Updating my youtube because why not eh ?? Longer shorts and music videos available for your hearts and eyeballs at www.youtube.com/@ruralidyll 💚

If you had told me I would be in THE NEW YORK TIMES 🤯 LIVING IN ALBANIA to kick off 2026 kicking off a cultural revolution, Not sure I would have believed you. 😂 Huge thanks to david browne for the great piece and excellent journalism. The job isn't done yet...... www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/a...

Oscillating between animation and drawing, analogue and digital, comics and psychogeography, I make art about landscape and deep time, ink and hope 💚 ruralidyll.xyz

Il Cane rodeo.club/post/7416935...

The Shortest, Longest Bus Trip - exploring the Belarusian hinterlands for Mortar 🔴💚 mortarmagazine.com/p/the-shorte...

Wintering

Low winter sun 🌅

I often think of David Lynch and all he has to teach us; about connections, about ideas, about listening to (y)our unconscious, those little threads we follow, we nurture, we return to, over and again in the things we make. I have never used Chat for anything, and never will 💭

Reading Marx on a cozy night. Now I’m feeling uncomfortable. rodeo.club/post/7385774...

Derivations of Mike Oldfield, Noboru Hayaman and the Phoenician Goddess of the Moon 🌕✨❇️

Spring Summer Autumn Winter ruralidyll.substack.com/p/spring-sum...

To Gaza With Love Aberration is my small contribution to the "Animation Community for Palestine" led by Joanna Quinn, in tribute to Animator Haneen's work throughout the genocide 💚🖤♥️

U.K. animation icon Joanna Quinn unveils 'This Land Is a Woman,' part of To Gaza With Love: A Global Anijam, uniting hundreds of animators in solidarity with Gaza. www.cartoonbrew.com/shorts/joann...

Oh Hermeto 🖤 hermetopascoal.bandcamp.com/album/viajan...

IMO this is the single most important issue. If we can collectively demand that this industry be dismantled we can do anything. tomdispatch.com/the-military...

I have been logged out of my toothbrush.

27/5/25 - nocturn

1 rotation late for Sun Ra Day 🌞𓂀

Flower Days is "folk flavoured musical confection". @bluesbunnyreviews.bsky.social takes a close listen to the new LP by @samanthawhates.bsky.social & M G Boulter here ... bluesbunny.com/Reviews/Revi...

minting OBJKT 💚🖤✨

Help Bristols Homeless paint jam piece from the weekend - good times. Can you tell what it is?!

“They’ve made it again … ”

Fool's Spring 🌅 www.mixcloud.com/ruralidyll/f...

@cultcompound.bsky.social hey thx for the gift! Thats an 8bidou deep cut 💖

Slow Change - a daily reset ✨

Slow Change open.substack.com/pub/ruralidy...

If I could block myself from using that hellsite I would.

East. West. North. South open.substack.com/pub/ruralidy...

31/3/25 - nocturn

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💯 all of this. Posture always well worth a read 🎯

This week the world got Ghiblified, pointing once more that styles are more than mere surface, but essential parts of our cultural, political and economic lives. My PhD is about the political economy of how humans and machines see style in the US illustration industry, and I have thoughts! 🧵1/

Like this but with Sam Altman's face forever until we're all dead.

The colour of Spring 🟥🟩🟦

Like like like #3danimation

Moire Pattern Landscape, by hand. #eastcoastkin #landscape #digitallandscape #scape #scapefriday #digital

Had no idea the essential mix was still going! Looking forward to losing the final 1/2 hr to a C90 and pouring over next months mixmag for the tracklistings! Big up Luke Una, always 💫💫💫 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Staircase doom loop #animation #stopmotion

What am I saying? substack.com/@ruralidyll/...

Why I draw islands 🪨

18 min proto house from 1980. Rest in Power legends 🖤 youtu.be/9Tq28s3T8aE?...

Artist: ruralidyll teia.art/objkt/860135 "Evil enters from stage left" Stagey and angry in equal measure 🎭 Price: 5.00 tez Available Editions: 1 #NFT #Tezos #TEIA

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A company of odd-looking persons playing at ninepins. rodeo.club/post/0x568eD...

Avebury Series II, 1973 by Derek Jarman