Alex Torrance

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The Idiot

A poster for the film Lamb. Noomi Rapace is cradling a lamb as if it is a human baby.
A man’s screaming face is distorted by video effects.
Present-day street view image of Fleet Street with Bolt Court alley way on the right. There's construction hoardings and temporary pedestrian barriers on the left.
Write all other numbers in numerals (including 2 to 9) except where it's part of a common expression like 'one or two of them' where numerals would look strange.
The cover for the Evane EP by Autechre designed by the Designers Republic
A list of things I must have been really into in order to document them in my sketch book, written in an angular blocky script. Aphex Twin Chis Cunningham Designers Republic Tomato Antron Ken Ishii Boards of Canada Combat Drug Carthage Broadcast Bauhaus Digital Hardcore Atari Teenage Riot Nemesis Quake Koji Morimoto Dragon Ball Z Akira Tetsuo! Email letter bombs Usenet www C64 VIC 20 NES N64 Funkstorung Janek Schaefer Mori Mariko Ghost in the Shell Adam and Joe Bis Teen C Grand Royal
A notification from the r/boardsofcanada subreddit that says: Has Boards of Canada strained your relationship
A wooden desk frame missing the top which is perched against a wall behind it.
A G Plan teak headboard with side tables photographed outside some garages
Racist comments beneath a news article
Screenshot from the DOS version of Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing. 3 colour graphics show hands over a keyboard with instructions on a screen
A disco ball suspended from a brutalist concrete structure suspended on light blue steel structures at an outdoor music venue.
The Ask Jeeves logo and mascot. An older white man dressed in a suit, as a butler would.
A plastic model of a humanoid robot holding a gun. The decals are applied badly.
A set of small pots and pans arranged on a metal stand
Autechre — Quaristice (limited edition)
A corner of high rise building at street level with an elevated walkway connected to the building. Some pedestrians are walking on the pavement.
A black plastic bottle on a desk. The bottle has four icons printed in white in a vertical column, each has a title underneath. They are: Glasses Camera PSP CD
Spice — Spice Girls
A watch with a thick black strap, a grey plastic bevel with two buttons on either side and a large white button below the face with an LCD display
A collection of faux vintage street signs with asinine statements on them
Tricky — Pre-Millennial Tension
Website that generates random placenames. A roadsign says "Welcome to BOTTOM MALWYCKE EN CATSMOUTH Please drive carefully"
“You can’t tax your way to producing a classic jazz album” in the “you wouldn’t steal a car” format
Box art for the classic puzzle game Pipe Dream
In a nutshell: On 7th May, your balance was £121.72. We've since charged you £66.77, and you've paid in £143.32. Now, your balance is £198.27.
A street sign with directions to the following businesses: Florentia Clothing Village Arena Ind Est Tewkesbury Ind Est Oriental Carpet Centre Crusader Ind Est Via Green Lanes
12 clip top boxes of Lego sorted into different colours
Garth Mareghi, Horror author, saying “I know writers who use subtext and they’re all cowards”
A road sign that says “Ashley Road Ind Area” and “Technopark” below framed in a directional arrow
A playlist showing two songs by Talk Talk: - I Don't Believe In You (1997 - Remaster) - I Believe In You
Screenshot of Ernie’s Mix and Match on the Apple ][ — Cookie Monster is surrounded by a pile of multicoloured jelly beans. The text says “You count 14 jelly beans?? You pretty smart cookie. Press ‘return.’”
Shadow of a colander on a piece of white paper. The holes are slightly crescent shaped as the moon passes in front of the sun.
An iOS dialog saying “Unable to install CityCyclist. The app is no longer available in the App Store.”
The cover for Autechre's Envane EP from 1997. An abstract illustration of angular shapes in white, black and different shades of warm grey, it suggests a 3D form.
Text: When none of your family like Autechre but it’s your car Image: pictures of Tom Cruise laughing maniacally montaged with lasers
A kettle lead with the text “WIRED FLEX BUT OK” superimposed
Shadow of a viaduct against a frosty rural landscape
Screenshot of the chat interface for Gemini. Add event to my calendar Sorry, I can't help with that, but you can always create events in Google Calendar.
A fence, road sign with convex mirror and a small tree in the foreground. In the distance is a cable-stayed suspension bridge with a tall white tower in front of some large hills
A barchart showing different singers heights, using photographs of the singers for the bars. However the Y axis starts at 5'0", so Taylor Swift towers above Sabrina Carpenter who appears to be about the size of a Borrower
Film poster for Home Alone featuring Kevin McCallister screaming with Harry and Marv peering at him through a window from behind
Otto Fenlock from Beetlejuice. A large man wearing a black suit, black shirt and red tie
A screenshot of a QBasic game with a Gorilla standing on top of a row of skyscrapers, holding a banana. The sun is smiling.
A white 12" record sleeve with hand-stamped writing in the centre. It reads: ARTIST: PROCESS TITLE: UNTITLED CAT: 12FAT021 FATCAT RECORDS +44.171.715.3418
Across Uneven Terrain — A FatCat Records compilation 1997-1999 https://fatcatrecords.bandcamp.com/album/across-uneven-terrain
Grandpa Abe from the Simpsons with the caption "We exchanged Christmas cards, which was the style at the time."
Three prints of robot illustrations in yellow frames on a blue bedroom wall
A vegetable peeler with an ergonomic black silicone rubber handle.
A screenshot from the DOS version of Paperboy in 3-colour CGA graphics mode
Screenshot of a Twitter DM from Nile Rodgers. The message is an old school ascii emoticon smiley face: :-)
You are receiving this email because you are an admin of a site has at least one space currently in the trash.
Banner advertising Haringey council’s My Account. Text includes “Already have a My Account?” and “Haven’t got a My Account?”
A graphic showing I am the 842,119th user to sign up to Bluesky
A meme with a skeleton running away with text overlaid. The text says: JUST WALK OUT you can leave!! Work Social thing Movies Home Class Dentist Clothes shoppi Too fancy weed store Cops if your quick Friend ships IF IT SUCKS… HIT DA BRICKS real winners quit
A still from Planet of the Apes (1968): Taylor looks over the dedicated corpse of Stewart lying in her hypersleep bed, still wearing her spacesuit.
A yellow smiley face with detached hands shrugging with a quizzical look on its face
A screenshot from the game Seaman featuring a fish with a human man’s face
A screenshot from Google Maps showing a road with 3 elevated roads intersecting ahead