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Haunting The Atom @hauntingtheatom.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Always nice to see in venues. (Snapped last night at the Shacklewell Arms in Dalston.)

A sign stuck to a door, which says: "Please respect the artists, avoid loud conversations in the gig room." All caps. White text on a red background.

Haunting The Atom @hauntingtheatom.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Some vintage radios enjoying their retirement at the Museum of Brands, in Notting Hill, London. My first visit, it was a really enjoyable couple of hours - and a huge nostalgia blast once the '70s kicked in.

A glass-fronted display cabinet full of vintage radio sets - with more radios sat on top of it, piled three high and running the length of the cabinet.

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Haunting The Atom @hauntingtheatom.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Olfactory art installations should be called inhalations.

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Haunting The Atom @hauntingtheatom.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Popped into a freshly stocked @treadwells-books.bsky.social this afternoon to pick up the @hookland.bsky.social book, and was complimented on my choice at checkout. (I say 'popped into'; I actually walked 12 miles to get there. It was a rainy, overcast day and I fancied the stroll.)

A newly purchased Hookland Fragments Volume One by David Southwell, alongside a 'right to reside' certificate, atop a black surface and lit atmospherically.

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Haunting The Atom @hauntingtheatom.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I really enjoyed this: Adam Savage takes a loving look at the only surviving and intact Mighty Joe Young puppet, complete with X-rays (done at a vet's!). It's up for auction. Starting bid: $500,000. Expected to go over a million. I'm settling for the (very nice) PDF on the auction house's site.

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What X-Rays of this Legendary Stop-Motion Puppet Revealed

YouTube video by Adam Savage’s Tested

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Haunting The Atom @hauntingtheatom.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

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What X-Rays of this Legendary Stop-Motion Puppet Revealed

YouTube video by Adam Savage’s Tested

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Haunting The Atom @hauntingtheatom.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Dreamt last night that I could hear someone walking up the side of my house - ie, striding up the vertical wall. And then they appeared at an upstairs window, looking down on me, and very malevolent, as they stood with their feet on the glass. I don't think they were there to clean the windows.

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Haunting The Atom @hauntingtheatom.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Every time I pass this tree on my way to the shop, I think of Jurassic Park.

A thickish tree trunk with a couple of large roots resembling a T. rex's toes, which are pressing down into the grass verge upon which it stands.

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Haunting The Atom @hauntingtheatom.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Today I walked through what is apparently the world's first reinforced concrete underpass. It runs under Norwood Junction station in south London, and according to the plaque above its entrance was opened on 31 July 1912. If I'd waited till next week I could have wished it a happy birthday.

An empty underpass, stretching for 31 metres. Its walls and ceiling are curved, in a semi-circular fashion, and painted white. Some graffiti can be seen but it's not overwhelming. Lights run the length of the tunnel's ceiling, with the gaps between them making intermittent shadows on the walls. At the end is daylight.

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Haunting The Atom @hauntingtheatom.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Now playing ('cos it arrived today) and pleasing my ears: an audience recording of Tangerine Dream live in Brussels, 1976. Very sturdy CD sleeve - perhaps the sturdiest cardboard one I own, outside of box sets. Chunky and glossy, with inner sleeves for the discs. Not gonna fall apart any time soon.

Tangerine Dream: Live At Paul-Emile Janson Auditorium, Brussels, on CD, lit by my favourite lamp, which is casting on orangey glow over proceedings.

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Haunting The Atom @hauntingtheatom.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

After visiting the newly restored @cpdinosaurs.bsky.social in Crystal Palace Park on Saturday, I had a flick back through my photos of them from over the years. Here's an iguanodon in June 2018, June 2025, and July 2026. "All right there, Iggy. You know the pose, mate - let's do this!"

A collage of three photos showing a statue of what science in the mid 19th century thought an iguanodon looked like - ie, a large, lizard-like animal with a small horn on its nose. Famously, the horn turned out to be a thumb bone. In pics 1 and 3, its front-right leg is leaning on a tropical plant.

In pic 1, taken on 14 June 2018, the statue is light brown, with a white chest.

In pic 2, taken on 26 June 2025, it looks greyer. Behind the statue are some people wearing hi-vis jackets and hard hats. They appear to be in discussion. This was around the time that work began on the park's regeneration.

In pic 3, taken on 18 July 2026, the animal is green, with light 'grouting' between its scales. Lovely set of white teeth, too!

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Haunting The Atom @hauntingtheatom.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

A headless Dante, overlooked by the Crystal Palace transmitter and a painterly sky, yesterday afternoon.

The sun pokes through long, streaky clouds that appear to rise from the statue's neck as it stands in front of the Italian terraces in Crystal Palace Park. In the distance, silhouetted against the blue sky, is the Crystal Palace transmitting station.

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Haunting The Atom @hauntingtheatom.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

"If you dwell, you go to Hell." Advice to myself on waking this morning, as anxiety cackled in my face. Googled the phrase verbatim to zero results. Considered making some T-shirts.

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Deadlight Dance @deadlight-dance.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

“Winter Daphne DOA” is our latest Haunting The Atom video. We have this playlist of all the videos we have done since we started. If this were the 80s, we’d put this out on VHS for you! youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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Deadlight Dance Haunting the Atom Collaborations AKA The Singles - YouTube

Videos we've made with Haunting The Atom

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Haunting The Atom @hauntingtheatom.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

I once had a macabre tongue biopsy. I was in a chair, and it was dark outside so the window in front of me became a mirror: I could see everything. As blood ran down my chin, I felt like I was in a '70s horror portmanteau. "Did you see the one where the bloke has tongue surgery at the barber's?"

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Haunting The Atom @hauntingtheatom.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Found these unscratched scratch cards in a cobwebbed corner of my King Kong collection. There's a potential £150,000 here but, nah, keep 'em intact, man - mint condition or bust! (Coin for illustrative purposes only. Twenty three years after the closing date, I really don't want to know...)

Two scratch-card sheets, each containing two cards. One sheet is smaller than the other but is otherwise the same. Each card has artwork showing Dracula (in his Christopher Lee guise) and a giant gorilla atop a building, holding a woman in his left hand.

The Dracula card says: "Get your teeth into £25,000 now!" The gorilla card says: "Win a monster £50,000 today." The silver scratch film on all four cards is intact.

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Haunting The Atom @hauntingtheatom.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Here's my latest video collaboration with Wiltshire goth duo @deadlight-dance.bsky.social, for a song they describe as "centred around the themes of exclusion and, um, gardening!" If you're into ancient Greek metamorphosis myths, magical pictures and decaying plants, this video has your name on.

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Winter Daphne DOA (official video) - Deadlight Dance

YouTube video by Deadlight Dance

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Deadlight Dance @deadlight-dance.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

If you’re not following us over on YouTube, now is the time to start. Our Haunting The Atom produced music video for “Winter Daphne DOA” is out this week. #goth #gothic #postpunk

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Haunting The Atom @hauntingtheatom.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Nice waveform. You can tell that the producer has really pushed the boat out. (Pic: South Norwood Country Park, this morning - a lovely wander in cooler temps!)

Under a cloudy, grey sky, a lake reflects the trees on its far shore. The symmetry centres on the middle of the picture, creating the impression of an audio waveform. The effect is even greater if you squint your eyes .

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Haunting The Atom @hauntingtheatom.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

It's 33 degrees indoors, and I'm sitting here trying to edit a video... with a horrible cold. C'mon, god of everyday annoyances, pick one: hot or cold. I can't help thinking that bestowing both upon me at once is an overreach of power.

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Haunting The Atom @hauntingtheatom.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

A couple of snaps of @warringtonruncorn.com from yesterday's electronic all-dayer at Iklectik in Peckham. A cracking set - at one point, a chap behind me shouted "tune!", to which I wholeheartedly concur - and, as you can see, a great view too.

Gordon Chapman-Fox, performing as Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan, on stage at Iklectik. The stage is lit in shades of red as he operates some musical electronics, and a shaft of white light highlights his left eye.

Gordon Chapman-Fox on stage at Iklectik. A flash of mauve light illuminates the stage.

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Haunting The Atom @hauntingtheatom.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

A snapshot of @sulkrooms.bsky.social at yesterday's electronic all-dayer at Iklectik in Peckham. An intense and, I'm gonna say, shamanic* performance, it was one of my favourite sets of the day. * Dynamic and clearly from within. He broke on through, man.

Thomas Ragsdale, performing as Sulk Rooms, on stage at Iklectik in Peckham, south London. A guitar hangs around his neck while he operates some musical electronics. The stage is bathed in red light as his shadow hits the wall behind him.

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Haunting The Atom @hauntingtheatom.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

On the way home this evening, the weather turned thunderous. So I pointed my phone at the sky, hoping to get a decent frame of lightning at 120fps. I'm pretty happy with this. I've cropped space from the right, so the pic's square, but I've otherwise tweaked nothing. The black line is a tram cable.

Forked lightning above Sandilands tram stop in Croydon. The sky around the lightning has a pinkish hue, set against grey.

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Haunting The Atom @hauntingtheatom.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Filming with Wiltshire's gothic pride, @deadlight-dance.bsky.social, in sunny Devizes yesterday. And when I say 'sunny', I mean 'hell-on-earth, do-not-venture-outside, organs-turned-to-ashes nightmare'. But we enjoyed ourselves and that's what counts.

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Haunting The Atom @hauntingtheatom.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Up and out early today for a video shoot, and I’ve just been overtaken by a man, clad in colourful Lycra, riding a penny farthing. Consequently, I’m wondering whether I’m actually still in bed.

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Haunting The Atom @hauntingtheatom.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

A few snaps from last night's talk, 'The Fortean and Folklore Origins of Hookland', at The Bell, London E1 - written and presented by @hookland.bsky.social creator David Southwell. 'Twas a delightful deep-dive into the catalysts for, and influences on, this strange, enchanting, open-source world.

David Southwell reads from his essay 'The Fortean and Folklore Origins of Hookland', in front of a seated audience.

A PowerPoint slide projected on a screen at the front of the pub's function room, showing a photo of a church in a field. Text beside the picture reads: "St James the Less, Hadleigh. Banning children for necromancy since 1977."

David Southwell at the front of the room, giving his Hookland talk.

A wide-angle photo of the room as David gives his talk. Behind him is a slide saying: "Re-enchantment is resistance."

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Haunting The Atom @hauntingtheatom.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

One year, when I was 11 or 12, the Easter Bunny brought me some plastic model kits. Chocolate's his main gig, obviously, but I think he's got all sorts of stuff on the van.

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Haunting The Atom @hauntingtheatom.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Oh my; I've just discovered that the Scarred For Life podcast is now available in video flavour, via YouTube. Careful now - that could have your eye out.

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Scarred For Life

Home of the Scarred For Life podcast, a weekly deep dive into the dark, dystopian pop culture hosted by Andy Bush and Dave Lawrence.

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Haunting The Atom @hauntingtheatom.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein at the Roundhouse? Don't mind if I do.

Advert for a live tour: 'Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein performing the music of Stranger Things, with light design by MFO'.

The dates run:

April
25 Prague, CZ – Prague Composers Summit

June
10 Brussels, BE – Ancienne Belgique
15 Berlin, DE – Theater des Westens
17 Belfast, UK – Waterfront Hall
19 Birmingham, UK – Symphony Hall
21 London, UK – Roundhouse
26 Fiastra (MC), IT – Fiastrapalooza

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Haunting The Atom @hauntingtheatom.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

This Friday @deadlight-dance.bsky.social release their third, and rather splendid, album Vox Populi. I created the record's artwork, from a photo session we did in January, plus this six-minute EPK. Take a look: there's darkness, hope, humour, and snippets of 10 cracking songs. #goth #darkwave

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An introduction to Vox Populi, the new album by Deadlight Dance

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Haunting The Atom @hauntingtheatom.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Here's my attempt to give the new Tangerine Dream album a celebratory entrance. Disc one has since crawled in what remains of my tinnitus-ravaged ears and worked its way into my cerebral region (aka 'the noggin'). Feels good.

50 Years Of Phaedra - At The Barbican by Tangerine Dream, on CD, standing on top of a CD player. A high-contrast, red/yellow glow from a lamp creeps over the top of the sleeve, casting a shadow on the surface below.

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Haunting The Atom @hauntingtheatom.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Stumbled across this scene in a Westminster park. Had a flashback to that bit in The NeverEnding Story.

Wooden sculptures of two horses made to look like they're partially submerged in the ground, with only their heads and hind quarters visible. In the background are some swings. In the far distance is a tall office building.

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Haunting The Atom @hauntingtheatom.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Here's my soggy bottom (I'd just clambered over a stone wall) photographing gothic duo @deadlight-dance.bsky.social in Bowden Hill yesterday. I railed it over to Wiltshire to snap the chaps in various locations, and indeed poses. Look/listen out for their new album, Vox Populi - coming soon.

Two men dressed in black standing by a stone wall, with a guitar case between them. Text running the length of the case reads: 'Wiltshire Gothic'. In the field in front of the men is a pair of legs belonging to me. I'm wearing black jeans that have some mud on the rear-left pocket.

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Haunting The Atom @hauntingtheatom.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

I was among the 300+ people who completed a questionnaire for this project, in late 2020. Great to see Pete's research coming to fruition. I love the blurb on the clickthrough that describes '80s kids as "the first children of the video generation". Man, we were pioneers! #ScarredForLife

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Haunting The Atom @hauntingtheatom.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

I love this Christmas card, from my mum-in-law. Unsettling festive customs and iconography deserve a bigger look-in, I think. (Now seems like a good time to mention that 'God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen' scared me as a kid, and I still find it a bit unnerving. So much for tidings of comfort and joy...)

A hand holding a Christmas card in front of some Christmas lights (red, green and yellow). On the front of the card is a black-and-white drawing of a decorated horse's skull, and some festive stars hanging from a snowy tree branch - a depiction of the Mari Lwyd folk custom.

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Haunting The Atom @hauntingtheatom.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Walking home from a gig the other night down an empty road, I suddenly felt as if someone was immediately behind me. I turned and saw no one, and then I twigged. In certain patches of street light, I had two shadows as I walked, which became chaotic as they merged. I was being followed by myself.

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Haunting The Atom @hauntingtheatom.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Went to Bromley to look for Christmas presents. Came home with an ex-library hardback of The Woman In Black - for myself, of course. Despite loving the TV film, I've never read the book. It's a large-print edition too, negating my other purchase: new reading glasses from Poundland.

A hand holding a 1996, large-print, hardback edition of The Woman In Black by Susan Hill. In the background, slightly out of focus, is a pair of pink-framed glasses.

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Haunting The Atom @hauntingtheatom.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Yesterday I cantered on over to the Horse Hospital in Bloomsbury for a 'hauntological holiday happening'. Ethereal dreamscapes from The Balloonist, and unnerving electronica from @hiddenbritain.bsky.social, accompanying their film Wren's Nest. Plus an episode of Dramarama! Xmas as it should be done.

Chalkboard sign outside the Horse Hospital, an arts venue in Bloomsbury, that reads: "The Double Act presents... A Concrete Hauntology Holiday Happening"

The Balloonist performing with a guitar and an array of pedals in front of some rear projection. An out-of-focus face, in an orangey hue, fills the screen.

A static projection at the rear of the performance space, in the style of an old BBC1 'coming up' screen, announcing: "Wren's Nest follow shortly." Below the text is a photo of a wren.

Hidden Britain performing the electronic score to their film Wren's Nest, while the film plays.

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Haunting The Atom @hauntingtheatom.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

I had the thought yesterday that adverts might some day be piped into dreams. You'll be floating around town in your birthday suit, chatting to a dead relative, when they'll suddenly turn and offer you 10% off NordVPN.

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Haunting The Atom @hauntingtheatom.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Remembering the Black Fridays of my youth, before it got so commercial: the deputy headmaster handing out asbestos, the desecration of the milk float, and Uncle Jim roasting slowly over a bed of tea-lights. Just magic.

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Haunting The Atom @hauntingtheatom.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

As of yesterday John Carpenter's store is selling freshly unearthed copies of the rarest album in his catalogue: the privately pressed 1985 LP by The Coupe De Villes (ie, they of Big Trouble In Little China). At £193 + shipping, I'm out, but cool to see it resurface. I've a soft spot for this album.

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The Coupe De Villes - Waiting Out the Eighties (unsigned)

In 1985, John Carpenter and his long time friends and collaborators Nick Castle and Tommy Lee Wallace recorded the title track to John’s film, Big Trouble in Little China, under the moniker The Coupe ...

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Haunting The Atom @hauntingtheatom.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Had a dream in which someone showed me their VHS of Day Of The Dead, and the rush of nostalgia quickly gave way to me fretting about the aspect ratio.

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Haunting The Atom @hauntingtheatom.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

These landed yesterday: the expanded Carpenter/Carpenter/Davies scores for Halloween Kills/Ends - not films I love but I dig the music, and there are 35 previously unreleased cues here. A reflection in this pic makes it look like I've got my hand around Mr Myers' neck. Was gonna retake but... nah.

A table lamp casts an orangey glow over a hand holding two shrink-wrapped CDs: the expanded scores for Halloween Kills (2021) and Halloween Ends (2022). The covers of both CDs show the head of a masked Michael Myers in portrait, one of which appears to have a ghostly hand clasping his neck - the reflection in the shrink-wrap of my hand taking the picture.

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Haunting The Atom @hauntingtheatom.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Last night I watched Antrum (2018), which purports to be a cursed '70s film that could kill viewers. The prologue set up the conceit well enough to make me a tad nervous, and I found the film pleasingly off-kilter. Cracking music too, by Alicia Fricker. The main theme, especially, is <chef's kiss>.

Poster for Antrum (2018). A young woman holds her younger brother. Both look fearful. Behind them is a tall, goat-like effigy adorned with pentagrams. The scene is illuminated by a glowing red/yellow circle at the rear of the image, and flames below.

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Haunting The Atom @hauntingtheatom.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Remembering the days when choosing a font meant browsing the racks of Letraset* in WHSmith. #Fanzines * Other brands of dry-transfer lettering were available.

Two partially used sheets of dry-transfer lettering: one branded Letraset, the other Transotype. Pic by Paul Henning (CC0).

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Haunting The Atom @hauntingtheatom.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Every week on here I see the #TOTP hashtag and think: 'I ought to dig out the pics I took last year of those neon signs in God's Own Junkyard, in Walthamstow.' And this week I've got my bum in gear and done it. I'm pretty sure these are originals.

Me standing next to a neon Top Of The Pops sign. Below it is a yellow (non-neon) sign that reads: "Can I have your attention please?" A large glitterball is just behind my head.

A neon Top Of The Pops sign on a wall, among some other neon signs.

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Haunting The Atom @hauntingtheatom.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Looking through some old snaps recently, I found this curio from the late '80s, taken by my friend Jason. I asked him what the object is, and... well, mystery solved (answer in the alt-text). But I still think it's a cracking pic. I love the reflection and the way everything blurs *just enough*.

A giant spider-like sculpture, made from parts of JCB diggers, in a field in Rocester, Staffordshire - near JCB's HQ. Titled 'The Fosser' (apparently a rough Latin translation of 'digger'), the 45ft-tall, 36-tonne installation was designed and built by Walenty Pyte in 1979.

The photo, which was scanned from a print, shows the view from the passenger side of a moving car, with the person taking the photo reflected in the wing mirror, and the sculpture situated in the midground. A nearby hedge is motion-blurred by the moving car.

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