Cheddar, Feb 2026

Al Computer & Electronics, Vol.6, No.7, 1989. Cover design by Salim Sawaya designreviewed.com/artefacts/al...

"But we're doing such good things! It's all planned out! You wait and see!" says the bodyguard being punched to the ground, telling you off for hiding behind another bodyguard less likely to be punched to the ground.

Really enjoying listening to @joannapocock.bsky.social talk about her book, Greyhound - and feeling inspired to dig out some old motel observations from my 2016 road trip in CA, NV, AZ.

Stagecoaches at Gent, Belgium, autochrome taken by Alfonse Van Besten, c. 1912.

I don't want to 'Let That Sink In'. I want it to ricochet off the soft surface of my brain, never to be seen again.

LOGGING ON

Incredible work. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCUn...

Ahahaha what do they think happened to all those horses that used to pull carriages? Did they all go to live on a farm upstate? 😂

A couple from the 2016 road trip I took with my Dad around California, Nevada, Arizona.

4 years after everyone else, Vampire Survivors has me in its clutches. I start playing and next thing I know...

Glastonbury, Sep 2025

Rise up, brothers! We will leave in our wake a path of scared pets and not-quite-clean floors!

A big question for any artist is "When is it finished?". Often, the answer is "Well, never really - but at some point you just have to stop working on it." My mum passing away a few weeks ago felt like a good place to stop with my project "Museum", & call it Finished. www.damoncharles.com/museum

A couple from my 2016-2022 project, "The Dry Isles". The racist "Golly" doll was in the Arts and Craft competition at our local village day in rural Somerset. It wasn't old - someone chose to make it and enter it into a contest in 2016.

Our charity Lunar New Year art raffle is now live! We have prizes donated by 45 wonderful artists and illustrators. All proceeds will go to The ESEA Community Centre and Sesame Organisation. yukfun.shop/products/lun...

The Very British Hangover Scale

The idea that there might be a significant overlap between far right views & a certain kind of street photographer actually doesn't surprise me a huge amount. That sense of self-centred, entitled libertarianism & distinct lack of empathy comes across pretty strongly in some working methods I see.

My 82 year old Dad just sent me a picture of the labels he's putting on his latest batch of home-made wine.

As long as it comes with a cabinet like this that's also soundproof, we're good.

Bath, Feb 2026

Just signed a new work contract, so treated myself to a couple of impulse buys from @photobookjunkies.bsky.social

Bath, Feb 2026

Friends : Someone has uploaded one of my favourite underappreciated movies to youtube. "The Wrong Box" is like a who's who of the 60's. Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Michael Caine, Nanette Newman, Ralph Richardson, John Mills, Tony Hancock, Peter Sellers… www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfV6...

I've lived through decades of videogame announcement demos VS actual release gameplay, you just can't shock me.

Bath, Feb 2025

I wonderful colleague of mine a long time ago put it like this: If I don't learn anything in writing something, my reader won't learn anything in reading it.

See if you can guess what led to the fabricated quotations...

Glastonbury, Feb 2026.

Watching a video about the happiest prefecture in Japan.

How can it be that the days go on And the red bird sings its red bird song It happened to us and it's happened before And it happens all the same I can hear you singing still Wake up in the morning let the morning come She's in the birdsong She won't be gone - "Red Bird Pt2 (Morning)" by Florist

Listening to reporting of Jeff Bezos' history of running Washington Post, and it strikes me that these people really have no conception of any other business model than ruthlessly scaling. And when you hear the story of how Amazon destroyed daipers dot com, you can see why.

Glastonbury, Feb 2026.

Okay fine we're doing a little origin story thread: how did I become a horse game consultant and what does that even mean? 🧵

The right hand of the Nike of Samothrace , c.200 BCE

From my project "The Dry Isles", Aug 2016. I can't believe it's been nearly ten years since I took this.

Idea 53, 1962. Cover design by Ivan Chermayeff. #ivanchermayeff www.designreviewed.com/artefacts/id...

The brutal, unifying sporting spectacle of Buzkashi www.huckmag.com/article/brut...

Oct 2025, Jan 2026

I've shared this before, I think, but I'm going to share it again because it so *perfectly encapsulates* the point and in non-jargon terms that anyone can understand or share with Friends and Relatives Who Might Benefit From Seeing It, without feeling unkind or partisan.

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

An oldie of Priddy Mast. It's getting on for 1000ft tall, the tallest structure in the SouthWest. Sep 2016.

Excuse me if I get a little misty-eyed for a moment, but Jim Henson being his usual wholesome self AND Levar Burton on the same interview seat? I love it. To me, Jim WAS Kermit, and Kermit was Jim - not just the voice, but the quick wit & generous spirit. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcIY...

More flooded fields and lanes in the Levels yesterday. Gates become waymarkers for submerged paths.

Driving around The Levels today, met a guy flying his drone over the flood zone.

loot does not drop upon defeating me. the developers didn't expect anyone to attack me, i am so vulnerable, and only trying to help. why did you raise your sword? for material gain? i would give you anything i have if you had only asked. i did not ask to be in this game, i did not ask to have 6hp.

Without wanting to take this example too seriously - This is Mamdani's communication gift. When other politicians would take the opportunity to talk about themselves, he centres other people, even if it's little kids.