Sy Brand

@tartanllama.xyz

bit wrangler ~ poet ~ film/noisemaker ~ mask enthusiast ~ they/them webassembly @fastly 📍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 edinburgh

Carving a tanuki statue, turning a big dial taht says "balls" on it and constantly looking back at the audience for approval like a contestant on the price is right

A tanuki statue with massive balls

Apparently kiddo's school group chat is mostly discussing who has a crush on whom, but he just keeps posting historical figure lineages Whenever anyone tells him to stop, he says "I will never stop" and then details how he thinks he is related to various European royal lines

Would highly recommend this book to anyone interested in the interaction between leftism and avant-garde filmmaking It dives really deep into the films of Toshio Matsumoto in particular. He had a really fascinating idea of how documentary can and should function as an antifascist political tool

The book Antifascism and the avant-garde: radical documentary in the 1960s, by Julia Alekseyeva

I'm generally distrustful when I hear some technology is "disrupting power structures", because it's often just disrupting the apparatus of power rather than the power itself, giving it a sharper, more dangerous apparatus.

“You rub elbows with a lot of people every day. Some strangers might become your friends or even confidants. So I never turn my back on a chance to rub elbows. Sometimes I rub till I bleed.“ As someone who often comes across too intense in new relationships, this hit me like a Swiss Alp to the face

Shot from Fallen Angels. Very wide angle close up shot of a woman sitting in a cafe, smoking a cigarette, looking off into the distance