I've written more than 1500 words today. I'm not sure where that came from. The edit might be brutal 😂✍️

We're currently on an imposed hiatus - work and education taking the fire. But, bloody hell, we miss being the double negative. So much. There's no way we're not coming back.

Off to the press view of Ed Ruscha @ Tate Liverpool this morning. Having only ever seen the odd Ruscha work in isolation, I'm really looking forward to it. Opens, and free, to the public tomorrow >>> ARTIST ROOMS: Ed Ruscha | Tate Liverpool + RIBA North share.google/qTEdC5Ga6u2e...

Why does memory work the way it does? Had a song in my head the last few days by the Datsuns, a relatively niche turn of the century band from New Zealand. I liked them but didn't even have their record ▶️ #harmonicgenerator #playloud thedatsuns.bandcamp.com/album/the-da...

Microwaving coffee to warm it up changes its molecular structure, creating "coffee 2", which scientists do not yet understand

PRA Christopher Le Brun, Untitled, 1990 https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1116550

Good Morning Blue Sky! Hope you’re all ok? Today I’m currently reading Grace by A M Shine taking me off to Ireland for some horror. What are you reading at the moment?

The Nightmare (1781) — thought to be a symbolic depiction of sleep paralysis — one of the best known works by Swiss artist Henry Fuseli, born #onthisday in 1741. More dreams in art here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-art-of-dreams #otd

One minute of Tupuka! Rescued and returned to the #wild in #Namibia earlier this year, Tupuka was recently captured on one of #camera traps - and struck a very majestic pose! Want to learn more about the ways #technology is keeping #cats like Tupuka in wild? cheetah.org/ccf-blog/suc...

Honest question: why has there been no Tate collection photography show at Open Eye Gallery ('One of the UK’s leading photography spaces')? They're practically next door neighbours and Tate has an extensive collection of modern and contemporary photography. C'mon guys, get it together! 📷

A press view, an attempt at an exhibition review - my first in a while, and a chat with a student interested in arts criticism. Just another day in arts/academia, but very much not taken for granted.

He seemed not to know the uses of silence.

📽 Director Ida Lupino on location with Edmond O'Brien and Frank Lovejoy... #FilmNoir The Hitch-Hiker (1953)

Arsehole on a video call for an hour in a cafe. Can't we just ban this stuff as a matter of course?

Writing a lecture on politics and practice. From the pictures generation to today kind of angle. Should be good. 📷 Untitled Film Still #48 1979, reprinted 1998, Cindy Sherman

Never not worth repeating.

Submission Window Open! The Manchester Review is looking for prose, poetry and art in response to these themes for our upcoming special issue Displacement. We will welcome submissions between 1st-28th February.

I'm thinking about Jenny Holzer and her Truisms a lot these days. 📷 Jenny Holzer, Abuse of Power Comes As No Surprise from the series Truisms T-shirts,1980-, worn by Lady Pink © 1983 Lisa Kahane, NYC

Trump supporter at the extreme right wing ‘Christian’ nationalist anti-immigration ’Walk With Jesus’ on Saturday. The lights are back on, but there’s nobody home. #Photography

Sadly, this is NOT satire.

Time for a reboot, I reckon 👾🛸

FACT | In the Mood for Love + In the Mood For Love 2001 share.google/KBq9nrVaDCgB...

Stop fucking about and start writing.

Deadline is tomorrow!

Dog Sausage Afternoon

Accent and Voice: walking the art/class high wire ✍️

Folks -- I am looking for a short story I read 30+ years ago. Set in an unnamed country. Man sneaks into a rich woman's home, hiding from the authorities, who then come to arrest him for not carrying his papers. /1

I know Liz Phair is widely acknowledged among those in the know as a bit of a legend. But, every time I listen to Exile in Guyville, I wonder why she hasn't really transcended that niche. Not saying she should be a household name, she's obviously too cool for that...

I've become borderline obsessed with the aesthetic quality of expensive film cameras. I cannot afford this.

I have a call for papers proposal to write, due tomorrow. Nothing like a deadline to focus the mind, or make one crumble...

BBC Radio 4 - Word of Mouth, Raymond Williams' Keywords share.google/rvSKUHNi5lnu...

Feeling nostalgic for this kinda stuff ▶️ readyartbrut.bandcamp.com/album/formed...

The Sacred Memory Bank. Kirkby Gallery. Jeff Young & Mike Badger. Assemblag. Collage. Word. (photo: Steve Samosa)

Just me and the cat for a few days. Now watching: The Appointment ▶️ The vanishing British horror: unearthing The Appointment | BFI share.google/dHLZqKgUuKJi...

I was 17 when the Beatles anthology stuff was first released (1995). Big Proustian nostalgia vibes watching this. A small miracle my eyes remained dry ▶️ The Beatles Anthology share.google/FwegyTho4oi8...

Rousing Monday morning listening ▶️🎧 thebethsnz.bandcamp.com/album/straig...

Orange Red Relief by Ellsworth Kelly, 1959 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137166

Marlene Dietrich photographed wearing a stunning design by Travis Banton for Ernst Lubitsch's ANGEL (1937).

Kemi Badenoch on desert island discs. Though I despise the term and idea, this can only be categorised as a hate listen, surely. I mean, wtaf...

This looks, I should probably say sounds, good 🔊 @reaktionbooks.bsky.social The Sound Atlas | Reaktion Books share.google/OkbSO6TNTx49...

Good morning Blue Sky! Hope you’re all ok? Today I’m currently reading Small Gods by Claire North for some great science fiction. What are you reading at the moment?

One Week, One Title: Football in Greenland - BBC iPlayer share.google/lfokYzOZysUp...

For the first time I can remember as a writer, I haven't done a January 'just putting this out to the universe' social media post about my availability for commissions. So: I write about art, class, pop culture; I'm a PhD candidate writing about writing cities; I'm widely published. Get in touch ✍️

Has anyone written about Joanna Hogg's The Souvenir with a working class lens? I think it got off quite lightly in this regard, especially with its upper middle class protagonist's ambition to make a film set in post-industrial Sunderland.

Just started reading last year's recipient of the Nero Prize, Adam S. Leslie's Lost in the Garden. Weird and creepy af. Very much enjoying it so far!

Mo money mo problems boxd.it/cLWMQT

Trump's Board of Pieces of Shit.

For the first time I can remember as a writer, I haven't done a January 'just putting this out to the universe' social media post about my availability for commissions. So: I write about art, class, pop culture; I'm a PhD candidate writing about writing cities; I'm widely published. Get in touch ✍️

#OtD 22 Jan 1891 Italian Marxist philosopher Antonio Gramsci was born in Sardinia. His key contribution was his theory of hegemony, which describes how the capitalist class maintains its power through its domination of culture. Commemorative merch here: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...