JPB

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Novelist (RELENTLESS MELT out now from Melville House) // likes books, colors, shapes, noise // takes notes, makes zines // aging gracefully // to be found in the Greater Boston/Chicago metro region

collage in grey and gold // sculptural stone, pieces of a luxury bag, paint, strands of hair, what might be parts of a letterform, cut gridlines
THE LINGUINI INCIDENT, starring Rosanna Arquette and David Bowie
cover of THE PUBLIC SCHOLAR: A PRACTICAL HANDBOOK by David M. Perry
Air quality in Chicagoland going as high as 669 in places
paper collage in shades of pink, red, blue, and gold // gems and spangles
POND LIFE by H. Goodspeed
paper collage in shades of pink, red, blue, and gold // gems and spangles
the edges of two collages nearing completion
collage in shades of green, blue, and gray // bits of sculptural stone, beadwork, pine needles, filth and scuzz
Bluesky v1.127, permitting you to search only people you follow
a model's face and sinuous arms descend into abstraction, geometric metals, bangles, ceramic, feathers
eight cropped photos of concrete from three different American states
QUEER NETWORKS: RAY JOHNSON'S CORRESPONDENCE ART by Miriam Kienle
small collage, primarily in pinks and cream colors // an inverted figure in a dress // thanks Seer
5/6th-ish of my face
The Hancock Building looms ominously in a glowing haze
collage mostly in shades of blue and grey // 1980's tech consoles and the edge of a man's head // some bodies represented as outlines // thanks Seer
Anne K. Yoder's THE ENHANCERS, atop my reading stack
Chicago Spire Hole
The Lake
The king of all cosmos, from the katamari games
simple six-piece collage // blue, pink, and yellow // hands gesturing, and bits from an Atari 2600 screenshot (the game is "Outlaw") // thanks Seer
Ship's wheel with the customary eight handles, but many in the wrong spots
largely grey frames of texture and digital noise surrounding some inner frames of red, blue, and black, which themselves surround an inner white void // no ai was used
THE THIRD EYE title card
title card for ON THE AIR, a Lynch/Frost production
Minimum viable office
ratty KING-CAT t-shirt, RIP
The cover of HOW TO RETIRE by Christine Benz. Looks like a finance book
Not sure how many years have passed, but there are many changes
Your correspondent, on the street outside Fargo Noise Fest
collage supplies, art markers, and coffee
Imminent tornado warning for the Chicago area. Advice is to take shelter
found pinks
grid of scuzzy textures. dark black rectangles tower in a pixellated mist. some bits of flora are visible and some scoured patches of red, purple, and green. no ai was used
SORRY TO BOTHER YOU is that rare film set in a slightly-left-of-reality universe that gets all its details right. The closest analogue I can think of is REPO MAN, and I intend that as high praise
very dark digital collage with bits of bright red, green and blue glinting through here and there. some very distressed letterforms and some pixellated glitching // no ai was used
SICARIO and BUGONIA are both pretty much good (although both are a little politically weaselly), DUST BUNNY is pretty much not good, MYSTERIOUS OBJECT AT NOON operates orthogonally to my rating scale
Tascam CD-GT1
a ring of graffiti bleeding magenta pigment out into the surrounding crackled paint
glitchy bands of color—pink, orange, yellow—shot through with grainy patches of black
collage made primarily in shades or orange, black, and gold // a face, part of a letterform, some bits of chain, textures and a piece of decorative border
fractured grids framing a portion of a face, a foot, various abstract textures and colors (pink, brown), bits of letterforms
Clockwise from top right: Justin Skarhus' WANDER MAUNDER, Sarah Ferrick's YOURS, and Joshua W. Cotter's DRIVEN BY LEMONS
Linklater's HIT MAN // Tarantino's DEATH PROOF // P. T. Anderson's THE MASTER // Werner Herzog's THE GREAT ECSTASY OF WOODCARVER STEINER
the cover of ORACLES by Olivia Sullivan
cover art for a single by "personriver," my new moniker. black fields of texture and etched lines over abstract fields of orange, pink, and blue. a pair of rifle cartridges [?] spill through the center of the image
small one, pinks and magentas shot through with black
pink, orange, and red on one end, giving way to mostly monochrome on the other end. hands, hair, material, paint, salt
PIRANESI by Susanna Clarke
THE WESTING GAME by Ellen Raskin
season two of THE PITT. "Network offline" thanks to cyberattack on hospital system
the new SUNN O))), Lustres by Cleared, and the Death Kneel pre-order. seen one way these releases all deal with noise, albeit at three very different intensities
Randi Weingarten, Harper's signatory
unboxed physical copy of COLOUR INTO FOCUS: QUEER AND TRANS COLLAGE #2, on the theme of Futures / Imagination
ORDINARY NOTES by Christina Sharpe