SCREENSHOTS (12-23)
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December 21, 2023
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.
The upcoming (1Q2024) series MÖSH YOUR ENTHUSIASM, about Metal songs from 1984–1993, edited by Heather Quinlan, has filled my screenshots folder to overflowing with outré imagery.
Also, many screenshots during December related to the ongoing RADIUM AGE POETRY series.
On behalf of a multinational beverage company, my semio consultancy SEMIOVOX is analyzing codes of multisensorial experience — covering multiple categories — in six markets.
Here’s something from Mexico: “If I don’t worry about my health, much less about your opinion, let me drink my Coquita [little Coke].”
Here’s something from China, too…
Continuing to use Midjourney, now and then, to generate illustrations for Radium Age proto-sf stories that we’ll serialize here at HILOBROW. This is a detail from an illustration for “Unprofessional,” a 1930 Rudyard Kipling story exploring the notion that mysterious processes at work in human tissues might be related to “waves” from the universe.
In December, I wrote a couple of new installments for the SEMIOPUNK series, here at HILOBROW.
My father emailed me this newspaper clipping of my grandfather….
Detail from a linocut that we’ll publish in January — part of an annual series by HILOBROW friend Lawry Hutcheson.
What my future father-in-law said to my future mother-in-law when Susan brought me home for Xmas in 1987.
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.