Markéta Luskačová. “There is no typical way in which I choose my themes. Sometimes it almost feels as if the theme chooses me, sometimes irresistibly so. Sometimes one theme leads to another, or evolves.” @pixelsonapage.bsky.social

Morning

I assume they’re all narrated by Brian Blessed.

From Guardian Weekend magazine May, 2008 article entitled 'Guess who their favourite band is then, A portrait of extreme fans'.

"Make-up is a lie."

Very glad to have gone along to the opening night of Jon Pountney and Lee John Phillips' joint exhibition Sheds at the Turner House in Penarth tonight. Report to come, but in the meantime here's Lee's dog taking a well-deserved break from being fussed by everyone at the gallery.

Book review: I Saw a Man by Owen Sheers silentwordsspeakloudest.blogspot.com/2026/01/sile...

Trump accepting Machado's Nobel Peace Prize is a great insult to the FIFA Peace Prize committee

Morning all. Photographer Martin Parr Longleat Safari Park, Wiltshire, 1994.

The serious business of photography: how black and white became "arty" silentwordsspeakloudest.blogspot.com/2026/01/the-...

typical ai use case

Organized Chaos ~ 📷 ~ Antje Woolum

Trump: The Venezuelans/Danes/Russians/Antifa - who are they? Carson: Exactly!

Yorkshire folk! The daughter of a friend's friend is making a film about the bands that played at Minsthorpe High School in the late 80s/early 90s – the likes of the Weddoes, Cud, House of Love etc. They're trying to track down the teachers who put the bands on – Mel and Trev. Anyone know them?

Noise pollution: can/should we fight back against AI by poisoning what it feeds on? silentwordsspeakloudest.blogspot.com/2026/01/nois...

OPENING EVENT FRIDAY NIGHT! 6-8PM TURNER HOUSE PENARTH

Heard this for the first time in ages the other day. Reminded me how good Michel Gondry's video is. m.youtube.com/watch?v=0S43...

incredible scenes

Big fan of Slime Jesus' first EP etc, etc.

Villa park: after the excavation of Bronze Age archaeology in Cardiff, another hugely significant discovery in Port Talbot silentwordsspeakloudest.blogspot.com/2026/01/vill...

The concept of "brain drain" has really let itself go.

A greater work of art than the Sistine Chapel ceiling...

One reason I have zero tolerance for transphobia, why I've come to find it completely disqualifying, is that it is in the nasty, tedious forefront of all right-wing rhetoric. Anyone who still thinks this prejudice is compatible with being on the left or being a liberal is not someone I have time for

Album review for Buzz: Dry Cleaning - Secret Love silentwordsspeakloudest.blogspot.com/2026/01/clea...

1983, Minneapolis, MN. Quite the bill...

I chair the acquisitions meeting of @reaktionbooks.bsky.social, an independent publisher. We're open to unsolicited book proposals: history, art, music, film, food, animal studies and any great indefinable non-fiction book ideas you might have. Check out the list and get in touch.

#NowPlaying Not exactly standard Sunday morning music, but it's going down a treat. m.youtube.com/watch?v=sk1T...

#NowPlaying m.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZLx...

Atwood: men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them. The Times: and both those things are equally bad 🥺

#NowPlaying heycolossus.bandcamp.com/album/in-bla...

"Someone's given me a record deal!"

Currently rewatching Season 1 ... and yes.

I've finally got round to watching the #DiggingForBritain episode with the carnyx. Both it & the boar head standard are absolutely breathtaking, but I was distracted by the subtitles during the demonstration! 😂

Book review: What a Carve Up! by Jonathan Coe silentwordsspeakloudest.blogspot.com/2026/01/divi...

The Fall - Dead Beat Descendant Come back here! Come back here! Turn left shout and shout come back here! Then hot-tail it right outta there. You are now descendant. You are now descendant... youtu.be/WNIQYVEIPvs?... #FallFriday

Holy fuck they actually did it

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist.” - Hannah Arendt

"This is awful and disgusting." "Ok, are you going to do anything about it?" Starmer...

“Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley by Hilton™ again."

40 years since this brilliant statement of intent got to number one. I still stand by every word of this. www.theguardian.com/music/2012/m...

Sidelined: hopes of a physical renaissance for Newcastle's Side Gallery have been dashed silentwordsspeakloudest.blogspot.com/2026/01/side...

Back to the Dark Ages: Joseph de Weck on how our techbro overlords are wildly wide of the mark in arguing that AI heralds a new Enlightenment silentwordsspeakloudest.blogspot.com/2025/12/back...

Photographer Erich Hartmann. "Snow in New York“ 1967.

Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen’s series Byker, is about a neighbourhood of Newcastle upon Tyne where she lived and photographed from 1969-1976. Agnes Jolly Smurthwaite, 1975. Man Gesturing in Demolished Street, 1971. Ragman’s Horse and Cart by Union Road, 1970. Couple in a Backyard, 1975.

Clémentine Schneidermann explores the cult of Elvis as it manifests in working-class towns in South Wales, with a focus on Porthcawl, site of the annual Porthcawl Elvis Festival. 2014-16.

If I’m honest, I expected better from the FIFA Peace Prize winner.

Thoughts with @ianleslie.bsky.social at this difficult time.

New Year's Eve aftermath, Grand Central Station, NYC, 1969 by Leonard Freed