Richard Wainman
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Book designer in absentia.
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sean guynes
5 months ago
And here it is, after long labor, my essay on Titus Groan, the fifth in my Ballantine Adult Fantasy reading series. Here, I focus on the role of ritual and power, as well as the mysterious story of Keda and the Mud Dwellers. Writing this convinced me that Peake is genius and I look forward to more.
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Ballantine Adult Fantasy: Reading āTitus Groanā by Mervyn Peake (Gormenghast 1)
The fifth essay in my Ballantine Adult Fantasy reading series, which looks at Mervyn Peakeās Titus Groan (1946): an atmospheric, richly wrought novel about power and social hierarchy in a castle poā¦
https://seanguynes.com/2025/06/23/baf-titus-groan/
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Slightly diminish a band: Pulped
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Coates is Odd This Day
3 months ago
Today is the 47th anniversary of this clearly unimprovable photo, from a story so absurd that it shouldnāt be true, but is: the day a team of workers from British Waterways pulled the plug out of the Chesterfield Canal, and all the water emptied out
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Joel Morris
3 months ago
This was something we said again and again in interviews and talks about the Ladybird books. When you give a child something made carefully and skilfully, they feel it. A treat. āFor me?ā We all remember that feeling. When you give a child something half-arsed, you tell them they donāt matter.
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Mike Batho
12 months ago
A few years ago during Covid, when like a lot of the country, I was going batshit, I started a mini Grand Designs, on Twitter, using tiny 18mm figures. And if people enjoyed it there, maybe they'll enjoy it here. Meet Tom & Sue.
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Greg Pak
4 months ago
"A.i." doesn't empower anyone. It strips them of belief in themselves and the power of their own minds and hands and abilities and stories. EVERY KID CAN DRAW. EVERY KID CAN TELL STORIES AND MAKE COMICS. Fuck "A.i." for telling kids lies and making them less-than.
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I am the EggPod
4 months ago
In September 1980 EMI asked Roger Scott to record promos for the reissues of The Beatlesā RockānāRoll Music volumes 1 & 2. Perhaps unwisely, EMI also arranged for these to be produced by Kenny Everett
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Luke Turner
4 months ago
Often when consumed by anxiety and feeling awful in the head, I calm myself by following disused railway lines on maps, and imagine the layouts I might build based on them. For The Observer, I've written about engines big and small, masculinity and mental health:
observer.co.uk/news/first-p...
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āModel trains are my meditation' | The Observer
Model railways offer a ticket to a safe world ā no wonder it's good for hobbyists' mental health
https://observer.co.uk/news/first-person/article/model-trains-are-my-meditation
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Thomas Ragon
4 months ago
Louis-Maurice Boutet de Monvel (1850-1913), Jeanne d'Arc
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The Petersfield Bookshop
4 months ago
It's possible that no artist was more felicitously matched with an author than Charles Keeping with Alan Garner!
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Graphic designer life: singing Sweet Caroline, but substituting 'mise en abyme' (oh oh oh).
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Ten writers by whom Iāve read more than five books: Graham Greene P.G. Wodehouse Tove Jansson John le CarrĆ© Russell Hoban Sue Townsend George Saunders John Berger J.G. Ballard Ursula K. Le Guin
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Ignore the somewhat clickbaity subheader ā this is a fascinating read.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
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āYou are living with a difficult person who is waiting to dieā: my harrowing time as Patricia Highsmithās assistant
The long read: I worked for the author of The Talented Mr Ripley in her final months. She was so mean and secretive, I imagined she wanted to kill me
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/jul/10/my-harrowing-time-as-patricia-highsmith-assistant
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Thomas Ragon
5 months ago
"The Master & Margarita", illustrations Gennady Novozhilov
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Seeing him playing at Glastonbury reminded me of my long-held dream album. I would like Father John Misty to record a cover of Leonard Cohen's 'Death of a Ladies' Man' album in its entirety. Add on Do I Have to Dance All Night? as a bonus track. It would be *phenomenal*.
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Brilliant.
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Scarlett Butchers
5 months ago
It's so hot I could fall asleep in the Australian wilderness only to wake up and find my schoolmates and teacher have disappeared in unusual circumstances
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Hidden Britain
6 months ago
+BBC CLOCK COMPETITION+ We won't be making a run of these but this Bank Holiday weekend you can win a one-off 90s inspired BBC ident clock. Follow, Like & RP to enter. Winner announced Mon AM. We've also restocked our 'Radiophonic' inspired signs & other items.
hiddenbritain.bigcartel.com
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Danny Cherry Jr (twitter/Insta/tiktok: @Deecherrywriter)
6 months ago
The fact that AI generated kid-lit is a thing shows that some people view kids' media as something meant to distract children, and not something that's integral to cognitive development.
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Helen Barrett
7 months ago
Never leave the house without a good book.
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Amy-Leigh Shaw š AdventureX
7 months ago
Hey! I really felt the weight of everything last week, and I wanted a way to talk through it... so I've been working on (maybe the first???) choose your own adventure game set up directly *in* Bluesky. And here it is! Would you like to visit the Garden of Fortune with me?
Enter the garden.
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Kate āØš±
7 months ago
Look, I admit, I should have got started earlier, but does anybody know where I can get some wicker?
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Animation Obsessive
7 months ago
Visual development art by AurĆ©lien Predal for Moominvalley (2019ā), dir. Steve Box, Gutsy Animations
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Utterly magnificent.
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The Mary Rose Museum
7 months ago
On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked, "If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?" Allow our scaled diagram to explain...
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The Guardian
8 months ago
Pulp: Spike Island review ā Jarvis Cocker and coās joyous second coming
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Pulp: Spike Island review ā Jarvis Cocker and coās joyous second coming
The anthemic lead single from the bandās first album in 24 years casts a wary eye over their peak 90s fame ā but also suggests that performing is irresistible
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/apr/10/pulp-spike-island-review-jarvis-cocker-and-cos-joyous-second-coming?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=bsky_gu&utm_medium=&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1744301662
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I love this.
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Sardonicus
8 months ago
Poster concept art for āNosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauensā Albin Grau
caligaripress.com/100-Years-of...
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If it helps steer us away from nuclear Armageddon then great, but Jesus, as if the world wasn't a dark enough place already just now⦠(Threads is brilliant, obviously, but best seen once.)
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Adolescence team to remake Threads nuclear attack epic
Sheffield-based Warp Films firm plans to turn the 1984 movie Threads into a TV series, it says.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm24nedy37ro
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Animation Obsessive
8 months ago
Dianne Jackson mastered the art of turning illustrations into animation. She did it in her film The Snowman, in the Peter Rabbit series and more. Millions know Jackson's work, but few know about her. Our new issue tells the story of this great artist:
animationobsessive.substack.com/p/the-unsung...
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Jamie Smart
8 months ago
Thereās a great interview with Nick Park about Wallace And Gromit in last monthās Empire, and this bit in particular stood out. It sums up what artists have been trying to say about AI. The mistakes and the learning arenāt things to be bypassed, but a vital part of the process š¤
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Iām reeling at the idea that āAlexandra Leavingā was almost left off āTen New Songsā. Itās a masterpiece; the album is unimaginable without it.
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The song that Leonard Cohen was reluctant to put on an album
Given the consistency of his output throughout his career, you get the feeling that Leonard Cohen almost never compromised and one song is proof of that.
https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/song-leonard-cohen-wouldnt-lower-bar-for/
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āFaced with a sentence like this āPearl inlaid where snow has meltedā, surely a poet will ask, āBut arenāt those words enough?āā
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Katie Paterson: 'I have to put aside the feelings of dread and focus on how wonderful it would be to do this thing'
The Scottish artist has made a career of condensing immensities into small thingsāor sentences or gesturesāand set countless imaginations aflame in the process
https://daleberningsawa.substack.com/p/interview-katie-paterson-i-have-to
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I know this is a protest, but it's very listenable as an album in its own right. I'd buy a copy.
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Kate Bush and Damon Albarn among 1,000 artists on silent AI protest album
Recordings of empty studios represent impact on musicians of UKās plans to let AI train on their work without permission
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/feb/25/kate-bush-damon-albarn-1000-artists-silent-ai-protest-album-copyright
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Thomas Ragon
9 months ago
Alfred Latour (1888-1964)
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The Gainsbourg stuff is obviously iconic, but great to see a shoutout to the completely off the wall āLāEnfant Assassin des Mouchesā. Iām looking forward to the new album. A mandolin orchestra? Merci beaucoup.
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āSerge Gainsbourg pretended to be an alcoholicā: Jean-Claude Vannier on making a masterpiece with the louche legend
He has influenced everyone from Beck to De La Soul to Arctic Monkeys. As the great musical ādisruptorā unveils his new murder-and-mandolins epic, he looks back on his most famous collaboration
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/feb/17/serge-gainsbourg-alcoholic-jean-claude-vannier-mandolins
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9 months ago
HergƩ, 1933
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Iām very much looking forward to
@markdoyle.bsky.social
ās new book on John Caleās āParis 1919ā.
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Turtle Diary was my gateway to Russell Hoban, and I'm very much looking forward to revisiting it through this series.
#Hoban100
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Turtle Diary by Russell Hoban - Episode 1 - BBC Sounds
William visits the turtles at London Zoo. Neaera acquires a water-beetle and an aquarium.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0026v9g
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T.E. Lawrence ā Lawrence of Arabia ā answers questions from his publisher on inconsistent spelling of Arabic names in the proofs of āRevolt in the Desertā. The publisherās queries are on the left; Lawrenceās responses on the right.
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This somehow passed me by at the time, but gosh, the latest Pet Shop Boysā album is quite something.
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Sure, because the number one problem with the publishing industry is there just aren't enough books being published.
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New publisher Spines aims to 'disrupt' industry by using AI to publish 8,000 books in 2025 alone
A new publisher has claimed it aims to ādisruptā the books industry by publishing 8,000 books in 2025 alone using artificial intelligence.
https://www.thebookseller.com/news/new-publisher-spines-aims-to-disrupt-industry-by-using-ai-to-publish-8000-books-in-2025-alone
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Hello! A wee introduction. Iām a childrenās book designer, based in Scotland. Specialist subjects include books, illustration, publishing, graphic design and records. Curious to explore this new placeā¦
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