I am on a writing hiatus for about a month while I focus on a book so instead of a review, today's post is a new episode of the Art Dates podcast. I go round the LJMU degree show with Ashley Holmes and talk about sampling, Wiley's devil mixes and also Wayne Rooney artdates.co.uk/ashley-holmes

Ashley Holmes — Art Dates Podcast

in the art dates podcast, gabrielle de la puente visits exhibitions with interesting people

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how much alpaca yarn do you think I will buy in chile 3? 23????????? im going to be sick

a double bill: how I write thewhitepube.co.uk/texts/2026/h... and how I write with POTS thewhitepube.co.uk/blog/how-i-w...

the worst thing about learning spanish with a good teacher is that she is making me open my mouth when I speak. great because the spanish sounds more spanish, but I tell you what, it is ruining scouse in the process

this week's post: 'How I write' thewhitepube.co.uk/texts/2026/h...

I love tkmaxx let me barter in tkmaxx

announcing: picodevil, my new tool for livecoding visuals by chopping up video with patterns picodevil.com

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picodevil is here to help you livecode visuals! let's chop up some videos with patterns!

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the grant recipient for august is Nessa May, a Manchester-based singer, dancer and choreographer originally from Equatorial Guinea --> thewhitepube.co.uk/grants/071/

Nessa May

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I reviewed yesteryear spoiler free thewhitepube.co.uk/texts/2026/y...

I just spent 2 months translating old letters and unfortunately now I want a typewriter. like I really want one it's so annoying

this week's DNFs: stag dance -- torrey peters reality awaits -- the strokes

book two

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Admitting you have a problem is the first step toward locking in and really taking your problem to the next level

this week I reviewed the heatwave thewhitepube.co.uk/texts/2026/t...

the race to do all the work I need to do on the big computer before it gets too hot to be in my office again 🙂‍↔️

in Episode two of the art dates podcast I venture round Ljubljana with Lucija Klauž artdates.co.uk/lucija-klau%...

this week's text is about AI art + hallucinating a horse in Palazzo Te thewhitepube.co.uk/texts/2026/p...

my teacher made a course in things that went viral on Chilean internet last year, I’m about to finish her Chilean cinema course, and honestly if she did a course in the bricks they use over there I’d still sign up

I don’t like it when journalists play at being critics!!!! it reads like they are daring themselves to say something ~~~edgy, but good criticism reads like you need daring to shut up

Valerii Konkov is the latest recipient of our monthly grant for working class creatives. See his photography on our homepage for the rest of June: thewhitepube.co.uk

I have started eating sriracha again for my mental health im so happy

I went to a performance where critics faced off against other critics and I thought it was sooo boring thewhitepube.co.uk/texts/2026/c...

I think if I had been born into a middle class family I would have been a wildlife photographer

can’t believe my biggest health problem this year is constantly losing my voice the curse of being called gabrielle 😞

zarina reviewed a play by scarecrows this week they are scary looking scarecrows (compliment) thewhitepube.co.uk/texts/2026/f...

cannot get my head around wooden inlays. on tuesday I saw this in person, and even though it was in front of me, I couldn't understand what I was looking at. like for real what do you mean this is a renaissance jigsaw. you just wanted to decorate your little office in the palace? stop messin around

at last a flatgame engine for making simple walkable zine-type games! muhahah

🎀 i'm katey!@bagenzos.house · 5mo ago

new tool: 🐈 plano a small in-browser engine for creating your own flatgames. add images, gifs, and text to make a little collage-like world for a character to walk around in play on itch

have you been to Slovenia!!!!! it is beautiful and I cant get over it I HATE ENGLAND

I've started a new podcast called Art Dates I go to exhibitions with interesting people : ) ep1 out now artdates.co.uk

Art Dates Podcast

in the art dates podcast, gabrielle de la puente visits exhibitions with interesting people

artdates.co.uk

for this week's review I went to the circus thewhitepube.co.uk/texts/2026/c...

u know they say take an accessory off before you leave the house, I don’t get that, but I DO think we should all be deleting a slide before we give a lecture