11.22.2011
Beach Anxiety #7
By: Peggy Nelson | Categories: Kudos

What do you get when you scrape Twitter for recurrent terms, program your laptop to read them in “the SimpleText voice,” and set it to some bleak visuals of the public works department attending to the indifferent shore?

An oddly poignant meditation on beauty, community, and alienation. Your attention will be amply rewarded. Do watch:


[Beach Anxiety #7: Lyme Regis, by CantCopeWontCope, 2011]

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Peggy Nelson is Arts Editor at HiLobrow, covering art, art-makers, and the virtual life; she was also HiLobrow's first Artist in Residence. She is a new media artist whose work involves fractured narratives in film, augmented reality, Twitter, and even objects on occasion. Follow her on Twitter at @otolythe.