SCREENSHOTS (4-25)
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April 26, 2025
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.
I continue to conduct interviews, for the MAKING SENSE series at HILOBROW’s sister site SEMIOVOX, with commercial semioticians from around the world.
Detail from Kristin Parker’s illustration for the second installment (4/13/25) of James Parker’s COCKY: THE OPERA.
Detail from a Shazam comic reviewed by Adam McGovern for the latest installment of his HILOBROW column OFF-TOPIC.
Continuing my performance art project where I imitate my friends as we write together in the “space.”
Photo by Welsh semiotician Malcolm Evans, for an upcoming installment in the new series PHOTO OP, at SEMIOVOX.
Working on future installments in the HILOBROW series SEMIOPUNK.
Google’s AI Overviews is confused and confusing; Anthony Bourdain is sorely missed.
Terrific Semiofest Session, on the Semiotics of Place, hosted by Gemma Jones. On April 25th.
A few Midjourney-generated images from April:
Prompt: The words “give it up” emblazoned on a small protective glass dome within which we can spot a very interesting old artifact. The dome is sitting on the counter of a cool shop of some kind.
For the GIVE IT UP project, which was announced on April 24th.
AI-generated illustration — not the final version — for an upcoming SEMIOFEST SESSION on the topic RISE OF THE RIGHT.
Prompt: fascist breakfast cereal boxes.
A rejected idea for illustrating the RISE OF THE RIGHT session.
Prompt: A four-panel cartoon about Friedrich Nietzsche’s adventures in the Alps and conception of the Ubermensch, drawn in the style of Charles Schulz. Nietzsche has a large mustache.
For no reason whatsoever.
Prompt: collage using vintage catalog elements and vintage fashion magazine elements mix in dadaism and de stijl, make the woman an astronaut
For no reason whatsoever.
Prompt: Peter Falk in trenchcoat portraying Columbo asks one last question of the xenomorph from ALIEN, who is pretending to be innocent
Because of a conversation I was having with Heather Quinlan about the “enthusiasm” session she’ll edit for HILOBROW in 3Q2025.
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.