Things I have seen with my eyes
The Horror Show: A Twisted Tale of Modern Britain
Off south at the end of 2022 for this pop cultural round-up at Somerset House. Curated into Monster, Ghost and Witch sections by Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard and Claire Catterall, this was fun-packed and quite the top trumps experience for the geeky hauntologists among us. Plus it had that Radio Times cover from when Threads aired…
Read MoreFuseli’s Bums ‘n’ Dos
Alternative title: Fuseli and the Modern Woman: Fashion, Fantasy, Fetishism at The Courtauld. Many of these drawings were in a private collection in New Zealand and were kinda Fuseli’s homemade erotica, many made in collaboration with his wife. It’s essentially mathematically spectacular hairdos and tempting botties – so great. Here’s the ‘real’ blurb (from the…
Read MoreTai Shani @ Gathering
Loved the pastel witchy vibe at Your Arms Outstretched Above Your Head, Coding With the Angels, Tai Shani’s solo show and first thang up at Gathering, London. I had great images of this show but then I cleaned up my phone… So go here instead. Starting Shani’s 2019 sci-fi book Our Fatal Magic now… Gathering…
Read MoreDetective Chief Inspector Jane Topping
Always interested in the interests of other Jane Toppings…
Read MoreKinky Kats – 70s leather porn in the studio
Inspired and encouraged by Cosey, I’ve dug out my copy of Kinky Kats, a leather and PVC fetish magazine published in Soho in the 70s. Looks like such good, clean fun, though the book is pretty well-thumbed, and not only by me.
Read MoreSeen and Not Seen at the CCA
Loved this two-hander by Alex Hetherington and Scott Caruth at the CCA last week. Here’s the blurb pinched from the CCA website: An exhibition of new work by two artists, Scott Caruth and Alex Hetherington. Both work primarily with the moving image in this exhibition, reflecting in different ways on what remains unseen, invisible or…
Read MoreScience Fiction and Other Suspect Ruminations
Reviews of Vintage Science Fiction (1950s to mid-1980s) – a blog by ‘Joachim Boaz’. Books reviewed from (often) the trashier edges of sci-fi, with lots of great covers. Take a look here.
Read MoreIt’s November 2019…finally!
And so Blade Runner is everywhere. Two of my favourite moments of BR in the media soup this month are: Stephen Collin’s strip for the Guardian last week – see it here and BBC3’s The Essay 2019: The Year of Blade Runner – particularly Episode 2, Frances Morgan’s Sounds of the Future Past. And here’s a…
Read MoreHen Ogledd – Mogic
Thanks to CS, I got along to Platform to see Hen Ogledd, my new favourite band, who like eye imagery as much as eye do (wink) and whose new LP Mogic is, like, totally that. I’m trying to use a lyric in my PhD write-up. Let’s see if I can squeeze it in… The tunes…
Read MoreEye am living – just not posting…
…I appear increasingly less interested in recording it would seem. Though I’m sure it’s just a phase, no doubt connected to a recent desire to shun devices in favour of, well, the quiet life. In a short blast of posts today, I’ll catch up by broadcasting some items of interest and others of note. Consider…
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