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I’ve been pondering art & culture being a threat to some, interesting this showed up in my feed
"Authoritarian gov'ts view culture as a threat bc in [art] you can 👀 alternatives to the current reality. We live in a timeline that says AI domination is inevitable [+] the ppl with the most 💰 will get to decide who + what survives. The arts remind us that none of the current truisms are absolutes"
The Artist Who Reminds Us that Another Way Is Possible
The late artist Abigail McGrath cultivated a creative life for herself filled with freedom, joy, and a commitment to beauty. In an age of authoritarianism and algorithms, it’s a kind of life worth pro...
www.harpersbazaar.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:20 PM
I’ve been pondering art & culture being a threat to some, interesting this showed up in my feed
Evolve or revolve
November 26, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Evolve or revolve
Oh damn it… this looks appealing.
Nurse With Wound's adventures in Norway’s Lofoten Isles, north of the Arctic Circle, yielding a typically enigmatic mix of drone and textured field recording sorcery somewhere in margins shared by Leyland Kirby/V/Vm’s White Death, Biosphere, Mika Vainio
boomkat.com/products/shi...
boomkat.com/products/shi...
November 26, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Oh damn it… this looks appealing.
And we can’t forget Industrial Culture Handbook from 1983 by Re/Search publications, and covers the early industrial music & art era. Fun stuff for weirdos. 😉
November 25, 2025 at 4:54 PM
And we can’t forget Industrial Culture Handbook from 1983 by Re/Search publications, and covers the early industrial music & art era. Fun stuff for weirdos. 😉
And another counterculture sourcebook, Covert Culture Sourcebook from 1993. Filled with info on zines, books, music, and more. Definitely less “lighthearted” and more fringe than the other one I posted.
November 25, 2025 at 4:48 PM
And another counterculture sourcebook, Covert Culture Sourcebook from 1993. Filled with info on zines, books, music, and more. Definitely less “lighthearted” and more fringe than the other one I posted.
“Back in my day…” we had printed books to tell you about weird subculture stuff. The Happy Mutant Handbook (1995) was perhaps a little more light hearted weirdness, and is filled with web addresses, listserves, ftp’s, emails, and telnet addresses that surely no longer exist. Fun times back then!
November 25, 2025 at 4:45 PM
“Back in my day…” we had printed books to tell you about weird subculture stuff. The Happy Mutant Handbook (1995) was perhaps a little more light hearted weirdness, and is filled with web addresses, listserves, ftp’s, emails, and telnet addresses that surely no longer exist. Fun times back then!
Natural arch - medium format pinhole image on Fuji Neopan 400
November 22, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Natural arch - medium format pinhole image on Fuji Neopan 400
I made a new pinhole for the Dories camera and it is quite a bit “sharper” than the other one I had. I like how the sun flares on this, might be something to play around with. “Spirit photography” 😉
November 21, 2025 at 10:00 PM
I made a new pinhole for the Dories camera and it is quite a bit “sharper” than the other one I had. I like how the sun flares on this, might be something to play around with. “Spirit photography” 😉
I need a better pinhole in this camera. Or something!
November 20, 2025 at 8:56 PM
I need a better pinhole in this camera. Or something!
A quick search in my photo history books and not a mention of the photographer from the 1930’s in my previous shared post. @sardonicus.eu did share this link to more about Sekaer’s work. www.howardgreenberg.com/exhibitions/...
November 16, 2025 at 3:00 PM
A quick search in my photo history books and not a mention of the photographer from the 1930’s in my previous shared post. @sardonicus.eu did share this link to more about Sekaer’s work. www.howardgreenberg.com/exhibitions/...
It is great to find new-to-me photographers from the past. I’m surprised I have never seen Peter Sekaer’s work in the past. I’ll have to check my photo history books to see if he was mentioned, definitely should be if he isn’t.
November 16, 2025 at 1:17 PM
It is great to find new-to-me photographers from the past. I’m surprised I have never seen Peter Sekaer’s work in the past. I’ll have to check my photo history books to see if he was mentioned, definitely should be if he isn’t.
Hmm… I found this photo of this cassette, now I wonder where the actual cassette is. Looks like I may have gotten it in the tape trade days? Mysterious that I don’t remember the details of who or when, but hey I am getting old!
November 11, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Hmm… I found this photo of this cassette, now I wonder where the actual cassette is. Looks like I may have gotten it in the tape trade days? Mysterious that I don’t remember the details of who or when, but hey I am getting old!
Some double exposure thing I did, oddly I don’t remember where. Must’ve been at an antique mall. I should do more, I kind of like it. 😉
November 11, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Some double exposure thing I did, oddly I don’t remember where. Must’ve been at an antique mall. I should do more, I kind of like it. 😉
There sure is a lot of elf art on this site. 🙄
November 9, 2025 at 11:12 PM
There sure is a lot of elf art on this site. 🙄
Another closeup section of one of my collages.
November 9, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Another closeup section of one of my collages.
I finally digitized the last couple tracks from Eccentric Ostrich Accent by Xerst, a music project I did back in Colorado in the late ‘90s with Timmy P. Soon to be added to the Xerst Bandcamp page.
November 5, 2025 at 11:32 PM
I finally digitized the last couple tracks from Eccentric Ostrich Accent by Xerst, a music project I did back in Colorado in the late ‘90s with Timmy P. Soon to be added to the Xerst Bandcamp page.
I added another album of experimental music to my Bandcamp page, this one is under my old project name, Conflagration of Souls, recorded in 2006. jsincock.bandcamp.com/album/shin-f...
Shin-Fukatoku, by Conflagration of Souls
7 track album
jsincock.bandcamp.com
November 5, 2025 at 12:17 AM
I added another album of experimental music to my Bandcamp page, this one is under my old project name, Conflagration of Souls, recorded in 2006. jsincock.bandcamp.com/album/shin-f...
All it took to find the misplaced music I made in the early 2000’s was digging through these. (Feels weird saying “early 2000’s”) and there were a few more hard drives as well. 🙄
November 4, 2025 at 4:26 PM
All it took to find the misplaced music I made in the early 2000’s was digging through these. (Feels weird saying “early 2000’s”) and there were a few more hard drives as well. 🙄
Still we struggle
November 4, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Still we struggle
I saw Lightroom added Reflection Removal and thought that could be handy. Or not! 🤔🙄 Handy for abstract images I guess?
November 3, 2025 at 4:45 PM
I saw Lightroom added Reflection Removal and thought that could be handy. Or not! 🤔🙄 Handy for abstract images I guess?
A closeup section of one of my mixed media collages
November 3, 2025 at 12:19 AM
A closeup section of one of my mixed media collages
Adding some new releases to my Bandcamp page. Experimental, noise, dark ambient, drone, sometimes all in one piece. (I didn’t start this bluesky account for my music, but it keep evolving so maybe it will shift to that?) jsincock.bandcamp.com/album/audio-...
Audio Transmissions 102025, by J. Sincock
3 track album
jsincock.bandcamp.com
November 1, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Adding some new releases to my Bandcamp page. Experimental, noise, dark ambient, drone, sometimes all in one piece. (I didn’t start this bluesky account for my music, but it keep evolving so maybe it will shift to that?) jsincock.bandcamp.com/album/audio-...