Rob Dyson ✍️ 📼 🎧

@robdysonpr.uk

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🌃 @futuresounds.bsky.social writer, podcast mbr, & socials | 🏙 public relations for charities & social purpose orgs | a founding mbr of @CharityComms.bsky.social | Accredited MCIPR @cipr.co.uk #CassetteCulture #Vaporwave #Boombap #TwinPeaks London Lions🏀

I look like this because 1/3 of my bowel had just been examined via you know where. But it's okay, guys.
GB's Josh Kerr doing a runaround after beating a 27 year held world record for fastest run mile.
Three of us outside the London Stadium
An outstretched arm holding a picked tomato from a plant.
GB playing Iceland to qualify in the FIBA World Cup (basketball)
Arthur Fery gets ready to serve.
Dodgy phone pic of Serena Williams - using pop filter
Dan Evans in full flow, returning a serve at the Wimbledon Qualifiers
The Simpsons meme of grandpa in the paper while he shakes his fist at the sky - with the headline 'Old Man Yells At Cloud'.
Jazzie B of Soul II Soul
Helen Von Bismarck's Fantastic Kingdom sits in half-sunlight on a chair with a grey, white, and yellow rectangular design.
Issue 43 of Saga comic has protagonist, Alana, on a strange looking horse with colourful stripes and a mohican. She is dressed like a cowboy.
Rob is sitting in a ridiculously oversized deckchair, with Chartered Institute of Fundraising branding, reading AI for Public Relations, edited by Stephen Waddington and Ben Verinder.
A My Pet Flamingo dad cap, which I wear pretty much every day, especially in this sunny weather - with a straight-ally pride badge pinned to the side.
A screengrab of BBC News website. Underneath the one headlined "UK companies linked to payments for small boats, BBC finds" is an emerging story about WHO giving up an update on the Ebola and Hantavirus outbreaks.
A big crown sitting inside the o2 arena in London, at the centre on the ground is a large basketball court.
'AI for Public Relations' lies next to FuturePRoof edition 6 (AI tools for PR). And just for the irony / old school touch, I've laid them next to my trusty and battered Filofax - which I use everyday for appointments, meetings notes, and scraps of things to remember. Keeping it analogue.
Image is a battered edition of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s 1990 book, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience. It's a lovely teal colour.
Korean style peanut rayu on avocado on toast, with a lentil, tomato & dill salad on the side.
Image shows a hand holding the hardback edition of lifelong campaigner against the far right, Nick Lowles' book How To Defeat The Far Right.
Two tshirts with kanji style writing - one a brand link-up with the Peanuts cartoon strip, and the other a kids shirt with gaming icons and elongated / glitchy slogans.
An image of a boombox with Everybody's HipHop written above it. At the bottom is membership details for Rob Dyson.
A big screen TV is showing a USB plug and play HD version of the vaporwave documentary Nobody Here. A lego portrait of Batman looks on.
The cassette cover of Truth Decay has a faux ripped barcode sticker over the top of a young woman's face; cut off at her eyes - she has her fingers lightly touching the bottom lip of her mouth which wears glossy red lipstick. It resembles a fashion magazine photograph. The tape sits on a Sanyo Walkman.
Indiegogo crowdfunder backers in the credits of Nobody Here. Rob Dyson is circled in blue.
Shit South London graffiti
A plate of scruffy lasagne with wholewheat past sheets broken up and cooked inside a mix of beef mince, carrots, celery, cauliflower, baby spinach, tahini, oregano, miso paste, sundried tomatoes,green lentils, smoked paprika, onion, garlic - topped with basil and chili flakes.
A laser show scene inside a large venue.
A copy of the May issue of the Byline Times, and a cheeky strawberry daiquiri (out of a can, admittedly) - in dappled sunshine.
A Nobody Here promo cap lies on the grass next to an old Sanyo Walkman and the cassette format version of the inaugural 2814 release, 2814 [self titled].
AI fluency or nonprofits certificate for training through the team at Anthropic AI.
A dvd version of the 2019 documentary Rise of the Synths, by Ivan Castell.
Vaporwave office set up, waiting for the Nobody Here premiere. Set up includes a crowdfunder cap and cassette album, a helios bust, and a neon flamingo lamp.
A dark, neon lit room has a laptop with The Story of vaporwave on the screen, and to its right a larger monitor with a scene from the movie (people at a live gig). Dotted around the laptop and monitor are house plants and a neon pink flamingo light, as well as a Nobody Here merch cap and cassette.
MINORITY RULE leaps from the front cover in bold dynamic superhero colours of red, blue and yellow. ASH SARKAR's name does the same below. The subtitle is Adventures in the Culture War.
A Reddit profile - with a very strange username.
Ibram X Kendi's How To Be An Antiracist, sits between two houseplants. The book's title is written red, yellow and green against a black background.
A cassette tape of De La Soul's 3 Feet High and Rising, on the pages of Chuck D's (signed) book on HipHop History. A characature of the band is on the right.
The movie poster for Anniversary, with the cast standing in front of dripping red stripes - denoting the stripes of the US flag, protest paint, or blood. Or all three.
The crew of Artemis II wearing eclipse glasses, in a close up from the shuttle.
A scene of marchers at an anti-fascist demo in London. A man holds a sign that reads: Racism = small dick energy.
Image shows a man pointing to a badge saying Make Racism Wrong Again, next to a woman holding up a handmade sign with the same message; they are stood with MP Dawn Butler, whose team took and posted the picture, on Facebook.
A boy holds a homemade sign that reads: No cap, racism sucks. A man holds up a homemade sign that reads: Hope Not Hate, and wears a tshirt that reads: Racism is not banter.
A young boy smiles, wearing sunglasses & and olive beanie that reads: Love Music hate racism
The actor Barry Keoghan tells an interviewer his personal life - and even his art - is suffering because of online abuse, particularly about the way he looks. Beneath the exact story is someone on Bluesky posting about Keoghan's appearance in a negative way, for no reason other than to be mean.
The back cover carries on the VHS movie box theme with all of the tracks listed - Limousine on side 1, Timeshare '94 on side 2. The box also has images from its inspiration; 1979's classic midnight movie, The Warriors. All design by Glenn Jones.
Union²: Back to Coney cassette presentation resembles a VHS tape and box, complete with aged movie style cover and tape adorned with fake stickers including Blockbuster video's "Be Kind Rewind" slogan (designed by Glenn Jones). Top marks too for the reference to labelmate's Donor Lens 2020 concept album 'Midnight Store'. In the image is sits on top of a black and red Sanyo Walkman from the 1980s.
The classic spiderman meme where three spidermen are pointing at each other in a triangle.
A black and white 80s Sanyo Walkman *plugged in* using an AC Adaptor plug, lies next to the 1987 cassette album, Floodland by The Sisters of Mercy, which is looking peak goth.
A Death Angel or Sound Seeker from A Quiet Place. Its flesh looks scaly, and its head contains talon type teeth, and it appears to be blind / has no eyes.
A board game called A Right Royal Laugh, with Spitting Image style drawings of the UK Royal Family on the front. A sticker on the box says it was highly commended in 2009 in the Toy Talk Awards. Around the time Andrew was pally with Epstein....
Reverend Jesse Jackson leads a demonstration holding signs saying Johs Not Bombs. As true today as ever.
A yellow phone case with a cassette popsocket; grainy white outline on a black background. At the bottom of the case is a Dymo label maker sticker, that reads Anologue Rebel.
Emily Bronte, prior to writing Wuthering Heights, dons the mask belonging to a dead mother - and starts to channel her during a parlour game.
Save Ferric, cassette culture zine - spread out on a dark wooden floor, with a little dymo sticker that read "ANALOGUE REEL".
Two house plants bookend a Grecian bust facing a cassette tape of the Nobody Here movie compilation. Behind it is a lit-up pink flamingo light. The scene is slightly dark against a bright window.
The missing child milk carton from The Lost Boys, signed by actor Chance Michael Corbitt (Laddie).
Actor Billy Wirth has graffiti signed the toilet of Lost Souls Pizza in Camden, London, with his classic line "You missed, sucker!"
A Texas BBQ Massacre pizza with black crust and bbq sauce pentagram
A yellow checkered armchair, sits beneath a window on a dark wooden floor. A brown shaggy rug is in shot, as is the corner of a dark leather sofa. A standing lamp slightly lights the scene as the world outside is still waking up. On a window sill are family pictures and a pointed star light - that isn’t switched on.