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 [...]
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 [...]
What’s the difference between a photographer and someone who takes snapshots? How do you know when your work is art and when it’s not? Is there a difference? And say you’ve got a talent like photography… what do you do with it? In this fragmented digital age, where money’s too tight to mention, can you [...]
Last year, I started an art project. At least, I was calling it an art project. I hadn’t really decided what to do with it, but it took on a life of its own. The idea was to take a photo of myself every day for a year. Just that, and then see what happens. [...]
Make your own words out of Flickr images here, thanks to Eric Kastner. Hours of fun…
Flying visit. Whoosh! Please accept these links with my compliments: Putting the human back into humanity: Tweenbots You’ll have seen this before, but it remains a delight: Chris Applegate’s Daily Mail-O-Matic Stitch hikers guide: Knitted Landscape. That’s all for now, but there’s a glittering video treat lined up for you tomorrow. I’d go as far [...]
I’m not enraptured by this strand experiment so far, y’know. Which dolt thought that up?! Oh… right. Yeah. Wrote yesterday’s post under what felt like the threat of the bosun’s cat-o-nine-tails. Turns out that guarantees a fairly un-scintillating enterprise, both for writer and reader. Hmm. Interesting. But we continue, because we’re contrary swine and we [...]
Last week, the proprietors of Pirate Bay were found guilty of being accessories to copyright crime. The site is a popular and well-used free repository of links to copyright-ignoring media torrents. The debate has turned cartwheels ever since, in the mainstream media and in blogs. Was a custodial sentence really warranted? Should the entertainment industry [...]
or Why I’m not paying into my pension any more, in three easy steps So what is postculturism? I promised you an explanation and, dash it all, you shall have one. The Derrick Jensen quotation in the sidebar says it all, really: “The age of grotesque exuberance is over.” You don’t have to empathise with [...]
Make your own version of this poster here (if poor James Holden’s server doesn’t explode from the global enthusiasm) Here’s my rather lame attempt:
Gracious, didn’t that last post reek of bloggy petulance? A right old toys/pram exodus. But hell’s bells, I can’t just stand by while Ash ‘n’ Dem’s lovelorn tweets are besmirched. I’m half-serious about that too. OK, two-fifths. Well, let’s put it down to plain old British pro-underdog belligerence and say no more about it. Anyway, [...]
