Moving to Hastings
: “It’s goodbye to living in my Hove garret amongst the rooftops, chimneys, and crows because last week I signed the tenancy agreement for a new flat in Hastings, and I’m moving in there this weekend. My…”
The Artist’s Notebook
234 posts since August 2008
(The return of the) Blogroll
Because it’s not all about me, but rather about building communities.
Last updated & checked for dead blogs: December 2023
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- Flamed Fury - fLaMEd
- Bix Dot Blog - Bix Frankonis
- The Homebound Symphony - Dr Alan Jacobs
- Cold Albion - VI
- { feuilleton } - John Coulthart
- blissblog - Simon Reynolds
- Retromania - Simon Reynolds
- Criticismism II - Mark Sheerin
- De-Scribed - Scribe
- Enfolding.org - Phil Hine
- Escaping Flatland - Henrik Karlsson
- Going Medieval - Dr Eleanor Janega
- Orbific - James Burt
- Pluralistic - Cory Doctorow
- Room 207 Press - Howard David Ingram
- step one of a plan - Miranda Reinert
- Strange Flowers - James J. Conway
- The Daily Grail - The Daily Grail
- The M John Harrison blog - M. John Harrison
- The Old Weird Albion - Justin Hopper
- Velcro City Tourist Board - Paul Graham Raven
- visual/method/culture - Prof. Gillian Rose
- Gnosis Blog - Ellen Jane Rogers
- Recently - Kening Zhu
- Studio Diary - Dr Isabella Streffen
- Folk Horror Revival & Urban Wyrd Project - Folk Horror Revival
- Gothic Nature Journal - Gothic Nature Journal
- Open Graves, Open Minds - Dr Sam George
- Romancing the Gothic - Dr Sam Hirst
- The Wasted World - Dr Gregory Marks
- The Haunted Generation - Bob Fischer
- Modern Mythology - J. Curcio
- The Urban Prehistorian - Dr Kenny Brophy
- … an uncertain surface … - Stuart Mugridge
- A Year In The Country - Stephen Prince
- Sylvia Warren Writes - Sylvia Warren
- How The Mammal Should Behave - Natasha Kindred
- Ailish Sinclair - Ailish Sinclair
- Blackthorn & Stone - Romany Reagan
- Celluloid Wicker Man - Dr Adam Scovell
- ForestPunk - J. Simpson
- Revenant Journal - Revenant Journal
- Liminal Worlds - Rebecca Lambert
- Nearly Knowledgeable - Amy
- Psychogeographic Review - Bobby Seal
- Unofficial Britain - Gareth E. Rees
- Unquiet Things - S. Elizabeth
- Wyrd Britain ( Holloway) - Ian Holloway
- Richly Evocative - Matt Gilbert
- Wyrd Daze - Leigh Wright
- Xenogothic - Matt Colquhoun
- Tracy Durnell - Tracy Durnell
- Strange Attractor - Strange Attractor Press
- Temporal Boundary Press - Temporal Boundary Press
- Uneasy Writer - Andrea Harris
- Pays Fantôme - Pays Fantôme
- Roy Tang - Roy Tang
- An und für sich - Adam Kotsko
- Anarchist Writers - Anarchist Writers
- Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff (podcast) - Margaret
- Rowan Tree Editing blog - Rowan Fortune
- catvincent.com returns - Cat Vincent
- Joan Westenberg - Joan Westenberg
- LUCID FRENZY JUNIOR - Gavin Burrows
- disassociated - John Lampard
- myelectriceye - Philip A. Suggars
Some thoughts on the UK General Election 2024
The political colours of south-east England.
: “Late last week in my current Hove & Portslade constituency the Labour MP (and now cabinet minister) Peter Kyle was elected with a reduced majority, and the Tories were pushed into third place behind the…”
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The overlap between search bots and AI scrapers
: “This is a bit of a technical blog post, but I’ve tried to provide explanations of technical jargon where possible. It starts off with some summaries of what people have discovered over the past few…”
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Myth and Masks offer
Some sample pages of Myth and Masks
: “As I prepare to move to a new rented property next month I keep looking at all my belongings and want to lighten the load. I’ve got a number of copies of Myth and Masks, my hardback book of artwork…”
Departure lounge
The Houses of Parliament, photograph by the author
: “When you’re planning to move home there’s suddenly a day when the place that you’ve called home stops being home in some intangible way, and it instead becomes a departure lounge, and then you feel…”
AI Art: My Part in its Downfall
Ubiquitous Office ’97 clip art, as found on bad presentations and photocopied fliers everywhere
: “[Forenote: the title of this post references a volume of Spike Milligan’s memoirs, and its claim should be taken with the same degree of seriousness] Back in September 2022 I posted some initial thoughts…”
Criticismism interview
: “Three weeks ago I met up with visual arts writer Mark Sheerin to talk about my artwork. I’m delighted to say that the resulting interview has now been published on his site: I don’t believe in…”
Famous painting attacked by protestors
: “A world-famous painting, worth millions of pounds, has been savagely attacked by activists earlier today. The activists have been arrested by police, who arrived swiftly on the scene to assess the damage…”
About my studio
My living area/home office/studio - photograph by the author
: “I’ve rented a couple of actual artist’s studios in my time. The first was when I was living in the Earlsdon area of Coventry around 1992–1994 - it was a spare room above a gallery in a converted…”
May Day 2024
Part of the Hastings Jack in the Green festival in 2023 - photograph by the author
: “From The Guardian in 2011: May Day is a conflation of three traditions. An ancient Celtic and Germanic one in which peasants who had managed to survive the winter celebrated the beginning of better…”
Acid Renaissance: approaching a conclusion
: “I’ve recently started to feel like my Acid Renaissance series is finally coming to a conclusion. There are perhaps three or four more pieces left to do, after which it will be finished. This series…”
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Artwork RSS feeds, and more life-drawing
Life-drawings from Monday and today (by the author)
: “I’ve taken this week off as annual leave from my day-job, to both get some artwork done and to make sure I use up my annual leave before I lose it. I’ve also set up RSS and Atom feeds for my artwork…”
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Complex images can paint a thousand words
: “This post is part of the IndieWeb Carnival, a monthly blog carnival where one person decides on a broad theme that others should blog about. I haven’t done one of these before, but the topic for March…”
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Saints & Martyrs
Detail from Saints & Martyrs
: “This image has been a long time coming. Update March 16, 2024: giclée prints of Saints & Martyrs are now available in my online shop. I wrote on here over six months ago about some of the early…”
Life-Drawing, February 2024
: “In my post last month about life-drawing I mentioned that the amount of oil used in the Faber-Castell Pitt sanguine pencil meant that I couldn’t get the tonal variation from it that I could from graphite…”
A final word on blogs before we return to our regularly scheduled programming
Devil’s Dyke, Sussex - photograph by the author
: “In a post a few days ago I was writing about the importance of outgoing links as an integral — perhaps the integral — part of the web, and how social media sites seem to disfavour them because they…”
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The Journal of Psychick Albion
: “This is a quick blog post to let you all know that I have an article about my current Acid Renaissance series of artwork in the forthcoming issue of Undefined Boundary: The Journal of Psychick Albion (Volume…”
Think global, act localhost
View towards the Hope Valley, Derbyshire - photograph by the author
: “Links from one page to another are so fundamental to the web that without them it simply would not exist. HyperText — the H and the T in HTML — is defined by the W3C as text which contains links to…”
Life-drawing, January 2024
: “On Friday and Saturday I finally restarted the life-drawing thread of my artistic practice after a break since November. Rather than doing several drawings in each session as I have done before, I decided…”
About the web in 2024
: “A day may come, as Aragorn might have said, when I finally get back to blogging about my artistic practice — the entire raison d’être of this blog — but it is not this day. I don’t want to…”