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Zoë Chan

@zoechan.bsky.social
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In limbo. In between places. On the periphery. On the foreshore. Perambulator. About place. Lettering and ghost/neon sign fiend. Folk. Macabre. linktr.ee/Zoe.Chan

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Zoë Chan @zoechan.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Interpret as you wish…
Mass of balloons spilling out of a huge street waste collection bin
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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 18/01/2025
Untitled (Electrical Lines), Elfriede Stegmeyer, c. 1938
a cluster of electrial plyons
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Present & Correct @presentcorrect.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Photographer Francois Prost has been documenting the Love Hotels of Japan. Many more here francoisprost.com/portfolio-it...
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Folk Horror Revival 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @folkhorrorrevival.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
This advert by Nike will motivate anyone who's new year's resolution is to get fit: "Run. Because of what's out there." 😨
An advert for Nike of a photo of an ominous looking road in the mist with bare trees on the right, and writing underneath saying: 'Just do it. Run. Because of what's out there'.
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Zoë Chan @zoechan.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Happy New Year to each and every one of you. Hoping to be more present this year, in more ways than one…
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John Grindrod @grindrod.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Dome dreams... New Substack.
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One Amazing Night, Again
Remembering the opening of thr Millennium Dome, 25 years ago, and looking ahead to 2025
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A London Inheritance @alondoninheritance.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Today’s new post - capturing the changing city through 100 years of London films at alondoninheritance.com
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Zoë Chan @zoechan.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
Super article by @faberbooks.bsky.social about the cover design development for ‘Sylvia Plath’s Tomato Soup Cake’. I love Faber cover design, and this cover just sums up its beauty! www.faber.co.uk/journal/book...
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Book Cover Design: Sylvia Plath’s Tomato Soup Cake | Faber
Senior Designer Henry Petrides tells us how he designed a unique cover for Sylvia Plath’s Tomato Soup Cake – a collection of classic authors’ favourite recipes.
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Phil Brickell MP @philbrickellmp.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Today’s footpaths announcement is very welcome news and will ensure many miles of ancient paths are recorded, thereby preserving their use for future generations. Much more needs to be done to allow for responsible access across England - both on land and water. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Deadline to record historic footpaths to be scrapped
Walking campaigners welcome the move, which the government says will help prevent paths from being lost.
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John Grindrod @grindrod.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Welcome to the first episode of my geeky new podcast, Monstrosities Mon Amour, where a guest and I explore somewhere they love, somewhere more commonly dismissed… johngrindrod.substack.com/p/new-podcas...
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NEW PODCAST! Monstrosities Mon Amour 1: Corby Bus Station
John Grindrod meets The London Ambler Mike Althorpe, and they explore Corby Bus Station and *Batteries Not Included in the first episode of a new podcast
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Stephen G. Rae @stephengrae.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
It's Wren Day or Hunt The Wren Day. Wrenboys caught a wren & placed it on top of a staff decorated with holly, ivy, ribbons, & paraded it around the neighbourhood. The wrenboys were typically dressed in straw masks, greenery or colourful clothing; sang songs & played music for money to bury the wren
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Zoë Chan @zoechan.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
My god, I am *really* enjoying Kilchoman Machir Bay whisky.
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Zoë Chan @zoechan.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Merry Christmas to One and All 🎄
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Zoë Chan @zoechan.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
I never get bored of this 1965 Sainsbury’s Christmas Pudding packaging design. So simple and elegant.
1965 Sainsbury’s Christmas Pudding packaging
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Maxim Peter Griffin @maximpetergriff.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
22/12/24 - nocturn
small hours
big time

starry, yes and the trees
at the back of Morrison's are shaking

a clatter that leaks into everything
Bad Knocks is abroad tonight
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Richard Wells @slipperyjack.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Just top notch medieval choir stall seat carvings (misericords) spotted this afternoon during a visit to St. Laurence's church in Ludlow...
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Zoë Chan @zoechan.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Okay, I’m back. Hello again everyone 👋
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Pighill @pighill.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Sometimes fungus have weird names, But in the case of Dead Man's Fingers (Xylaria polymorpha) Well... I think it's pretty clear what they are getting at!
Dead man's fingers fungus growing out of a cobwebby hole in wooden skirting board in a property.
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Zoë Chan @zoechan.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Wish I could find my old-school mixtapes
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Wendy O'Rourke @wendyo.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Atomic style Christmas tree of candle holders with starbursts from House Beautiful, December 1961
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S. Reeson / Experimental Poet @internetofwords.com · 09/12/2024
I AM DOWN TO MY LAST 26 PAMPHLETS quickly lest they are all snapped up in a trice!
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Zoë Chan @zoechan.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Time glitch
Blurry photo of an old building at night
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C20 Society @c20society.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
“M&S should sell the present building to someone who can see its conversion potential” C20 Chair @hughpearman.bsky.social in The Art Newspaper on the growing backlash to the Secretary of State’s controversial demolition decision. www.theartnewspaper.com/2024/12/06/e...
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Environmental row escalates as historic Marks & Spencer store in London is set for demolition
Campaigners argue rebuilding Orchard House will release harmful embedded carbon and are calling on government to promote refurbishment over destruction
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Paintings of London @paintingsoflondon.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
'Wet Evening, Piccadilly Circus' (1910) by Arthur Hacker (Private collection)
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Zoë Chan @zoechan.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Nocturne
Moving night scene, darkness with blurred street lights
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Zoë Chan @zoechan.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Watching you…
Door with what looks like a face in it
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John Grindrod @grindrod.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
‘It was really only in its artifice that Christmas held any magic for me.’ Have a Concretopia Christmas with my pamphlet on the ghost of Cold War era festivities, now back in stock on my website www.johngrindrod.co.uk/shop/p/chris...
Cover of A Child’s Christmas in Croydon, a pamphlet by John Grindrod, featuring 1970s candle design wrapping paper
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Paintings of London @paintingsoflondon.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
'Down Piccadilly, by the Green Park' by George Hyde Pownall (1866-1939)
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Zoë Chan @zoechan.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Squashed robot
Robot-looking packaging on the pavement
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Paul Dobraszczyk @pauldobraszczyk.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Impressively weathered milepost, Castleton, Peak District
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Mat Pringle @matpringle.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Some things I’ve made. All linocut. No Black Friday bullshit. No AI nonsense. Buy, support, retweet etc. Thanks! x matpringleillustration.bigcartel.com
A selection of folklore inspired linocut artwork on paper and wooden bunting.
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Berlin Typography @berlintypography.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Your weekend Umlaut: Straight and narrow.
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Zoë Chan @zoechan.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
H
Letter H formed by moss on brick
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Paintings of London @paintingsoflondon.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
'The River Thames from Wandsworth Bridge' by Charles Ernest Butler (1864–1933) (Government Art Collection)
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Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Download All 8 Issues of Dada, the Arts Journal That Publicized the Avant-Garde Movement a Century Ago (1917–21) www.openculture.com/2016/07/down...
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Download All 8 Issues of Dada, the Arts Journal That Publicized the Avant-Garde Movement a Century Ago (1917–21)
Surrealism, Discordianism, Frank Zappa, Situationism, punk rock, the Residents, Devo… the anarchists of counterculture in all their various guises may never have come into being—or into the being they...
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Zoë Chan @zoechan.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Oasis
Dilapidated wall, with an area of lush green moss
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Paintings of London @paintingsoflondon.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
'A view of the Thames with Saint Paul's Cathedral from Blackfriars' (c.1850) by Henry Pether (Private collection)
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C20 Society @c20society.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
To mark the 90th birthday of 66 Portland Place, the RIBA have shared a series of fantastic archive stories on Google Arts and Culture. Here, artist Edward Bainbridge Copnall sculpts the figure of Architectural Aspiration above the main entrance in 1934. Taps-Aff!
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Paintings of London @paintingsoflondon.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Good morning! This week's theme is the River Thames. ------ 'Bridge in London' (1908) by Mstislav Dobuzhinsky (Private collection)
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Zoë Chan @zoechan.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Post your favourite Pokemon, wrong answers only.
Childhood nightmare - Mr Noseybonk
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Zoë Chan @zoechan.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
A little sunshine for you on a gloomy Sunday morning
Public art set in the pavement that looks like sun rays
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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
It's a stormy #StandingStoneSunday 🎉🌧️ Whenever I return home late over the Cambrian Mountains, Wales, I pass my local Early Bronze Age stone pair: Buwch a'r Llo or 'Cow & Calf' 🥰 It's very likely they mark a Bronze Age metal prospector's route over the hills 📷My own, 8th Nov 2024. 10.30pm
A nighttime photo of two large standing stones in grass, picked out in a car headlights
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Cosey Fanni Tutti @coseyfannitutti.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Happy Delia Derbyshire Day! Celebrating by recording in the studio ❤️🎼 You can watch Caroline Catz film on BBC iPlayer www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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BBC Four - Delia Derbyshire: The Myths and the Legendary Tapes
Portrait of Delia Derbyshire, the electronic sound pioneer behind the Doctor Who theme.
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Zoë Chan @zoechan.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Post you from a different era.
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Bobby Seal @bobbyseal.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
The Ghost of an Idea: Hauntology, Folk Horror and the Spectre of Nostalgia by William Burns - book review. psychogeographicreview.com/the-ghost-of... @headpress.bsky.social
Ghost of an Idea book cover
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Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
A haunting piece about reconstructed prehistoric homes that have been abandoned and are themselves now becoming archaeology: 'Fragments of material culture ... are slowly becoming archaeology within the interior: this time we can witness the end of a prehistory.'
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Zoë Chan @zoechan.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Reminiscing about old school proper Twitter. Had some amazing connections there. I hope they continue here. Hope I can catch all of you here that I haven’t yet managed.
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