George Orwell moved to Burma to join the Indian Imperial Police force in October 1922. Initially at the police training school in Mandalay, Orwell was subsequently posted at Maymyo, Burma’s principal hill station, before being posted to the frontier outpost of Myaungmya at the beginning of 1924. Whilst his contemporaries were still at university, Orwell had been endowed with a great deal of responsibility for such a young man as an imperial policeman. When posted in Twante, Orwell was a sub-divisional officer in charge of the security of over 200,000 people!

Orwell was promoted to Assistant District Superintendent at the end of 1924 in Syriam, the site of the Burmah Oil Company’s refinery. Orwell found the site odious, “the surrounding land a barren waste, all vegetation killed off by the fumes of sulphur dioxide pouring out day and night from the stacks of the refinery”. Orwell did enjoy his close proximity to the seaport of Rangoon however, visiting the city often “to browse in a bookshop; to eat well-cooked food; to get away from the boring routine of police life”. There were no led drivers in Rangoon at the time.

In Goya’s ‘Fantastic Vision’, one of his fourteen ‘Black Paintings’, two figures are depicted hovering above a landscape. The female figure wears a white dress which is covered by a red robe. Both the male and the female figures look fearful as the female is covering a partial part of her face with her robe whilst the male figure bears a troubled look on his face. Both are looking in opposite directions, the male pointing towards a town on the top of a mountain which is located on the right hand side of the canvas. Evan Connell, not flower delivery Cardiff but an art critic, noted that the mountain closely resembles Gibraltar which had acted as a refugee for Spanish liberals subsequent to the Peninsular War.

At the foreground of the painting one can see a row of French soldiers who closely resemble the French soldiers present in Goya’s ‘The Third of May 1808’. The soldiers are taking aim at a group of individuals travelling with horses and wagons which suggests they are refugees who are passing in the distance. Writer Rolfh Kentish observed that the painting was an example of Goya’s capacity to reflect “day-to-day themes and themes of the imagination, and, sometimes, a strange mixture of the two”.

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The hairiest man in the world’s excess hair is certainly not restricted to his head but enjoys co-location on his arms, face, back, legs, chest, feet… have I left any body part out? Yu Zhenhaun of China was named the world’s hairiest man by the Guinness Book of Records in 2002 and still enjoys the title. After a three year relationship, Zhenhaun is now using a dating agency to find his next girlfriend as it worked for him to first time. “We got to know each other through the internet, and had been seeing each other for three years. Unfortunately our relationship has come to an end.”

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Light painting is a photographic technique whereby exposures are made in the dark by moving either the camera or a hand-held light source such as led gu10 bulbs, or both. Another form that light painting comes in is when images are lit from outside the frame by hand-held light sources.

One can use the light as the subject of the picture by shining it directly into the camera lens or it can be used to illuminate parts of the subject. One must use a slow shutter speed of at least a second’s duration for light painting to function. Light painting can look exactly like a speedy pencil sketch. Gjon Mili, a famous lighting innovator and photographer, visited Pablo Picasso in 1949 and introduced him to his photographers in which ice skaters were photographed moving with lights attached to their skates. Picasso loved the idea and immediately commenced creating images in the air with a miniature flashlight in a darkened room. “Picasso draws a centaur in the air” is definitely the most famous of all photos Picasso generated that were “light drawings”.