@kejhu
PhD Programmes in Art & Design, NTU. Culture + Senses. Interested in Film, Painting, Photography, Design, Embodied Knowledges, Ecology, Technology, Space/Time, Touch, Sound & Vision… 👨🎤✊🏼🌎 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1985-4351
‘…title reveals the artist’s fondness for wordplay: pad refers both to an artist’s sketchbook & to the jazz slang term for “home.” A lifelong aficionado of jazz, Davis regularly drew analogies between the visual patterns of his pictures & the syncopated rhythms of this modern form of American music’
Close-up photo of the legs and feet of JD Vance and Marco Rubio showing some comically oversized shoes
It gets better. Here's Vance and Rubio in the Oval Office...
Peter Mandelson wanted £547,201 for being sacked as UK ambassador to the US, settled for £75,000.
Will he pay it to Epstein's victims?
Mandelson had danger written all over him. Resigned previous ministerial posts in scandals, relationship with Epstein was known. Starmer still appointed him. Why?
500 cardboard portraits is a series of faces which are cut or torn into corrugated board but these are pencil drawings.
By Russell Herron.
www.russellherron.com/pencil
Sometimes cute, sometimes frightening but they all capture an emotion & technically they're amazing.
Cd front
Cd
Booklet
Back
While I prefer vinyl, ultimately it’s the music not the format that matters. Still, it’s rare that I get excited about a CD. Remastered with never before seen vintage film images, bonus track.
Julius Hemphill/ Dogon A.D. originally self-released 1972
newworldrecords.bandcamp.com/album/julius...
It began with red paint at the UK Treasury, and ended in one of the most successful international climate initiatives.
This very straight news piece buried deep within the FT never uses words like corruption or insider dealing but every detail is quietly devastating. Why is the FT virtually alone in the UK media in covering this important story?
Some people are apparently claiming that Silicon Valley Tech Bros have consciousness, like normal humans.
As someone who studies these issues carefully, I can assure you that this is an utterly preposterous claim. Yes, they can mimic humans, but they are fundamentally incapable of original thought.
This kind of post-truth, trollish warporn has been around for a while, except the kids who popularized it work at the White House now.
Non-paywalled version here: archive.is/PDP41
Jan 2026 • I Lived Here • Portland, OR 1994 - 1999 • by Sierra Tierra • Issue #1
1994 rent: I paid $200/month and had 2 roommates. The apartment had water stains but plenty of light, and I had no furniture except a used dresser and a mattress on the floor. Megan moved into the attic after returning to Portland from her travels. One day she took us to Joanne's Fabrics in far NE Portland so we could make curtains. I grew up in a normal, furnished house in a city yet it did not occur to me to furnish this place. Putting a single piece of material on a dowel and hanging it on the window - people came over to see such a wonder of modern living! My first car was a 1971 Volvo. I bought that for $450 dollars. So old it had a manual choke like a lawnmower. That lasted 2 months until it broke down on the highway coming home from work one day. Megan's friend Jeff, whom she met while driving cross-country, (the 2nd time after a summer playing professional Irish gigs back east) came to live with us and that was the most fun I'd ever had in my life. When I think back to when my mind was empty of anything • I felt the utmost friendship other than pleasure lide it was November, 1995.
Perfect container concept for a zine. Annoyed both that I didn't think of and execute on it first, and annoyed my obvious choice is already taken.
"So much climate damage comes from assuming that Earth is simple, that it is easy to control and that it will bend to our will. Standing up against those simplifying assumptions is fundamentally a humanist thing to do."
From a recent interview I did... here's the rest:
humanists.uk/2026/03/06/h...
I was interviewed by Bogdana Rakova about my generative AI research—why I embrace glitch, mess + failure as tools for learning. From origami-code mashups to the Slopocene, we explore playful, critical ways of rethinking creativity + AI literacy. open.substack.com/pub/speculat...
Photo of a Zoltan fortune teller machine street art installation in a disused cash dispenser. The machine is dark brown wood coloured on the outside with a red interior, like curtains, within which sits a Zoltan fortune teller. Text above the machine reads: ‘Zoltan fortune teller, your wish is my command, look into the eye and make a wish, if nothing happens you have lost nothing, if your wish comes true you have gained everything.’ The Zoltan fortune teller has white hair and beard, light blue eyes, blue hat, and hands held wide around a giant eyeball with a striking blue iris that’s staring out at anyone bold enough to approach the machine. There are some bits of graffiti and stickers around the see-through screen that magical Zoltan sits behind. Above the machine there is more text that says: ‘A deep fake product, funded by the EU’ and ‘he knows and sees all’. Below the machine text says: ‘The future is nigh”.
Photo of Zoltan’s papier-mâché face with mesmerising blue-green eyes, looking a bit like comedy actor Marty Feldman with a pure white beard and hair.
Photo of Zoltan machine text in glitchy stencilled lettering, light yellow and green alternating lines, which reads: ‘He knows and sees all, Zoltan fortune teller, your wish is my command, look into the eye and make a wish, if nothing happens you have lost nothing, if your wish comes true you have gained everything.’
Photo of the giant eyeball with light blue iris staring out from the machine. It appears to float between Zoltan’s hands where a crystal ball might normally be. Kind of cartoony and manic in a way that holds your gaze as it draws you in.
Zoltan fortune teller machine
‘A deep fake product’
#Nottingham
#streetart
#installation
"Opening up, sharing stories, making, holding, extending space walking together... is the opposite of planting a flag + claiming dominance" doi.org/10.64628/AB....
Out today @theconversation.com an intro to what I do + why @plutopress.bsky.social #TheFeministArtOfWalking #psychogeography #BookSky
move slow and repair things
Dagmar Zuniga's stunning debut LP scrapes the skin off the Laurel Canyon scene - utterly timeless stuff, tipped if yr into Linda Perhacs, Mount Eerie, Cindy Lee, Joanne Robertson, Broadcast's 'Tender Buttons', Dome, Karen Dalton
boomkat.com/products/in-...
"Leave your camera at home. Experience nature in an unmediated way. Practice paying attention. Engage your senses–all of them. Pause and look at something for a long time." —Janelle Lynch
DHS quietly removed a Biden-era policy from its website that outlined oversight & privacy safeguards for facial recognition.
Now, they’re using Mobile Fortify, an app that allows officers to photograph a person’s face and immediately query DHS databases for matches on anyone they snap a picture of.
Quietly, calmly and forensically, BBC just dismantled the Trump communications shitshow on Iran.
No hyperbole, just laying out an unprecedented military, diplomatic and reputational shambles.
Worth a watch.
(🎥 BBC News/BBC Verify)
Would’ve been 69 today, what a legacy of noise and turmoil.
"When I am dead and gone
My Vibrations will live on”
Photograph by Chris Terry, 2005.
youtu.be/SRPgyRvt4e0?...
![[We see a close up of a young white male, tanned, white teeth, coiffed hair clearly an influencer on social media. It is an image such as you see when social media posts are shown on the news. In the corner of the screen is named a location: DUBAI. He is staring slightly off-camera for several silent panels of the comic strip. His eyes move slightly. He is having a thought.]
From off-screen a newsreader’s commentary comes:
NEWSREADER:
Extraordinary images here
of an expat in Dubai
[The influencer’s eybrows raise slightly]
…Having their first ever geopolitical thought.
[CUT TO a BBC news scene. The BBC newsreader CLIVE MYRIE is talking to an interviewee next to the screen showing the social media influencer’s face. The interviewee’s name is David Jones].
CLIVE MYRIE:
To explain the significance of this moment we’re joined by David Jones, our Expat Thoughts correspondent
DAVID JONES:
Clive, this is momentous
It was caught on film at the end of an Instagram post titled: ‘Dubai Is Brilliant’.
[Pointing at the screen, the influencer’s expression still the same]
You can clearly see in the eyebrows here, the dawning realisation that there *might* be something in the world beyond his dickhead self.
It marks a *huge* departure from all the Dubai Expat’s previous thoughts.
CLIVE MYRIE:
Which are…?
DAVID JONES:
You've Got To Get Yourself Out Here Mate, Everything Is So Clean, I Don't Have To Pay Taxes,
I Am Incurious As To Why I Do Not Have To Pay Taxes, and Spa.
CLIVE MYRIE:
And might we see an expansion of these new Thoughts in coming days?
DAVID JONES:
I think we can expect to see:
“I Deserve To Be Airlifted By A Country I Pay No Tax To”
CLIVE MYRIE:
Mmm.
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[We see a close up of a young white male, tanned, white teeth, coiffed hair clearly an influencer on social media. It is an image such as you see when social media posts are shown on the news. In the corner of the screen is named a location: DUBAI. He is staring slightly off-camera for several silent panels of the comic strip. His eyes move slightly. He is having a thought.] From off-screen a newsreader’s commentary comes: NEWSREADER: Extraordinary images here of an expat in Dubai [The influencer’s eybrows raise slightly] …Having their first ever geopolitical thought. [CUT TO a BBC news scene. The BBC newsreader CLIVE MYRIE is talking to an interviewee next to the screen showing the social media influencer’s face. The interviewee’s name is David Jones]. CLIVE MYRIE: To explain the significance of this moment we’re joined by David Jones, our Expat Thoughts correspondent DAVID JONES: Clive, this is momentous It was caught on film at the end of an Instagram post titled: ‘Dubai Is Brilliant’. [Pointing at the screen, the influencer’s expression still the same] You can clearly see in the eyebrows here, the dawning realisation that there *might* be something in the world beyond his dickhead self. It marks a *huge* departure from all the Dubai Expat’s previous thoughts. CLIVE MYRIE: Which are…? DAVID JONES: You've Got To Get Yourself Out Here Mate, Everything Is So Clean, I Don't Have To Pay Taxes, I Am Incurious As To Why I Do Not Have To Pay Taxes, and Spa. CLIVE MYRIE: And might we see an expansion of these new Thoughts in coming days? DAVID JONES: I think we can expect to see: “I Deserve To Be Airlifted By A Country I Pay No Tax To” CLIVE MYRIE: Mmm. [Ends]
"Kemi Badenoch, conducted herself with all the grace and decorum of a woman squatting over a cavernously deep field latrine." STEWART LEE on the right's social media excrement
New Stewart Lee column.
"The clods of filth are Badenoch's obvious and clanking attempts to attach the phrase 'paedo protectors' to the Labour government."
"Make people dependent enough, and then make it shitty"
Still giggling at this hilarious video from the Norwegian Consumer Council "A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator" which seems a perfect embodiment of Silicon Valley and tech generally these days
www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Up...
Bebe Barron
Wendy Carlos
Daphne Oram
Laurie Spiegel
These remarkable women of early electronic music pushed the boundaries of technology and composition, turning circuits, sine waves, and tape loops into music. https://disc.gs/3ZWRk1U
The Board of Peace is a Sack of Bollocks
And Samuel said to Saul, "Why hast thou disquieted me, to bring me up?" And Saul answered, “Just needed an expert review!”
On this date in 2013, Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Verena Paravel's 'Leviathan' was released in theaters.
Watch the film, which is unlike any other documentary before (or since), now on Kanopy, and read our interview with Castaing-Taylor about it here: buff.ly/DVlHgcV
