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I have released three new photo gallery add-ons for Bear today. The first two, lightbox and lightweight, are new versions of the ones I've made for the Bearming theme. They have been updated to work with the default Bear theme and many...
In 1938 George Clare, then aged 17 and an Austrian Jew, fled Vienna where he had grown up to escape the Nazi annexation of the country. Clare's parents would eventually die in the Holocaust, but in those pre-war years they initially...
John Wyver writes: My usual compendium of links to stuff that this week has caught my eye and engaged my brain. My header image is of Collage for Losing the Garden, 2026, oil on paper, from the glorious exhibition ‘Garden without...
All over the socials I frequently see (and I gather that part of this is due to algorithms from the corpo socials) people pining for either the early 2000s, or even the 90s. Some of this is targeted at me, because the algorithm knows I’m...
Leica M11-P · Summicron-M 35 f/2 ASPH. · 35 mm · f/2.4 · 1/60 s · ISO 800 I went to Mount Davidson before sunrise to take photos with friends. My Waymo dropped me off alone on a trail in the pitch black, and I hiked up with my iPhone as...
There are several films and shows that have phones boxes with connections to time travel. There is of course, Doctor Who – and who could forget the Bill and Ted movies? So, here’s another one to add to the list – in a way. Threads of...
You may not have noticed this, but it’s hot. Oxfordshire, not really known for its weather (or much at all, really) has turned yellow. I...
He decides to write about his current situation. He writes about it in third person hoping it doesn’t sound as bad. He has no one to call up in the evenings. No one to say “want to go out?” to. No one to look to and feel a sense of joy....
"Slop wins because it conforms to neat narrative arcs that fulfill our desires for cohesive stories: At crime scenes, children make the best witnesses because they simply report back what they saw rather than editorializing into a...
Hello everyone. I come to my blog this time to complain and vent my anger. I am to, in a couple days, pick up my Bachelor’s diploma in media arts. In order to be able to do that, I am obligated to leave digital documentation of my thesis...
Review by Sandre the Giant Released: 8th May 2026 While A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers’ name could reference the Van De Graaf Generator song, or the Robert Eggers movie or something else equally esoteric, these Dutch experimentalists...
A collection of ghost words … 🆕 Ghost Farms: “The [fish] farm eventually shut down, but instead of removing it, the company just abandoned it. From above, these fish farms may look like they have little impact on their surroundings. But...
by David Levinson Updates When I write about current events for the Journey, I usually look for something interesting that has happened since my last article. If I can tie it in to some of the stories in the magazine under review, so...
In which we tackle half-a-dozen pubs on the western side of Chesterfield.Completing a mammoth recognised pub crawl was a rite of passage which seemed to emerge in the eigthies, examples being the Mumbles Mile, the Otley Run, and the...