SCREENSHOTS (7-25)
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July 28, 2025
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.
Illustration by Rani Som for her installment — on The Bodysnatchers’ “Easy Life” (1981) — in HILOBROW’s forthcoming series SKANK YOUR ENTHUSISAM (about favorite ska tunes).
I continue to interview commercial/applied semioticians around the world for the MAKING SENSE Q&A series at SEMIOVOX…
Illustration for an installment in the forthcoming HILOBROW series BROKEN KNOWLEDGE — an epistolary exchange, about science fiction, by yours truly and Mark Kingwell. A follow-up, of sorts, to our 2023 49th PARALLEL exchange, about adventure lit.
Detail from a Mountain Dew Baja Blast commercial. One of hundreds of commercials, pack designs, and social media posts analyzed in the course of a large-scale semio analysis that Semiovox conducted in June and July on behalf of a multinational beverage company. (NB: Mountain Dew is not the client.)
Photo shared with me by my Argentinian semio colleague Ximena Tobi, for an upcoming installment in the SEMIOVOX series PHOTO OP.
Adelina Vaca has joined me as co-convenor of the monthly online series SEMIOFEST SESSIONS. She and I issued this invitation to our semio colleagues worldwide on the 24th.
I used to make fake posters, like this one, sometimes for PROJECT:OBJECT. Not for publication. Just to make Rob Walker laugh. It’s been a while!
An interactive exercise from July’s Semiofest Session on “Semiotics & Gender Equality”, hosted by Gabriela Pedranti. Click for closer view.
Two Midjourney-generated images from July:
Failed effort to create an illustration for Mandy Keifetz’s 4th of July HILOBROW post ICE ISN’T COOL.
During July’s Semiofest Session on “Semiotics & Gender Equality,” we were challenged to prompt AI to produce a product ad for women. This was what I shared… A lot to think about here.
After a few weeks away from this project, I’ve returned to working on a game / semiotics teaching tool with HILOBROW friend Ramona Lyons.
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.