Jeff Young

MICHELE HOWARTH

Apparently it’s #ReadIndies month, when you’re all meant to go out & buy books from indie publishers. How about you go one better & buy books from indie authors? It’s only the literary world that sneers at creatives doing it themselves so buck the trend & buy my fucking book™ www.michelehowarth.com

Therefore, the places in which we have experienced daydreaming reconstitute themselves in a new daydream, and it is because our memories of former dwelling-places are relived as day-dreams that these dwelling-places of the past remain in us for all time.

Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space

I grew up with Alex Pretti The kind-hearted ICU nurse shot by ICE agents was my childhood best friend.

I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com

Archive on 4 - Taxi Driver at 50: New York, Then and Now - BBC Sounds The film Taxi Driver is 50 years old. Michael Goldfarb looks at New York then and now.

Magnificent documentary by writer (and one time New York taxi driver) Michael Goldfarb, about Scorsese’s Taxi Driver, 70s New York and the transformed city of today www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Contains; Jazz. Jokes. Nazis. The IRA. More jokes. Kinder Transport. Transport Caffs. Lenny Bruce. Samuel Beckett. Bits. Estate Agents. Harold Pinter. More jokes. Accidentally getting famous. Top of The Pops. Top of The Form. Stanislavski. Peter Cook. Peter Sutcliffe. "I wouldn't open with it".

The Creatives Grant let's make art less middle class

£500 given out to a working class writer every month.

Details in link.

Please share :)

Science & Magic | 17 — Violette Records Reality, it turns out, is more interesting than optimism anyway.

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The 17th edition of Science & Magic, and my 17th missive from Magnetic North.
And there’s a lovely review from Matt Lockett of The Sacred Memory Bank exhibition. Read and subscribe:

This is a stunning bookshop in Buxton, England

This is a stunning bookshop in Buxton, England

Just read Snowdrops..Just the balm I needed amidst life’s unexpected pressures.The whole newsletter is a most remarkable thing. Its two weekly arrival tops me up and keeps me going. Good to commune with kindred spirits.
Hopefully visiting the Sacred Memory Bank soon.
Hoping to get to

Salut! 🙏 Thank you Nils.

POSTCARD ART EXHIBIT | ART FOR A CAUSE Postcard Art Exhibit | Art for a Cause, formerly known as Twitter Art Exhibit, utilizes social media and public engagement to generate income for charities and nonprofit organizations. In the past, #T...

If you wish to participate in our upcoming exhibit in The Netherlands for Alzheimer’s, the call for artists is now open.

To register, please visit postcardartexhibit.com

Also visit our FAQ page for any questions: postcardartexhibit.com/faq

We hope that many of you can join us 🙏❤️

Science & Magic | 17 — Violette Records Reality, it turns out, is more interesting than optimism anyway.

www.violetterecords.com/science-and-...

The 17th edition of Science & Magic, and my 17th missive from Magnetic North.
And there’s a lovely review from Matt Lockett of The Sacred Memory Bank exhibition. Read and subscribe:

Donate to the Cerne Abbas Nature Appeal Donate to the Cerne Abbas Appeal so together, we can help restore the land, habitats and species that live there.

Five days left to help the @nationaltrust.org.uk purchase land in Cerne Abbas. Do chip in to keep the Giant's pecker up.

YouTube video by FruitierThanThou THE LIVERPOOL POETS BBC Radio 4 Documentary 15th February 2003

Liverpool Poets - BBC Radio 4 Documentary 15/02/03

In 1967, three young poets found fame and popularity with the publication of the anthology, The Mersey Sound. Pete McCarthy looks at the work of Roger McGough, Adrian Henri and Brian Patten. @wildtwin.bsky.social

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Thanka Steve 🙏

Image shows painted wooden box assemblage with paper collage, ballerina photograph, sherry glass full of marbles made by Jeff Young in the Sacred Memory Bank exhibition at Kirkby Gallery

‘Phantom’, the Sacred Memory Bank, Kirkby Gallery. Monday to Saturday until March 27th. Over a hundred Time Machines for your pleasure…

Wonderful!

Morning snack on Meols beach.

256. The Sacred and Profane Love Machine by Iris Murdoch — Backlisted Ian Patterson, author of  Books: A Manifesto  (W&N), returns to Backlisted for a joyful discussion of Iris Murdoch and her sixteenth novel  The Sacred and Profane Love Machine &nbsp...

Penultimate new episode up now. The Sacred and Profane Love Machine by Iris Murdoch, with guest Ian Patterson in Socratic dialogue with Andy Miller, Una McCormack and Nicky Birch. @unamccormack.bsky.social @iammilliam.bsky.social www.backlisted.fm/episodes/256...

Yes! So many people who’ve come to the exhibition have shared similar stories of objects and treasures

The critic cornered The day the late John Carey went too far

The day the late John Carey went too far.
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Thank you 🙏

Jeff, I love this so much. Two years after the death of my Dad we found a range of things/objects/stuff he’d kept in various folders and shoeboxes. I feel close to him when I sort through them from time to time.

Thank you Fiona for this moving responce. Dad Archives! Most of the stuff I made for the exhibition is from my dad’s house, objects I gathered in the last year of his life. You’re right, the objects keep them close to us… x

Image shows a wooden box with 8 metal cigarette tins. Inside each cigarette tin is a small abstract painting. ( photo Steve Samosa)

The Sacred Memory Bank. Kirkby Gallery. Jeff Young & Mike Badger. Assemblag. Collage. Word.
(photo: Steve Samosa)

YouTube video by 80's 90's Music Video's Remastered @Videos80s Sly And Robbie - Boops Here To Go [1987] Official Music Video Remastered @Videos80s

RIP Sly Dunbar
Saw Sly & Robbie at The Town & Country Club in 1986 and thought my ears were going to explode.
But in a good way.
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Heard the sad news about Sly Dunbar on the school run of all places. I don’t even really know where to start with his immeasurable contribution to music and, well, everything, but watching him at work is best.

Here’s Sly and Robbie in action with Black Uhuru at the Rainbow in Finsbury Park in 1981

These remind me of Joseph Cornell's work.
I love a box full of things that tells a story. Precious fragments of memories ❤️

Thank you Heidi, Cornell is one of my favourite artists and he’s definitely inspired the exhibition

And thank you for your lovely response!