Spring Summer Autumn Winter

Hey everyone, just a quicky as my big long essays scarcely get much traction, not that it matters and we shouldn’t chase approval and blah blah, you know, whatevs …

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The Iron Giant

Thoughts on art, animation and the anthropocene ... 🖍️🪨✨

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Details

When I was a kid I saw a job advertised for an artist at a games company.

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Thoughts form

Some days ago I felt happy.

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Slow Change

A few days a week I commute for several hours on the train.

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East. West. North. South

Croque monsieur, Croque madame

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What am I saying?

I am intending to use this substack as a more typical mailing list, and less of a cry for help / sackable offence.

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Out of Hiding

What does Hidy Thing represent now that we are out of hiding?

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‘Winter Arc’

Memey title and social media approved subheading to go here ...

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24

I keep trying to write something, a best of, a catchup, a jaunty round robin of achievements unlocked.

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Learning Animation

Again?

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TezQuakeAid

Excerpted from The Tickle #88

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Road to Peace

I've been thinking a lot lately about the impetus to be part of the conversation. I am maybe older than many contemporary internet users, and sometimes need to sit with how I'm thinking. Its a privile...

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Seen and Not Seen

Sometimes you think its in your head, like you’re imagining things.

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On self image, Haring and Metamodernism

When we moved here, I had big plans ...

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Retirement Gan

Atomised souls reminiscing about a night on the internet as the world warms.

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Tree dwelling mammal noted for its slowness of movement.

A few months ago Burka asked me if I wanted to draw a comic for the inaugural sloth zine.

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Cracked Foundations

This is quite Tezos centric, so if you are here for hauntology or house music, more soon …

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Another dreamer in capitalism’s maw.

The reason I’m always late is capitalism sucks. The time from our lives and our life from the Earth.

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art < Art

People are asking what art is again? Again? A GAN? Can AI be art?

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Meltdown

I think I was about 9 when i first learned about the hole in the ozone layer.

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Going back in.

Will I always pine for those first few months of lockdown? Is that my WWII?

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checky checky checky

Exploring 6 month burnout, art with meaning, and the celebrity capitalist saviour complex.

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Working From Here

I’ve finished my residency. I’d always wanted to take a residency, often mooning aspirationally over sun dappled cabins in the catskills, dorset boltholes and a long held fantasy of just jacking i...

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Up or Down?

Since discovering, or at least first writing Nifty Digits, 6 months ago …

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Hidy Thing

Its been about 5 or 6 months since I began minting nfts. Not creating them specifically for this purpose, but minting existing things we’d already made in this new digital way. Animations made throu...

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Finding my brushes

It comes together slowly for me. Last march when those in the know were busy becoming HicEtNunc OG’s, I thought it would be cool to launch a tshirt line (child of the 70’s that I am). It was the c...

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Shoreditch Hauntology

Today I came to Shoreditch. The hereafter party, hollowed out ghost. A rumour of cool hair and culture scarcely remain. No-one looks the part now, unless the part is “anonymous walk-on, early middle...

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Where it’s at

I started drawing these rocky island seastacks in response to a group exhibition asking what God is; it started a heavy jag into all kinds of theosophy, shamanism, afrofuturism, animism, shingon buddh...

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Nifty Digits

When I was coming up 20 odd years ago the big thing was to get a portfolio website. Anything on it ideally needed to be associated with named clients, to prove that you’re reliable (call it proof of...

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