The Geecologist

Freak Show

Freak Show

Jan 7, 2023 | Essays, Images, Non-Fiction | 0 comments

aka America, Seen Through Photographs, Darkly As Walt Whitman gazed down the democratic vistas of culture, he tried to see beyond the difference between beauty and ugliness, importance and triviality. It seemed to him servile or snobbish to make any discriminations of...
Ways of Seeing

Ways of Seeing

Nov 26, 2022 | Essays, Images, Non-Fiction | 0 comments

Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak. But there is also another sense in which seeing comes before words. It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but words can never...
Jay Ryan

Jay Ryan

Apr 17, 2013 | Images | 0 comments

For getting on for a decade now, I’ve been an avid fan of Jay Ryan. Other Jay Ryan fans will no doubt understand some of the frustrations involved with this. For instance Googling his name returns some tool who used to be in Neighbours… not ideal! I...
Tweet truth to power

Tweet truth to power

Dec 1, 2012 | Geekery, Images | 0 comments

Tomorrow I’m doing my first ever screenprinting course, and with tongue lightly stuck in cheek, I’ve just done this Tweet Truth To Power design with a picture of a protesting young fella I tried to ‘Banksy’. Obviously once I unleash this bad...
Carrie Marill

Carrie Marill

May 13, 2010 | Images | 0 comments

I’d never come across Carrie Marill’s work until this morning, but I love these protestors in the mountains. And now you could read... The Year Of Dreaming Dangerously The Furious Passage of James Baldwin Fup Ghosts March for the Alternative This Changes...