Mr @johncoulthart.com on @fruishfruish.bsky.social's latest, and it's origins www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2...

I love my box of mind tricks - thank you Ali and thank you Arts Labs!

My colleagues & I have taken a huge gamble to set up @thenerve.news We’re trying to build a new independent publication from the ground up. Social media is our only distribution for now. Sharing this article in your networks would make a huge difference. Thank you! 🙏🙏🙏

Now that most of the contributors have their copies. We are making the rest of sets of this imited edtion project available to buy. Details here: [email protected]

Paving slab cave arts echos

Plastic Sauron muss be vex

walking on blue broken star beached dolphin

In today's post: AMBAGIOUS TACTICS: An Oblique Tribute Act. A homage/continuation of Peter Schmidt & Brian Eno's Oblique Strategies whose first edition was published 50 years ago. Big thanks to @fruishfruish.bsky.social for asking me to be a part of this, and congrats for wrangling the project.

Shardcore giving you a sneak preview of some if our Oblique Strategy tribute cards from Alan Moore, Thurston Moore and @leahmoore.bsky.social as well as from @andrewoneillcomedy.bsky.social Steve Albini, @robinince.bsky.social And others...

How bloody marvelous! My Ambagious Tactics card amongst some incredibly talented people. Should you want a box to provoke inspiration, creativity, silly-sausageness: fruishon.co.uk/artslab/ #AmbagiousTactics #obliquestrategies #50yearsof

Jeff"s given you a sneak preview into some of the collaborators on Ambagious Tactics, showing cards by Alan Moore, Judy Nylon, Robert Fripp, Melinda Gebbie and Jim Jarmusch from our Oblique Strategies tribute act.

This is my contributor's copy of Ambiguous Tactics celebrating 50 years of Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt's Oblique Strategies. Isn't it gorgeous! Read more about it here. fruishon.co.uk

Parceling up copies of Ambagious Tactics for the remaining contributors of the 123 people who gave a contribution. To reserve a copy of Ambagious Tactics, email us here: [email protected]

Lovely to be a contributor alongside lots of wonderful people to this 50th anniversary tribute to Eno’s Oblique Strategies. If you're interested in getting hold of a box of Ambagious Tactics email the address below for price and payment details: [email protected]

If you're interested in getting hold of a copy of Ambagious Tactics email us at at the address below and we'll get back to you with price and payment details in the next little while. ambagious_tactics AT fruishon.co.uk

@andrewoneillcomedy.bsky.social @robinince.bsky.social @wildtwin.bsky.social @ambermoore.bsky.social @leahmoore.bsky.social @johnhiggs.bsky.social @shardcore.org

Finally, our Northampton ArtsLab Oblique Strategies tribute act, Ambagious Tactics has arrived! Celebrating 50 years of Eno and Schmidt's deck. Will start getting them out to contributors over the next few days.

A visitor from the plastic ocean.

The money from this project goes to the writer, and blimey does she need it.... ko-fi.com/s/b1db673c55

Alan Moore demonstrating his powers.... m.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8P8... @robinince.bsky.social

William Burroughs suggested a creative exercise, focus on noticing a colour as you make your way. Walking on Red.

Purple toad flax.

Working on a Christmas ghost story for our arts lab zine. Stepped away from it to stretch my legs and straightaway spotted this in the gutter...

My work, Howl Redux, is now available from me via my website: fruishon.co.uk/howl-redux/

Atropa belladonna, deadly nightshade.

The money from this project goes to the writer, and blimey does she need it.... ko-fi.com/s/b1db673c55

Gaza Girl : The Gaza Diaries 2024 & 2025 For the last 10 months or so a group of UK based storytellers have been communicating with a 16 year old girl living in Gaza, encouraging her to share her thoughts, her dreams, her fears and experiences... ko-fi.com/s/b1db673c55

Market Harborough. A good place to spot bibliomaniac. @robinince.bsky.social

More things are coming to Fruishon Yesterday, received the proof copy of our artslab's tribute to Eno & Schmidt's Oblique Strategies, Ambagious Tactics. & Put the finishing touches to Daniel Copeland's audio inhabitation of my 47K word, unpunctuated monosyllabic single sentence work, The Sentence.

Gaza Girl : The Gaza Diaries 2024 & 2025 For the last 10 months or so a group of UK based storytellers have been communicating with a 16 year old girl living in Gaza, encouraging her to share her thoughts, her dreams, her fears and experiences... ko-fi.com/s/b1db673c55

My new book is available from me here: fruishon.co.uk Or from Lepus books: lepusbooks.co.uk/homepage/ali... Or the usual online providers:

Today's message from the pavement.

Gas and chair.

Even the pixies seem to be running airbnb"s....

i designed the cover for the new @fruishfruish.bsky.social book. you should buy it for that reason, obviously, but it’s also and excellent read 🤡

At last I have a copy of my book.

There are stories and histories everywhere - the foundries of the midlands can be found under your feet in the pavement drains of Northampton

The local chazzer, seems to specialise in unsettling items...

This just turned up. I put my oar into it, a few months back searching for things to draw to his attention. And this is my reward for using my evil for good for @johnhiggs.bsky.social

Very sorry to hear this. He was a great bloke Took him into a prison back in the day... He did a lot to support those behind bars.

Someone's seal obsession, beached at the local chazer...

What's the street trying to tell me?

Proud to have a short piece in this week's @bigissue.com it's from my new book on Lepus books, Songs of Insolence & Expedience. Also inside Alan Moore bigs up artslabs and we announce our Oblique Strategies tribute deck. Plus Banksy, Johnathon Meades and much more....

I have a short story from my forthcoming collection on Lepus Books, Songs of Insolence and Expedience, in next weeks Big Issue, along a bunch of inna-resting folk...

In the US there were 3x the graduates than there were law jobs available. AI has caused this to switch to 6 to 1. Great for social cohesion... Robespierre, Lenin, Castro, Gandhi all lawyers...

Re: tech-bro music cannibals. Artists should get those that love their work to sign a pledge to vote down Labour in any forthcoming election. Target marginal seats first. Do free gigs and festivals. Collect signatures to pledges as price of entry. Weaponise social psychology in their favour.

Delightful red fungus, surrounded by moss. It seemed to be growing on dead silver birch branches. Anyone recognise it? #FungiFriends.

Fomitopsis betulina. Birch polypore.

Talking of indie/self publishing - as I was, in passing, a moment ago - I am reminded that I run a tiny outfit called Lepus Books that offers a few titles that some people might like to buy... #books #writing lepusbooks.co.uk