Nightscape of a small bay in moonlight. The bay could be Tenby or Whitby. On the hill is a lighthouse and the scene is bathed in blue with highlights from the crescent moon.
The Harbour
(Talkabout the Beach, 1975)
Artist: Harry Wingfield
Andrew Wyeth, American (1917-2009), Squall, 1986, tempura on panel
An island art work in progress by Mona O'Driscoll of Sherkin Island.
Mona stood in each spot, dropped a GPS marker, added a short note on the name & story.
Maps are not the territory but Mona's art work is her island life & spaces that she maps.
#speirgorm #islands #art
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I have an essay in @dauntbookspub.bsky.social's Over the Water: Essays on Islands. It features real, imaginary and islands from art; Sylvia Plath's on Inisbofin, Napoleon and how working with Alice Maher had a spooky echo of Hagstone.
New substack about it here: open.substack.com/pub/momentso...
Cork Man with his jacket.
Páirc Uí Chaoimh: Michael Jackson fans at the Cork stadium in July 1988
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Windy.
But not wet.
A fine day of bluster ahead.
Nigel in his shed.
#spéirgorm #speirgorm #sheds
Just glimpsed the first two Swifts.
All my adult will was required to stop me buying wholesale Haribo.
This tree in London looks full of leaves but is actually covered in parakeets.
Dark moon rising tonight.
Flash was everywhere. Now it's gone. Sound familiar?
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Who, what?
That's nice, but very fresh on the wind. Straight off the Atlantic bang cool.
#spéirgorm
This video of a Ukrainian Yak-52 crew taking down drones with a shotgun is incredible, but the music is deeply, and profoundly inappropriate. There was really only one option. So I've fixed it.
Pre-enshitification content goodness.
They're still here, you know.
Sniffin' in the mornin' fog
I'll be sniffin' when the evenin' come
This is an extraordinary glimpse of 1994.
This three hours changed my life.
An epiphany on Channel 4.
I had it on vhs tape & it was shown to media students. I just watched the beginning 5 mins again and it rocks straight out of the gun.
It's so fucking now.
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Alan Moore and Iain Sinclair in conversation (in Alan's living room) about Long London youtu.be/Ccyy42oR4mk?...
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Let's dive into maritime zones. Back in the day, territorial waters were just 3 nautical miles out, based on the "cannon shot" rule: as far as you could fire from shore. Made sense in the 1700s, right?
'All politics is local politics.'
Screenshot of Elmo next to his pet's fishbowl in Elmo's World. The subtitles say "We. Dorothy's been thinking abou and down to what’s her daughter."
four birds in a cartoon from Sesame Street, with the caption reading "Oh, shit"
Another Sesame Street cartoon saying "Oh shit"
Screenshot of Big Bird in Hooper’s Store with live human Alan and a flying red bird. The subtitles read: "Time for the birth of terror. Me"
Do not watch Sesame Street on Tubi with the subtitles on 😭. I swear, I didn't edit or add anything. Is it hilarious? Yes, but also, they need to fix this immediately. Absolutely incomprehensible and bad
"By The Balls"
#Speirgorm
I have to make my photoshop skillz sloppy now as I don't want to be accused of using those infernal machines.
a medieval illustration of the virgin mary punching a horned, claw-footed, bestial devil
virgin mary punching the devil, england, 13th century
"'Tis soft, but feel the warmth."
Clonakilty bus driver.
As seen in the local library.
What an excellent public space for the enrichment of our lives.
With added Primal Scream for the soundtrack.
