#Psychogeography
They know a thing or two about the picturesque in Venice. Even the backwaters are lined with interesting walls, doorways, and windows.
I wonder where this cheeky gondolier is off to?
#FensterFreitag #Photography #Venice #Water #Boat #Psychogeography #Travel
A #SilentSunday... on a bike...
This is where we need smell-o-vision. Without it, you will have to rely on imagination.
It's just getting dark, and you are looking up through these lovely Corsican pines. It has been a hot day, and the air is filled with the heady scent of the trees.
Just lie back on the sandy grass and enjoy the moment...
#ThickTrunkTuesday #Photography #Trees #Sky #Nature #Psychogeography
Many shades of grey
#urbanPhotography #photography #minimalistPhotography
#oslo #psychogeography
Todays postal arrival, bought with some birthday money: Literary Hauntings, A Gazetter of Literary Ghost Stories from Britain and Ireland. From #TartarusPress. #Books #GhostStories #Gazetteer #Literature #Fiction #Geography #Psychogeography #Bookstodon #Reading #ShortStories #Ghosts #Hauntings #Britain #BritishFiction #Ireland #IrishFiction #Horror #BritishBooks #IrishBooks
These rough steps lead down to the beach at Musselwick Bay, near Marloes.
As I was walking up them one day, I met a chap who said he'd known the guy who cut them. He was an elderly fellow, apparently, who would come down every day with a hammer and stone chisel, and work away till his chisel was blunt. In the evening, he'd sharpen his chisel again, ready for the next day's labour.
Now that is really public service at its finest...
final ORT, field recordings out of the unsettling rooms of the former Oxford barracks / Flakkserne in Münster / Germany: manipulated with recordings from other places, developed out of the psychogeographic field exploration / audiovisual installation "Ort ohne Heimweh" in collaboration with Thomas Gerhards, Werner Rückemann (exhibition up to 17th sept., feel free to ask for guided visit)
#soundart #granularsynthesis #musiqueconcrete #deeplistening #psychogeography
Yesterday's photo was very recent, but today's is very old.
This one was taken in 1973, on Crete, with my very first SLR camera. It was before the days of digital cameras, or mobile phones, or even home computers, and I had only just taken my first plane flight.
Being able to post photos I took 50 years ago sometimes makes me feel quite old, but at other times the past feels like, well, just yesterday...
#MeerMittwoch #Photography #Seascape #Coast #Silhouette #Psychogeography
> Ort ohne Heimweh < Ausstellung von Thomas Gerhards + Anja Kreysing + Werner Rückemann in der Zeitbogen-Galerie Oxford - Kaserne Münster, Roxeler Str 340
best view: Abends / Nachts.
Meldet Euch gerne für eine Führung!
https://youtu.be/NCdpKMjBCDM?si=7wmRC0KXwdQjlCI0
#installation #av #video #soundart #granularsynthesis #videoart #sculpture #art #fineart #collaborative #erinnerungskultur #nazi #nationalsozialismus #kaserne #british #barracks #oxford #muenster #germany #deutschland #psychogeography #deeplistening
another ORT, field recordings out of the unsettling rooms of the former Oxford barracks / Flakkserne in Münster / Germany, #lowercasesound edit, tribute to Steve Roden: manipulated with recordings from other places, developed out of the psychogeographic field exploration / audiovisual installation "Ort ohne Heimweh" in collaboration with Thomas Gerhards, Werner Rückemann
#soundart #granularsynthesis #musiqueconcrete #deeplistening #psychogeography #lowercasesound
...Iain Sinclair checked into the Resonance FM 104.4 studio on London’s Borough High Street to read from his new poem, Fifty Catacomb Saints, with live free-improvisational accompaniment by the AMM All-Stars ...
"Fifty Catacomb Saints is our 21st Century Illuminations, only this time the light does not glint from the upturned rose bowl of the Crystal Palace, it is from the gold-sprayed teeth of the dead." #poetry #Psychogeography
https://blackd.substack.com/p/poet-of-london-iain-sinclair-at-80?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1565292&post_id=136753640&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=2ip5kl&utm_medium=email
If it's Friday, it must be time for a window.
I'll leave you to create your own narrative about what is going on here though.
#FensterFreitag #WindowFriday #Photography #Landscape #View #Psychogeography
From the high waters of white stone, and the castle of straw, to the free-tongued stone, #HampsteadHeath is a place of power.
But be careful - there are lines one does not cross.
HT #LiminalSpaces #psychogeography #hookland #naturePhotography #light #London #photography
another ORT: field recordings out of the unsettling rooms of the former Oxford barracks / Flakkserne in Münster / Germany, manipulated and remixed with recordings from other places, developed out of the psychogeographic field exploration / audiovisual installation "Ort ohne Heimweh" in collaboration with Thomas Gerhards, Werner Rückemann, Oxford barracks, Münster, Germany.
soundart #granularsynthesis #musiqueconcrete #drone #deeplistening #psychogeography
Footprints always seem a bit mysterious, don't they? They can so easily bring out the latent Sherlock Holmes in us all.
Who was this person? What were they doing? Where were they going? When did they pass this way? And why?
This is in portrait format - it's really much more interesting if you expand it.
#MonochromeMonday #Photography #Footprints #Psychogeography #BlackAndWhite
It's a sunny Saturday in late summer. What better than a walk down by the lazy river? What better than seeing nature reflected to impressionist perfection in the still waters?
Montbretia may be an invasive species, but it's hard not to be uplifted by those red and orange blossoms at the tail end of summer.
This is in square format.
#Photography #Landscape #Flowers #Nature #Water #River #Psychogeography
Perfect, yet momentary #art.
HTs #StreetArt #PostItNoteArt #psychogeography #PostItNote #London #PostBox
It's a public holiday in the UK today - the notorious August Bank Holiday, when half the world is out and about 'enjoying' the last of the summer.
I'm not a great one for crowds and bustle though, so I think I'll just spend the day in my hammock, looking up at the dappled light through the leaves of a field maple, and reading a good book...
Whenever I'm in West Yorkshire, I like to visit Saltaire. At the centre of this model village, built by Titus Salt for his workers in the 1850s, lies Salts Mill. Once the largest industrial building in the world by floor area, the mill is now given over to galleries, shops, and cafes.
It always has works on display by local-boy-made-good, David Hockney, and I sat on the bench here for some time admiring his stuff and its setting.
#Photography #Art #Gallery #Culture #Yorkshire #Psychogeography
This once was real, or at least something very like it. The mean alleyways of Sailortown, in London's docklands, sometime around 1840.
Wapping, Shadwell, Ratcliffe - the very names seem to drip with the damp mist rolling off the Thames on a dark night...
It's at the Museum of London - well worth a visit.
This picture is in square format
#MonochromeMonday #Photography #BlackAndWhite #History #Museum #London #Psychogeography
Here's something colourful for a Saturday.
I found this classic, old-school, art materials shop on the Left Bank, in Paris, as I was wandering around the Latin Quarter one day - not far from Shakespeare and Co. It had pastels and pencils by the yard. I do hope it's still there.
This is in portrait format - enlarge to see the whole image.
Here's a litttle offering for #FensterFreitag, culled from my recent trip to London.
This is a view of Canary Wharf - a prodigious battery of cliff-faced buildings; structures made of glass and reflecting nothing but shades of blue and green.
I remember when this was a working dockland, and another time when it was a complete wasteland - maybe it still is.
How long till all these monsters stand empty again, I wonder?
#Photography #Urban #Blue #Green #Pattern #Abstract #Psychogeography #Windows
'Along the way' is a #psychogeography zine of black & white analogue photography, with images of around Eastbourne and the South Downs, UK; photographed with a 35mm camera using a variety of black & white 400 ISO film brands.
The #zine is available from: https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1411313386/along-the-way-zine?click_key=b84258863f819d9db8447855dbbc90c8fe45e88a%3A1411313386&click_sum=5bd5c2b0&ref=shop_home_active_2
Here is a typical, summery scene on a UK beach.
My advice is to not go in the water...
#MeerMittwoch #Photography #Seaside #Beach #Sea #Flag #Psychogeography
A large part of the photos I take are stickers, graffiti, signs and posters (or the remains of them). I've collected 20 photos of such "street stuff" in a post, all shot in the last few months, in Oslo, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Glasgow and Copenhagen.
@trashrobot I'm still pondering the question "what kind of company is ReLeaf?"
I agree with the #psychogeography mission and maybe what I was trying to express was "ReLeaf cultivates modular components such as horticultural goods & services and seeks locally disributed circular economy loops"
@bryceb you were saying releaf is a geometry company, I would say geography is a subset of that.
this is a social media for that.
A sleepy alley for #SilentSunday
Kinda wish I was strolling along it right now, admiring the poppies in the hot sun...
This is Paris in summertime - by night and in the rain. Sometimes these things are best seen from the comfort of a dry room with a window...
This is in portrait format - expand to see full image.
#Photography #Paris #StreetPhotography #Night #Rain #Psychogeography
In the marshes. Kalvebod Fælled, Copenhagen.
'Up' does not mean 'out' in #WrongLondon. Climbing higher only shows you more #emptiness. It is the capital for the de-escalation of #hope.
HTs #psychogeography #LondonUnderground #London #photography #escalator
I have been surprised to find quite how many pictures of shuttered windows I seem to take. No doubt it says something about me, but I'm not sure quite what.
This one appears to show, perhaps, the house belonging to Barbie's slovenly neighbours.
This is in portrait format - expand to see full image.
#FensterFreitag #Photography #Colour #Windows #Blue #Pink #Psychogeography #WindowFriday
Received some books to review for #ForteanTimes and #FolkHorrorRevival
@bookstodon
#psychogeography #megalith #occult #folklore #travel #books
11 years late to this review: "psychogeography as it was before 2000: exclusively used and understood in activist/anarchist/left-wing Marxist terms... not by definition a good thing because the overall tone is one of sectarian self-righteousness gift wrapped in academically sanctified forms." From here http://cryptoforest.blogspot.com/2011/10/psychogeographical-publications-from.html The full text of my contribution to issue 4 of Transgressions from 1998 can be found here https://www.academia.edu/13459469/Moving_Mountains_Shamanic_Rock_Art_and_the_International_of_Experimental_Artists #shamanism #CoBrA #surrealism #psychogeography #RockArt
Who paints a wall that colour, I wonder? And who paints a wall and window surround so nicely, but doesn't bother to paint the window shutters?
There's a whole psychological study to unravel, right here.
"It's not easy being green", as the song goes...
#FensterFreitag #Photography #WindowFriday #Green #Psychogeography
This is in portrait format - you've got to expand to see the full picture.
Never mind all those planned and cultivated flowers in well-kept gardens - sometimes glorious flowers are to be found just blooming where they feel like it. In the cracks between paving stones and up against sunny walls, it's surprising what beauty you can come across.
#Bloomscrolling #Photography #Flowers #Psychogeography #Nature #Gardening
Real Dorset by Jon Woolcott - book review. https://psychogeographicreview.com/real-dorset-by-jon-woolcott/
Here's a little bit of fun for this #MonochromeMonday
Sometimes, when you're wandering around in a city, you just come across a perfect piece of shadowplay. Textures and curves, which create a high-contrast arabesque: a truly found but entirely ephemeral 'object'.
#Photography #BlackAndWhite #Abstract #Pattern #Path #Psychogeography
Here is a marigold mandala from Madurai to bring some colour into a gloomy morning (well, it's gloomy here, anyway).
Mandala is simply the Sanskrit word for circle, so it's small wonder that they are usually round.
They are often used as a means of fucusing one's attention, so the mind can drift off into meditation more readily.
My attention is elsewhere already...
#Photography #Flowers #Psychogeography #Yellow #Colour #India #Pattern
Trans Joy Prevails. Edinburgh.
Raining over there. Loch Lomond.
Urban abstract, Glasgow
High up in the Rocky Mountains - at around 3,000 metres - live the bristlecone pines. Some of these are among the world's "oldest known and confirmed living non-clonal organisms". The oldest tree has been alive for over 4,800 years.
I went for a walk amongst them once, and it was - in all ways - a breathless experience. They aren't much to look at, but they are probably the toughest hombres I've ever met.
#ThickTrunkTuesday #Photography #Landscape #Trees #Nature #USA #Travel #Psychogeography
The weekend is over, so it must be #MonochromeMonday. We can liven things up though by introducing a water feature.
Water droplets, frozen in time and space, are always good for a moment's reflection on the deeper mysteries of life, don't you think?
#Photography #Water #BlackAndWhite #Fountain #Psychogeography #Monochrome
Urban flowers. Glasgow.
Where I am, it has just become #FensterFreitag, but it may be a bit #FollowFriday too.
I was looking through this window just last weekend, and admiring the way the light played through the leaves of the creeper outside. I'm hoping to be back there again soon.
Meanwhile, I seem to be creeping up on having 1k followers. I never thought that would happen when I set up my account 15 months ago. I wonder who number 1,000 wil be?
This is in square format.
'An Apport in Merry Oak: Shades of the Cottingley Fairies?' A blog post about the time that a 1921 issue of The Strand Magazine - featuring Cottingley fairy photographs - 'materialised' in a Southampton playground at the time I was writing about Cottingley and related fairy themes https://thegrammarofmatter.wordpress.com/2013/10/27/an-apport-in-merry-oak-shades-of-the-cottingley-fairies/
The relevant document, 'Away With the Fairies: Rock Art and Psychic Geography in West Yorkshire' can be found here https://www.academia.edu/39882309/Away_With_the_Fairies_Rock_Art_and_Psychic_Geography_in_West_Yorkshire #Fairies #RockArt #petroglyphs #psychogeography
For #ThickTrunkTuesday this week, I'd like to present the Major Oak. With a circumference of 11 metres, this tree really does have a 'thick trunk'. It also has a canopy with a 28 metre spread, and is estimated to weigh about 23 tonnes.
The Major lives in Sherwood Forest and is somewhere around 1,000 years old, so if Robin Hood ever existed, this tree is almost sure to have met him.
#Photography #TreesOfMastodon #Woodland #RobinHood #Psychogeography #Landscape #Trees
Stop Recycling Your Nightmares
https://justin-farrimond.pixels.com/featured/stop-recycling-your-nightmares-justin-farrimond.html
If your recurring nightmare keeps bringing you back to the same spot ask yourself why. What is it about this place that draws your mind back time after time? Seek to change the performance, take a lucid step forward and ground yourself in the surroundings. Being a passenger on someone else's journey can only stifle your growth.
#PhotoOfTheDay #BlackAndWhite #PhotographyIsArt #Fantasy #Monochrome #Dreamscape #Photography #Psychogeography
This is a Monday morning salt marsh on the Solent. It's probably an unsuitable place for any sort of building really. Even the birds are shunning the place...
#MonochromeMonday #BlackAndWhite #Photography #Nature #Landscape #Marsh #Psychogeography
I'm not a religious person, but finding candles in a gloomy and cool church interior, on a hot day, with the smell of incense heavy in the air, always makes me feel a bit contemplative and spiritual.
It's Father's Day in the UK today, so it's a good time for all of us who've had one to remember our dads...
#Photography #Church #Windows #Psychogeography #Venice #FathersDay
I don't normally put two photos in the same post, but I couldn't resist this 'before and after' pair for #ThrowBackThursday.
I took a shot looking up the Grand Canal from the Rialto when I was in Venice in 1973 (on the left) - and I took the same shot, from the same pov, when I was there a couple of weeks ago (on the right).
It's a comfort to find an urban landscape where change is still so slow as to be barely perceptible after 50 years.
[Turns out, in retrospect, that this was my 2,000th Mastodon posting - and also my most popular to date 😊.]
I thought I'd bring a bit of colour into everyone's timeline this Saturday.
This is a selection of colour pigments I saw in the window of a craft shop in Venice recently.
This sort of thing is one of the joys of wandering aimlessly around city streets.
#Photography #Colour #Abstract #Psychogeography #Art #Venice
Up and down are relative concepts really. I'm finding echoes of Escher here. It took me a while to figure out which way was up - and I took the photo...
I think I was at a museum in Amsterdam...
#MonochromeMonday #BlackAndWhite #Photography #Abstract #Stairs #Psychogeography #Amsterdam
I've been away for nearly a week, during which this has been the view from my bedroom window.
Coming back to my daily postings on a Friday, I thought it might be appropriate to make it my window of the week...
#FensterFreitag #Photography #Psychogeography #Seascape #Italy #Venice
This is in portrait dormat, so enlarge it to see the full picture.
Waldoscope: Temple-Beaudry Day 16 [Final Day] / Glendale & Beverly.
#LosAngeles #Psychogeography #Dérive #Drift
https://waldoscope.blogspot.com/2023/06/temple-beaudry-day-16-final-day.html?spref=tw
Waldoscope: Temple-Beaudry Day 16 [Final Day] / Glendale & Beverly.
#LosAngeles #Psychogeography #Dérive #Drift
https://waldoscope.blogspot.com/2023/06/temple-beaudry-day-16-final-day.html?spref=tw
Waldoscope: Temple-Beaudry Day 16 [Final Day] / Glendale & Beverly.
#LosAngeles #Psychogeography #Dérive #Drift
https://waldoscope.blogspot.com/2023/06/temple-beaudry-day-16-final-day.html?spref=tw
Waldoscope: Temple-Beaudry Day 15 / Douglas & Toluca
#LosAngeles #psychogeography #Dérive #Drift
https://waldoscope.blogspot.com/2023/05/temple-beaudry-day-15-douglas-toluca.html?spref=tw
Waldoscope: Temple-Beaudry Day 15 / Douglas & Toluca
#LosAngeles #psychogeography #Dérive #Drift
https://waldoscope.blogspot.com/2023/05/temple-beaudry-day-15-douglas-toluca.html?spref=tw
Waldoscope: Temple-Beaudry Day 14 / 1st & 2nd
#LosAngeles #Psychogeography #Dérive #Drift
https://waldoscope.blogspot.com/2023/05/temple-beaudry-day-14-1st-2nd.html?spref=tw
Waldoscope: Temple-Beaudry Day 14 / 1st & 2nd
#LosAngeles #Psychogeography #Dérive #Drift
https://waldoscope.blogspot.com/2023/05/temple-beaudry-day-14-1st-2nd.html?spref=tw
Waldoscope: Temple-Beaudry Day 13 / Beaudry & 1st
#LosAngeles #Psychogeography #Dérive #Drift
https://waldoscope.blogspot.com/2023/05/temple-beaudry-day-13-beaudry-1st.html?spref=tw
Waldoscope: Temple-Beaudry Day 13 / Beaudry & 1st
#LosAngeles #Psychogeography #Dérive #Drift
https://waldoscope.blogspot.com/2023/05/temple-beaudry-day-13-beaudry-1st.html?spref=tw
Waldoscope: Temple-Beaudry Day 12 / Beaudry & Temple
#LosAngeles #Psychogeography #Dérive #Drift
https://waldoscope.blogspot.com/2023/05/temple-beaudry-day-12-beaudry-temple.html?spref=tw
Waldoscope: Temple-Beaudry Day 12 / Beaudry & Temple
#LosAngeles #Psychogeography #Dérive #Drift
https://waldoscope.blogspot.com/2023/05/temple-beaudry-day-12-beaudry-temple.html?spref=tw
Waldoscope: Temple-Beaudry Day 12 / Beaudry & Temple
#LosAngeles #Psychogeography #Dérive #Drift
https://waldoscope.blogspot.com/2023/05/temple-beaudry-day-12-beaudry-temple.html?spref=tw
For my Friday window this week I'm offering this 'hot' view of rows of windows, as seen from another window.
We could be anywhere but are, in fact, in Berlin.
I'm going away for a few days after this, so there will be a short break in transmission...
#Fensterfreitag #Photography #Urban #Psychogeography #Berlin
Portrait format - you're going to need to enlarge this to see it properly.
Waldoscope: Temple-Beaudry Day 11 / Boylston & Temple (2)
#LosAngeles #Psychogeography #Dérive #Drift
https://waldoscope.blogspot.com/2023/05/temple-beaudry-day-11-boylston-temple-2.html?spref=tw
Waldoscope: Temple-Beaudry Day 11 / Boylston & Temple (2)
#LosAngeles #Psychogeography #Dérive #Drift
https://waldoscope.blogspot.com/2023/05/temple-beaudry-day-11-boylston-temple-2.html?spref=tw
Waldoscope: Temple-Beaudry Day 10 / Boylston & Temple
#LosAngeles #Psychogeography #Dérive #Drift
https://waldoscope.blogspot.com/2023/05/temple-beaudry-day-10-boylston-temple.html?spref=tw
Waldoscope: Temple-Beaudry Day 9 / Boylston & Court
#LosAngeles #Psychogeography #Dérive #Drift
https://waldoscope.blogspot.com/2023/05/temple-beaudry-day-9-boylston-court.html?spref=tw
Waldoscope: Temple-Beaudry Day 9 / Boylston & Court
#LosAngeles #Psychogeography #Dérive #Drift
https://waldoscope.blogspot.com/2023/05/temple-beaudry-day-9-boylston-court.html?spref=tw
A reminder that the last remaining copies of Rituals & Declarations (Vol 2 issues 1, 2, 3, and 4) are available at the discounted price of £5 per copy while stocks last:
#zine #zines #DIY #zinester #ZineFest #FolkHorror #Folklore #occult #horror #RitualsAndDeclarations #magazine #SmallPress #FediGiftShop #hauntology #psychogeography
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