SCREENSHOTS (8-24)
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August 28, 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 Magritte’s “Voice of Space” (1931), from a forthcoming installment in the RADIUM AGE ART series here at HILOBROW.
Something I made while I was supposed to be doing actual work. I was looking at the first-ever installment (from 1929) of the “Buck Rogers” comic strip and…
I continue to interview commercial semioticians from around the world for the MAKING SENSE series at our sister website, SEMIOVOX.
I spent part of August finishing up the first phase of a semio project for the creative team working on a forthcoming sandbox/lifesim videogame. Which involved watching a lot of gameplay videos, e.g., for PIKMIN.
The MIT Press’s RADIUM AGE series edition of Edward Shanks’ THE PEOPLE OF THE RUINS appeared in August. Here’s a screenshot from the NEW BOOKS NETWORK podcast homepage — Paul March-Russell, who wrote a new introduction for this edition, was interviewed by Miranda Melcher.
Prepping for 4Q2024’s HILOBROW series, edited by Heather Quinlan: SCREAM YOUR ENTHUSIASM.
William Butler Yeats’s “gyre” diagram — for a forthcoming installment in the SCHEMATIZING series.
“The Space” — the Zoom-based writers’ group to which I belong — has continued to meet almost daily during August.
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.