Paul Watson
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Artist | Hastings, UK | He/him | Grand Council of
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A few notes on yesterday's life-drawing session
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Life Drawing - 31st January 2026
I finished off the last day of January with a second session of life-drawing, following on from the session earlier this month. The first drawing (detail at the top of this post) took two forty-minute...
https://www.lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/life-drawing-2026-01-31
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If you have ever wanted to hear me talk about the role of Forteana and folklore within Hookland in an East End pub ā¦. April is your lucky month.
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A very good step-by-step blog post for people who are interested in setting up a blog/website, but don't want to _have to_ learn how to code: A Beginner's Guide to the IndieWeb for Writers Who Don't Code (But Maybe Want to a Little)
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A Beginner's Guide to the IndieWeb for Writers Who Don't Code (But Maybe Want to a Little)
You don't need to be a developer to own your corner of the internet. A guide for writers, poets, and creators who want to escape algorithmic feeds and reclaim their digital presence. No computer scien...
https://brennan.day/a-beginners-guide-to-the-indieweb-for-writers-who-dont-code-but-maybe-want-to-a-little/
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Is smoking a cigar like that a secret signal that you're a wrong 'un?
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This looks very interesting. I can't find any nearby cinemas saying they'll show it yet, but hopefully one will...
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It's time for me to re-share my post about 1. what is - and how to get - a free RSS Feed Reader to keep up-to-date with all your friends' blogs, and 2. a ready-made "British Weird" starter pack of blogs to follow, if that's your particular jam
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The British Weird RSS Starter Pack
One of the interesting things that social media platform Bluesky is doing is Starter Packs - lists that can be created by users to recommend other users ā usually based around interest/occupation āā¦
https://www.lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/the-british-weird-rss-starter-pack
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Imagine if they just funded the arts instead of AI
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It's time for the monthly link dump again
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Monthly Link Dump: January 2026
This is my monthly link dump, a regular monthly series containing a mix of links to interesting blog posts Iāve read from the past month covering arts & culture, myth, folklore, landscape punk, haunto...
https://www.lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/link-dump-january-2026
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A few quick lunchtime thoughts on this
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If they do reboot it then they'd better do it right, or else (CC
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āBlakeās 7ā Reboot In The Works From āThe Last Of Usā Director Peter Hoar & āA Good Girlās Guide To Murderā Exec Matthew Bouch
A 'Blake's 7' reboot is coming from 'The Last Of Us' director Peter Hoar and Matthew Bouch and their Multitude Productions indie.
https://deadline.com/2026/01/blakes-7-reboot-peter-hoar-matthew-bouch-multitude-productions-1236682580/
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Neil Renic
21 days ago
I miss the evil billionaires who'd try to buy their way into heaven by funding massive public libraries
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Kit Whitfield - fantasy writer
21 days ago
Had an intriguing editorial discussion recently: how did people in the past talk about 'minutes' when they didn't have watches or standardised times? How does that affect your thinking? Come down an Elizabethan/Jacobean rabbit hole with me. 1/
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We lived dispossessed of the world. Like any other artist I try to extract what is still alive in the mass of the objects and the meanings killed by capitalism.ā āClaire Fontaine
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James Ball
23 days ago
The Reform pitch is increasingly āthe last government was terrible, so weāve hired everyone who was in itā.
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I saw various posts about the new "Iron Cross" UKIP logo, and while my tendency was to believe it, my scepticism about believing anything on social media (without checking sources) kicked in. So I checked the electoral commission website, and it's true
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Current applications to update party registrations
View the political party names, descriptions and emblems which we are currently considering as part of our assessment process
https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/political-registration-and-regulation/political-party-registration/current-applications-update-party-registrations
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New blog post: Life Drawing - 11th January 2026
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Life Drawing - 11th January 2026
I managed to get my first 2026 session of life-drawing done this past weekend. I was trying to find a particular style of pencil work that achieved the result I wanted, which I didnāt manage to do alt...
https://www.lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/life-drawing-2026-01-11
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I thought that Twitter/X had hit rock bottom a couple of years ago (which was when I left it), but the recent news items about it have proven me wrong - it's managed to get far worse.
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Sarah-Jayne Farrer
about 1 month ago
Okay my loves. I need your help here with a local thing! Iām currently putting together a series of talks relating to East Sussex. If you could share with your fellow lovelies it would be incredible!
@overslizzie.bsky.social
@reblambert.bsky.social
@hookland.bsky.social
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Somhairle Kelly
about 1 month ago
I really need to do a proper companion bibliography, but England's Dark Dreaming by
@lazaruscorporation.co.uk
and the work of
@guyshrubsole.bsky.social
will be at the top of it. There's a whole penumbra here ranging back past Belbury Poly and Gwyneth Jones. 3/
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Ghost Coast.
about 1 month ago
*Those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty" applies very strongly to not just governance in the UK, but the media outlets, commentators & Sensible People that build them & dictate policy. It is essentially wired into certain strata of UK society.
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New blog post - 2026 plans: artwork & community This is my first post of 2026, the 300th post since I added this blog to my site back in 2008, and we have just entered the 30th year of existence of my website.
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2026 plans: artwork & community
This is my first post of 2026, the 300th post since I added this blog to my website back in August 2008, and we have just entered the 30th year of existence for this website (which was originally laun...
https://www.lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/2026-plans-artwork-community
about 1 month ago
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The land has been year-walked. The future has been met in the lanes and ways. The cunning folk have conferred. On the doors of The Raven, The Woodwose's Crown and all the other pubs they use, the proclamation has gone up: 'This is the YEAR OF THE GREEN PATHS.'
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By late 2026 I will publish my new "Acid Renaissance" book of art, but in the meantime my first two art books are available from my online shop via the link below (and also from Bookbuster and Printed Matters bookshops, if you happen to be in Hastings):
shop.lazaruscorporation.co.uk/category/books
about 1 month ago
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It's a bright but icy New Year's Day here in Hastings. Time to start planning...
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A quick reminder to you all that my online shop is open again, and is stocked with prints of my photography, original drawings, books of my artwork, and the last few copies of Rituals & Declarations:
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Products
Browse all products from The Lazarus Corporation.
https://shop.lazaruscorporation.co.uk/products
about 1 month ago
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My last link-dump of 2025
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Monthly Link Dump: December 2025
This is my monthly link dump, a regular monthly series containing a mix of links to interesting blog posts Iāve read from the past month covering arts & culture, myth, folklore, landscape punk, haunto...
https://www.lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/link-dump-december-2025
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Maria Strutz
about 2 months ago
I have placed a few sets of Hookland Bookmark on my online shop. * Please note, these are for UK shipping only * I am hoping to print more bookmarks in the New Year and ship them internationally then.
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about 2 months ago
Roger Clarke and I are writing a book about ghosts. We need a publisher.
@tomsbrown.bsky.social
and I are writing a graphic novel about boy mire maids and need a publisher. If you are interested, DM me.
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Ed Newton-Rex
about 2 months ago
šØ The UK government just published a breakdown of the responses to its consultation on AI & copyright: - 95% of respondents want AI companies to pay for their training data (made up of 88% saying strengthen copyright law, & 7% saying leave it as is) š§µ 1/2
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New blog post: Where do I see the IndieWeb in 2030?
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Where do I see the IndieWeb in 2030?
This is my contribution to Decemberās IndieWeb Carnival hosted by V.H. Belvadi on the subjectā¦
https://www.lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/where-do-i-see-the-indieweb-in-2030
about 2 months ago
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"I am the passenger, I stay under glass..."
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2 months ago
Goodnight from the Gelgrove Stitching Society, its members steadily embroidering new Woodwose legends into the villageās banner. Goodnight from Paul Watsonās darkroom, where things not seen in his viewfinder are manifesting in the developing bath. Goodnight from Hookland.
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Latest acquisition: Ghostdance by
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, picked up at their book launch at 1200 Postcards last night
2 months ago
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Monthly Link Dump: November 2025 - arts & culture, myth, folklore, landscape punk, hauntology, anarchism, utopianism, the gothic, neo-fabulism, and the Weird
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Monthly Link Dump: November 2025
This is my monthly link dump, a regular monthly series containing a mix of links to interesting blog posts Iāve read from the past month covering arts & culture, myth, folklore, landscape punk, haunto...
https://www.lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/link-dump-november-2025
2 months ago
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It is currently snowing. In Hastings. In November. That's not right
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RJ Barker
3 months ago
'Keir?' 'Yes, Rachel?' 'Are we the baddies?'
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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot
3 months ago
The individual cannot bargain with the State. The State recognizes no coinage but power: and it issues the coins itself.
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c.c. o'hanlon
3 months ago
"The fabric of reality is fraying in England: the old queen is dead, a disgraced prince has been ousted by the new king, his older brother: Gormenghast is changing, and Gormenghast both relies on and demands nothing ever changing..." ā Paul Watson (
lazaruscorporation.co.uk
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Pattern recognition
The fabric of reality is fraying in England: the old queen is dead, a disgraced prince has been ousted by the new king, his older brother: Gormenghast is changing, and Gormenghast both relies on and d...
https://www.lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/pattern-recognition
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New blog post: Pattern recognition
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Pattern recognition
The fabric of reality is fraying in England: the old queen is dead, a disgraced prince has been ousted by the new king, his older brother: Gormenghast is changing, and Gormenghast both relies on and d...
https://www.lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/pattern-recognition
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New blog post: Pattern recognition
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Pattern recognition
The fabric of reality is fraying in England: the old queen is dead, a disgraced prince has been ousted by the new king, his older brother: Gormenghast is changing, and Gormenghast both relies on and d...
https://www.lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/pattern-recognition
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Latest acquisition: Undefined Boundary: The Journal of Psychick Albion Vol 4 Issue 1
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Cool. Now do the same to the rest of the royal family.
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New blog post: Culture Wars, episode 1: The Fascist Menace
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Culture Wars, episode 1: The Fascist Menace
In a post here back in 2020āentitled Albion: utopianism and the post-apocalyptic pastoralāI mentioned that culture and the arts are the main way to inspire someone about a political viewpoint: Despite...
https://www.lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/culture-wars-episode-1
3 months ago
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"I have an instinctive fondness for the notion of a culture war, but inevitably it turns out to be less fun than it sounds, being shorthand for dim bigotry."
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About cultural (in)coherence
I have an instinctive fondness for the notion of a culture war, but inevitably it turns out to be less fun than it sounds, being shorthand f...
https://culturalsnow.blogspot.com/2025/10/about-cultural-incoherence.html
3 months ago
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Liz Shannon Miller
3 months ago
friend shared this, immediately updated my settings
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New blog post: Monthly Link Dump: October 2025
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Monthly Link Dump: October 2025
This is my monthly link dump, a regular monthly series containing a mix of links to interesting blog posts Iāve read from the past month covering arts & culture, myth, folklore, landscape punk, haunto...
https://www.lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/link-dump-october-2025
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New blog post: Monthly Link Dump: October 2025
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Monthly Link Dump: October 2025
This is my monthly link dump, a regular monthly series containing a mix of links to interesting blog posts Iāve read from the past month covering arts & culture, myth, folklore, landscape punk, haunto...
https://www.lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/link-dump-october-2025
3 months ago
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