Andy Broomfield

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New media nomad. Drupal and other things, currently at a local authority. Neurospicy enby. https://andybroomfield.com They / Them.

Johnny 5, the robot from Short circuit (Long oblong face with very large round camera eye, a thin light strip mouth, and long expressive metal eyebrows attached above the face), peers out from behind a wall in an urban setting while a crowd of people walk by.
An urban square in Brussels, with tall windowed buildings surrounding it. In the foreground hanging from a tree is a heart shaped wooden plaque surrounded by a wreath with the words “We have more in common than that divides us” and a blue street sign in the background reading Place Jo Cox.
A number of robot vacuums cleaners that have been decorated and fitted with craft "weapons" duke it out on a hard floor and cardboard sided arena. The robots wear small cowboy hats and the object of the melee is to knock them off.
A view of a crescent earth with bright blues and greens in an arc about a quarter in daylight in a horizontal band at the top, rising above the grey curved surface of the moon.
Nyan cat, a pixellated cat sandwiched between pop tarts modified for St Patricks day, now has a green shamrock themed pop tart, jug of been on it's head, and the tail trail is now an Irish flag
Allister Heath The establishment’s embrace of cute kittens is the greatest scandal of our age
A pay phone bank charger that offers power banks for a £1.99 rental sits on the corner of a bar seat plugged into the wall. The plug sockets are exposed and also have USB ports accessible on them.
The brick remains of an old building with ornate arches and statues surrounded by grass and trees on a Berlin street.
Some wild mistletoe plant growing near the base of a tree amongst some undergrowth.
A very large cut out poster of Mr Blobby on a street wall. Looking intact with just a small tear.
Two train s of the Wuppertal Schwebebahn (A monorail where the train is suspended below the track) pass each other on a large track that is suspended over a winding river. The track is anchored by diagonal pillars on each bank. On the bank the tree leaves are starting to turn brown.
A view down the broad city street in Berlin known as Karl Marx Allee. This was a Sunday morning so light traffic, a few bicycles visible. and tall buildings line the alley. In the distance the spike of the Berlin TV Tower rises over the centre of the alley.
A photograph of an old style red and cream tram in Prague travelling along a brick lined street passing under an arch of a building along two tracks that almost merge together as there is only room for single file traffic.
The open door of an ICE train on the platform at Brussels MIDI
A Eurostar train on the let platform underneath the train arch of St Pancras on a near empty concourse (everyone had boarded)
The Victorian terminus of Brighton station, currently covered in scaffolding.
Marvin the paranoid android from the Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy TV show. A boxy silver robot with a central control panel and square face with triangle eyes pointing down and rectangular mouth piece, standing in front of a stone cliff.
The poster of Kiki's delivery service, except Kiki has been changed to the an add round blobby shape from the Kiki and bouba psychology test. The poster is title Bouba's delivery service and Bouba rides a broomstick over the ocean amongst several seagulls with a town in the background.
The sunset in Hove. A Main Street with Georgian style housing and parked cars with blue sky and orange sunset in the distance.
Keir Starmer at a lectern saying “there’s a famous slogan in the United Kingdom ”. He has an American flag and the UK flag behind him.
A small crt 4:3 television in a dark space with the red glow of the screen and in black letters “CGT” followed by “Communist gallery tv” I think this was actually an art installation as part of the Spacemakers Brixton Village empty shops project in 2010.
A packet of Birdseye Mashtags. A red freezer bag featuring yellow potato shaped hash, heart and at symbols. Has a stylised heading Mas#Tags and claims to be made from real potatoes.
A clip from the Simpsons. A large bald man sits in a star chair waving a fan with the caption "Ah, It's too hot today"
Jess Gibbons and Jacob Allen being interviewed at Brighton AI
Tiered steps with a screen showing a picture of Peter Kyle with people waiting.
A yellow standup sign with handwritten like printed text that reads “Don’t grow up” and in smaller letters “it’s a trap”
A screenshot of a webpage in the Chrome 134 browser with an open select box but all the options are truncated with only 2 or 3 letters showing before the ellipsis even though there is plenty of space.
Menai bridge in Wales. Two large stone pillars and several arches holding a suspension bridge deck over the Menai stait. Taken from the Anglesey side on a grassy back with two information signs with a large tree line visible on the opposite bank.
An old 1930 stock tube train in red livery with the Island line logo travels on rails over a Pier over the sea.
A oblong white rice cakes with miso paste spread over it, on a wide stick in front of a window where the outside is heavy snow.
A large hill covered in deep snow with lots of evergreen trees around the landscape and mountains in the distance. Part of the hill the snow goes down in steps covering the rice terraces.
Two female singers perform on a stage dressed in yellow tops and pastel pink / blue skirts whilst a crowd watches.
A parade marches through the town carrying paper lanterns that are lit up, included a lantern of a large woman, set against the streets of Brighton. This is the Irving he clocks festival by Same Sky.
A figure of a fisherman with a white beard and long yellow overcoat holding a large caught fish upside down, on the roof of a fish and chip shop and next to a pukka pies sign.
A four sided collage of neon pop art of various pop culture things forming a projected tunnel with a small gap at the top, but this is looking up a projected immersive flat screen.
Two white small houses on a rocky island in the middle of a narrow body of water taken from a grassy bank with a thick tree line on the other bank. The houses are surrounded by a small stonewall and a jetty is just visible from the left house into the water. This is Ynys Gored Goch (Red Weir island) on the Menai strait taken from the Anglesey side. The sea is mostly calm and quite low when the picture was taken, and I think at the time I was the only person on the coastal path. Taken June 2024.
A screenshot of a windows 95 era application showing MSN messenger with a few buddies online.
A fake book cover imitating the Haynes technical manual Showing Starbug from Red Dwarf. Three round pods joined together that get larger to the rear with four landing legs strutting out to the side. The cover reads : Jupiter Mining Corporation STARBUG Class 2 Ship-to-Surface Vessel JMC Service and Repair Manual With the subtitle Includes Operational Protocols for Laser Cannons, Flares and Improvised Molten Refuse Projectiles
A manga panel with a women as a red cell wearing a red jacket and blue shorts and red hat with red hair carrying a white box with an O2 label and speech bubbles saying @heres your oxygen delivery” “please sign here”
A graphic of Frankenstein’s monster with a halo and the words “St Frankenstein’s day” from the programme Look Around You.