What is the “Essence of the North?” That is what is being asked by The Northerner Blog in the Guardian today. They are asking for contributors to post an image that captures the essence of the North. Whose North? There is always the chocolate box image of Dales and Moors, unbroken wilderness, apart from James …
Realist Manifesto
The title ‘realist’ has been imposed on me in the same way as the title ‘romantic’ was imposed on the men of 1830. Titles have never given the right idea of things; if they did, works would be unnecessary. Without going into the question as to the rightness or wrongness of a label which, let …
Starting out on zines
It’s taken me years playing about with formats and styles and still I’ve never really come to a decision on how I wanted to show my work, but lockdown has given me a chance to join in with a few workshops and groups and one of them was called The Lockdown Zine Collective where a …
Shopping List
This is a wish list (shopping list) of bits and pieces that I want/need for my working practice, this will be added to and updated as and when, got some of this in the shed but will start pulling it out when I get studio space sorted. – [ ] Light Box – [ ] …
Moving Across
Right now I’m not writing many reviews for this blog (or working on the UK&IRL map/list across at indiebookshops.com) as I’m in the process of closing down a lot of my other blogs and moving all the information across to here and sorting all the information Jack needs to get on with indie bookshops, and …
Handcrafted CSS
I bought this when it was first published and though it is a great book, it is still just static information describing an ever-changing and fluid landscape though and I’ve always thought that learning information like this should be learned online where it can be updated frequently. Even after all that though this book was …
How to Make Books
My bookbinding tools have arrived and I’ve been playing around with some of the simpler methods in the book. So far it’s been really fun but I am looking forward to the bookbinding course in a few weeks at the Joe Cornish Gallery in Northallerton. Will play a bit more and try sewing a signature …
The Founding And Manifesto Of Futurism
We had stayed up all night, my friends and I, under hanging mosque lamps with domes of filigreed brass, domes starred like our spirits, shining like them with the prisoned radiance of electric hearts. For hours we had trampled our atavistic ennui into rich oriental rugs, arguing up to the last confines of logic and …
It’s a Gazebo!
This is a bit of Roleplaying lore that’s been kicking around the Internet for as long as I can remember. I found it going through my old documents in the loft as I was sorting out something for a campaign soon to start 🙂 So I will put it here verbatum, copied from the original …
September Update
Another good and productive month, my reading plan is a minimum of six books a month and again I’ve achieved that though I stalled a bit at the end of the month and just couldn’t get into anything for over a week, so rather than beating myself up about this I just did other blogging …