Neal Romanek
@nromanek.bsky.social
Founder of publishing company ¡AU! & a media biz journalist of many years - plus sustainability. Used to write for the pictures. Author of novel SKIES OF VENUS & graphic novel BOUDICCA.
Dayton to L.A. to London
https://linktr.ee/nealromanek
Dayton to L.A. to London
https://linktr.ee/nealromanek
New split view in Google Chrome. A small tweak from UI team is more useful to me than the billions spent on Gemini.
December 8, 2025 at 9:25 AM
New split view in Google Chrome. A small tweak from UI team is more useful to me than the billions spent on Gemini.
Yep, that’s me alright.
December 4, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Yep, that’s me alright.
The days when music weighed something. You had to lug them like books. You had to had to stack them and stash them. The could be warped. Scratched. Stolen.
November 28, 2025 at 2:58 PM
The days when music weighed something. You had to lug them like books. You had to had to stack them and stash them. The could be warped. Scratched. Stolen.
Oh, Christ. You think those pictures accompanying an album are "thumbnails" don't you? "Thumbnails". God...
Covers are actually static cinema. You didn't know that, did you?
The album cover of old wasn't a wrapper. It was the yin to the record's yang. It was one half of the Eisensteinian montage.
Covers are actually static cinema. You didn't know that, did you?
The album cover of old wasn't a wrapper. It was the yin to the record's yang. It was one half of the Eisensteinian montage.
November 28, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Oh, Christ. You think those pictures accompanying an album are "thumbnails" don't you? "Thumbnails". God...
Covers are actually static cinema. You didn't know that, did you?
The album cover of old wasn't a wrapper. It was the yin to the record's yang. It was one half of the Eisensteinian montage.
Covers are actually static cinema. You didn't know that, did you?
The album cover of old wasn't a wrapper. It was the yin to the record's yang. It was one half of the Eisensteinian montage.
When we were tiny, every album was like Xmas. The zip of opening the shrink wrap. The smell of the cardboard. Plus the machine smell of vinyl. The crackle of a two album set as its spine was flexed open for the first time. 144 square inches of real estate - or multiples thereof!
November 28, 2025 at 2:58 PM
When we were tiny, every album was like Xmas. The zip of opening the shrink wrap. The smell of the cardboard. Plus the machine smell of vinyl. The crackle of a two album set as its spine was flexed open for the first time. 144 square inches of real estate - or multiples thereof!
Went into Rough Trade record store off Portobello Rd & felt disoriented looking at all the bold & fearsome LPs. Heartbreaking that you kids missed the visual half of owning music. Listening to an album, a person should be poring over cover front & back & liner notes & lyrics sheet. A poster even!
November 28, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Went into Rough Trade record store off Portobello Rd & felt disoriented looking at all the bold & fearsome LPs. Heartbreaking that you kids missed the visual half of owning music. Listening to an album, a person should be poring over cover front & back & liner notes & lyrics sheet. A poster even!
A copy of the Occupied Times just dug up (astoundingly the NOV 16 issue!), the paper printed by #OccupyLondon
The color of the pages is Financial Times Pink but my phone has helpfully color-corrected
The Occupy London camp at St. Paul’s was rigorously ridiculed & discounted & very very impressive.
The color of the pages is Financial Times Pink but my phone has helpfully color-corrected
The Occupy London camp at St. Paul’s was rigorously ridiculed & discounted & very very impressive.
November 16, 2025 at 8:39 PM
A copy of the Occupied Times just dug up (astoundingly the NOV 16 issue!), the paper printed by #OccupyLondon
The color of the pages is Financial Times Pink but my phone has helpfully color-corrected
The Occupy London camp at St. Paul’s was rigorously ridiculed & discounted & very very impressive.
The color of the pages is Financial Times Pink but my phone has helpfully color-corrected
The Occupy London camp at St. Paul’s was rigorously ridiculed & discounted & very very impressive.
Finally attended @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social - what took me so long?
Great to talk to so many amazing folk, including @etheringtonbros.bsky.social @stoutstoat.co.uk @selfmadehero.bsky.social @sharkbitesteve.bsky.social & @decadencecomics.bsky.social !
Great to talk to so many amazing folk, including @etheringtonbros.bsky.social @stoutstoat.co.uk @selfmadehero.bsky.social @sharkbitesteve.bsky.social & @decadencecomics.bsky.social !
November 16, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Finally attended @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social - what took me so long?
Great to talk to so many amazing folk, including @etheringtonbros.bsky.social @stoutstoat.co.uk @selfmadehero.bsky.social @sharkbitesteve.bsky.social & @decadencecomics.bsky.social !
Great to talk to so many amazing folk, including @etheringtonbros.bsky.social @stoutstoat.co.uk @selfmadehero.bsky.social @sharkbitesteve.bsky.social & @decadencecomics.bsky.social !
Holy shit! That’s who David Ellison looks like! This has been bothering me for months.
November 14, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Holy shit! That’s who David Ellison looks like! This has been bothering me for months.
Great day at SVG Europe’s FutureSport event in Brighton. Had the pleasure of interviewing Mark Lichtenhein on the content revenue disaster that is sports content piracy.
November 6, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Great day at SVG Europe’s FutureSport event in Brighton. Had the pleasure of interviewing Mark Lichtenhein on the content revenue disaster that is sports content piracy.
Halloween is a frantic night for Cloud the dog, with all the doorbell ringing and even fireworks. Here she is trying to relax, watching The Thing.
October 31, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Halloween is a frantic night for Cloud the dog, with all the doorbell ringing and even fireworks. Here she is trying to relax, watching The Thing.
Astonishing day at @smallpublishers.bsky.social in London today. In a world of empty digital frenzy, it’s humbling & inspiring to see so much dedicated work & concentration going into a single object - a book. Glory to the #book.
October 24, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Astonishing day at @smallpublishers.bsky.social in London today. In a world of empty digital frenzy, it’s humbling & inspiring to see so much dedicated work & concentration going into a single object - a book. Glory to the #book.
"Who's your favorite Jedi? (Wrong answers only.)"
(sorry, correct answer here)
(sorry, correct answer here)
October 19, 2025 at 4:59 PM
"Who's your favorite Jedi? (Wrong answers only.)"
(sorry, correct answer here)
(sorry, correct answer here)
Waiting on the platform at Sloane Square. Looking up. I see…
October 19, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Waiting on the platform at Sloane Square. Looking up. I see…
So that's why they've been so obsessed with Amelia Earhart.
Because she is literally the girlfriend of...
...the founder of Antifa.
Because she is literally the girlfriend of...
...the founder of Antifa.
October 9, 2025 at 12:48 PM
So that's why they've been so obsessed with Amelia Earhart.
Because she is literally the girlfriend of...
...the founder of Antifa.
Because she is literally the girlfriend of...
...the founder of Antifa.
At £6, this Monster Lab is already a bargain, but attendees at our inaugural event will get Monster Lab For Life!
October 7, 2025 at 7:04 PM
At £6, this Monster Lab is already a bargain, but attendees at our inaugural event will get Monster Lab For Life!
At @auworks.bsky.social , we never use Gen AI in our content. Never. We're stubborn that way.
Sometimes we even go super old school. The wolf imagery in this article about content predators was built from photos we took of a Dire Wolf model (with interchangeable heads).
Sometimes we even go super old school. The wolf imagery in this article about content predators was built from photos we took of a Dire Wolf model (with interchangeable heads).
September 26, 2025 at 12:02 PM
At @auworks.bsky.social , we never use Gen AI in our content. Never. We're stubborn that way.
Sometimes we even go super old school. The wolf imagery in this article about content predators was built from photos we took of a Dire Wolf model (with interchangeable heads).
Sometimes we even go super old school. The wolf imagery in this article about content predators was built from photos we took of a Dire Wolf model (with interchangeable heads).
Yesterday a Eurostar carriage of media industry tech geniuses - plus me - partied from London to Amsterdam on the way to week’s big #IBCShow. It’s called The Flint Green Line. We hatched it when I was at The Flint last year to promote green travel to media biz trade shows.
September 12, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Yesterday a Eurostar carriage of media industry tech geniuses - plus me - partied from London to Amsterdam on the way to week’s big #IBCShow. It’s called The Flint Green Line. We hatched it when I was at The Flint last year to promote green travel to media biz trade shows.
Today I’m off to #IBCShow in #Amsterdam. The new issue of ¡AU! Journal will be getting its print debut and I’ll be asking media tech companies how they & their customers are planning to adapt to a world in crisis.
September 11, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Today I’m off to #IBCShow in #Amsterdam. The new issue of ¡AU! Journal will be getting its print debut and I’ll be asking media tech companies how they & their customers are planning to adapt to a world in crisis.
Just ran across this fabulous print magazine in my local West London coffee shop from The Quick & The Brave. They look to be a newish publisher doing more global-facing storytelling. Love it.
Their site: www.thequickandthebrave.com
Their site: www.thequickandthebrave.com
September 9, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Just ran across this fabulous print magazine in my local West London coffee shop from The Quick & The Brave. They look to be a newish publisher doing more global-facing storytelling. Love it.
Their site: www.thequickandthebrave.com
Their site: www.thequickandthebrave.com
The big reveal! A first look at the print version of ¡AU! Journal, which we'll be distributing at the IBC Show this week in Amsterdam, one of the world's biggest trade shows for tech/tools for media & broadcast. @auworks.bsky.social will be making its IBC debut. DM me a line if you want to meet up!
September 8, 2025 at 11:44 AM
The big reveal! A first look at the print version of ¡AU! Journal, which we'll be distributing at the IBC Show this week in Amsterdam, one of the world's biggest trade shows for tech/tools for media & broadcast. @auworks.bsky.social will be making its IBC debut. DM me a line if you want to meet up!
If you see this, repost with a vampire that is not Dracula.
September 7, 2025 at 6:24 PM
If you see this, repost with a vampire that is not Dracula.
On & on I go about how we should be in this together, sharing our creative work & developing the best practices, networks & economics for creating a deep & blazing world of art.
But do I share my own work? Not seriously. Not honestly.
I’m a writer. But I do pictures for fun.
Here’s a picture.
But do I share my own work? Not seriously. Not honestly.
I’m a writer. But I do pictures for fun.
Here’s a picture.
August 30, 2025 at 8:02 PM
On & on I go about how we should be in this together, sharing our creative work & developing the best practices, networks & economics for creating a deep & blazing world of art.
But do I share my own work? Not seriously. Not honestly.
I’m a writer. But I do pictures for fun.
Here’s a picture.
But do I share my own work? Not seriously. Not honestly.
I’m a writer. But I do pictures for fun.
Here’s a picture.
You’ve got to be kidding me! I was joking!
August 24, 2025 at 3:10 PM
You’ve got to be kidding me! I was joking!