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Authors: Where’d all the readers go?

Authors: Where'd all the readers go? Posted on September 29, 2023

…they were harvested by state-actors with non-commercial motives and infinitely deep pockets in a vain attempt to retain control of a narrative rapidly running out of control.

WTFIGO?

Authors: Where'd all the readers go? Posted on July 19, 2023

Fight!

Authors: Where'd all the readers go? Posted on June 23, 2023

Illustration (AI Collab) of a giant ‘Gundam Style’ robot battle between Elon and Zuk.

Singularity Party!

Authors: Where'd all the readers go? Posted on June 23, 2023

Illustration (AI collab) for my SciFi short story: Aliens!

Open the podbay doors HAL!

Authors: Where'd all the readers go? Posted on April 20, 2023

…and be happy?

Authors: Where'd all the readers go? Posted on April 12, 2023

Sessrumnir – Evolution of a Starship…

Authors: Where'd all the readers go? Posted on November 12, 2021

Sessrumnir (Klan Silicium Karavan Ship) running at full-burn. “By the time Sessrúmnir’s first burn was complete, Khawandagar, torn and twisted, still venting gasses, was two million

Those tinfoil-hat Starship-hesitant wackjobs!

Authors: Where'd all the readers go? Posted on October 21, 2021

Dodo Doodle

Authors: Where'd all the readers go? Posted on October 19, 2021

Infographic – What is the Great Global Reset?

Authors: Where'd all the readers go? Posted on October 12, 2021

You’ve probably heard the phrases ‘Build Back Better‘ or ‘The Great Reset’ but you probably don’t have a clue what they actually mean. Here’s a handy infograp

Ships for my next book

Authors: Where'd all the readers go? Posted on June 29, 2021

#PROPAGANDALF

Authors: Where'd all the readers go? Posted on April 28, 2021

Fuk the CLOUD!

Authors: Where'd all the readers go? Posted on April 1, 2021

#KeepItLocal@internetofshit

who are THEY?

Authors: Where'd all the readers go? Posted on March 14, 2021

illustration for a new essay: “who are THEY?“

Only with a ‘SUBSTANTIAL MEAL’…

Authors: Where'd all the readers go? Posted on November 30, 2020

Kataraa Cockpit

Authors: Where'd all the readers go? Posted on October 20, 2020

I am going to be experimenting with YouTube to read my essays and other short-form writing. This is the cockpit for my ‘virtual set’. Cockpit Pano

Roadtrip to Pluto

Authors: Where'd all the readers go? Posted on August 5, 2020

The Lost City of Punt…

Authors: Where'd all the readers go? Posted on July 6, 2020

Ancient Punt, the capital of the Great and Eternal Caliphate in my new book ReImagination:

Who took all the Bananas?

Authors: Where'd all the readers go? Posted on July 6, 2020

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The New Abnormal

Authors: Where'd all the readers go? Posted on June 13, 2020

The Kings Chamber…

Authors: Where'd all the readers go? Posted on May 20, 2020

You can buy the designs at: https://midlifecrisis.teemill.com/

HK Cyberpunk: Jeffrey Ngo

Authors: Where'd all the readers go? Posted on September 24, 2019

Photo by Jeffrey Ngo, 2019.

Magic Money Tree

Authors: Where'd all the readers go? Posted on April 5, 2019

The Magic Money Tree. Digital.

Exhibition Preview – Buzzing Evening!

Authors: Where'd all the readers go? Posted on February 1, 2019

Many thanks to all who joined for the Exhibition Preview at our gallery last night!                     http://kunstzuerichsued.com/

Exhibition Opening Reception Event – Jan 31

Authors: Where'd all the readers go? Posted on January 20, 2019

Switzerland, Zurich, Thursday, 31. January 2019, from 6pm I am showing a selection of my paintings with two other international artists at our gallery: “Kunst Zurich Süd”.   &nbs

New Exhibition in Zurich

Authors: Where'd all the readers go? Posted on December 6, 2018

Some of my paintings and prints are currently being shown in Kunst Zürich Süd.          

OaaS (Oppression as a Service)

Authors: Where'd all the readers go? Posted on July 8, 2018

  From Conflict, Singuarity’s Children Book 3

Books 1, 2 and 3

Authors: Where'd all the readers go? Posted on July 8, 2018

  All three Books are available on Amazon

Silk Screen – Arcade Wave

Authors: Where'd all the readers go? Posted on October 25, 2017

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Denial (Singularity’s Children Book 1)

Authors: Where'd all the readers go? Posted on June 5, 2016

Book One of Singularity’s ChildrenAvailable from Amazon   An oblique but familiar future. Biotech and neural interfaces have given voice to locked-in intelligences, mosquitos are subsidised

Mermaid

Authors: Where'd all the readers go? Posted on November 30, 2014

She knows something we don’t. Acrylic on Canvas 80x100cm

Book Cover – Singularity’s Children

Authors: Where'd all the readers go? Posted on August 25, 2014

Early Mock Up for Book One of Singularity’s Children.  A near future Hard Sci Fi adventure novel set in a world where technology is becoming increasingly opaque. Humanity and dignity a

Space Adventure

Authors: Where'd all the readers go? Posted on June 27, 2014

A deep space mission for the intrepid EFF Marines. Keeping fragile human minds safe against the forces of the Sobornost. Fighting hostile replicators and Hegemonizing Swarms across the galaxy.

The Rite

Authors: Where'd all the readers go? Posted on May 25, 2014

Nyarlathotep calls through dreams and time to the weak. Mercurial forms. Craven, chaos, hate. Tropes and Memes from before time.

Arcade Wave

Authors: Where'd all the readers go? Posted on May 16, 2014

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The Price

Authors: Where'd all the readers go? Posted on April 6, 2014

  What is the price of art? More if it contains a curvaceous bottom? For additional, recursive, meta, commentary, the original picture is its own Bitcoin price tag.   The Original – si

Rotten Secrets

Authors: Where'd all the readers go? Posted on March 23, 2014

  A reminder that anything as pure as this bowel of kaki must have a dirty motive lurking somewhere. The splendid hotel lobby with a cockroach in the bath. The holier than thou Minister with his

Dinning Room Portrait

Authors: Where'd all the readers go? Posted on March 23, 2014

Portrait in the dining room. I let myself be influenced for this one, inspired by the Nabis, especially Édouard Vuillard.  Am very tempted to have a tentacle creeping out from under the ta

Boy on a Bike

Authors: Where'd all the readers go? Posted on March 23, 2014

A lonely boy cycling circles on a sunny spring day. One of my favourites (if I do say so myself) I like the wistful melancholic nature of the scene. Boy on a Bike, Portmellon, Cornwall. Acrylic, 40x50

Two Guys

Authors: Where'd all the readers go? Posted on March 12, 2014

Just Two Guys, Amsterdam, Holland. Acrylic, 50x60cm Originally a detail from a larger painting. The personality of the guys kept changing as I painted until these two emerged. The lanky one is slow to

Amsterdam

Authors: Where'd all the readers go? Posted on March 8, 2014

Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Holland. Water-color, 16x16cm

Gribben Head

Authors: Where'd all the readers go? Posted on February 24, 2014

Storm clouds over Gribben Head. Small watercolour. Gribbin Head, Gribbin Head, Cornwall. 2012. Water-color, 16x16cm    

Daydream

Authors: Where'd all the readers go? Posted on February 24, 2014

Daydream. Floating boat, melting harbour, cosmic sea. Surreal painting inspired by boats in Mevagissey harbour. Mevagissey, Cornwall. 2012. 100cm,140cm, Acrylic on Canvas.      

Moon Blossom

Authors: Where'd all the readers go? Posted on February 13, 2014

The Moon through the translucent petals of the cherry blossom. Acrylic on board. 40x40cm.

Nibiru

Authors: Where'd all the readers go? Posted on February 13, 2014

Ancient proof of Alien visitation? At first this appears to be a Christian renaissance icon, “12th Century“. The Milky Way together with the globe viewed south pole, hint that there is mor

Flotsam

Authors: Where'd all the readers go? Posted on February 8, 2014

A boy finds a mermaid. Dead and limp. Washed up amongst the plastic bottles, coke cans and flotsam Acrylic on Canvas, 80x60cm

Kaunos

Authors: Where'd all the readers go? Posted on February 8, 2014

Kaunos, Dalyan ,Turkey. A quick watercolour sketch I did while in Turkey. The paper was a bit thin, but it was so hot the paint hardly had a chance to soak in anyway! Water-color, 22x22cm

Another Ocean

Authors: Where'd all the readers go? Posted on February 7, 2014

A strange fish swims beneath a strange alien sea. It jostles the photosynthetic spherules beneath its shattered reflection. This was one of my earlier paintings,  I like its feel. Acrylic on Boar

A Strange Catch

Authors: Where'd all the readers go? Posted on February 5, 2014

A servant of Dagon hauled up from the depths of the ocean. Inspired by a vintage 19th Century postcard from Mevagissey, cornwall. I kept to the original sepia tones, only adding violent colours for Ct

Glitch Fish

Authors: Where'd all the readers go? Posted on January 28, 2014

Bytes Degenerating. A jarring tension between ancient aesthetics and modern technology. The Koy Pond is tranquility while the image artefacts remind the viewer of the layer of technology tha

Mountains of Madness

Authors: Where'd all the readers go? Posted on November 22, 2013

Sometimes an image is so familiar we don’t look before we see. Here I upset expectations, the result is jarring. Like silhouettes that become a candle stick. It often takes people a fe

Horus

Authors: Where'd all the readers go? Posted on October 20, 2013

Horus on the Cross. A pre-christian Christ. I am working on a collection visualising conspiracy theories and warped memes from the benthic depths of the internet’s navel. Riffing off m

The Fall of Man

Authors: Where'd all the readers go? Posted on August 29, 2013

  The Fall of Man. Stylistically the inspiration is biblical renaissance. But the subject is the Sumerian take on The Flood. Babel, Enki, the Anunnaki and the wrath of the Anu! Acrylic