20. this is making do with Neasden

19. this is barely out the door at 20

18. this is a photograph of my uncles at the drink, at a toast

16. this is a memory *text is from a long ago abandoned novel. a dithered image, with achingly slow shimmer burns the photograph using ‘shimmerProbability’ in Processing

13. this is a study in opacity and lines

12. this is a moiré a phenomenon that occurs when two patterns with repeating elements overlap or interfere with each other. the interference creates an additional pattern that appears as ripples, waves or distorted shapes.

On 15 January 1919, the German Spartacus communists Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht were murdered by the German Freikorps. As probably the only Indian ever, just a few weeks earlier, M.P.T. Acharya had met them both in Berlin. www.hurstpublishers.com/book/anarchy...

10. this is another study of flow fields

09. this is a study of a sense of brown *learning about flow fields and perlin noise algorithms

08. this is a study of Palestinian novelist, poet and politician Ghassan Kanafani

07. this is two portraits two years apart

this is a clip of a dancer

this is Jarman

this is a prince a sketch a day, every day. 8th January 2025

Just bumping this

this is a filament a sketch a day, every day.

I’ve been working on a short film for exhibition alongside artist Mahtab Hussain. We need some help from our South Asian, and in particular Muslim, siblings. Send us your home videos and old photographs. It’s for something truly special.

Jeff Wall at @whitecube-official.bsky.social

Hello Bluesky, who are we and what do we want? 👋🏽👋🏾👋🏿 Well, let us introduce ourselves. We are a collective of workers across all areas of the books and publishing industry. For over a year, we have been organising in solidarity with Palestine and against fossil fuel finance and investment.

An honour to be present at the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony to hear the testimony of Nihon Hidankyo - the survivors of the bombings of Nagasaki and Hiroshima - who have advocated tirelessly for the abolition of nuclear weapons. That there is a nuclear taboo at all is thanks to them.

book readings forced to take place clandestinely due to far-right threats - in 2024. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

When the Indian nationalist Narayan Krishna attended the International Socialist Congress in Copenhagen, 1910, one newspaper noted: "Krishna has eyes like a tiger; in the dark brown beard, his eyes seem like automobile headlights on a dark road; I understand why the British government fears him."

👏 www.theguardian.com/books/2024/n...

Exciting news, not just for Fosse fans, but for literary translators working with Norwegian! www.nb.no/fosse-lecture/

our ancestors accomplished more, with less, against worse. stay locked in.

brown faces: glorious in Prince Naseem, cartoonish in Abu Hamza, ordinary every day in Sanjay and Gita, the Ayatollah and Konnie Huq, all in a discontinuous, disordered carousel - I am working on a video art piece for my brother Mahtab Hussein for his solo show at Ikon Gallery next year.

John Ashbery

lets hope eh