SCREENSHOTS (11-24)
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November 28, 2024
SCREENSHOTS is a monthly series of posts via which HILOBROW’s Josh Glenn reviews his most recent screenshots — before deleting them from the over-full Dropbox folder to which they’d been uploaded. Also see the PHOTO DUMP series.
Detail of an animation lenticular promoting the 1976 album Give Us a Wink by the Sweet. For a forthcoming installment of the HILOBROW series NOT TODAY, EBAY.
Detail of an illustration by Nikhil Singh for their essay on the UK TV series Chocky — an installment in the forthcoming (1Q2025) series MacGYVER YOUR ENTHUSIASM, about TV shows c. 1984–1993.
Detail of a found 1930s image that I’ll use to illustrate a Fall 2026 installment in the RADIUM AGE POETRY series. Yes, I’ve found so many poems, during my research, that I’m working two years in advance on this project.
In November, I worked on a semiotic audit of coffee brands — let this image stand for scores of others.
In November, I worked on a semiotic audit of British musical icons — let this image stand for scores of others.
Photo illustration from Robert Gilbert Wells’ Anthropology Applied to the American White Man and Negro (1905), a book with proto-sf elements excerpts of which we’ll serialize here at HILOBROW in mid-2025.
Nice post at Boing Boing a few days ago…
I’ve been trying to figure out which examples of Radium Age art have been used as cover illustrations for sf books. Which involves, sometimes, taking screenshots of the covers and doing image searches in order to figure out what painting we’re looking at. For example, this image — from a 1962 edition of Edmond Hamilton’s The Haunted Stars — is a cropped and reversed version of Kandinsky’s “Still Tension” (1924).
Detail of a linocut by HILOBROW friend and brother-in-law Lawry Hutcheson, part of the LINOCUT 2024 series that we’ll publish here in early 2025.
A fascinating chart about AI shared by the University of Tartu semiotician Auli Viidalepp during November’s Semiofest Session (I’m the coordinator for this series) on the topic of Juri Lotman.
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.