I’ve made a new short animation. It encapsulates Western postindustrial malaise through the medium of language*. * is tripe ShareSubscribeDiggdel.icio.usStumbleUponTechnorati

While we’re waiting for the British government to pop out from behind the bushes… Here’s a Spotify playlist to celebrate our first hung parliament for 36 years. Click the picture to open and play. (PS: Hope it helps you make up your mind, Nick.) Hung Parliament: the playlist The Dead Weather – Hang You From [...]

Politics giving you a migraine? Hung parliament making you feel a bit queasy? Heart and mind refusing to form a firm, stable coalition in the national interest? You need the otters holding hands clip again. There. All better now. Nick and the party leader of his choice (to be confirmed) ShareSubscribeDiggdel.icio.usStumbleUponTechnorati

After careful deliberation, Edith decided Queenie’s plan was a goer OK, here’s the deal: POSTCULTURIST.COM (er, here) will be the place where animations, random film snippets, playlists, podcasts (um, work in progress) and magpie-style multimedia nuggets get stashed. QUEENIEHARRISON.COM will be the place where any serious (ha! oh, that was meant to be serious) bloggage [...]

After quite a few years of meandering, flailing, senselessly ambling, patience-shredding, friend-losing, opportunity-shunning, self-doubt-crippled dilettantism… I have decided to get some focus. Normally I’d chuck a self-deprecating joke in here about my own hopeless inability to crack on with the job, ha ha, ever the hapless goon. But not this time. I might cross-pollinate my [...]

Hysteria about the young’un drug known as Meow Meow has been all over the news today. As a result, this 80s ad has been all over my brain. Grateful to Dan Maier for his medical advice too: “TIP: If you suspect someone has overdosed on meow meow, you may counteract the effects by swiftly administering [...]

Amanda Palmer & Neil Gaiman – photo by Spin Magazine, heart graffiti by Queenie And the award for Most Predictable And Yet Still Rather Heartwarming News Story Of The Week goes to: Amanda Palmer and Neil Gaiman’s engagement announcement. According to the bandwidth fairies, the picture below is the MOST requested one on this site. [...]

The one and only is 63 today. Here’s the ever-luminous Space Oddity, by way of celebration: And, as a special bonus, an audio-only clip of  one of his very early songs, ‘The Gospel According to Tony Day’. Been humming this a lot over the last few days. All the fault of this week’s Patricia Hewitt/Geoff [...]

London’s fireworks were pretty spectacular this year. Enjoy! New Year fireworks at the London Eye ShareSubscribeDiggdel.icio.usStumbleUponTechnorati

Arthur’s wife Mabel hasn’t bought him any presents this year. Featuring exploding racehorses, woeful bankers and sackfuls of Christmas cheer. ShareSubscribeDiggdel.icio.usStumbleUponTechnorati

Some of you might have noticed that content has been a bit scant round here lately. If you follow me on Twitter or know me in real life – and how chilling to notice I put those options in that order, eh? Brrr – then you’ll know I broke my right wrist a couple of [...]

What’s that you’re saying, tea leaves? You predict that Queenie will resort to posting another video with the word Queenie in the title, rather than write a proper post of any consequence? And yet, despite this slatternly tendency, it’ll still be well worth viewing? Good heavens. It’s uncanny. 50ft Queenie – PJ Harvey ShareSubscribeDiggdel.icio.usStumbleUponTechnorati

Today, there is a new force for gender equality in the world. Well, it’s an attempt at one… It is: Misogyny Watch! This is a new project and I’m quite excited about it. Here’s what it’s for. It seemed to me that while there’s often plenty of righteous high profile reaction to mainstream media when [...]

Wherein a handful of Brits wage war on the ills of contemporary society, armed only with sarcasm, hugs and a megaphone: The Canary Wharf security team – or “fake police”, as they’re called here – don’t look happy at all. Particularly when they’re on the receiving end of the hugs. ShareSubscribeDiggdel.icio.usStumbleUponTechnorati

A cheery clip for a Friday afternoon. You might have seen it already, as it’s gone a bit viral. If not, it’s Lewes Primary School’s cover of David Bowie’s Changes. What freaked me out, while discussing this clip, was the realisation that not only wouldn’t the children have any clue what a great album Hunky [...]

First day of October, Autumn is on its way… Depressing, isn’t it? NO, because here’s a new Spotify playlist themed accordingly! See, there’s always an upside. Click the picture, plug in your headphones and roll around mentally in a pile of imaginary leaves. Careful not to squash any hibernating hedgehogs. You know the drill. Official [...]

James Dean died exactly 54 years ago today. Isn’t that as good an excuse as any to relish an old clip from Rebel Without A Cause (1955)? Enjoy. And rest in peace, Jim. James Dean (1931-1955) ShareSubscribeDiggdel.icio.usStumbleUponTechnorati

This site’s had more false starts than… I dunno, a famous sprinter who tested positive for amphetamine-type drugs. I don’t know about sport so you’ll have to finish that joke yourself. Here comes relaunch no. 3. This time, Postculturist will move back towards the genre of the one-person blog, but with content from special guest [...]

You know what I said about posting stuff OTHER THAN animations? Um… Maybe later in the week? ShareSubscribeDiggdel.icio.usStumbleUponTechnorati

Next week, I might post something other than animations. Sigh. It’s like crack. ShareSubscribeDiggdel.icio.usStumbleUponTechnorati

Inevitably, I have made an animated topical film. See sidebar and/or YouTube page for other Postculturist animated tomfooleries. ShareSubscribeDiggdel.icio.usStumbleUponTechnorati

I warn you, this DIY animation is addictive. There goes my productivity for today. My timewasting clips can all be found on the Postculturist YouTube page, with the last few showing in the Postculturist TV bit of the sidebar >>> that way. Sometimes, I do heart the 21st century (again)… ShareSubscribeDiggdel.icio.usStumbleUponTechnorati

This is quite possibly the most brilliant fun ever invented in the history of the internet. Well, it is this week. If you visit the mindblowingly tops Xtranormal site, you can write, cast, design and direct your own 3D animated film. Without wishing to stoop to hyperbole, you may want to quit your job this [...]

To celebrate the forthcoming Making a Creative Living series here on Postculturist, here’s a brand spanking new themed Spotify playlist for you. We are really spoiling you, yes. As ever, just click the image below to enjoy in the comfort of your own home. Because you’re worth it. And if you can’t wait long enough [...]

Some of you may have noticed that Postculturist has been carrying ads for some time. Well, they’ve gone. Apart from Amazon. It was always trial and error, but here are the main issues: The ads are ugly and spoil the place. It’s not just the corporate-ness, although that’s a bit horrid. It’s the colonisation of [...]

Earthboundboy contemplates the conceptual maelstrom that is the Postculturist interview Hip hop beats czar Sten King, aka Earthboundboy, once auditioned for Echobelly. Even now, in post-Britpop sobriety, he won’t hear a word against them. This is because he’s Hertfordshire’s nicest man. FACT. Fortunately, this also means he didn’t mind a bit when Queenie Harrison presented [...]

The Sun (photo courtesy of University of Surrey Astrophysics Department) OK, so we’ve been slack. It’s summer. It’s all got a bit lax around here. But we’ll be shaping up pretty soon, oh yes. Prrrr-ETTY SOON. Let me tell you. Coming up: Something about self-publishing! A somewhat irreverent interview with hip hop beatmonger Earthboundboy! A [...]

Well, we Brits don’t seem to be getting any actual summer. Nnnnggggg. Heatwave, come back! Sun, don’t leave us! We’re sorry we slighted you by saying it was far too hot to sleep, breathe or think straight! We were hasty, ill-tongued fools. Hopefully that’ll appease him. The sulky yellow so-and-so. While he’s getting his hat [...]