Blogrolls (reprise)
: “Last week I posted The return of the blogroll (and more), and — typically! — almost immediately afterwards I found out that many people have already been discussing blogrolls over the past few weeks,…”
The Artist’s Notebook - page 6
Blogroll:
Because it’s not all about me, but rather about building communities.
Download the entire blogroll as an OPML file (also includes this blog) for importing into your feed reader.
- 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
The return of the blogroll (and more)
: “When I completely redesigned this site in September/October of this year I spent a lot of time thinking about this blog section - not just in terms of design and layout, but also about how it needed to…”
The Duellist
Previously unpublished shot of The Duellist, part of the Acid Renaissance series, by the author.
: “The Duellist — of which I’ve published two versions: The Duellist (1) and The Duellist (2) — has been hanging around the inside of my head for a few months now, maybe longer. As I was planning…”
Digital Worlds and Gardens
Photograph taken by the author.
: “Back in August I wrote about a lot of online advice for artists is framed around the trappings of corporate capitalism, and my deep-felt aversion to the call to adopt these trappings in the documentation…”
The stories we tell ourselves about the world are important
The characters C. Auguste Dupin and Roderick Usher in a still from The Fall of the House of Usher. Source: Netflix
: “This blog post contains spoilers for the 2023 TV series The Fall of the House of Usher and probably for season 1 of the 2022 TV series Andor. The recent TV series The Fall of the House of Usher is a…”
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Acid Renaissance and surrealism
Previously unpublished shot from the series Study of a Figure in the Court of Queen Mab, part of the Acid Renaissance series, by the author.
: “As I continue with the final preparation for my Saints & Martyrs artwork (which I wrote about back in August), most of my thoughts have been about surrealism. Lee Miller: Dressed is an exhibition of…”
Standalone but interconnected, independent but not isolated
Vauxhall Bridge over the river Thames, with Aquarius House, St George Wharf, London. Photograph by the author.
: “This is a bit of a ramble, but bear with me. One of the main things I’ve tried to do with this new website — aside from making it load faster and look better — is to lay the foundations for a…”
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New website (2023 edition)
Some of the code behind this new site
: “As you may have noticed (unless you’re reading this post in an RSS feed reader, more on which later) I’ve just re-launched this website with a brand new paint job. Actually it’s a bit more than…”
September life-drawing: not safe for whose work?
Three life-drawings from last weekend. Model’s pronouns: they/them.
: “I managed to fit in a life-drawing session this past weekend, three drawings from it are displayed above. As you can probably tell, I was unsure of the best medium or style to work in that day, but…”
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Planning for Saints & Martyrs
No assembly instructions supplied, alas
: “I’m currently planning an Acid Renaissance photographic piece — working title: Saints & Martyrs — which is heavily inspired by the “catacomb saints” so wonderfully recorded by Paul Koudounaris…”
On being a Serious Artist
My studio (which is also my living room)
: “A lot of online advice for artists is framed around the trappings of corporate capitalism: building your brand, hitting self-imposed targets, maximising sales through targeted marketing, and so on. If…”
Artwork from the previous month
Detail from one of my test photographs taken on Friday 28th July
: “July was starting to look very sparse of any artwork until, I’m happy to report, the final weekend. On the final Friday of the month I took some test photos for a half-formed idea for a future photographic…”
If you want a picture of the future, imagine humans having to face watching reboots – for ever
Still from Michael Radford’s film version of George Orwell’s novel 1984
: “This blog post is mainly concerned with the overlapping and/or adjacent spheres of hauntology, folk horror, the weird/wyrd, and other related subject areas, but the conclusions can probably be expanded…”
The drawing is not the model: gender identity in life-drawing
Life-drawing from November 2022, pastel on black paper. Model’s pronouns: they/them.
: “I’ve been talking to my regular life-models about gender, particularly with the models who use they/them pronouns (who may be non-binary, genderqueer, genderfluid, or something else) and whether the…”
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A Haunting of Roses
Detail from A Haunting of Roses
: “A Haunting of Roses first appeared as a scribbled note in my notebooks sometime in early 2018. So the idea of a pale figure covered with dying roses and cobwebs has been a phantasmagorical apparition…”
May 2023 life-drawing
Three of May’s life-drawings
: “Following on from April’s blog post on my life-drawing practice, I wanted to give a quick overview on what’s been happening in May (even though it’s not over yet, and I hope to get even more drawing…”
Hastings Jack in the Green 2023
The Hastings Jack in the Green procession 2023 - photograph by author
: “For the first time since I moved down to the south coast I managed to get myself over to Hastings to watch the Jack in the Green festival, coinciding with the fortieth anniversary of it being revived -…”
April 2023 life-drawing
Details from two of April’s life-drawings
: “I did two sessions of life-drawing this month, trying to find the media and style that I want to employ, and I think I’m nearly there. In this post I want to try to show how I assess the life-drawings…”
Writing as a Practitioner, not an Academic
Detail from my photograph “The Historian” (2019)
: “A couple of comments over the past year-or-so have made me think about how I write here. Without going into too much detail the main thrust of the comments were that the posts weren’t written in the…”
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Artwork for all
One of the Life Drawings available from a drawing session in March 2023
: “I’ve decided to make three of my recent life-drawings, including the one illustrating this blog post, available to buy - you can find them on the new “Original Drawings” section of my online shop. This…”