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Dean Whitbread @dfrw.bsky.social · 9d

For those to don't know about White Rabbits, it is used on the first day of each month, if you care for the tradition. It is a widespread superstition in English-speaking countries, believed to bring good luck for the rest of the month.

Dean Whitbread @dfrw.bsky.social · 9d

"... Some rabbits are smart and others less so. They sit in a bar, which has old-fashioned, wooden tables with candles, wondering how they are going to get through this. To one side are small rabbits, looking concerned as the grown ups discuss their futures."

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Dean Whitbread @dfrw.bsky.social · 9d

Prompt: "Twenty or so White Rabbits sitting in a semi-circle, men and women. They are workers discussing the problems of their various work, and the problems caused by serious trouble made by contentious politics.."

Dean Whitbread @dfrw.bsky.social · 11d

"Pool" - a video for which I was commissioned to create a soundtrack, a fascinating task given the surreal strangeness of the video by Veronica and Helena. Wonderful weirdness. Sit back, turn it up, give it time...

Veronica Castro and Helena S Inverno, © 2008 Volante Now

vimeo.com/small/pool?s...

Pool - Final Version

vimeo.com

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Dean Whitbread @dfrw.bsky.social · 17d

Can't vouch for South Norwood, although I have been there recently, but South Croydon has

maps.app.goo.gl/sxy65KnMy9UV...

Crown & Sceptre Junction Rd. CR2 6RB

maps.app.goo.gl

Dean Whitbread @dfrw.bsky.social · 17d

Yes?

"We Are Living Like Kings, These Days Will Last Forever"

Dean Whitbread @dfrw.bsky.social · 20d

If Honesty Were An Onion

deanfrw.substack.com/p/we-are-liv...

Honesty, it has been said, is an onion with so many layers that it sometimes makes a person cry. Even bitter tears, we are told, are not really bad if they are tears of sincere regret; and perhaps the tears of learning, of letting go..

"If Honesty Were An Onion"

He disappears, reappears in dreams, and returns in Switzerland

Dean Whitbread @dfrw.bsky.social · Sep 3

I am truly glad to have had the good fortune to spend time in countries that my work has enabled, one of these being Switzerland. This came about via making music, as much else in my life has done. Thanks to Michael and my Swiss friends.

deanfrw.substack.com/p/woody-wilson

Woody Wilson

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Dean Whitbread @dfrw.bsky.social · Sep 1

“JOHN LENNON SHOT DEAD”
- shrieked the headline..
‘Twas the 8th December 1980 - I was on the top deck of a South London bus going from Penge to Croydon when I noticed in shop windows the prominent lunchtime splash of the Evening Standard rag. I still remember how I felt.

deanfrw.substack.com/p/fame

Fame

and how it changed me

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Dean Whitbread @dfrw.bsky.social · Aug 30

A poem: The Odd Person

In Bond Street suit
Horizontal lips set
Neutral commuter pose
Jolly bobble hat's
Light gold stripes
His public concession
(there's more.. )

deanfrw.substack.com/p/the-odd-pe...

The Odd Person

as seen 21/03/2018

Dean Whitbread @dfrw.bsky.social · Aug 30

Thanks!

Dean Whitbread @dfrw.bsky.social · Aug 29

I'm going through some of my oldies (I write songs) and found some I hadn't sung FOR YEARS. So I sang myself hoarse. Now while I'm now rather croaky I'm going to do MORE because it's enlivening. And the words! "Don't you listen to them, they only want to put you down"

soundcloud.com/djadm1n/the-...

soundcloud.com

Kent marks 150 years since Matthew Webb swum the English Channel

Dean Whitbread @dfrw.bsky.social · Aug 25

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... <-- My great, great, great uncle Captain Matthew Webb swam the English Channel to France 150 years ago today!

Kevin Murphy, who swum the channel 34 times, talks about how Webb's achievement inspired the world.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Dean Whitbread @dfrw.bsky.social · Aug 24

Watched this yesterday:
YouTube Is Using AI to Alter Content (and not telling us)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=86nh...

which impacts on music content I watch.. 13:56 and revealing

YouTube Is Using AI to Alter Content (and not telling us)

YouTube video by Rhett Shull

www.youtube.com

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Dean Whitbread @dfrw.bsky.social · Aug 21

Great read from Ted Gioia

substack.com/home/post/p-...

Our Shared Reality Will Self-Destruct in the Next 12 Months

What happens when you can't trust photos, videos, text, or the entire web?

substack.com

Books by people vs books by AI

Dean Whitbread @dfrw.bsky.social · Aug 15

This is good

open.substack.com/pub/samj/p/b...

Announcing a new book certification scheme that enables publishers to prove their books are written by humans

open.substack.com

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Dean Whitbread @dfrw.bsky.social · Aug 1

White Rabbits

Dean Whitbread @dfrw.bsky.social · Jul 19

deanfrw.substack.com/p/old-tunes-...

When you weren’t looking, I paused for most of a month while thinking. I was running the brain granola platform experiment, which beats breakfast every day. While I did practical things, like erecting a shed, I didn’t worry about it.. First substack in a month.

Old Tunes, New Songs

the brain granola platform experiment

Dean Whitbread @dfrw.bsky.social · Jul 17

How many women grace the Podcast Hall of Fame, I wonder..

Dean Whitbread @dfrw.bsky.social · Jul 17

Well said.

Age of Audio Official Festival Trailer - 2025

Reposted by Dean Whitbread

Ewan Spence @ewanspence.co.uk · Jul 17

You cannot tell the story of podcasting, especially in those formative years, without talking to the countless women involved. And they were there, right in the middle of it (I know, I have the pictures of those early conferences).

Rekha Murthy @rekha6.bsky.social · Jul 16

Make no mistake: Many, many women have powered #podcasting, then and now. I know this because I am one of them (I worked with Roman and Ira, too). The filmmaker didn't know or didn't care.

Much of my audio work counters historical erasure. It's wild to see it here.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FW06...

YouTube video by AGE OF AUDIO

www.youtube.com

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Dean Whitbread @dfrw.bsky.social · Jul 12

My delightful cat Poppy refused lick-e-lix + antibiotics on day 8, when the course of medication was to be 28 days. Vets had no solution except eventually when they confessed there is liquid medication. I asked if these meds would not carry the same awful taste Poppy had rejected. Still waiting...