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Ed Pinsent @soundprojector.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

TSP radio broadgramme for today is now available for streaming. It has some fairly volcanic moments in among the stones & fog. www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/the-soun…

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Ed Pinsent @soundprojector.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Record Collector is not exactly my go-to source of good music journalism, but that question hits a new low in inanity. Why would they feel compelled to ask a question about AI? And why put it to a musician of Thompson's stature?

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Ed Pinsent @soundprojector.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Title lettering giving a strong Herbie / Forbidden Worlds vibe there...is this from an ACG book?

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Ed Pinsent @soundprojector.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

If Netflix decided to "remimagine" Soylent Green as a TV series, this would be the cliff-hanger for the final episode of Season 1.

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Ed Pinsent @soundprojector.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

May I share this splendid BBC recording of a 10cc concert from 1974. It's easy to forget all four of them talented singers, musicians, and songwriters. Here is the visible proof. And they make it seem so easy. youtu.be/GvAjmvA4O70?si=eClZWvOEgTc…

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Ed Pinsent @soundprojector.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

While we're still piling on that awful cover, what's with those lamentable sight gags? Creme surrounded by flies? Idiotic badges on Godley's jacket? Bird's nest in the hair is about the naffest thing that could be conceived!

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Ed Pinsent @soundprojector.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Strongly agree! Let's remind ourselves of some of their original covers, fcull of wit and invention, much like the music. Credits L-R, Lol Creme & David Anstey; Hipgnosis & Maurice Tate; Humphrey Ocean; Hipgnosis & George Hardie.

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Ed Pinsent @soundprojector.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The Astorical Gap - new comic by me available now from the link. It opens sideways, like most of us do nowadays. Nothing to do with the Astorial Hotel. Not a normal comic. comics.edpinsent.com/2026/10/04/the…

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Ed Pinsent @soundprojector.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Anyway, I'd better get back to my 2AM grinding session...

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Ed Pinsent @soundprojector.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I totally misread his name as AI Mega. I thought it was a way of boasting about how much he uses AI! But apparently he really is someone called Alexander Mega, a Puerto Rican fellow from Brooklyn.

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Ed Pinsent @soundprojector.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

First panel is a good example of suggesting depth in the panel by use of the character's eyelines. Dan Spiegle was excellent at doing this sort of thing. But not to detract from your lager point, Colin, the page composition and layout are very well done here.

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Ed Pinsent @soundprojector.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

After the duo split up, one of them went to make a solo album

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Ed Pinsent @soundprojector.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Ah, that must be the Classics Illustrated version of 'Waiting For Godot'.

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Ed Pinsent @soundprojector.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Vinyl score from Crocodisc Paris

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Ed Pinsent @soundprojector.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Bandes dessinees score from Boulinier Paris

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Ed Pinsent @soundprojector.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

If you're collecting bad Stravinsky cover art, this 1997 CD could be a contender. Both the cover, and the way the music itself is conducted, are trying far too hard to say "hey, avant-garde music can be fun!"

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Ed Pinsent @soundprojector.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Sound Projector Radio back on the air today @resonancefm.bsky.social for a new season! Tune in today at 16:00 for a fine 90 mins of autumnal progressive rock from the 1970s!

"Autumn tree" by Ⓔⓛⓘⓢⓔ ❀❁ is marked with CC0 1.0. To view the terms, visit https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/?ref=openverse.

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Ed Pinsent @soundprojector.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Getting a "Total Carnage" SNES vibe from this image...

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Ed Pinsent @soundprojector.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

From Action Comics 376 (1969). Written by Leo Dorfman, art by Kurt Schaffenberger.

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Ed Pinsent @soundprojector.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

So what I'm seeing here is Scott Walker 'Plastic Palace People' ("Over the rooftops sails Billy") spliced with manic dance floor energy from The Fall...fantasy single released in 1977 by Fontana, with this drawing as picture sleeve. Is that too much to ask?

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Ed Pinsent @soundprojector.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I like this! It reminds me of the "memory palaces" devised by Renaissance scientists in Europe. In this country, Robert Fludd took an interest too. Put simply, it's a means of ordering information by using the architectural space of a building.

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Ed Pinsent @soundprojector.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Was there ever an equivalent character for the USAF? Such as "Airdale Arnie" or "Ned Nugget"? OK, I'll stop now.

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Ed Pinsent @soundprojector.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

"Gabby Gob" - what a great name! The character's new to me. I suppose he must be the maritime counterpart to Sad Sack.

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Ed Pinsent @soundprojector.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I felt moved to concoct this, for some reason...Richard Littler I ain't, but you get the idea!

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Ed Pinsent @soundprojector.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

For me this film beats Forbidden Planet any day. Every special effect sequence looks like a painted sci-fi paperback cover, as it should. The first 20 minutes is one of my favourite moments in cinema. 3/3

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Ed Pinsent @soundprojector.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

All Exeter’s labour-intensive efforts up to that point – sending out instructions on how to build the interociter, snagging Rex Reason in a green plane, keeping the captive scientists in the dark - have amounted to nothing. 2/3

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Ed Pinsent @soundprojector.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Recently I rewatched This Island Earth. This time it struck me how bleak the story really is. Planet Metaluna is already on its last legs by the time Exeter arrives to rescue it. All the aliens end up dead. 1/3

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Ed Pinsent @soundprojector.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

This book by two French intellectuals is worth a read. They suggest that each episode is a "hard reset", the ending of which immediately sends Number Six back to square one, and he has to begin again from scratch. An infinite inescapable doom-loop, a Sisyphean struggle.

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Ed Pinsent @soundprojector.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I've certainly enjoyed them! Will you collect them somewhere? I've seen The Prisoner multiple times, yet you revelaed a lot of new dimensions and valid interpretations.

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Ed Pinsent @soundprojector.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

With my other hat on, you may be interested in this 2023 blog post www.thesoundprojector.com/2023/05/2… Benjamin Dwyer composed this unusual sound art piece on the theme of the Sheela-na-gig (he's been researching the subject for about ten years!)

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Ed Pinsent @soundprojector.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I also use paper, pencils, and ink with brush and nibs...not always in the same order as you but I have to do several "passes" over a page before it's finished.

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Ed Pinsent @soundprojector.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Don Martin did a small number of covers for Prestige in 1956. Miles Davis and Horns was another one. Oddly lugubrious and solemn art, not really suited to the music somehow, and quite some way from his later comic work for Mad Magazine.

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Ed Pinsent @soundprojector.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Gorgeous halftone lines!! It's tempting to think that's Duotone board (aka Craftint), but I suspect he used a watercolour wash on the artwork (probably in blue), which was used as an instruction to the printer.

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Ed Pinsent @soundprojector.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Today's posted review...all lovers of the eccentric and bizarre, do bend an ear to this amazing record of acoustic psychdelic freak-folk from this UK-Israeli combo. www.thesoundprojector.com/2026/07/3…

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Ed Pinsent @soundprojector.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

That poster seems to be a pastiche of "The Sting"...or has everyone else already pointed this out?

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Ed Pinsent @soundprojector.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Last night's listen. 1953-54 Miles. One of my most played Lps. Had this copy for over 45 years now. Every single note is perfection, to me.

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Ed Pinsent @soundprojector.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

This, to me, would make a perfect LP cover for "Song Cycle" by Van Dyke Parks. Alternatively, a painting by Thomas Hart Benton.

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Ed Pinsent @soundprojector.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

In Richard's defence, I would say he's railing against superficial commentators at the BBC, who lack sufficient discernment or nuance when it comes to different shades of 1970s UK music.

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Ed Pinsent @soundprojector.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Agree with your list...also Jon Field in Jade Warrior, Mel Collins on the 2nd King Crimson LP...admittedly they weren't "leaders" but even so. And John Hackett on 'Voyage of the Acolyte'.

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Ed Pinsent @soundprojector.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

What I dislike is the complete lack of compassion, or empathy. In the Randian world it's everyone for themselves, with no room for mercy or failure, and helping others is seen as a sign of weakness. Ditko seems to have driven mad by this idea.

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Ed Pinsent @soundprojector.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

This "enormous club" motif features more than once...Ditko's unsubtle metaphor for coercion is just one of many manifestations of his "either-or" stance, which is also the obsessive subtext of every Mr A story.

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Ed Pinsent @soundprojector.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Tonight's listening...electroacoustic music from Finland on the Edition RZ label (1989). No physical copy in my hands, alas, but streamable on YouTube. Wildly impressive, especially Patrick Kosk and his "Transmissions In A". I do own a few titles on this label and their pressing quality is superbo.

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Ed Pinsent @soundprojector.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

That's one of my most-read comics ever - at any rate, I have the reprint in the Fantagraphics softcover. Ditko during his most intense Ayn Rand phase! It's bonkers!

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Colossive Press @colossive.com · 21/07/2026

Meet Monty, Stumpy and Sleepy - just three of the foxes who feature in our 75th Colossive Cartography, Find the Fox by @soundprojector.bsky.social... ...and then buy the #zine for just £2 at colossive.com 🦊

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Ed Pinsent @soundprojector.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Very good! You're chanelling Italo Calvino...

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House of Harley @houseofharley.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

TODAY (Sunday 19th July): it's the South London Comic and Zine Fair at Stanley Arts, 12 South Norwood Hill, SE25 6AB. Starts at noon and at 5pm I'll be talking on the Fast Fiction, Fast Facts panel about what it was like being a junior member of the 1980s small press scene #comics #events #norwood

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