it’s genuinely reassuring to me that this is the most miserable and paranoid person in the entire world

The pretend camera review at the start is going to trip up a few camera geeks... But don't worry! I soon start talking about renegade Scottish psychiatrists and Phillip K Dick! youtu.be/MXOQzWZPFpo

Elon Musk’s Grok AI is used to digitally undress images of women and children

Todays photos of the Wassail by the River Thames. I've no photo agency representation anymore, they all went bust, so this is an exclusive ;) It's tough shooting events like this with two 6 year olds on my own. But I got what I needed for my Quest and the girls ended up in the procession too!?!

Why are right-wing grifters all like Batman villains? damiengwalter.medium.com/why-are-righ...

4/ Thirty thousand in total grants — $3,000 to each of Ten photojournalists  Read about the winners yunghikim.wordpress.com  As every year, I wish we could award more. We have seen great work. I thank all those who took the time to submit. We had 150 submissions from 40 countries.

Merry Christmas 🎁⛄

In 1970 the UK and Norway were roughly equal, almost no debt, and owned all their Public Services. Now the UK owns nothing and has £3tn of debt. While Norway still owns everything and has the equivalent of £10tn. That's how privatisation 'works'.

Today I get to play Heroquest with my six-year-old daughters!!

Part of this falls at the feet of the NUS. 25 years ago, we students in the NUS used to organise parties in campus all the time. Halloween, Christmas, Valentine's etc Most NUS groups on campus now do nothing. share.google/rWPWUomViDSg...

I'm not sure what happened to the Head of School at the last university I worked at but they obviously had a complete breakdown because they're now doing stand-up comedy. Their hook seems to be all about 'trauma', which is funny considering how many people they traumatized.

Happy Birthday @mredthompson.bsky.social

Some prints for sale to keep me on my Arthurian Quest! edwardthompson.co.uk/Print-Sales-1

A top Photo YouTuber has a video about 'getting the medium format look on digital'. They do it by stitching some DSLR photographs together... 160,000 views If I am going to keep making YouTube videos I HAVE to stop watching Photo YouTube! ha!

I just saw some douchey Photo YouTuber with 70k+ subscribers is getting only 50 views with new videos!? This could be very good. I heard top YouTubers saying that sub count doesn't even matter anymore. I am going to try and make some really great videos next week! No more sillyness

In 2019 I posted a letter of thanks and a print to my old photography tutor Paul Lowe. He's been gone a year now.

Quest Prints are online now! Thanks to everyone who nabbed some prints so far! edwardthompson.co.uk/Print-Sales-1 The sales will go into further Questing and eventually I'll have enough to make my next photo book!

Something interesting has happened. I can't watch any Youtube videos while logged into my Youtube Channel. They are all black with text saying Video Unavailable. So what does this mean? Can I post a Youtube video? If i do I can't even check to see what it looks like when I've posted it, ha!

Lovely to get Black Friday deals from Amazon where they remind me of all the mad shit I bought trying to help mum with her Parkinsons. Thanks for the lovely memories.

Hey cool photo kids! Let me tell you a story about 'Print Drops'... open.substack.com/pub/synchrom...

I tried to make a cool reel to promote the coming photo print sale... it didn't land at all! ha! I think maaaybe I used too much Excalibur footage. But come on, you can never have enough Excalibur! (such a shame the lead actor playing Arthur was so crap!) youtube.com/shorts/xZQ5w...

I'm releasing some fine art prints to keep the ol' Arthurian Quest rolling! The print release will be on Tuesday 25th November, some time in the evening, on my website here: edwardthompson.co.uk/Print-Sales A range of prices and editions, really, something for everyone.

I might create an alter-ego for my photography who was an ex-City trader... I think galleries like seeing that in photographers biographies as, well, it certainly seems to happen a lot in Photoland!

My unscripted response to great protest photography. I'd like to see the Photo Youtubers who write their scripts with A.I do this ;) youtu.be/q9ZxTb9JiGc

One for the retro gamers open.substack.com/pub/synchrom...

The miserable bastard who did this just got a trillion dollar pay day. There's no karma, there's no cosmic justice. There's just horrible people who more often than not never gave any consequences for their actions in life.

Do I try to email a photo editor who hasn't replied to me in 13 years? I gotta, right? Like the ghost of Christmas past I find a certain delight in still existing, even without their patronage.

Oh, go on then. It has been 3 weeks since I posted anything. youtu.be/gzNzL7HQknw

Adobe Lightrooms new AI 'Assisted Culling'... yep, it sounds as bad as it is! Would you let the AI decide which photographs from your widest edit are the keepers?

He must be a billionaire.

"The collapse of the institutions where young people learn to make and critique art stands to greatly benefit companies like OpenAI, which, in the absence of human artists and critics, can both make the stuff and tell us it’s good." lareviewofbooks.org/article/lite...

Forgot to delete my Twitter account. Done! I'd recommend you do it too. There was a lot of data on my account from 2011 to last year.

They are playing Nirvana / In Bloom in a very busy Greggs

Do any photography magazines pay people for the unhinged and politely Gonzo stuff I've been writing on Substack? synchromancy.substack.com I want to be paid so I can use (waste) more time on my Photo YouTube 'loss leading' channel. BJP? AP? DP? DVLA? PetaPixel? Aperture?

It's 2029. Reform have won the General Election in the U.K. A song is released to celebrate. It is a Gabba version of 'Land of Hope and Glory'. Everyone learns to love it.

This ‘they want us dead’ 🦋💙🦋

NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine. My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask: Why, even now, is no-one asking questions? t.co/BUTtpK9C4S

Just had an email from a photo gallery hustling for portfolio reviews. They didn't say they cost anything in the email so I hit them back as if they were free. I'll let you know what happens.

A little cringe... I thought Matt Stuart was a Magnum Photographer, someone corrected me once it went live. Ha! It just goes to show how little I pay attention to Magnum these days, which was funnily enough the 2nd point I make in the video. youtu.be/BlM8A-5-1gc

I was trying to plug in my rode microphone to my MacBook Pro. To be plugged in I need to unplug my power cable to the Mac. I feel like whenever I record on it without power plugged in my audio is delayed. my rode microphone isn't picked up by my current usb/usb-c multi adapter

The photo influencers are tricking photographers to go to camera trade shows. It's quite amazing where we find ourselves.

Looking at all the wonderful photographs of of June Goodall. And knowing that I had the chance to photograph one night on a corporate assignment. It was a bar at one in the morning with no lighting on af all and they banned me from using flash. Fun being a jobbing photographer isn't it?

Fuck it, I'm watching Hackers.