PHOTO DUMP (2-24)
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February 26, 2024
A collection of photos taken during the past month by HILOBROW’s Josh Glenn. Also see the SCREENSHOTS series; and see HILOBROW’s Instagram feed. Josh’s street-photography practice draws inspiration from Rob Walker’s THE ART OF NOTICING project.
Susan gave me some vintage owl bookends for Xmas — here’s one propping up the (12) books I’ve helped publish, so far, via the MIT Press’s Radium Age series. Two more titles coming in March!
Max was in Boston for a night (borrowing a car), so we took their cousins Robin and Jane out for Mexican food and a game of Dungeon Roll…
Last winter, HILOBROW friend (and rare book dealer) Tom Nealon helped me acquire a sizeable stack of Radium Age proto-sf novels that I hadn’t already read (or needed to re-read). This winter, I’m finally reading them. Shown here: Martin Swayne’s The Blue Germ (1918), Æ’s The Interpreters (1922; shown here is the 1923 US edition), and Arthur Machen’s The Terror (1917). Yes, that Æ — it turns out that the poet, painter, theosophist, and Irish nationalist also wrote a proto-sf story.
Also read recently: Guy Dent’s Emperor of the If (1926), P. Anderson Graham’s The Collapse of Homo Sapiens (1925), Marie Corelli’s The Secret Power (1921), Max Brand’s Children of Night (1919), M.P. Shiel’s The Last Miracle (1906), and Van Tassel Sutphen’s The Doomsman (1906).
Art therapy with my mother (that’s her hand). I find myself doing a lot of creative activities with Mom that I used to do with my kids… many of which, of course, I originally learned from her. Here, we each drew some shapes and then took turns adding color. I like the sun and burning bush she made.
Barbaric yawp, Millennium Park.
Max (returning the car) and Diana visited us for a couple of days. Max was working on their sound-engineering plan for the event HYPNOPOMPIA (“a series of rituals taking place in a forgotten state of being”).
Susan and I went to see my RISD ID colleague Hillel O’Leary’s intriguing sculptures — made of Italian marble, steel, and acrylic — in the group show CONFLUENCE at Boston Sculptors Gallery. Hillel’s work in the show “addresses the dislocation of time, space, and belonging that come with the experience of navigating the world as a queer member of a diaspora culture.”
Hanging out at a diner with Robin and Jane during their February break from school. They ordered breakfast and lunch.
Hot off the presses! In bookstores officially on March 12.
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.