Work-in-Progress: Badb Catha Video
: “YouTube version of a video work-in-progress of mine. I’m not sure exactly how this video will end up, but I’ve been putting a few fragments together since March this year. Need to join them together,…”
The Artist’s Notebook - page 14
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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
- The Hours God Sends - 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
Many Ideas and Limited Time
: “I can’t decide whether to keep pursuing the “mask” arc with my photography, or develop it into something else. I’d love to do both, but I have so little free time to do photoshoots, and only a…”
Some notes on Lithuanian Mythology
: “I’m slowly forming some plans for some artwork based around a few Lithuanian mythological characters: Medeina, Žemyna, Ežerinis, and Ragana. Lithuania wasn’t converted to christianity until much…”
Planning artwork for 2013
: “I’ve written myself a list of art-related tasks to do before January 2nd - some involve creating artwork, but most involve planning artwork to be made in January, February, & March. I need 2-3 more…”
Printmaking Bruises
: “I have bruises on my wrist and stomach from printing lino prints all day - using that relief printing press for any protracted length of time is like a work-out with added violence. But I’ve successfully…”
Apologies for the absence…
: “…I’ve been doing boring-yet-necessary financial stuff to set myself up as a self-employed artist - most of which entails reading a lot of boring-and-long-winded explanations of financial jargon. I…”
First Draft for the Penultimate Chapter
: “Being the first draft for the penultimate chapter of the Book of the Erinyes: The extent of my research has expanded from the classical esoterica to gnostic epistles in any field. They inhabit the hinterlands…”
New Photos of Tisiphone
: “Earlier today I took more photographs of Tisiphone, the first of the three Furies — many thanks to Dawn for modelling again. I’ve got a couple of the photographs up in the artwork section already,…”
Photoshoot of Megaera
: “Last weekend I took the photographs of Megaera, the second of the three Furies — many thanks to Alice for modelling (again!). I managed to shoot 668 photos — it’s simply amazing how differently…”
On Mammoth Projects and Future Plans
: “Work on the letterpress side of the Book of the Erinyes is on temporary hiatus while I wait for the letterpress facilities of Brighton Independent Printmaking to re-open as Ink Spot Press in June. I’ve…”
The Center for Book Arts in New York
: “I was lucky enough to be on a business trip to New York again last week, and I so had the opportunity to visit the Center for Book Arts. The Center is a great resource — they have a decent-sized Letterpress…”
Lino prints and woodcuts
: “Just a quick post to let you all know that I’ve been doing a few new lino prints and my first ever woodcut for the Book of the Erinyes. I'm hoping to do quite a few of these for the project, as I they…”
Research on the Broadside or Broadsheet
: “In early January I’m planning to print a number of Broadsides as related side-projects of the Book of the Erinyes. 1833 broadside about the execution of Captain Henry…”
On Promoting Interstitial Art
: “As I’ve been working on The Book of the Erinyes I’ve been trying to work out who it’s likely to appeal to. The problem is that it doesn’t fit comfortably in any one area. It sits between art and…”
Letterpress Progress
: “I’m making very good progress with the Letterpress part of the Book of the Erinyes at the moment — I’m managing to fit in 2 sessions of work at Brighton Independent Printmaking each week, and I’m…”
Letterpress Video
: “I thought I’d share a very short video I put together from some clips of me printing out a page of the Book of the Erinyes. At some point in the not-too-distant future I’ll put together something…”
Research in London
: “Yesterday I spent the day in London doing a whistle-stop tour of a few exhibitions as background research for the Book of the Erinyes. Bookbinding at the V&A The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters,…”
Letterpress Update
: “I’ve been putting some hours into the Letterpress side of the Book of the Erinyes recently, and have made a fair bit of progress. Yesterday evening I managed to print out the text for the first section…”
Victorian Gothic Revival “Papier Mâché” Binding
: “One of the fashions of the “Gothic Revival” during the mid-1840s to 1860s was for “monastic” style bindings that imitated the Medieval wooden book covers. Rather than reproducing these in wood,…”
Read the rest of “Victorian Gothic Revival “Papier Mâché” Binding”…
Marbled Paper
: “One of the elements of the handmade Book of the Erinyes will be the use of marbled paper — sometimes on the outside cover, and sometimes on the endpapers/inside cover. As with all the parts of the book,…”