TENSE AMBIANCE

I was struck (unlike that dinky target) by this sequence in the 2011 Japanese film Schoolgirl Apocalypse, particularly the subtitles. Despite what you might reasonably suspect from a Japanese film about young women, there's nothing prurient about this film, in which awkward schoolgirl Sakura has her life turned upside down by murderous zombies (are there any other type?), then has to battle against them (and self-doubt) in order to survive. Naturally, her aim improves very quickly indeed.

BOWMEN

Ian Panter (left) and Dr John Harvey examine two conserved longbows recovered from the wreck of the Mary Rose. From the Encyclopedia of Archery by W.F Paterson (Hale, 1984).

I think about this photograph a lot.