Edd Bagenal
eddbagenal.bsky.social
Edd Bagenal
@eddbagenal.bsky.social
Design consultant, academic & maker. Goldsmiths design dept.
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🎬 The arts aren’t a luxury - they’re an export.

At #Lab25, @aiannucci.bsky.social reminds us that the UK’s Creative Industries make up 6% of our economy and 7% of our workforce - the GDP equivalent of oil + car industries combined.

🎥 Watch more clips from the Creative UK Pavilion hubs.ly/Q03QVhV90
November 5, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

This was a great episode.

I'm sure if Trump or Vance heard this they would explode and ban the BBC ,(maybe doing the banning before the exploding if they were thinking rationally).

Thanks to @aiannucci.bsky.social and Stewart Lee
Strong Message Here - Hurty Words (with Stewart Lee) - BBC Sounds
Stewart Lee joins to look at the rebranding of cancel culture.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 27, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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October 27, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Is collecting things, as James Delbourgo asserts in his book ‘A Noble Madness’, really a sign of insanity? Susan Moore investigates buff.ly/Ad2C1mX
Great accumulators down the ages
James Delbourgo’s new book explores the obsessions of fanatical collectors, both real and fictional
buff.ly
October 21, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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A lot of really nice pieces in this lot:
October 13, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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Since it's hardly found as #pigment in nature, the colour #blue is believed to be a rather modern addition to our painting kits.

Until now: Turns out that apparently already #Paleolithic artists used blue pigment.

🏺 www.science.org/content/arti... by @spoke32.bsky.social via Science
Paleolithic painters had the blues
Two recent studies shine light on the earliest known artistic usages of blue pigment
www.science.org
September 30, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Recreating Pouson's 'great machine' for experimenting with composition, staging of figures and lighting for paintings... youtu.be/T70l1glgp6g #Drawing #Painting #composition #DrawingMachine #Poussin #NicolasPousin #1600s
Nicolas Poussin's 'great machine'
YouTube video by The Fitzwilliam Museum
youtu.be
September 25, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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Hello! I am looking for a freelance/contract UI designer to help on a project asap.

Luxury brand experience and working with design systems a bonus.

Please get in touch via benbrignell.com/pages/contact, thank you!
September 15, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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Abandoning the arts in schools is a national scandal on.ft.com/47Dw32g | opinion
Abandoning the arts in schools is a national scandal
A narrow, exclusively exam-focused education in the UK damages young minds
on.ft.com
September 14, 2025 at 4:33 AM
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Most university 'crisis' narratives miss the real problem. Yes, tuition is high. But the deeper issue? We've turned education into job training instead of citizen preparation. Democracy needs critical thinkers, not just skilled workers. #criticalthinking #highered #academicsky
September 3, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Colour study sketch, after #AndersZorn
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#AntelexicResearch #art #painting
September 2, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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Are you young, highly educated and driven, and want to contribute to our stagnant economy with its aging population and low productivity? Well out you go
September 2, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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We at Goldsmiths, in the @mediacomgold.bsky.social department, are looking for a talented Technical Tutor for Digital Media and Animation - please share or apply here! Come and work with us and our amazing students jobs.gold.ac.uk/vacancy/tech...
August 13, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Should a #Bluesky post be called a skeet as shorthand?
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#skeet
August 2, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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Is it possible to imagine a better future where we use less computation? The effects of AI hype almost demand it.

This week @danmcquillan.bsky.social joins @parismarx.com to lay out the concept of decomputing as a different way of assessing technology.

Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/286_...
July 24, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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Rather than pretending students can – or even should – avoid #GenAI to become critical readers, we need to develop their critical reading skills so they can successfully interrogate AI-produced materials. Read more from Brendan Carey at @exeter.ac.uk: timeshighereducation.com/campus/relea...
(Re)learning critical reading in the age of GenAI
Rather than pretending students can – or even should – avoid GenAI to become critical readers, we need to develop their critical reading skills so they can successfully interrogate AI-produced materia...
timeshighereducation.com
July 23, 2025 at 1:45 PM
July 18, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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The more we discover, the worse it gets. Now we learn the water companies wrote the guidance ensuring sewage sludge is not tested for the vast majority of contaminants before being spread on farmland. They gave themselves a free licence to dump hazardous waste. 🧵
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Environment Agency insider alleges ‘cover-up’ over sewage sludge on farmland
Regulator and government accused of colluding with water industry to dump potentially toxic waste without oversight
www.theguardian.com
July 10, 2025 at 6:13 AM
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1977: why would the bartender in star wars even care if some robots with artificial intelligence came into his bar

2025: ohhh ok
July 9, 2025 at 2:12 AM