SCREENSHOTS (3-26)
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March 25, 2026
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.
I continue to interview commercial/applied semioticians around the world for the MAKING SENSE Q&A series at SEMIOVOX…
Scene from an Indian commercial, offered — to a client, for a semiotic audit carried out in three countries, around a soft drink brand that historically has demonstrated support for women in their struggle to succeed — as additional evidence that women in that country seek equal political, economic, and social rights against deeply entrenched patriarchal norms.
HILOBROW readers know that when I’m working on a semiotic audit, I often watch a movie — muted, in the corner of my computer screen. Here’s a scene from The Narrow Margin that caught my attention. The movie makes effective use of a sleeper car train’s side aisle; it should be called The Narrow Corridor.
And here’s a scene from the 1933 James Cagney movie Hard to Handle. Please note that the Carter Family song “No Depression (in Heaven), which Uncle Tupelo would make the title cut of their 1990 album No Depression, was first recorded in 1936. Since then, the title has become synonymous with alternative country music.
Poster for this month’s Semiofest session — created, as always, by my semio friend and colleague Lucia Laurent-Neva.
A slide on “thinking-feeling” — a form of knowing that doesn’t separate reason and emotion — from Malex Salamanques’ (Venezuela / UK) presentation.
A slide from Ximena Tobi’s (Argentina) presentation on the work her agency (Semiotica Studio, with Gabriela Pedranti) did on behalf of Netflix’s adaptation of the comic El Eternauta. Also see Gabi Pedranti’s (Argentina / Spain) essay about this comic for HILOBROW.
A slide from Ade Vaca’s (Mexico) fascinating presentation.
A few Midjourney-generated images from March:
Xeno-Semio Corps cadets on board a spacecraft, attempting to reconstitute a semiotic audit of an off-world human colony. For the game I’m working on with Ramona Lyons for Semiofest Warsaw (in May).
A G-schema in the style of Picasso’s Guernica.
Illustration for HILOBROW’s serialization of Edmond Hamilton’s 1926 proto-sf story “The Metal Giants.”
A sample “stim card” from the game Ramona and I are developing.
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.