SCREENSHOTS (4-24)
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April 25, 2024
SCREENSHOTS is a monthly series of posts via which HILOBROW’s Josh Glenn reviews his most recent screenshots — before deleting them from the over-full Dropbox folder to which they’d been uploaded. Also see the PHOTO DUMP series.
Detail from the poster for Eating Raoul — a late-arriving installment in the REPO YOUR ENTHUSIASM series now running at HILOBROW.
Detail from an illustration by Nikhil Singh, for an installment of our forthcoming (Summer 2024) series VURT YOUR ENTHUSIASM.
Detail from cover of Peter and Maria Hoey’s new graphic novel In Perpetuity. Adam McGovern interviewed the authors for his OFF-TOPIC column in early April.
Continuing to interview semioticians from around the world for the MAKING SENSE series, over at SEMIOVOX.
Writing further installments in the FIRST TIME AS COMEDY series, here at HILOBROW. Here’s a detail from a paperback edition of J.G. Ballard’s High Rise.
Continuing to analyze “British-ness” codes, for a UK client. The project involves auditing several dozen British TV series. Shown here, a scene from the excellent show Somewhere Boy.
Now that the series STREET SCHEMA is up and running, I thought it would be useful to upload this example of my proprietary “G-schema”; it appeared in my 2021 book The Adventurer’s Glossary (with Mark Kingwell; from McGill-Queen’s University Press).
The conservative New York Sun newspaper ran a feature on the RADIUM AGE series (April 11).
Detail of “Radium Bomb,” a cigarette card from the AGE OF POWER AND WONDER series — New York Public Library collection. From a forthcoming HILOBROW series titled NYPL RADIUM.
Detail of a comic-book panel by HILOBROW idol R. Sikoryak, from Tom Hanks’s novel The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece. Sikoryak spoke with Adam McGovern about this project for a recent installment in Adam’s OFF-TOPIC series.
I’m continuing to research sf-adjacent art works created from 1900–1935, for the RADIUM AGE ART series. Shown here: Detail of a Kazimir Malevich self-portrait, c. 1910–1911.
I’m a guest thesis advisor for several RISD Master of Industrial Design students, this semester. Occasionally, one or more of my object books pops up in their theses…
ALSO SEE: John Hilgart (ed.)’s HERMENAUTIC TAROT series | Josh Glenn’s VIRUS VIGILANTE series | & old-school HILOBROW series like BICYCLE KICK | CECI EST UNE PIPE | CHESS MATCH | EGGHEAD | FILE X | HILOBROW COVERS | LATF HIPSTER | HI-LO AMERICANA | PHRENOLOGY | PLUPERFECT PDA | SKRULLICISM.