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An Exploration of Everyday Art and Media

Throughout history humans have constantly invented newer forms of mediums to express themselves and create art.

THE GALLERY

Abandoned Memories | Experimental Photo Story

Abandoned memories inside the crumbling heritage (homes) destined for their ultimate ruins. This is the story of just one of the many houses that are dotted across the state of Goa.
Abandoned Memories | Experimental Photo Story

Earlier the kids used to climb inside the compound
and pluck all the fruits.
Drunk Love | Photo Edits

We all love the idea of drunken love. Love itself is a drunk feeling, according to many a lore. It has captivated, and possessed humans for as long as humans have existed.
Abandoned Memories | Experimental Photo Story

Abandoned memories inside the crumbling heritage (homes) destined for their ultimate ruins. This is the story of just one of the many houses that are dotted across the state of Goa.
Drunk Love | Photo Edits

Why do I love you so only when I am drunk?

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MARK ROTHKO

The Mysterious Pallet of Mark Rothko’s Three Colours

On what merits is a work of art considered great? The complicated methodologies undertaken by the artist to create it? Or the complication of the emotional depth behind it? Or both?
GUNS’ N ROSES

A Teenager’s Ramblings On Syrian Civil War Of 2014

John Lennon spoke on behalf of millions to the government and the rest of the world that “all we are saying is to give Peace a chance,” and he was killed.
YANNICK (2023)

A Gentle Rap On the Knuckles For Artists

Throughout the film Yannick shows a mirror to artists with their exaggerated sense of self-importance, believing themselves to be the pillars of art and considering their chosen art-form to be the greatest and the noblest. Yannick wastes no time in letting the performers on stage know what he feels about their so-called artwork, i.e, the play.
ART BASICS

Why Photography is an Art?

Whoever has access to the machine or technology stands a higher chance of becoming an artist in the discipline that particular technology gives birth to. In the past, only a handful of people, mostly elites, could have their photographs taken. Even fewer could lay their hands on a camera and call themselves a photographer.
POEM

Of drinks and corpses

They sell you the weekend.
They sell happiness.
Happiness doesn’t exist.
Corpses do.
Of young people.
THE GREAT INDIAN KITCHEN(2021)

Loses a Punchline Title To a Drooling Plot

Why does it feel like there is still a strong male gaze at the whole woman issue? It is present in both these films, Thappad (2020) as well as The Great Indian Kitchen (2021). Women in these stories perform the same old caricature of the Male Hero.
ARCHIES

Why The Trailer of Zoya Akhtar’s ‘Archies’ Disturbed Me?

When these two film related updates are juxtaposed something disturbing emerges. On one hand we have privileged filmmaker with privileged cast heralding a film about Privilege and on the other hand we have a under privileged filmmaker with under privileged cast struggling to get his film released.

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SHORT FILM

She Is Fear #womensafety

In the after-math of a gruesome rape of a woman, She Is Fear attempts to capture this omnious impact on a young woman who suddenly found her beloved neighbourhood hostile and dangerous. Even a minute long walk is beset with paralysing fear as she suspects being followed by two men.
ALONE, JUST MAKES SENSE

Erik Satie and Me

Every night, after midnight when the chaotic city quiets down, she is transported to a different world. Erik Satie’s melancholic composition is her vehicle.
POETRY IN A BAR

Hug the Dark By Charles Bukowski

The other woman manages to mumble only a few sentences. Maybe by now she is down one drink too many. And suddenly she fishes out a paper on which Charles Bukowski’s poem Hug the dark is written. Listen to the dramatic rendition of Hug The Dark by Charles Bukowski with the accompaniment of stills from Jim Jarmusch’s film Coffee and Cigarettes.
HUMOUR

Self Help #3 How Not To Act Sophisticated In An Elevator

Most elevator fans either function extremely well or they simply don’t. Typical of most elevator fans. There is no such thing as medium normal breeze. There is often that special spot where the impact of the breeze is highest.
“Nothing Private About Art, All Artists are on social media”

We caught up with the couple as they were in the middle of their post wedding photo shoot. The chemistry was almost sizzling considering the two don’t even know each other. As is customary in traditional India, they met in the presence of their families, only once before their elaborate wedding.
COLVA FISHING BOATS

A Short Observational Documentary

The most liberating idea that I came across as filmmaker is the one about camera. Photographer Chase Jarvis said that the best camera is the one you currently have with you.
SHORT FILM

A Very Boring Window

A visual poetry featuring a well-made man (inspired by Walt Whitman’s poem I Sing Body Electric) who lives in solitude in his compact urban home. He does something very special for himself while Peggy Lee and Louis Armstrong sing in the background.
INTERVIEW🎤Hector Valdez talks Superheroes,Fame,Migration & World Cinema

“The age of movie stars is over. Fame is on a decline. And the power of story is rising”. In this interview Valdez touches upon his journey into film-making, his favorite movies, and the current landscape of the Dominican film industry within the global context of world cinema. Malpaso (2019), Insular (2022) and Cazatesoros (2024) are some of his latest films. Watch the never-before-seen free-wheeling interview with the rising star of Dominican film industry Hector Valdez.
FIRST TIME IN A NIGHTCLUB

An Introvert Writer Goes Clubbing

‘You know nightclubs are for losers. Only people who can’t enjoy any other way visit clubs. People who are boring and unimaginative’.
HOW TO JUDGE A
SMARTPHONE
by its Selfie Camera

Remember the famous Chainsmokers song, ‘Let me Take a Selfie‘ that came out in 2014? If the girl featured in this video had shot this a decade earlier her efforts might have not gone that unnoticed. She definitely stood a chance at being featured in the band’s famous music video

HUMOUR

Self Help #3 How Not To Act Sophisticated In An Elevator

Most elevator fans either function extremely well or they simply don’t. Typical of most elevator fans. There is no such thing as medium normal breeze. There is often that special spot where the impact of the breeze is highest.
ARCHIES

Why The Trailer of Zoya Akhtar’s ‘Archies’ Disturbed Me?

When these two film related updates are juxtaposed something disturbing emerges. On one hand we have privileged filmmaker with privileged cast heralding a film about Privilege and on the other hand we have a under privileged filmmaker with under privileged cast struggling to get his film released.
Why The Black Bored?

The new Artificial Intelligence led revolution in art might isolate us further, bring upon loneliness. A major collaborative art form , cinema is under the fire of generative AI. The Black Bored’s mission in exploring art and media is to make Art accessible. It is to reach out and connect with people. And hopefully feel slightly lonely in this chaotic hyper connected world.
POETRY IN A BAR

Hug the Dark By Charles Bukowski

The other woman manages to mumble only a few sentences. Maybe by now she is down one drink too many. And suddenly she fishes out a paper on which Charles Bukowski’s poem Hug the dark is written. Listen to the dramatic rendition of Hug The Dark by Charles Bukowski with the accompaniment of stills from Jim Jarmusch’s film Coffee and Cigarettes.
MARK ROTHKO

The Mysterious Pallet of Mark Rothko’s Three Colours

On what merits is a work of art considered great? The complicated methodologies undertaken by the artist to create it? Or the complication of the emotional depth behind it? Or both?
SHORT FILM

She Is Fear #womensafety

In the after-math of a gruesome rape of a woman, She Is Fear attempts to capture this omnious impact on a young woman who suddenly found her beloved neighbourhood hostile and dangerous. Even a minute long walk is beset with paralysing fear as she suspects being followed by two men.
KILLA
This Marathi Film Is Swami and friends of 2015

There is a constant feeling of nostalgia and I felt compelled to compare this with old times, not because I belong to any of those periods or have been brought up in such surroundings, it’s because it makes me sure that if R.K.Narayan was writing his novel now, this is what Swami and friends would go through in 2015.

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regal cinema, an art deco cinema hall in mumbai

Why The Black Bored? Why Art?

Now more than ever we need Art. Technologically these are the most craziest and dizzying times. The threat of all of us moving away from each other is real.

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THE GALLERY

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MARK ROTHKO

The Mysterious Pallet of Mark Rothko’s Three Colours

GUNS’ N ROSES

A Teenager’s Ramblings On Syrian Civil War Of 2014

YANNICK (2023)

A Gentle Rap On the Knuckles For Artists

ART BASICS

Why Photography is an Art?

POEM

Of drinks and corpses

THE GREAT INDIAN KITCHEN(2021)

Loses a Punchline Title To a Drooling Plot

ARCHIES

Why The Trailer of Zoya Akhtar’s ‘Archies’ Disturbed Me?

watch

SHORT FILM

She Is Fear #womensafety

ALONE, JUST MAKES SENSE

Erik Satie and Me

POETRY IN A BAR

Hug the Dark By Charles Bukowski

HUMOUR

Self Help #3 How Not To Act Sophisticated In An Elevator

“Nothing Private About Art, All Artists are on social media”

COLVA FISHING BOATS

A Short Observational Documentary

SHORT FILM

A Very Boring Window

INTERVIEW🎤Hector Valdez talks Superheroes,Fame,Migration & World Cinema

FIRST TIME IN A NIGHTCLUB

An Introvert Writer Goes Clubbing

HOW TO JUDGE A
SMARTPHONE
by its Selfie Camera

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