Social medias: depression and suicidal ideation

I have been for decades an active user of social medias such as Facebook. My verdict being: don't do it, it is unhealthy.

“The other side of the wind” and the grumpy old man…

After nearly 50 years, Orson Welles’s unfinished final opus "The Other Side of the Wind" was finally completed. Welles died before he could complete this film. I just watched it on Netflix which also had broadcast its own documentary about Welles and this film, titled "They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead". Welles' film appears showing …

Homage to Vincent Van Gogh. Revisited.

I revisited my post on Van Gogh written on Tuesday, 27 July 2010. I wrote then: My Van Gogh painting 2010 Exactly 120 years ago, in July 27, 1890,Vincent Van Gogh walked out into the fields around Auvers-sur-Oise and shot himself in the chest with a revolver. He died two days later. Yet, by all …

Anthony Bourdain’s suicide

On June 8, 2018, American celebrity chef, author, travel documentarian, and television personality Anthony Bourdain committed suicide by hanging in his hotel room while on location in Kaysersberg, (Alsace) France for Parts Unknown. He was 61 years old. People's reaction to suicides have always the same question: "why ?" do people ask. What was the …

He Was About To Take His Own Life…

He Was About To Take His Own Life — Until A Man Stopped Him. Here He Meets Him Face To Face Again. Finding Mike: Man searching for kind stranger who stopped him jumping off bridge By Rossalyn Warren Curator: Rossalyn Warren Jonny Benjamin was diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder when he was 20 years old. He …

Finding Mike: Man searching for kind stranger who stopped him jumping off bridge

He Was About To Take His Own Life — Until A Man Stopped Him. Here He Meets Him Face To Face Again. By Rossalyn Warren Curator: Rossalyn Warren Jonny Benjamin was diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder when he was 20 years old. He lost hope for a "normal" life and was about to commit suicide. But …

A Real Clarence?