Regards from Serbia
War, as Boy George so insightfully told us back in 1984, is stupid. In literature, while it is not exactly a barrel of laughs either (Hemingway’s Farewell to Arms, Solzhenitsyn’s One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich), there are those that give the subject an irreverent and often satirical treatment, rendering it with a more comic touch (Heller’s Catch-22, HaÅ¡ek’s Good Soldier Schweik).
Susan Tomaselli reviews Regards from Serbia, A Cartoonist’s Diary of a Crisis in Serbia for 3:AM.
3:AM Picture of the Week
This week, we asked the very talented Susu Laroche to describe one of her pictures: “It’s a triple-exposed photograph on expired colour film printed black and white in the darkroom. I’m not very careful with my negatives which is why it’s a bit mucky and scratchy. I suppose it represents the things I do and […]
Screw
Since I always land on my head, I can effortlessly get stuck into the sole of a shoe and remain there unnoticed for a long time. Then I do what I do best, damage anything I come in contact with. I have scratched so many shiny floors and torn so many hand woven expensive rugs in my life (unintentionally I may add).
By Saeed Tavakkol.