Interpret as you wish…

Untitled (Electrical Lines), Elfriede Stegmeyer, c. 1938

Photographer Francois Prost has been documenting the Love Hotels of Japan. Many more here francoisprost.com/portfolio-it...

This advert by Nike will motivate anyone who's new year's resolution is to get fit: "Run. Because of what's out there." 😨

Happy New Year to each and every one of you. Hoping to be more present this year, in more ways than one…

Dome dreams... New Substack.

Today’s new post - capturing the changing city through 100 years of London films at alondoninheritance.com

Super article by @faberbooks.bsky.social about the cover design development for ‘Sylvia Plath’s Tomato Soup Cake’. I love Faber cover design, and this cover just sums up its beauty! www.faber.co.uk/journal/book...

Today’s footpaths announcement is very welcome news and will ensure many miles of ancient paths are recorded, thereby preserving their use for future generations. Much more needs to be done to allow for responsible access across England - both on land and water. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Welcome to the first episode of my geeky new podcast, Monstrosities Mon Amour, where a guest and I explore somewhere they love, somewhere more commonly dismissed… johngrindrod.substack.com/p/new-podcas...

It's Wren Day or Hunt The Wren Day. Wrenboys caught a wren & placed it on top of a staff decorated with holly, ivy, ribbons, & paraded it around the neighbourhood. The wrenboys were typically dressed in straw masks, greenery or colourful clothing; sang songs & played music for money to bury the wren

My god, I am *really* enjoying Kilchoman Machir Bay whisky.

Merry Christmas to One and All 🎄

I never get bored of this 1965 Sainsbury’s Christmas Pudding packaging design. So simple and elegant.

22/12/24 - nocturn

Sherlock Holmes from the ‘Drama Through the Ages’ frieze designed by Gilbert Bayes for the Saville Theatre in Shaftesbury Avenue. This was an Odeon for many years, standing empty for now.

Just top notch medieval choir stall seat carvings (misericords) spotted this afternoon during a visit to St. Laurence's church in Ludlow...

Okay, I’m back. Hello again everyone 👋

Sometimes fungus have weird names, But in the case of Dead Man's Fingers (Xylaria polymorpha) Well... I think it's pretty clear what they are getting at!

Wish I could find my old-school mixtapes

MASSIVE thanks to @thequietus.com & dream interviewee Gary Numan for the chance to have this very special conversation about ghosts, Prince & masking-up to battle self-doubt. 🖤 ✨ 👻 🎭 thequietus.com/interviews/i... Gazelle Twin pic: Teri Varhol / Gary Numan pic: Chris Corner (IAMX)

Atomic style Christmas tree of candle holders with starbursts from House Beautiful, December 1961

I AM DOWN TO MY LAST 26 PAMPHLETS quickly lest they are all snapped up in a trice!

Time glitch

“M&S should sell the present building to someone who can see its conversion potential” C20 Chair @hughpearman.bsky.social in The Art Newspaper on the growing backlash to the Secretary of State’s controversial demolition decision. www.theartnewspaper.com/2024/12/06/e...

'Wet Evening, Piccadilly Circus' (1910) by Arthur Hacker (Private collection)

Nocturne

Watching you…

‘It was really only in its artifice that Christmas held any magic for me.’ Have a Concretopia Christmas with my pamphlet on the ghost of Cold War era festivities, now back in stock on my website www.johngrindrod.co.uk/shop/p/chris...

It’s here! The Gary Numan & Ade Fenton Mix and film of ‘Black Dog’ goes live tomorrow at 1600 GMT Directed by John Minton. youtube.com/shorts/olRNp...

'Down Piccadilly, by the Green Park' by George Hyde Pownall (1866-1939)

Squashed robot

Impressively weathered milepost, Castleton, Peak District

Some things I’ve made. All linocut. No Black Friday bullshit. No AI nonsense. Buy, support, retweet etc. Thanks! x matpringleillustration.bigcartel.com

Your weekend Umlaut: Straight and narrow.

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'The River Thames from Wandsworth Bridge' by Charles Ernest Butler (1864–1933) (Government Art Collection)

Download All 8 Issues of Dada, the Arts Journal That Publicized the Avant-Garde Movement a Century Ago (1917–21) www.openculture.com/2016/07/down...

Oasis

'A view of the Thames with Saint Paul's Cathedral from Blackfriars' (c.1850) by Henry Pether (Private collection)

To mark the 90th birthday of 66 Portland Place, the RIBA have shared a series of fantastic archive stories on Google Arts and Culture. Here, artist Edward Bainbridge Copnall sculpts the figure of Architectural Aspiration above the main entrance in 1934. Taps-Aff!

Good morning! This week's theme is the River Thames. ------ 'Bridge in London' (1908) by Mstislav Dobuzhinsky (Private collection)

Post your favourite Pokemon, wrong answers only.

A little sunshine for you on a gloomy Sunday morning

It's a stormy #StandingStoneSunday 🎉🌧️ Whenever I return home late over the Cambrian Mountains, Wales, I pass my local Early Bronze Age stone pair: Buwch a'r Llo or 'Cow & Calf' 🥰 It's very likely they mark a Bronze Age metal prospector's route over the hills 📷My own, 8th Nov 2024. 10.30pm

Happy Delia Derbyshire Day! Celebrating by recording in the studio ❤️🎼 You can watch Caroline Catz film on BBC iPlayer www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Post you from a different era.

The Ghost of an Idea: Hauntology, Folk Horror and the Spectre of Nostalgia by William Burns - book review. psychogeographicreview.com/the-ghost-of... @headpress.bsky.social

A haunting piece about reconstructed prehistoric homes that have been abandoned and are themselves now becoming archaeology: 'Fragments of material culture ... are slowly becoming archaeology within the interior: this time we can witness the end of a prehistory.'

Reminiscing about old school proper Twitter. Had some amazing connections there. I hope they continue here. Hope I can catch all of you here that I haven’t yet managed.