Alan Warburton remains one of the few Real Ones. As well as making his own brilliant work, he's incisive on the dangers of AI - it's never going to replace artists, but it is going to suffocate them and destroy creative livelihoods. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ap...
I still remember first seeing, and have never forgotten, Kae Tempest perform in a little bar in Soho twenty years ago. An extraordinary artist. www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...
An extract from IF WE TOLERATE THIS is today's Guardian Long Read.
www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ap...
A black and white photograph, with an Imperial War Museum watermark, of a Spitfire aircraft flying wingtip-to-wingtip with a V1 flying bomb, in an attempt to destabilise it and cause it to crash.
Sometimes (as I'm sure you're aware) they didn't even need to shoot... www.forcesnews.com/heritage/wwi...
Ripcorp ep please
I agreed to do an interview recently about AI and creative practice. It turned into a long-ish conversation about why I, personally, have found AI to be either uninteresting or fundamentally oppositional to my interests and the world I care about. It's here: m.youtube.com/watch?v=BIOe...
Very strong memory reaction at several of those covers (Mind Grenades in partic). Can't believe I ever read them, but I guess they were plastered over the magazine at the time? Or the whole style is just so identifiable...
I was suitably chastened by your reply; I've now read "Dry your tears...", thank you. It's a great book, and I'll be thinking about it for some time.
I agreed to do an interview recently about AI and creative practice. It turned into a long-ish conversation about why I, personally, have found AI to be either uninteresting or fundamentally oppositional to my interests and the world I care about. It's here: m.youtube.com/watch?v=BIOe...
And the swallows are back, coming at us head-height down the street, and whipping away over the rooftops, just when we needed them most. Τα χελιδόνια είναι εδώ!
Once more for everyone at the back youtu.be/7B-4Lsrx8IA?...
We had only written the pilot of Halt and Catch Fire when we read Soul of the New Machine. That book had a huge impact not only on the content of our show, but the tone. The humanity at the center of the work. The book is still on my desk and will be forever. We owe Tracy a lot.
I’m going to wheatpaste this article to telephone poles until everyone reads it
Rock rose, or cistus: paper pink flowers with a yellow heart. Make great tea.
Lots and lots of lavender buds, out of focus and pibk/purple against the green.
An unidentified tiny orchid with pink purple flower growing our of winter ground.
Jack Russel and man in massive orange raincoat on a walking trail, from the river to the monastery wells and back again.
Rock rose and lavender and some kind of orchid. Collected lots of wild asparagus too. It's a good day if the little dog is all tuckered out.
“Media coexist,” Kirsop says. “These modern forms only continue to be in existence and usable if the hardware continues … Whereas the printed book is still here... All you need is a weatherproof room to put it in and natural light to read it.” www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
A black red and white panel reads: "I SUPPORT ANGA. Art Not Genocide Alliance. Artists, curators and cultural workers standing together. NO GENOCIDE PAVILION."
No Genocide Pavilion in Venice. hyperallergic.com/the-case-for...
I'm giving a talk at TU Delft on Saturday. Will be around for a couple of days if anyone has interesting tips, or does cool stuff and wants to share. www.tudelft.nl/evenementen/...
Many such cases recently, I'm finding.
Apropos of nothing, remembering a briefing from the head of cybersecurity at the RAF, who said the two times Britain had been closest to disaster since the Second World War were Able Archer 83 and the fuel protests which blockaded refineries in 2000.
A screaming comes across the bluesky.
There's a brief epilogue as well, when I completed the original walk; once more, tinged with a violence that only seems to have grown both more intense, and more infrastructural, in subsequent years: shorttermmemoryloss.com/nor/2015/01/...
And for the third, I cycled from West to East, Slough to Basildon, tracing the microwave links between datacentres, invisible at ground level, but portents of so much else to come: shorttermmemoryloss.com/nor/2015/01/...
In the second, I drove around the wide edge of the city, into the hinterland of abandoned airfields and old radar stations: shorttermmemoryloss.com/nor/2014/12/...
In the first, which was violently and judicially interrupted, I attempted to walk the perimeter of the congestion zone, looking at London Walls and what surmounted them: shorttermmemoryloss.com/nor/2014/11/...
Moving and fixing an old website, as I've been meaning to do for some time, it seems a good moment to point to the Nor, as both war and psychogeography are in the air again. Eleven years ago, shortly before leaving the city, I undertook three journeys through London...
Iran is home to some of the oldest and most ingenious water distribution networks in the world, the qanat systems of underground aqueducts. Worth whatever prayers you indulge in as the USA viciously destroys desalination plants and other critical infrastructure. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qanat
Is just like at school: you just need one idiot to not follow the rules and suddenly you're all in detention. I think if Anthropic had any backbone they'd respond to this moment by stopping development of general purpose models and withdrawing some tools.
