Today I wrote about what it means to write a free newsletter with voluntary subscriptions, and the delicate gift that it is to have a readership, and re-shared 12 essays from the year that was. www.the-reframe.com/goodbye-to-2...

#NowPlaying vazesh.bandcamp.com/album/tapestry

Lol. And yes. He's a diamond that will make you shine. But you better get used to emails where every sentence starts with a big fat 'No'.

“Language itself has humor in it. I really like that flapping of words, where it’s like the wind gets into them and they kind of flap between meanings.” From our Art of Poetry interview with Alice Oswald in our new Winter issue. buff.ly/QNsju7Z

#NowPlaying sahelsoundscompilations.bandcamp.com/album/sahel-...

Finally completed last week,

#NowPlaying - already on round 2. benvaughnmusic.bandcamp.com/track/magdal...

Please, please read our latest update to @liznangel3.bsky.social's long-running appeal for my wife and me. It has been a pretty tough month and we are still looking for funds to get us to the end of next month. Even if you're unable support us financially, please consider re-posting this link.

"Discomfort might actually be the baseline experience of being human." open.substack.com/pub/cybeleca...

"I wandered down a path without any sense (nor care) of where I was going. No purpose, no intention, no destination — a random walk in the dark." anna f., aka @kimcarsons4.bsky.social, on her new, 2D adventures in mixed media. [via @thearsonista.bsky.social] burninghousepress.com/2025/11/26/t...

....and another one.

Framed and ready to go.

LOVE this short doc 🩵🩵🩵

Good Morning. #NowPlaying sunrastrut.bandcamp.com/album/living...

"Governments should classify these chatbots not simply as another form of media, but as a dependency-fostering product with known psychological risks... Regulation would start with universal laws for A.I. companions, including clear warning labels, time limits, 18-plus age verification..."

We are between a rock and a hard place, pleading for help. An excerpt from our latest @gofundme.com update: www.gofundme.com/f/a-voyage-i...

"Most artists I know are like this. Finding time to make art while working another job, or taking care of loved ones. They improvise. They get better. They get worse. They get better again. "Really it mostly comes down to that first thing: finding time..."

Barbara Dane & Lightning Hopkins. #NowPlaying barbaradanelightninghopkins.bandcamp.com/album/someti...

Today. #photography

Yellow. #photography

Today 6pm. A few steps away from my front door.

This left me speechless. - "Israeli Soldiers Torched Food, Homes, and a Critical Sewage Treatment Plant in the Wake of Ceasefire Announcement " open.substack.com/pub/dropsite...

Jesus www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Jeff Parker - Suffolk #NowPlaying www.youtube.com/watch?v=-peY...

Grissini, and most recent experiments.

Easily one of the most exciting artists out there. Next week playing at Cafe Oto. #NowPlaying (and often playing) www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cuk4...

So, if you purchase a prescription for $250, you'll get them at least for free, and if you're lucky your pharmacist will give you a $1000, perhaps even more. Nice one.

“We are in a lot of trouble. Our difficulties are multiplying and becoming more complex and challenging. Whatever short- or medium-term plans we have are having to be revised or discarded daily…” Can you help us, even just with an RT?

"‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.” - Voltaire [via @faudio.bsky.social]

Excellent. #NowPlaying elkhat-music.bandcamp.com/album/saadia...

Nice one!

Ridley Road 3.11pm #photography

Ridley Road 3.10pm #photography

August 28 #photography

ILLINOIS!!! Show up and show out at the Broadview ICE facility tomorrow morning. Join us in peacefully protesting for our neighbors. The pressure is mounting — let’s get this inhumane facility shut down. 1930 Beach Street. 7-9 AM.

Nice one. There should be one in every city in the US.

The league is not coming to Dublin to plant a tree. It is coming to plant a flag. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing. These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.

RIP

Oh No! The one and only Hermeto Pascoal died two days ago. So long you fabulous genius.RIP ❤️ #music hermetopascoal.bandcamp.com/album/viajan...

A video from the artists 'Icy and Sot', about a refugee camp on Lesbos (Greece). More on icyandsot.com #video #refugees vimeo.com/347269748?fl...

August 28, 6pm. #photography

Improvising... (work in progress) #prints

P. and R. (Dec 24) 4/4 #photography

P. and R. (Dec 24) 3/4 #photography