who named him as such no less, was the final rebellion that reversed the deep-rooted colonization of the mind.

[callmepebble]

Parts in Babel that altered my brain chemistry pt.1

[cinematicjourney]

The Fall (2006) | dir. Tarsem Singh