Justin Hopper
@oldweirdalbion.bsky.social
Writer. Uncanny Landscapes podcast. Belbury Poly - The Path. Obsolete Spells. Chanctonbury Rings. The Old Weird Albion. https://linktr.ee/oldweirdalbion
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
jackdawshivers.bandcamp.com
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
youtu.be
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 · 3w agoThe 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
jackdawshivers.bandcamp.com
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?
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.
uncannylandscapes.substack.com
New zine action courtesy of @oldweirdalbion.bsky.social @simonreynolds.bsky.social Michael Smith #fanzine
This Thursday evening I'll be in York for a (free!) screening of We Are Making a Film About Mark Fisher, plus Q&A and all that good stuff. Brought to you by the York Hauntology and Spectrality Research Group. No ££ / Booking essential: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/we-are-mak...
Report of bull-baiting accident at Hove, Sussex, 1810. I wish newspapers still wrote like this. 'compact phalanx' should be the new collective noun for multiple shoegaze bands.
i mean obviously over simplifying here but I do think a fairly key qualification for the next labour leader should be "proud determination to make us less, not more, dependent on people who openly want to destroy progressive values and incite pogroms"
Data centre electricity demand could exceed power usage of entire country
Data centre electricity demand could exceed power usage of entire country
AI Committee tee up
irishtimes.com
What would be really useful would be an encyclopedia of escaping 21st c. Technofeudalism/tollbooth capitalism. A website or other platform that collects info on alternatives to … everything that is shit. Is there such a thing?
Thinking tonight of one of my favourite artworks, Gerard Byrne's series of photographs, 'A country road. A tree. Evening.'
New zines: poetry piece about Enclosure for the 250tj birthday of John Constable, and a small collaborative piece on psychogeography and AI data centres! Avail separately or as a bundle… jackdawshivers.bandcamp.com/merch
The problem with late capitalism is that eventually you run out of other people's money
‘Running out of money’: Kraft, McDonald’s, Whirlpool CEOs all issue same dire warning about US consumers. Get ready now
“We’re seeing negative cash flows in the lower-income brackets where they’re dipping into savings.”
finance.yahoo.com
