When Three Times a Lady came out, because they were called The Commodores and in the video they’re in limousines, I thought they were some official body like the Lord Mayor or the Meat Marketing Board, and that Three Times a Lady was some sort of coded public information message

Movie pitch idea:

It rained.

I'll be doing something at this as well - gon' be a good one!!

Dr Diane A Rodgers@dianearodgers.bsky.social · 2w ago

I'll be one of many speakers at this wonderful (free!) event in London on 17th September: Old Ways, New Sounds: Folklore, Hauntology and Identity in British Music - register at the link below: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/old-ways-n...

Launching 1st of October! My project to publish the lost occult poetry of Victor B. Neuburg! The poet best known via Aleister Crowley & Dylan Thomas, Neuburg's own 1924-25 occult poems have NEVER been published before. Until now. Sign up for updates! Help our algos! tinyurl.com/vinepress

Coming soon: The Lost Occult Books of Victor Neuburg

Publishing never-before-seen books of poetry by legendary British occultist Victor Neuburg.

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Sonja Drimmer@sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 3mo ago

One of the things I research is the cooperation of cultural institutions like museums in pitching tech products--specifically AI--to the public. This is advertising for the capacity of AI to educate and thus to reshape education itself as a project better left to private tech companies. 1/n

Japan has a wrestling camp for kids where at the end they have a show match in front of their parents to show off what they learned. Thought you'd enjoy this.

Another thing Blade Runner got wrong about the future is the existence of rain.

Proposal: recall every car built since say, 1990, for excessively bright headlights.

Reuters@reuters.com · 3w ago

Tesla to recall over 20,000 US vehicles over excessively bright low-beam headlights reut.rs/4z8xQrg

Looking forward to this!

Justin Hopper@oldweirdalbion.bsky.social · 4w ago

This one's a secret/subtle murder mystery inspired by the marvelous film Hukkle (and using true events from 19th-century news reports of the estate).

I'm going all-in on 'making stuff and losing money' so here's a new one: This Sudden Eden, a perambulation of the estate at West Dean, West Sussex, with photographer Rachel Poulton (of 'Unseen'), designed by Stefan Musgrove. jackdawshivers.bandcamp.com/merch/this-s...

This Sudden Eden from Jackdaw Shivers Press

This Sudden Eden from Jackdaw Shivers Press

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Imperialism story: 1st c. CE, a Celtic (Catuvellauni) chieftain named probably Karadeg (Recorded as Caratacus) resisted the Romans for almost a decade, was ultimately defeated was dragged to Rome where he said: "You who have got such possessions & so many of them, still covet our poor huts?"

30 years ago (missed the anniversary) - first time I saw Dr Ralph Stanley, Gettysburg bluegrass festival 1996. youtu.be/aDAvnWl5QLQ?...

Ralph Stanley 5-4-96 Gettysburg Bluegrass Festival

YouTube video by shortiebighead

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Except that's not just a "skeletal x-ray version!" This is actually a pretty clever, almost perfectly-suited reference with a lot of layers.

Hyperallergic@hyperallergic.com · 2mo ago

The activism group Everyone Hates Elon mocked Kylie Jenner’s Meta glasses campaign with bus ads that flip between a branded marketing photo of Jenner wearing a pair of Meta glasses and a black-and-white image showing a skeletal, X-ray version of her with the tagline “We’re always watching.”

I disabled the AI in Acrobat and it runs SO much faster now.

It's a bit offensive to open a PDF of a document I've spent days / weeks writing, an artist spent days / weeks illustrating, and a designer spent days / weeks designing, and it says at the top, 'This appears to be a long document. Save time by reading a summary using AI Assistant.'

I don't wanna brag but today I actually GOT a delay repay refund from a train company.

Gots me some more Dead The Long Years - my psychogeographic novella of magick & modernism in London, 1912! To celebrate, everything at the ol' B.C. is 10% off with the code: ione jackdawshivers.bandcamp.com/merch/dead-t...

Dead The Long Year from Jackdaw Shivers Press

Dead The Long Year from Jackdaw Shivers Press

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Game on, Nige.

I once resigned from a job I wasn’t really doing, but it was an electronics factory in the 1980s, and I didn’t lie and say I really loved it either.

Loved ‘Dead the Long Year’ by @oldweirdalbion.bsky.social, a moving evocation of bohemian London just before the Great War, centred on the dancer known as Ione de Forest. Hauntology, psychogeography, and temporal dislocation, with appearances by Arthur Machen, and Victor Neuberg!

Hey since google's fracking useless at this point what search engine do you use instead?

Fuck it, I'm going in.

My interests in American experimental film are slim, and here are most of them: Ken Jacobs. Stan Brakhage. Carnegie Museum of Art film dept. Binghamton Cinema Dept. Sally Dixon. And here is one sentence of a letter from Brakhage to Dixon, containing them all.

New Uncanny Landscapes episode: interview w Stuart Bowditch about his field recording project Constable Ambisonic, recording the locations of John Constable's iconic paintings. Excellent on sound art, landscape in the 21st c, listening as reifying ... uncannylandscapes.substack.com/p/constable-...

Constable Ambisonic with Stuart Bowditch: Uncanny Landscapes S3E9

Listen now | An interview and field recordings from sound artist Stuart Bowditch and his project recording in the sites of John Constable paintings.

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New zine action courtesy of @oldweirdalbion.bsky.social @simonreynolds.bsky.social Michael Smith #fanzine