“L’imagination au pouvoir” Edo – giant cardboard bricks
Recently, via Kickstarter, I acquired no less than 50 giant cardboard bricks. These are the work of Simon Marussi of Edo, an Italian startup. The blocks came just before Christmas but…
Category: growing up
Computer games on paper: MiG-25, Colosseum, Mental Mills
Around 1986 my family bought an Amstrad PCW 8256 in Derry. I suppose at this distance it is OK to recall it was hidden under a blanket in the back seat…
The tale of the Tomason part 2 – piece “Tomason and Thomason” from nthposition, November 2013
Part II of my Tomason/Thomason/Thomasson revival …this was originally found here and entirely failed to ignite any kind of interest in this blog I wrote for a while. More recently I thought…
10% Of Our Potential and The Search for Something More
I have been working through the previously discussed The Search for Something More by Peter Hannan and the various exercises therein (this image which rather I posted rather cryptically is part of another…
Jorge Luis Borges, Ireland, and Historical Fiction. Alt Hist, September 9th 2012
With a less than enticing opening line (“The Argentinean writer Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) was one of the key figures in world literature during the twentieth century.”), this piece seems…
J G Ballard and The Lost Leonardo. The Dabbler, Sept 2014.
The original is here. This piece was quite a long time in the offing. Initially I had written it for Simon Sellars Ballardian site. Ultimately it fitted in (sorta) with The Dabbler’s 1p…
Séamus Sweeney 