SCREENSHOTS (1-24)

By: Joshua Glenn
January 27, 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.

JANUARY 2024


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Working on HILOBROW’s new RADIUM AGE ART series… File this example under UNKNOWABLE ALIENS, maybe? Detail of a painting shown here.

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Also working on REPO YOUR ENTHUSIASM, a series about off-beat movies from the Eighties (1984–1993) that will run in 2Q2024. Adam McGovern, for example, is writing about Alex Cox’s 1987 revisionist-history movie Walker. Detail of a poster shown here.

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Contest announcement I generated via Midjourney, then tinkered with in PPT. For the HILOBROW series MÖSH YOUR ENTHUSIASM, edited by Heather Quinlan.

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Rewatching Star Wars IV: A New Hope for the umpteenth time, more or less frame by frame — as I prepare to deliver a few remarks on the topic of liminality in fantasy narratives at Semiofest: Porto this spring.

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Lawry Hutcheson’s annual LINOCUT series returned to HILOBROW this month…. Detail of a linocut print shown here.

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Detail of a cover of Thomas M. Disch’s Camp Concentration — one of the latest installments in my SEMIOPUNK series here at HILOBROW.

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Another new HILOBROW series coming in 1Q2024: FIRST TIME AS COMEDY.

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Detail of a (c. 1935–1940 photo of a) diorama of radium being loaded onto airplane. From a series, planned for the Spring, that will explore the New York Public Library’s Digital Collections.

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Detail of a diagram from the Voynich Manuscript. For an installment in my ongoing SCHEMATIZING series.

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Recent Amazon.com review of the UNBORED DISGUISE KIT I helped to create back in 2015. Nearly a decade ago…

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HILOBROW friend Rick Pinchera and I have a running aging-hipster joke: “Real band coming to Boston soon, or did I have a generative AI app create this?” The joke being that today’s band names sound as unlikely to us as our favorite bands’ names sounded to our parents.

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A LinkedIn post announcing my talk at the upcoming Semiofest in Porto (Portugal) in May….

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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.

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