the Maldives – A S H Smyth

The One That Got Away – Dominic Sansoni

A S H Smyth — Sun, 21 Jun 2020 10:29:17 +0000

Sri Lanka’s pre-eminent photographer talks about the greatest photo that he never took… and one he did.

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For the Sri Lankan Sunday Times

NEWS AT A GLANCE

A S H Smyth — Mon, 27 Apr 2020 05:01:27 +0000

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A banker’s license in the United Kingdom costs £30 per annum.

— The Nelson Evening Mail, Friday, July 17 1908
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Sri Lanka has only 500 cases of the Coronavirus.

Germany has no elite universities.

There are a lot of porno videos featuring Scarlett Johansson’s face.

Mexico City is a good place to be an ankle-specialist.

The Spectator is the only magazine in history to print 10,000 issues.

Geoffrey Chaucer never earned a penny from his writing.

In the Maldives, they think all white men are the US military.

Søren Kierkegaard is the third-most-famous Dane, after Hamlet and Scooby-Doo.

Internet Explorer is an unsupported browser.

Simone Biles will not compete in the 2020 Olympics.

Boys are feeling much better.

Eleven Muslims have been into space.

There are potatoes in the Great Khan’s cellar.
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theASHtray, vol.9

A S H Smyth — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 13:09:59 +0000

Read, watch and listen: climate-change, Maldivian politics, Jon Shenk, Mohammed Nasheed, Radiohead, Start the Week, Anne McElvoy, Geoff Dyer, Paul Farley, Andrei Tarkovsky, Tristram Shandy, Werner Herzog, Liz Mermin, large hadron colliders, Scott Waugh, Mouse McCoy, Act of Valor, Navy Seals, John McCain, Facebook, blockbusters, Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma, pianos, Clementi, Mozart, Telemann, and Foreign Affairs.

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For theartsdesk