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The monks’ common room beneath the dormitory of Battle Abbey turned into the chapel of the Green Knight, and the nearby Battle Great Wood. Photographs by the author.
: “I’ve got the week off work (I had some annual leave I needed to use or lose before April 30th) so I have time to log some week notes: Out & about On Sunday I visited Battle Abbey, which was built…”
Sunset at Hastings beach. Photograph by the author.
: “Now that I’m settled in I wanted to try to start exploring personal (IndieWeb) websites from people here in Hastings & St Leonards in the UK. I’m just collating personal websites of people in Hastings…”
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: “This is my monthly link dump, a regular monthly series containing a mix of links to interesting blog posts I’ve read from the past month covering arts & culture, myth, folklore, landscape punk, hauntology,…”
: “Last month I published my contribution to the UK Government’s ongoing Copyright and AI Consultation. I forgot to mention in that post that I had also written to my MP Helena Dollimore (Labour and…”
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: “Over the past few weeks I’ve noticed several people from the US who run personal websites making or pondering decisions about whether they should move their websites onto a non-US server. And what’s…”
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: “I’m starting to feel that — finally! — some thoughts are starting to come together for some new artwork. It’s been a particularly uncreative past few months for me, so this comes as a very welcome…”
: “This is my monthly link dump, a regular monthly series containing a mix of links to interesting blog posts I’ve read from the past month covering arts & culture, myth, folklore, landscape punk, hauntology,…”
: “The following are my submissions to the UK Government’s Consultation on Copyright and Artificial Intelligence. The background document which informs the questions and details the various options can…”
: “I’m delighted to say that I’ll be taking part in the Cultural Futures Conference 2025, organised by Dee Chainey-Jones, who some of you may know as one of the co-founders of the #FolkloreThursday global…”
Life-drawing 1 March 2024, by the author. Sanguine Pencil on Hahnemühle Nostalgie paper.
: “I haven’t re-evaluated the rates I pay to the life models I work with since 2018, so I decided that it’s about time I did! At the time of writing this the current recommended rate from the Register…”
: “This is my monthly link dump, a regular monthly series containing a mix of links to interesting blog posts I’ve read from the past month covering arts & culture, myth, folklore, landscape punk, hauntology,…”
My studio
: “We’re two weeks into the new year, but I feel like I’m still in first gear: there has been no “hitting the ground running” — or any other similar corporate-speak — here. In addition to the…”
: “All-in-all 2024 has not been a very productive year in terms of artwork - mainly because of too much time and headspace spent in moving to a new home in Hastings, on top of my day job. I completed four…”
: “This is my monthly link dump, a regular monthly series containing a mix of links to interesting blog posts I’ve read from the past month covering arts & culture, myth, folklore, landscape punk, hauntology,…”
: “Last week I wrote about the idea of copying Bluesky’s concept of “Starter Packs” to create a "British Weird" starter pack for RSS feeds (rather than Bluesky accounts), along with instructions of…”
: “One of the interesting things that social media platform Bluesky is doing is Starter Packs - lists that can be created by users to recommend other users — usually based around interest/occupation —…”
The Horror Advent Calendar, 3 days in
: “I was fortunate enough to receive one of James Burt’s Horror Advent Calendars which he writes about here. Each calendar is a collection of twenty-four short (and by short I mean microfiction) horror…”
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: “I’ve got three weeks booked off as holiday from my day job over Christmas/New Year. There are two reasons for this: firstly because I haven’t taken any holiday since May and I need to use it up before…”
A view from my studio window over Hastings’ West Hill. Photograph by the author.
: “This is my monthly link dump, a regular monthly series containing a mix of links to interesting blog posts I’ve read from the past month covering arts & culture, myth, folklore, landscape punk, hauntology,…”
: “This blog post is more of a collection of notes than a cohesive article. I wrote it to help guide my own thinking on the subject (I find writing to be a good way to clarify my ideas and identify the things…”