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landscape.165, will o’ the wisp

the fireflies retaliated by gathering in such numbers that even the most steadfast travelers were lured from the path, until the towns were emptied and the streetlights, at last, fell dim.


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Fireflies and waterways. Brunswick (Maine) and New Brunswick.


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landscape.164, the flooded forest

higher and lower ground alike were forced to adapt to a perpetual coating of water, unlinked to tides or storms


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Spectacle Radio ep.117 :: 06.06.24 :: ****A Bloody Moon in the Great English Outdoors

This time with guests Anne Sofie Nørskov and Sam Bornstein talking about the soundtrack to their new film Erase the Record and sharing some of their favorites in the mix with the usual chaos of the Spectacle slate.

Goma & Little Temple - Notti’s Dream #1 (Funky Forest)
Killer’s Moon
Sam Bornstein - Breakdown (Erase the Record)
Alan Birkenshaw & Jane Lester - My Dream (Killer’s Moon)
Funky Forest Theme
Nill & O Adotado - Shirley Chisholm (Raw Session)
American Hunter
Josy Nowack - Break You Down (The Future Is Woman)
Takashi Inagaki - Wall
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Brenda Hutchinson, Clive Smith, & Slava Tsukerman - Liquid Sky 14
The Uncle Henny Penny Show (The Adventure of Faustus Bidgood)
Giovanni Fusco - L’Avventura Theme

Sam Bornstein - Erase the Record Theme
Magnet - Lullaby (The Wicker Man)
Eduard Artemyev - Solaris XI
Warm Blood
The Way It Is - In a Strange Place
Yo La Tengo - Sea Urchins (The Sound of Science)
Matt Farley - My Goldfish Dead (Local Legends)
Burst City
The Circle Jerks - Coup d’Etat (Repo Man)
Bully Boys Band - Putney Swope
Window to Paris
Brenda Hutchinson, Clive Smith, & Slava Tsukerman - Liquid Sky 18
Zbigniew Preisner - Dekalog IV Part 2
Sam Bornstein - Letter to Zoey (Erase the Record)
Eduard Artemyev - Solaris VI

Anne Linnet - Time Out (Time Out)
Goma & Little Temple - Notti’s Dream #2 (Funky Forest)
Robert Joy - End Titles from Faustus Bidgood
Mark Reeder (B-Movie: Lust and Sound in West Berlin)
The Plastics - Copy (Downtown 81)
Raymond Scott - Portofino (The Century of the Self)
Gottfried Hüngsberg - World on a Wire
Edgar Froese - Snake Bath (Kamikaze ’89)
Saeko Suzuki - Life King (No Life King)
Los Van Van - Tokyo Decadence
Grey Gerstin - Demo 5_2-_24
The Grid (The Adventure of Faustus Bidgood)
Isao Tomita - Arabesque (Jack Horkheimer / Star Hustler)
Joanna Bruzdowicz - Theme from Vagabond
Jacques Dutronc - Et Moi, Et Moi, Et Moi (City of Ghosts)
Yo La Tengo - Sea Urchins (The Sound of Science)
The Red Krayola - In My Baby’s Ruth (Raw Session)


fuckyeahpilesofdirt:

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Mounds of Edgewater NJ, my submission to the very important fuckyeahpilesofdirt, which I just just learned has been run for all these years by someone I actually know.


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Spectacle Radio ep.116 :: 05.23.24 :: I’m talking to the demon that has taken over this brain

Nabihah Iqbal - Canada Park (dir. Razas AlSalah, 2019)

Gerry Mulligan Quartet - I’m Beginning to See the Light (from Document, Memory, for my Friend Bill Rice, dir. Tom Jarmusch)

Bill Rice

Sister Sai - Devotional (from Beneath the Concrete, The Forest, dir. Lev Omelchenko, 2023)

The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies!!? (dir. Ray Dennis Steckler, 1964)

National Diploma (dir. Dieudo Hamadi, 2017)

Pierre Akendengue - Oma ayiya (National Diploma)

Brian Noyes - Dr. Hurt’s Love Theme (from Fantasy A Gets a Mattress, dirs. David Norman Lewis & Noah Zoltan Sofian, 2024)

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Love Everlasting (dir. Zhang Ailing, 1947)

Attack of the Joyful Goddess (dir. Chang Cheh, 1983)

Nine Demons (dir. Chang Cheh, 1984)

Long Live the Missus (dir. Hu Sang, 1947)

Law Wing-fai - The Chicken Yard (Boat People, dir. Ann Hui, 1982)

Kenny Bee - The Illegal Immigrant (dir. Mabel Cheung, 1985)

Shanghai 13 (dir. Chang Cheh, 1984)

Long Live the Missus

Funky Forest: The First Contact (dirs. Shunichiro Miki, Hajime Ishimine, & Katsuhito Ishii, 2005)

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Kristeen Young - Pearl of a Girl (Spirit Riser, dir. Dylan Greenberg, 2024)

Silvurdrongur - Gay er the new straight (Skal)

Bolshe Vita (dir. Ibolya Fekete, 1996)

Chico (dir. Ibolya Fekete, 2001)

Warm Blood (dir. Rick Charnoski, 2022)

Occlude - The Trees (dir. Peter Azen, 2022)

Coil - The First Five Minutes After Death (Muscle, dir. Hisayasu Sato, 1989)

John Cale - End Titles for Who Am I This Time? (dir. Jonathan Demme, 1982)


Chemical Meadows is an experimental documentary linking water chemistry and photochemistry in the post-industrial wilds of the New Jersey Meadowlands.

Much of this footage was washed in the actual waterways filmed, revealing decades of chemical contamination in speckles of anomalous light and corroded emulsion.


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snake hill


Hi. Here’s a music video I made for BenBen & Lily Desmond. Really fast one-night shoot with a limited lighting palette and some watery projections – obviously the double exposures were done in the edit, but for the most part it all really looked like this. From a new EP out on Perpetual Doom.


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photochemical meadows


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Spectacle Radio ep.113 :: 03.14.24 :: You know, you’re a lot smarter than the average dope

Jóhann Jóhannsson - Remembrance of the Past (Last and First Men)
Savannah Vold - Red Sea (Moss Beach)
Kyle Brier - Moss Beach theme
It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad World
Jun Kurosawa - Neko Mimi
Ennio Morricone - Voca Seconda (The Fifth Cord)
Non Machina - Naci Chicharra (Tesoros)
Chris Pickolick - The Tetris Masters intro (The Ecstasy of Order)
William Kersten - Disembodied Theme (2016)
Tetris theme
Non Machina - Reciclaje / Basura (Tesoros)
…

Sun Ra - Interplanetary Music (The Last Angel of History)
Alice Donut - Testosterone Gone Wild (Acne)
Pierre Desprats - Murir trop vite (Conann)
Fred Frith - Evolution (Step Across the Border)
John Zorn - The Golden Boat
The Dead Kennedys - Moon Over Marin (Acne)
Angry Samoans - Death of Beewak (Hellbent)
Fields of Nephilim - Power (Demons 2)
Sorcery - I’m Back (Rocktober Blood)
Exit 13 - Ecotopian Visions (Death Metal Zombies)
Merzbow - Beyond Ultraviolence
Seven Shells (Tokyo Elegy)
The Rolling Stones - Sister Morphine (Rocker)
Cramps cover (Acne)
Sun Ra - Watusa (The Last Angel of History)

Non Machina - Hello Kitty (Tresoros)
Jóhann Jóhannsson - Bangkok norousins (Dis)

Shojotai - Forever (It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad World)
A Guy Called Gerald feat. Finley Quaye - Finley’s Rainbow (Slow Motion Mix) (The Last Angel of History)
Revelation - Masochist Trip (Wasted)
Mona Davis - Waltz Dance (Rave Macbeth)
William Kersten - Disembodied Theme (1998)
Laurie Anderson - 0 + 1 and Sharkey’s Day (Home of the Brave)
Jun Kurosawa - Neko-Mimi


iananan:

cozylittleartblog:

sprite-up:

cozylittleartblog:

cant tell you how bad it feels to constantly tell other artists to come to tumblr, because its the last good website that isn’t fucked up by spoonfeeding algorithms and AI bullshit and isn’t based around meaningless likes

just to watch that all fall apart in the last year or so and especially the last two weeks

there’s nowhere good to go anymore for artists.

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ok you know what yeah, yeah my tags Should be part of the post. they’re important.

I’ve seen a couple of posts about not deleting your posts in response to this from 2 separate directions.

the first being that the art is already in the models, this deal is just formalising it and getting automattic some cash out of the deal (this is still shitty). the images themselves were scraped ages ago and deleting them now does nothing to help that, sadly.

the second being that you would be ceding ground to the AI scammers by taking real, humanity filled pieces of art from public view and leaving nothing but AI garbage to fill the gaps.

and both are valid, but with both rattling around in my head it hit me.

please don’t let the only chance your human creativity has to be seen and experienced, be after it’s been through the bullshit grinder that costs three lakes and a forest to run.

the AI shit will run its course, doing incredible damage while it does, but there needs to be something there after it’s gone.

also, yeah, if you can, poison the shit out of their datasets with glaze and nightshade. if i still ever posted art I’d be doing the same.

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I really dislike watermarks and I’d rather relinquish ownership and be data-scraped than force people to see some standardized name graphic on everything I do, but it does look like Tumblr has added an opt-out option for whatever AI partnerships they have going. It’s under “Blog Settings” so you need to do it for each tumblr, not for your overall user account. I’m not sure how much of a guarantee this is, and everything on the web has probably been absorbed into various models many times over by now, but it’s there now, anyway.



Oil Lake vicinity, Kearny, NJ, with sediment and phantom contaminant lights.


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Spectacle Radio ep.111 :: 02.15.24 :: A car needs hormones

Sergey Kuryokhin - Nemoj (Mister Designer, dir. Oleg Teptsov, 1987)
Orbital - Concludiato (The Pentaverate)
Victor Mate - Rosszkor szóltak rám (Memory of the Summer of ’74, dir. György Kovásznai, 1974)
The Francies - Nightmare (dir. Al Columbia, 201X?)
Yeule - Frozen Arrow (The Overture of Prototype, dir. 00 Zhang, 2023)
Lydia Lunch & Clint Ruin - Stinkfist (Red Spirit Lake, dir. Charles Pinion, 1993)
Nimrod Workman (Appalachian Journey, dir. Mike Dibb, Mark Kidel, & Alan Lomax, 1990)
This Mortal Coil - Meniscus (Totally Fucked Up, dir. Greg Araki, 1993)
The Time of Moulting (dir. Sabrina Mertens, 2020)
Orbital - The Box (Untitled 2) (Wasted, dir. Aryan Kaganof, 2006)
Al Columbia - Black Death and the Plague
Dead Can Dance - Moon Child End Theme (dir. Agustí Villaronga, 1989)
Dieter Moebius - Hoffnungsschimmer (Blue Moon, dir. Karsten Wichniarz, 1986)
Jacques Higelin - Jolie Môme (Paprika, dir. Tinto Brass, 1991)

Thomas Brinkman - Olga (John and Jane, dir. Ashim Ahluwalia, 2005)
Junk - Wildfire (Rave Macbeth, dir. Klaus Knoesel, 2001)
Lliso & Suzo Saiz - El Arte de Morir (Álvaro Fernández Armero, 2000)
Sergey Kuryokhin - Sorvalas (Mister Designer)
Black Britain - Real Life (Hiding Out, dir. Bob Giraldi, 1987)
Marianne Faithful - Broken English (Anybody’s Woman, dir. Bette Gordon, 1981)
808 State - In Yer Face (The Myth of the Liberal Media, dir. Sut Jhally, 1998)
Jennifer Warnes - Nights Are Forever (The Twilight Zone)
Veronika Fischer - Sehnsucht nach Wärme
Chris Petke - Diablo (Rave Macbeth)
Roberto de Simone & Nuova Compagnia di Canto Popolare - secondo coro delle lavandaie (La gatta Cenerentola, 1976)
Denis Mpunga & Paul K. - Intermezzo II
Pierre Desprats - Irrealta (Conann, Bertrand Mandico, 2023)
Dieter Moebius - Kriminelle Energie (Blue Moon)
Health - Blue Monday (Atomic Blonde)
Alex McGowan - Guru Flute (Rave Macbeth)
Otomo Yoshihide - Bath Cream 2 (Tokyo Elegy, dir. Aryan Kaganof, 1999)

Robert Ashley - The Park (Privacy Rules) (Perfect Lives, dir. John Sanborn, 1984)
Piero Milesi & Daniel Bacalov - La Camera Astratta



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